CBC Radio - Shows

Alone: A Love Story, is a memoir about love, the bomb, and the fallout. With raw honesty, over 10 episodes, Michelle Parise takes you along on her winding journey from lust to heartbreak, through loneliness and despair, to eventually finding the courage to face the question mark of life, alone.

CBC Radio's As It Happens' listening experience is like taking a trip around the world. From the complex headlines of the day to the weird and wacky, As It Happens brings you the story behind the story and now we're podcasting the whole show!

Go behind the scenes with journalists and correspondents, as they peel back the curtain and take you inside the stories they've covered.

Host Gavin Crawford and a hilarious panel of smart alecks parody the news of the week, discussing the breaking stories Canadians cared about, and the ones they didn't —- but probably should have.

Cross Country Checkup is Canada's only weekly national open-line radio program. It is broadcast live across Canada every Sunday afternoon on CBC Radio One and SiriusXM. Each week Canadians from coast to coast join in a lively discussion on an issue of national interest that impacts their daily lives.

CBC Radio's The Current is a meeting place of perspectives with a fresh take on issues that affect Canadians today.

Day 6 is a news magazine show that delivers a surprising take on the news.

The Debaters is the hit CBC Radio show that features Canada’s hottest comedians going toe to toe, debating topics in the news and on the minds of Canadians.

Our original documentaries are Canadian in focus, universal in scope. Every week, we bring you high-stakes storytelling at its most artful and human — stories that dive deeper, revealing our shared humanity beneath the surface.

Top food writer Chris Nutall-Smith serves up stories — part science, part economics, always delicious.

Front Burner is a daily news podcast from CBC News that drops weekday mornings at 6 a.m. ET. Led by host Jayme Poisson, Front Burner is here to bring you a deeper understanding of the big stories shaping Canada, and the world.

CBC Radio's The House takes you behind the scenes in the world of Canadian politics. Parliament may take a summer recess but the business of national politics never stops, nor does The House.

Ideas is CBC Radio's program of contemporary thought.

CBC Radio's Laugh out Loud is Canada's home for comedy. Every week the show features the best and funniest comics in the business. Recorded at festivals and comedy clubs across the country, LOL is the show to hear to stay on top of the Canadian comedy scene. From the famous to the found, LOL will bring you the funny every week.

Deep down we all just want to be loved, so why is it one of the toughest things to get right? Love Me is a podcast about the messiness of human connection. It's a peek into the relationships of the people around you. Through personal stories and playful fictions, the show celebrates that weird little voice inside each of us that cries out: love me.

Where is Cleo? It’s a mystery her family has been trying to unravel for decades after the young Cree girl was apprehended by child welfare workers in Saskatchewan in the 1970s.

CBC Radio's Shelagh Rogers travels the country, conversing with authors and readers of all kinds. A new episode every Monday.

Hosts Ify Chiwetelu and Trevor Dineen leap into the action with Canadians who are making things happen. Sometimes things go right. Sometimes they go off the rails. Either way, Now or Never nudges you to make a change, big or small.

Each week, On Drugs looks through the lenses of history, pop culture and personal experience to understand how drugs have shaped our world. Because even if it’s just caffeine or ibuprofen, there’s a good chance you’re on drugs right now.

Normally, therapy sessions are totally confidential - but this podcast opens the doors. Hillary McBride and her clients want to help demystify mental health. No actors. No auditions. No artifice.

Out in the Open is an adventurous and wide-ranging weekly show about the nitty-gritty of real life. Host Piya Chattopadhyay and her team look at how one timely topic is affecting regular people, and invite listeners to join in on the conversations we need to have ... out in the open.

A self-improvement show that helps you be your best you. As best we can. Given the constraints.

Fresh, new, provocative programs from the digital realm, Radio One's Podcast Playlist kicks it off on terrestrial with a sampling of some of the most intriguing of what the internet has to offer.

CBC Radio's q is Canada's liveliest arts, culture and entertainment magazine. q covers pop culture and high arts alike, with forays into the most provocative and compelling cultural trends. q brings you big names, big ideas, and those paving the way in Canada's cultural community. q is your cultural intervention!

CBC Radio's Quirks & Quarks covers the quicks of the expanding universe to the quarks within a single atom... and everything in between.

The country you know. The stories you don't.

Sook-Yin Lee and three complete strangers share a hotel room for one night. Each comes with a problem and with Sook-Yin’s help, they spend the next 24 hours exploring what's bothering them and how to make it better.

Someone Knows Something is a true crime investigative podcast. Each season, host David Ridgen investigates a single cold case, joining victims' family members on their search for answers.

On CBC Radio One's Spark, Nora Young helps you navigate your digital life by connecting you to fresh ideas in surprising ways.

The Story From Here is a weekly cross country tour tapping into story telling from CBC Radio One locations from every region.

CBC Radio's The Sunday Edition is a lively three-hour program of conversation, documentaries and music. Michael Enright, an accomplished journalist and broadcaster, is the host and tackles everything from politics to pop culture, in Canada and around the world.

Tai Poole is a curious philosopher. At 11 years old he’s asking life’s biggest questions like: What happens after you die? Why do we dream? How can we fix climate change? Come along as Tai heads to coffee shops, universities, synagogues and playgrounds seeking answers. His conversations with everyone from NASA experts to his little brother will expand your mind and touch your heart.

CBC Radio's Tapestry is a weekly exploration of spirituality, religion and the search for meaning, hosted by Mary Hynes.

This Is That is a current affairs program that doesn't just talk about the issues, it fabricates them. Nothing is off limits —- if it's relevant to Canadians, we'll find out the "This" and the "That" of the story. Each week, hosts Pat Kelly and Peter Oldring introduce you to the voices and stories that give this country character in this 100% improvised, satirical send-up of public radio.

Uncover is an investigative series from CBC Podcasts. Season 1 explores one woman's escape from Keith Raniere’s NXIVM. Season 2 examines the unsolved bombing of a commercial passenger plane.

The first 50 years of modern advertising was hard-sell. The next 50 years was persuasion through creativity and media tonnage. But advertising is no longer a loud one-way conversation. It's a delicate dialogue now. The goal is no longer to triumph by weight, but to win by influence. Welcome to Under the Influence. An exploration of that critical shift.

Unreserved host Rosanna Deerchild, and reporter Connie Walker, take you behind the headlines of the top trending stories from Indigenous Canada.

CBC Radio's Dr. Brian Goldman takes listeners through the swinging doors of hospitals and doctors' offices, behind the curtain where the gurney lies.

CBC Radio's Writers and Company offers an opportunity to explore in depth the lives, thoughts and works of remarkable writers from around the world. Hosted by Eleanor Wachtel.