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Updated 4 Jun
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Updated 24/02/2020
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Updated 28/09/2020

Season 1, Episode 1

E1: The Mystery Broom

It’s 2015 and we’re at the international Grand Slam of Curling, hosted in Paradise, Newfoundland. A team led by home crowd favourite Brad Gushue debuts a new and strikingly effective new technique. Instead of sweeping the way curlers always have with two brooms, they’re using only one. Within weeks, every competitive curling team on the planet would switch to this technique and the special broom that enabled it. It was the start of the biggest scandal in curling history.

S1, E1

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27 min
Season 1, Episode 2

E2: Magic Mike

Flush with an infusion of cash from investors the brothers behind the Hardline Curling company are ready to take their revolutionary curling broom into the world. Now all they need is to convince a bonafide superstar to use it. Enter Winnipeg’s Mike McEwen.

S1, E2

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23 min
Season 1, Episode 2

Scaachi and the Silent Treatment

Scaachi Koul is an outspoken writer with an undeniably bold presence. As night falls, she reveals the weight of her upsetting personal problem: the deterioration of an important relationship that has turned into a silent standoff. She says it's unsolvable

S1, E2

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28 min
Season 1, Episode 4

Jon the Good Doctor

Dr. Jon Fiddler is “a wild child queer kid at heart”, who works on a Pikangikum First Nation reserve. The reservation's living conditions impede his ability to treat those in need. Jon has to decide whether or not he wants to work there.

S1, E4

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27 min
Season 2 Bonus

A Sneak Listen

Meet the incredible cast of strangers that slept over with Sook-Yin Lee and spilled their problems for Season 2.

Season 2 Bonus

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2 min
Season 3, Episode 3

Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? Episode 3: Complicated

Avril’s career hit something of a bump in the road. At one point she appeared to fall off the radar completely, all while the rumours about her being replaced were swirling. Can a fake death story literally kill your career? One man who knows is Dave Benson Phillips. He was a children’s TV presenter, on a path to great things. Until… he died. The TV offers dried up. His theatre tour got canceled. The impact on his life was immense. And Dave’s not the only one. Joanne hears about death rumours for Paul McCartney, Miley Cyrus…the list is endless. What can this tell us about the Avril theory? Split Screen: Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? is a 6-part series produced by What’s The Story Sounds – for BBC Sounds and CBC.

S3, E3

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31 min
Season 5, Episode 7

BONUS: A Lullaby from Hillary

Hillary sings a lullaby she wrote for her own daughter full of affirmations, she dedicates it to all OPP listeners as well. New episodes will be released weekly on Mondays. Don't want to wait? Binge the whole season right now via CBC Stories Premium on Apple Podcasts.

S5, E7

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5 min
28/12/2024

A Woman of No Consequence

Sethu Ramaswamy grew up in a cultured Indian family and it rubbed off on her. She loved books and ideas. By the age of 10 Sethu had read all of Charles Dickens’ novels, but her emerging interest in books and ideas would have to be put on hold. When she was the same age, she was forced to leave school, get married, and become a mother at 15. As an adult, she raised a family and for the most part, lived in the shadow of her husband — who was a successful journalist in India. But that wasn’t the end of her story. When she was 80-years-old a new chapter in her life opened up. She wrote a book called Autobiography of an Unknown Indian Woman, and it was met with fanfare and acclaim in India. It told the story of a child bride whose husband was both her true love and her captor. On this week’s episode, Sarmish Subramanian brings us the story of her remarkable grandmother. Produced by Sarmishta Subramanian and story edited by Karen Levine. The doc originally aired on The Sunday Edition in 2009. Storylines is part of the CBC Audio Doc Unit

28/12/2024

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33 min
24/05/2024

Artificial intelligence at the ballot box

In January, some New Hampshire voters thought they had gotten a robo call from Joe Biden, telling them to skip voting in the state primary. The robocall voice at the other end of the phone wasn’t Biden at all. In fact it was a deepfake, created by a political consultant working for a longshot democratic challenger to Biden. The audio itself was made by a magician in Texas, using a simple website that created the deepfake using text-to- speech audio using AI. The fake Biden robocall shows how easy it could become to use AI to disrupt an election but that isn't the whole story. In this episode of Storylines, producer Craig Desson takes us around the world to see how election officials, politicians and academics are grappling with how AI might impact our elections as hundreds of millions go to the polls this year. The situation is troubling, but there are also ways AI brings new possibilities to democracies around the world. Reported and Produced by Craig Desson. Story Editing by Joan Webber. Originally aired on Sunday Magazine. Storylines is part of the CBC Audio Doc Unit

24/05/2024

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27 min
Season 1, Episode 10 Bonus

Sleepover Live: Power Nap Edition

Sleepover hints at Season 2 and makes their live debut at Hot Docs Podcast Festival. Sleepover Live: Power Nap Edition is where three mystery guests meet for the first time in a king-sized bed on stage to share their deepest dilemmas.

Season 1, Episode 10 Bonus

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2 min

A growing collection of podcasts that speak to the human condition. A hard-hitting journalist reveals the intimate details of her secret past. A father searches for the miracle key that could unlock his son’s mysterious illness. These stories — and dozens more — invite listeners into the lives of others to grapple with love, loss and life.