Day 6 CBC Discover & Learn
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Get caught up on the week without ruining your weekend. Host Brent Bambury delivers an energetic mix of must-hear stories carefully chosen to keep you in the loop and keep you guessing. Ready when you are on Saturday mornings. And heads up — there will be a quiz.
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Day 6 presents What On Earth: “Can Earth Day be badass again?”
The climate is changing. So are we. On What On Earth, you’ll explore a world of solutions with host Laura Lynch and our team of journalists. In 1970, 20 million people showed up to fight for the environment on the first Earth Day. More than five decades later, is it time for this much tamer global event to return to its radical roots?
OG organizer Denis Hayes recounts how – amidst other counterculture movements at the time – his team persuaded roughly one in ten Americans to take to the streets. As he approaches 80, Denis offers his singular piece of advice to the next generation of climate leaders. Then, environmental warriors Maria Blancas and Axcelle Campana share ideas on what a reinspired Earth Day could look like – including making it a public holiday.
More episodes of What On Earth are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/PobYcvVY
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New doc says teen fashion giant Brandy Melville built its success on exploitation and abuse
PLUS: Bluey's season finale has left everyone wondering about the show's future; after 30 years the bus from Priscilla, Queen of the Desert has been found; a researcher worried no one would read her work on coral reefs, so she turned the data into music; how the year 1999 broke the music industry; and Riffed from the Headlines, our weekly musical news quiz.
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A small business owner resists Momofuku's bid to trademark Chili Crunch
PLUS: Maia Kobabe's graphic novel Gender Queer: A Memoir is the most challenged book in the United States; how China uses WeChat to undermine democracy around the world; Civil War imagines a United States at war with itself; a new documentary tells the story of Judee Sill, a celebrated folk-rock icon only now getting her due; and Riffed from the Headlines, our weekly musical news quiz.
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41 years after she topped the charts, Bonnie Tyler still loves singing Total Eclipse of the Heart
PLUS: How records of past eclipses help us understand human history; an unpopular Israeli government stares down growing international criticism and domestic protests; what Beyoncé's cover of Blackbird means to one of the Little Rock Nine; one of the few female crossword puzzle makers makes a case for diversifying the grid; a New York Times investigation reveals disturbing connections between child Instagram influencer accounts and self-described pedophiles; and Riffed from the Headlines, our weekly musical news quiz.
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A series of scandals and a flood of sports betting risks undermining fans faith in the games they love
PLUS: 10 Things I Hate About You turns 25; Naheed Nenshi shakes up Alberta politics; Hatsune Miku, the vocaloid, hologram and pop star poised to take on North America; how a retired couple from Idaho became among the best in the world at recovering the bodies of people who drown; and Riffed from the Headlines, our weekly musical news quiz.
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What if western intervention is the source of Haiti's problems, not the solution?
PLUS: A local soup kitchen in Gaza helps people facing hunger and a looming famine; Amrit Kaur lands her first leading film role in The Queen of My Dreams, a multi-generational, queer, Bollywood-inspired coming-of-age story; the incredible story of Rose Dugdale, the English debutante who became a bombmaker for the IRA; the documentary As We Speak tracks what happens to justice when rap lyrics are considered admissible evidence in court; and Riffed from the Headlines, our weekly musical news quiz.
Customer Reviews
A joy!
Brent is a very engaging narrator/interviewer. Stories are always interesting, informative and fun. I look forward to this show every week.
- Canadian girl living Texas
Fresh, Fun, Uniquely Informative!
Day 6 brings together keen, thoughtful interviews (like Fresh Air), intelligently entertaining style (like the old As It Happens) and even daring new perspectives (like no other show I've been able to find). Great host, great mix of stories each episode. I'm grateful to have stumbled across it. I'm not Canadian, and I love it. Highly recommended!
A Great Find
Just started listening to Day 6 on Chicago's NPR. I was immediately taken with it. Great pod-casts for a long commute - happy to find it on I-Tunes. Fast, informative and not the usual news stories. Brent Brambury is an enaging interviewer and his style has a story-telling feel which makes the story and interviewee compelling radio.