Terry O'Reilly's Pirate Radio Inc. creates Age of Persuasion for CBC. (CBC)

CBC Radio has taken home 13 trophies from the 2012 New York Festivals International Radio Awards, including a Grand Award for Terry O’Reilly’s Age of Persuasion.

Age of Persuasion, a CBC Radio One program in which former adman O'Reilly investigates advertising and marketing won four awards at the gala held in New York Monday. CBC current affairs shows The Current and The Sunday Edition also were multiple winners.

Jian Ghomeshi of CBC cultural affairs show Q took a gold award for best talk show host.

Age of Persuasion won the event’s Grand Award for the second straight year for an episode titled “The Happy Homemaker,” which looked at how Madison Avenue invented the housewife. That episode also took the gold award in the consumer category. Age of Persuasion earned a silver award for writing for “Luxury Advertising.”

The Sunday Edition won a Silver Award for “The Gristle in the Stew,” a documentary about the Huronia institution and the people who lived and suffered there and another for “A Cruel Coincidence,” about a father and daughter with Parkinson’s disease.

The Current won a silver award for “Remy’s Wake,” about the late Remy Beauregard and his Rights and Democracy charity which fell afoul of Conservative scrutiny and a bronze for “Motherhood Interrupted,” about one woman’s experience with unwed motherhood in the 1960s.

Other CBC wins:

• Gold, religious programming: Tapestry, "Atheist Pastors."
• Silver, special event: Canada Reads 2011.
• Silver, culture and arts: Inside The Music, “She Moves Between Worlds.”
• Bronze, comedy: The Debaters, “Weddings Are A Waste.”
• Bronze, national affairs documentary: The Sunday Edition, “Unfinished Business.”
• Bronze, human interest: Dispatches, "The Reunion of Rosa and Antonio.”
• Bronze, culture and arts: The Next Chapter, “North Words.”

Canada’s public broadcaster was competing against radio broadcasters from around the world for the honours at the New York Festivals.

The other Grand Award for the best interview talk show went to U.S. public affairs program The Kalb Report for “Anchoring 9/11: The Day and The Decade,” a discussion with leading journalists who were on the air during the 9/11 attacks.

RPM Podcast, a forum for indigenous music and culture, won two awards for its Electric Pow Wow. The Canadian-produced podcast explored the work of three Indigenous artists – Ottawa DJ collective A Tribe Called Red¸ classically trained electro-cellist Cris Derksen, and Indian Nick, a Tlingit/Aleut visual artist and musician.