Podcast Playlist

This week, we're sharing a live recording from the Hot Docs Podcast Festival.

"Hear broadcast legend Anna Maria Tremonti (Welcome to Paradise) and comedian Gavin Crawford (Let's Not Be Kidding) offer vivid accounts of the closely held secrets they struggled for years to share. Hear acclaimed playwright and Buffy host Falen Johnson (The Secret Life of Canada) and journalist Matthew Amha (The Africas vs. America) uncover hidden histories, and discuss what happens when community stories hit close to home.

Inspired by some of the country's most lauded and popular podcasts, reinterpreted live for the Hot Docs Cinema stage, this will be a night of surprising and candid stories from Canada's most gifted audio storytellers."

When we had Kelsey McKinney on the show, she had so many great podcast picks that we couldn't fit them all in one radio-length episode. But this is a podcast, baby! Here are a couple extra picks from Leah and Kelsey's conversation.

Featuring: Who? Weekly, Love to See It

For more info on everything on today's show, head to http://cbc.ca/podcastplaylist.

The podcast Normal Gossip has shot to fame within the past year all thanks to the unifying power of gossip.

On the pod, host Kelsey McKinney shares listener-submitted gossip from the lives of everyday people. From weird neighbours, to sorority wedding drama, to secret workplace romances, each story is equally trivial, hilarious and unbelievable.

Kelsey joins Leah to talk about why we love to gossip and looks at how it can actually keep us safe. Then, she'll share her favourite podcasts. We dive into scammers, Taylor Swift, Bachelor Nation, and more!

Featuring: Normal Gossip, ICYMI, Articles of Interest, Scam Goddess

For links and more info on everything on today's show, head to http://cbc.ca/podcastplaylist.

This week on Podcast Playlist, we’re sharing stories about parenting.

We love to tell our kids to follow their dreams. But what do we say to them when that doesn’t work out? The hosts of Dear Old Dads wrestle with how to encourage our kids to shoot for the moon, without making them feel like failures when real life butts in.

Then: You know what we don’t hear enough about? What pregnancy and childbirth actually do to the human body. We’ll meet someone trying to change that on Embodied.

Plus: how do you raise confident kids in the age of diet culture? We’ll hear a conversation about weight and parenting on What Fresh Hell: Laughing In The Face of Motherhood.

Featuring: Death, Sex and Money, Dear Old Dads, Embodied, Unlocking Bryson's Brain, and What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood.

This week, we're listening to the best new summer releases – starting with a riveting investigative podcast from the UK.

The Lazarus Heist podcast charts the cybercrime exploits of an elite team of hackers allegedly connected to North Korea – a charge the secretive state denies. Season one told the story of the group's malware attack on Sony Pictures, among others, and the recently released season two picks up on what the hackers did next.

And this time, there's a Canadian connection – a dark web fraudster called Big Boss is one of the North Korean hackers' international accomplices, who helped to carry out so-called jackpotting heists – whereby the hackers took control of ATM machines located across 28 countries, and stole some $14 million dollars in just a couple of hours.

Plus, can psychedelics help to heal racial trauma?

Truth Be Told is an award-winning podcast that explores Black liberation. The show is back for a fifth season. This time around, host Tonya Mosley looks at "the psychedelic renaissance in Black America."

When paired with therapy, it's believed psychedelics can help to heal racial trauma, whether it's diagnosed PTSD or the kind of trauma that comes from being Black in a racist world.

But a history of racism in healthcare along with the war on drugs has made it difficult for people of colour to explore psychedelic-led therapies.

All that and more on this week's show.

Featuring:

The Lazarus Heist - Where do you hide 14 million dollars? The Lazarus Heist charts the cybercrime exploits of an elite team of hackers. They're allegedly connected to North Korea, though the country denies it.

Truth Be Told - Truth Be Told is an award-winning podcast that explores Black liberation. The show is back for a fifth season. This time around, host Tonya Mosley looks at "the psychedelic renaissance in Black America."

Bodies - This series is known for compassionately delving into medical mysteries, with an intersectional focus on the bodies of women and marginalized genders. This episode explores the impact of human touch. Hear a young girl explain what touch meant to her while visiting her incarcerated father.

Grown from PRX and The Moth - Grown is all about the challenges and joys of growing up. It features a collection of stories that look at the time between the awkward teenage years to almost-adulthood.

WILD - WILD is a podcast about, "how we overcome difficult moments that shape us forever." The latest season tells a true-ish story about the craziest thing one man ever did for love.

Expectant - Expectant blends fiction and nonfiction, following a woman trying to decide if she wants to have a child during the climate crisis. It's intimate and confessional, sonically experimental, and features real interviews with a range of climate scientists, parents, happily childfree people and mental health experts.

This week on Podcast Playlist: The best podcasts of 2023, so far.

When Kim Barker was in high school, there was a murder in her town that was never solved. Nearly 40 years later, she travels back to her hometown to look for answers in The Coldest Case in Laramie.

Then, did you know that in Japan there are companies that can legally help you disappear? They’re called "yonige," or night movers. We’ll hear more about them on The Evaporated: Gone With The Gods.

Plus, buying knockoffs isn’t tacky anymore…at least according to Tik Tok. We’ll get a primer on dupe culture on Vibe Check.

All that and more, this week on Podcast Playlist.

Featuring: The Coldest Case In Laramie, The Evaporated: Gone With The Gods, The Turning: Room of Mirrors, Vibe Check, Let's Not Be Kidding

For links and more info on all these shows, head to http://cbc.ca/podcastplaylist.

This week we're sharing one of our favourite episodes from April 2022.

The podcast For Colored Nerds is a pop culture conversation that dives a little deeper.

It's hosted by best friends and culture critics Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings. Each week they dive into what's going on in the zeitgeist, and peel back the layers of Black culture that are rarely discussed in mixed company.

From Janet Jackson's new documentary, to the Sex in the City reboot, to impostor syndrome, to what everyone is talking about on TikTok — These are just a few of the subjects they've unpacked since rebooting their show back in November 2021.

Brittany and Eric join us on this episode to talk about rebooting For Colored Nerds and their journey through the podcast industry. Plus, we'll listen to a few of their favourite podcasts.

Featuring: For Colored Nerds, Revisionist History, Celebrity Memoir Book Club, Trapital, Food Heaven

For links and more info on all the podcasts on today's show, head to http://cbc.ca/podcastplaylist.

Every weeknight for more than 50 years, CBC Radio's As It Happens has been heard in kitchens, cars and living rooms across Canada. The show takes listeners on a round-the-world tour covering the events of the day, as told by the people who were there.

In 1975, host Barbara Frum interviewed Sandra Good, a member of the Manson Family. 

In another episode, the show mediated a hostage negotiation live on the air with both the hostage taker and the police on the line. (You can hear those interviews at http://cbc.ca/1.6839858).

From the serious to the tragic to the absurd, each show brings something new.

This week we're joined by Nil Köksal and Chris Howden, the hosts of As It Happens, to listen to their favourite podcasts. It turns out the podcasts they listen to are just are varied as the program they host. 

Featuring: As It Happens, If Books Could Kill, Smartless, The Beef and Dairy Network Podcast, How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

For links and more info on all these shows, head to http://cbc.ca/podcastplaylist.

Every week, we get submissions from listeners around the world, recommending their favourite podcasts. So this week we dove in to your picks, and what we found were some truly incredible stories.

Featuring: Out Alive, Criminal, Road X, The Salmon People, Weird Distractions, Dan Snow's History Hit, That Neuroscience Guy.

For links and more info on these shows, go to http://cbc.ca/podcastplaylist.

Gavin Crawford used to talk about his mom a lot. But since she began to lose her memory, he found it harder to tell the old funny stories. But that’s changing with his new podcast Let’s Not Be Kidding.

This week, Leah sits down with Gavin to talk about his mom’s dementia, and how sometimes, even Alzheimer’s can make you laugh.

Plus, Alaska’s Iditarod sled dog race is one of the toughest sporting events in the world. In 2011, for the first time, a pair of New Zealanders crossed the finish line. They made history, but they left behind a trail of broken promises, burnt bridges and unpaid debts. We’ll hear their story on Outside/In.

Featuring: Let's Not Be Kidding, Outside/In, Darts & Letters, PlayMe.

For links and more info on everything on today's show, head to http://cbc.ca/podcastplaylist.