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03/03/2025

Toy Soldier | Episode 3: The Money Angle

Alex’s story goes viral (as viral as it can in the early 2000s), but doubts and accusations swirl around him – dividing his family and community. Alex is called a liar and a conman trying to profit from the Holocaust, yet he refuses to do the one thing that would prove he’s telling the truth.

03/03/2025

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33 min
17/02/2025

Toy Soldier | Episode 1: The Hidden Suitcase

Uldis Kurzemnieks believed he would take his lie to the grave – his life had depended on it. For decades, he told the same story of how he survived the Second World War as a boy, but his niece always believed there was more to the story. Now, she’s learning the whole truth – piece by shocking piece.

17/02/2025

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33 min
24/02/2025

Toy Soldier | Episode 2: Born a Second Time

Uldis is now Alex – living an ordinary, happy life in Australia, but the horrors of his past have resurfaced. Fifty years after his name was stolen from him, can he find it again? A letter from Minsk might hold the answers.

24/02/2025

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33 min
17/03/2025

Toy Soldier | Episode 5: ‘L’chaim – To Life’

As Alex’s newfound family grapples with who he really was and what side of the war he was fighting for, COVID sets in. Will Alex ever get a real reunion?

17/03/2025

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27 min
05/05/2025

Introducing: Creation Myth

Introducing an upcoming season of Personally, called Creation Myth. Helena does not want kids. Her husband does. What else is the purpose of life, he keeps asking her, hoping she’ll change her mind. But after eight years he gives up and leaves. Lost and alone, she’s left with his question. What is our purpose? And what if it is already here? This series is an Official Selection of the Tribeca Audio Festival. Make sure you follow Personally, so you know when the full season becomes available, later this year.

05/05/2025

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3 min
SEASON 5 TRAILER

Introducing: Toy Soldier

As a child, Alex Kurzem faced a choice: be killed or join the killers. After escaping the massacre that killed his family during the Holocaust, he’s found by the enemy and taken in as one of their own – becoming a Jewish boy masquerading as a Nazi soldier. He’d live with this false identity for so long, he no longer remembered who he was before. This is the story Alex would tell the world decades later, but could a story so unbelievable be true? Host Dan Goldberg finds out.

S5 Trailer

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3 min
10/03/2025

Toy Soldier | Episode 4: A Complicated Miracle

Alex finally takes a DNA test, hoping to prove his identity – once and for all. What will it find? Who will it find? The results surprise everyone, even Alex.

10/03/2025

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40 min
02/07/2024

E7: Lost and Found

How does it feel to find out you’ve lived another person’s life? Are the parents you thought you had no longer your parents? Those are the tough questions facing far too many children switched at birth — and they want accountability.

02/07/2024

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33 min
06/05/2024

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.

06/05/2024

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27 min
24/04/2024

Split Screen: Kid Nation, Episode 2: Kid Casting

Every reality show has a villain. In Kid Nation, that role was assigned to 15-year-old Greg Pheasant. Through multiple perspectives on Greg’s bullying, we explore whether kids were cast to perform predetermined roles. It raises questions about the different levels of agency these kids had in what was a high-pressure and high-stakes situation. For early access to Split Screen: Kid Nation episodes and to listen ad-free, subscribe to CBC's Stories channel here.

24/04/2024

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35 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.