Podcast Episodes

Keiko Part 1 with Brianna Bowman

Can a killer whale really jump that high? For kids of the 90s, the adventure movie Free Willy introduced us to magic of the orca through its charisma…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Where I Live: The Listener Holiday Special

“We’ve always been inventing and reinventing new worlds for taking care of each other. We just have to notice.”

We asked our subscribers to send us au…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Cold War Santa with Sarah Archer

What happens when Santa trades his sleigh for a rocket ship? Christmas correspondent Sarah Archer tells Sarah about how the Cold War era affected the…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

The Dictionary Wars! with Gabe Henry

Remember being a teen and coming up with “cool” ways of spelling common words? Well, just like the teenager it was, the United States in the 18th cen…

6 months ago

Introducing: The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall

Listen now to the first episode of Sarah's new 8-part series with CBC Podcasts, The Devil You Know.

In the 1980s and 90s, Satan and his followers were…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

Midnight Ghost Shows with Chelsey Weber-Smith

What do you get when you combine a horror movie audience, a spiritualist séance, and a haunted house attraction? Beginning in the 1930s and lasting i…

6 months, 4 weeks ago

The Auralyn with Blair Braverman

Are you a survival pessimist or a survival optimist? Blair Braverman surprises Sarah with a harrowing, heartening, and sometimes hilarious tale of lo…

7 months, 1 week ago

Samantha Smith vs. the Cold War with Maris Kreizman

Who really ended the Cold War, Ronald Reagan or a ten-year-old girl? Eighties correspondent Maris Kreizman joins us for a heartfelt conversation abou…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

The Insanity Defense with Mackenzie Joy Brennan

What do John Hinckley Jr. and a jazz age tuberculosis patient have in common? Legal correspondent ​​Mackenzie Joy Brennan takes Sarah through some of…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Corn Mazes with Chelsey Weber-Smith

Can you find your way out of the maize? The corn maze has become an enduring attraction of the American autumnal experience, seen at touristy family …

9 months, 1 week ago