Podcast Playlist

June is Pride month, so this week we're featuring podcasts about, by and for the LGBT community.

Featuring: Making Gay History, Greenhouse, The Log Books, Chosen Family, Nancy

This week, the best new and notable (and all-Canadian!) podcasts to kick off your summer.

Featuring: Life Jolt, Do You Know Mordechai?, Inappropriate Questions, PLUS interviews with two of this week's featured hosts.

This week on the show, we're playing podcasts about crime that don't fit the "True Crime" stereotype.

Featured podcasts: Tenfold More Wicked, Unascertained, Brainwashed, Stuff The British Stole, Badlands.

Existing in the world these days can feel like a bit of a downer. So this week, we're playing feel-good podcasts to lift your spirits.

Featured podcasts: Paired, Personal Best, The Story Seeds Podcast, Sit There And Do Nothing

If you're craving travel this month, you're in luck. Well, kind of. This month's new podcast picks will take you on a journey all across time and space, from the banks of the Nile to Malibu. You'll hear powerful audio fiction and even life advice from Dolly Parton.

Plus, there's a lot on the internet these days. Ever feel like you just don't get the latest meme, TikTok trend or online celeb feud? The podcast ICYMI (In Case You Missed It) is here to save you hours of scrolling. Hosts Rachelle Hampton and Madison Malone Kircher join our host Elamin Abdelmahmoud to talk all things internet culture and growing up online.

Podcasts featured this week:

ICYMI: "Hosts Rachelle Hampton and Madison Malone Kircher recap the recent drama around Kylie Jenner's call for her followers to donate to a makeup artist's GoFundMe—and explain how it connects to a whole year of influencers failing to read the room during the pandemic."

By The Book: "Kristen and Jolenta are back with season 8, this time exploring celebrity self-help books! To kick things off, they're living by Dream More: Celebrate the Dreamer in You by singer, songwriter, and superstar Dolly Parton."

Lost Hills: "On June 22, 2018, Tristan Beaudette is brutally murdered in front of his two young daughters while camping in idyllic Malibu Creek State Park. The killing stuns the tight-knit, privileged community of Malibu. More stunning? The fact that the cops anticipated the attack, but didn't move to stop it. And the culprit they identify insists he's being framed."

Aria Code: "They say you can't go home again, and Giuseppe Verdi's Aida knows it all too well. Captured from her homeland of Ethiopia and enslaved in Egypt, she falls in love with an Egyptian warrior. Aida is torn between her love for this man and her love for her home and, because it's opera, she ultimately chooses the tenor. In 'O Patria Mia,' Aida stands on the banks of the Nile and says goodbye to Ethiopia. In this episode, host Rhiannon Giddens and her guests explore what home means, and what it means to leave it behind."

Play Me: "By Jordi Mand. Marion, a middle-aged working mother, arrives at her son Alex's private elementary school — ostensibly for the school's parent/teacher night. Teresa, Alex's twenty-something teacher, wasn't expecting her but reluctantly agrees to a brief meeting about Alex's academic progress. The two share a tense exchange about school policy and Teresa's teaching style until Marion reveals the real reason for her unannounced visit."

Ear Hustle: "Visiting a loved one in prison is both emotionally intense and constrained by countless rules — from how much PDA is too much PDA, to what kind of candy you can eat inside. One year after California prison authorities suspended in-person visits due to COVID-19, we bring you stories from and about visiting rooms, and hear how families are adjusting to video 'visits.'"

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What did the dinosaurs sound like? Does the family dog need more pats from dad? And who got into legally-dubious tiger ownership before the stars of Tiger King?

Among the nicest — and strangest — stories from the past year are stories about animals. Dolphins swam the canals of Venice. People in Paris kept dogs on a constant walk loop so they had an excuse to be out of their houses without an official pass. So many pets have been adopted now that people have time and need the companionship.

Join Elamin for a ride on the zoomobile with podcasts about the animals that have given us so much joy. Featuring: a calming podcast about the kiwi (bird not fruit), a mom arguing for more affection for the family dog, how movie sound designers bring dinosaurs to life, and more.

Podcasts featured this week:

Twenty Thousand Hertz: “When you imagine the sound of a dinosaur, you probably think of a scene from the Jurassic Park movies. How do sound designers make these extinct creatures sound so believably alive? And what does modern paleontology tell us about what dinosaurs REALLY sounded like? Featuring Jurassic World sound designer Al Nelson, and paleontologist Julia Clarke.”

Species: “In this episode, we learn about a bird that basically evolved into a mammal. The sheer number of areas where they have converged with mammals is absurd. Ironically, the mammals they have almost become may be their undoing.”

Criminal: “There are more tigers in captivity in America than wild tigers in the entire world. The exact number of captive tigers in this country isn’t known, because many of them live in people’s backyards or unaccredited zoos, and the legality of their ownership varies widely by state and even by circumstance. We travelled to Louisiana to see a 550-pound Siberian-Bengal tiger who lives at a truck stop. The owner, Michael Sandlin, has fought very hard to persuade Louisiana lawmakers he’s not a criminal. But animal rights activists and organizations, like the Humane Society and the Animal Legal Defense Fund, disagree.”

Judge John Hodgman: “Eric brings the case against his wife, Karla. Karla thinks that Eric should show more affection to their dog. But Eric says he does most of the dog care in the home. The dog petting can be left to another family member to fulfill. Who’s right? Who’s wrong?”

Kids Q The Music: “What sound does a cat make when you play it on the violin? This week we're chatting with Rezan Onen-Lapointe of Rezonance Ensemble and we're guessing which animals she's imitating on her violin.”

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Jamie Loftus is a woman of many talents. She's a comedian and animator, and you may have heard her on the podcasts The Bechdel Cast and My Year In Mensa. Her latest project is Lolita Podcast, a 10-part deep dive into Lolita podcast examines Vladimir Nabokov’s book and the many ways it's been interpreted -- and misinterpreted -- over the years. Today, Jamie joins us to talk about Lolita podcast and share some of her favourite shows.

Featured in this episode: Lolita Podcast, You're Wrong About, There Are No Girls On The Internet

For more info and links to these shows, visit cbc.ca/podcastplaylist

Sometimes we get so caught up with sharing the latest releases, we don't get to play some of our old favourites. So this episode, just like your favourite dad rock band, we're breaking out the Greatest Hits. These new episodes come from chart topping podcasts that have been around for a while. And like classic tunes, these gems will stick with you.

Podcasts featured:

Aria Code: "Gioachino Rossini's operatic version of the Cinderella story may not have any enchanted mice or pumpkins, but there's plenty of magic in the music."

Mortified: "Celebrate the majesty and musicality of self-proclaimed band geeks."

The Feast: "Almost sixty years ago to the day, President John F Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline hosted the largest state dinner of the Kennedy Administration. Invited to the White House for a special 'brains dinner' in April 1962 were 49 Nobel laureates, along with Pulitzer Prize winners, noted actors, and Poet Laureates. What happened the night Robert Frost dined with J. Robert Oppenheimer? How did James Baldwin get on with Mary Welsh Hemingway? On this episode, we speak with Joseph A. Esposito, author of 'Dinner in Camelot: The Night America's Greatest Scientists, Writers, and Scholars Partied at the Kennedy White Hous'" to discuss the dinner and its impressive guest list."

The Truth: "When two actors on different coasts show up to a mysterious voiceover audition, a sadistic director keeps making things weirder."

It's our monthly New and Notable episode! This week we're taking a trip from the bars of Nashville, to a disputed island in the Atlantic, to fair Verona, where we lay our scene.

Featuring: Cocaine and Rhinestones, Romeo y Julieta, The Experiment, Still Processing, and The Secret Life of Canada.

This week we’re continuing our conversation with Michael Hobbes and Sarah Marshall. They’re journalists, writers and hosts of the pop culture history podcast You’re Wrong About. On their show they explore stories the public and the media got wrong. This is the second half of their two-part guest curator episode.

Podcasts on today’s show: You’re Wrong About, This Ends At Prom, Fall of Civilizations, On The Ledge, S***post