25 Best CBC Stories Podcasts

1. Now or Never

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In a world that can feel pretty scary, it's easy to get stuck. This is a show that celebrates what it takes to try. To take the risk. To have the talk. To rock the speedo. Because making even the tiniest change takes courage, and hosts Ify and Trevor are here to remind you that you're not alone when you do. New episodes every Thursday.MORE Ranking #79 in Apple Charts (CA)
Hosts Trevor Dineen, Ify Chiwetelu
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 145Facebook 40.3KTwitter 9.5KInstagram 9.9K Avg Length 53 min Format Long form Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free with Email Continue with Google

2. Alone: A Love Story

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Alone: A Love Story is an award-winning memoir by Michelle Parise. With candour and humour, Michelle delves into the deepest, darkest aspects of her divorce and her new life as a part-time parent, part-time partier.MORE Producer/Network CBC STORIES
Email ****@cbc.ca
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 3.7KFacebook 3.3KTwitter 758.6KInstagram 730.2K Avg Length 23 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

3. Other People's Problems

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Normally, therapy sessions are totally confidential — but this podcast opens the doors. In this season of Other People's Problems, Dr. Hillary McBride explores the transformative power of psychedelics in a therapeutic setting. With her psychological expertise, Dr. Hillary leads her clients through drug-assisted therapy, guiding them to new heights on their healing journeys. Experience these real, unscripted sessions firsthand as they unfold in each episode...MORE Host Hillary L McBride
Producer/Network CBC STORIES
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 1.6KFacebook 916.9KTwitter 758.6K Avg Length 31 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

4. Sorry About The Kid

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How do you forget your favourite person in the world? Alex remembers everything about the day a speeding police car killed his brother. But his brother, alive? Those memories are lost. And now, 30 years later, Alex wants them back. In this emotional four-part series, Alex unearths his childhood grief — with help from family, friends, and a therapist who witnessed his brother's death. What happens when trauma and memory collide? Sorry About The Kid is a deeply personal meditation on the losses that define us. Hosted by Alex McKinnon. Produced with Mira Burt-Wintonick (WireTap, Love Me).MORE Host Alex McKinnon
Producer/Network CBC STORIES
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 885Facebook 26.9KTwitter 11.4KInstagram 32K Avg Length 31 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

5. Love Me

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Celebrate the beauty and messiness of human connection. From the nuances of grief to chaotic dating fails, each episode of Love Me challenges the way we think about belonging. Award-winning documentary storytelling that cuts right to the heart. Season 4 coming in 2025.Love Me is currently accepting story pitches for its upcoming season.Hosted by Lu Olkowski. Produced by Mira Burt-Wintonick and Cristal Duhaime.Have feedback or questions about the show? Reach us at: ****@cbc.caMORE Producer/Network CBC STORIES
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 1.4KFacebook 916.9KInstagram 730.2K Avg Length 27 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

6. Welcome to Paradise

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Love, marriage… and a secret history of trauma. Anna Maria Tremonti has been keeping her past a secret for over 40 years. As one of Canada's most respected journalists, she has a reputation for being fearless and hard-hitting. She's reported from some of the world's most dangerous conflict zones. But none were as immediately threatening as life at home. In her early 20s, she fell in love with a man who seemed worldly and charming. Behind closed doors he was incredibly violent. They were only married for a year but the consequences of the abuse have lasted a lifetime...MORE Host Anna Maria Tremonti
Producer/Network CBC STORIES
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 1.5KFacebook 916.9KTwitter 758.6K Avg Length 28 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

7. Gay Girl Gone

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Of all the young revolutionaries in Syria during the Arab Spring, Amina is different. An out lesbian in a country where homosexuality is illegal, she bravely documents her life on the blog Gay Girl in Damascus. Her candid posts attract readers from around the world, and soon she has a wide, ardent following. But then a post appears saying Amina has been abducted. Her fans mobilize, desperate to track down and save their fearless heroine. What they find shocks them. Journalist Samira Mohyeddin investigates what actually happened to the infamous Gay Girl in Damascus in this 6-part series...MORE Host Samira Mohyeddin
Producer/Network CBC STORIES
Email ****@cbc.ca
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Apple Rating 4.4/5Apple Reviews 607Facebook 26.9KTwitter 11.4KInstagram 32K Avg Length 35 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

8. Personally: Resurrection

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In a moment of fate in 2017, Dane is gifted a bundle of old love letters and theatrical scripts. They were written by a man named Daryl Allen in the years before AIDS took his life in 1991. Daryl was a bisexual man and amateur playwright who lived in San Francisco through the 70s and 80s. Along with the letters, Dane is given a task: tell Daryl's story and give his theatrical work the audience it lost when his life was cut short by HIV. Over the next five years, Dane settles into the role of detective, using Daryl's letters to track down his exes, his old friends, and his relatives...MORE Hosts Pauline Dakin, Thomas Leblanc, Anna Maria Tremonti
Producer/Network CBC STORIES
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Apple Rating 4.1/5Apple Reviews 1KFacebook 26.9KTwitter 11.4KInstagram 32K Avg Length 35 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

9. Storylines

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A weekly documentary show for people who love narrative podcasts. These are stories you can't stop thinking about. That you'll tell your friends about. And that will help you understand what's going on in Canada, and why. Every week a journalist follows one story, meets the people at its centre, and makes it make sense. Sometimes it's about people living out the headlines in real life. Sometimes it's about someone you've never heard of, living through something you had no idea was happening. Either way, you'll go somewhere, meet someone, get the context, and learn something new...MORE Host Acey Rowe
Producer/Network CBC STORIES
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 418Facebook 4.4KInstagram 1.1K Avg Length 26 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

10. Back Story from CBC Radio

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Producer/Network CBC STORIES
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Apple Rating 4.3/5Apple Reviews 63 Get Email Contact

11. Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace

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This is the inside story of one of the world's most bizarre and ballsy reality dating shows. In early 2013 a group of twelve unsuspecting American women were flown to a sumptuous Elizabethan estate in the heart of the Berkshire countryside, where they competed for a chance to win the affections of one of the world's most eligible bachelors. 'Oh my god,' shouts one of the contestants as their suitor arrives by helicopter, 'That's Prince Harry!'...MORE Host Joanne McNally
Producer/Network CBC STORIES
Email ****@cbc.ca
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Apple Rating 4.1/5Apple Reviews 463 Avg Length 30 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

12. Come by Chance

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If you've ever been to Newfoundland, you know it's a place where fog can envelop you so deeply, you don't know where you're going or where you came from. When two men, born in the same rural Newfoundland hospital on the same day, discover an unbelievable 52-year-old secret, it changes the way they see themselves forever. But this isn't the end of the story. Because it turns out these men are not alone. A series of other close calls and near misses have begun to emerge, and not only at Come by Chance hospital...MORE Host Luke Quinton
Producer/Network CBC STORIES
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 492 Avg Length 28 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

13. Life Jolt

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Life Jolt — prison slang for a life sentence — examines the lives of women navigating Canada's correctional system. Our team gained unprecedented access to the Grand Valley Institution prison — the federal pen for women in Ontario — for a full year. We followed women going into prison for the first time, spoke with lifers who have been there for years, and parolees as they left...MORE Producer/Network CBC STORIES
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 664Facebook 165.7KTwitter 121.3KInstagram 57.8K Avg Length 39 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

14. Recovering Filipino

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Host Jim Agapito is a 'bad Filipino.' The Filipino-Canadian filmmaker can't speak Tagalog and is stumped by some of the things Filipinos do and believe. Join Jim on this enlightening, joyful, and surprising 10-episode mission to recover his culture.MORE Producer/Network CBC STORIES
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 220Facebook 26.9KTwitter 11.4KInstagram 32K Avg Length 28 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

15. Sleepover

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Sleepover host Sook-Yin Lee brings together three complete strangers for 24 hours to talk about what's difficult and try to make it better.
Producer/Network CBC STORIES
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 161 Avg Length 28 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

16. Unlocking Bryson's Brain

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Bryson is a beautiful, happy and loving boy. But a mysterious illness means he can't walk, talk, or feed himself. After years without a diagnosis, even Bryson's parents have come to accept that he may never be able to live independently. Then one day, everything changes. Scientists working at the cutting edge of genetics believe they know what's causing Bryson's disease — and think it could be reversed. Motivated by the hope for a cure, Bryson's parents search for the miracle key that could unlock Bryson's brain...MORE Producer/Network CBC STORIES
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 47Facebook 26.9KTwitter 11.4KInstagram 32K Avg Length 44 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

17. Campus

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Campus is that place and time in our lives where everything changes. Welcome to the CBC's first original podcast series. Every episode is driven by a first-person narrative as host, Albert Leung guides you through one character's life-defining experience. The stories are uniquely personal, honest and intimate. And although our characters are almost always students, their experiences are universal. Everyone can relate to the struggles of fitting in, feeling lost, self-discovery and tackling adversity.SUBSCRIBE!MORE Producer/Network CBC STORIES
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Apple Rating 4/5Apple Reviews 90 Avg Length 29 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

18. Asking For It

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A queer contemporary take of the Goldilocks tale: about love, music, and breaking the cycle of abuse. Goldie escapes a chaotic childhood only to go from a partner who starves her of love to a partner who nearly drowns her in it, before learning to be just right on her own. From CBC Podcasts and Mermaid Palace. Produced by award-winning podcast creator Kaitlin Prest featuring writer/director Drew Denny.MORE Producer/Network CBC STORIES
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 384Facebook 26.9KTwitter 11.4KInstagram 6.8K Avg Length 30 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

19. The Shadows

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Kaitlin Prest, creator and host of the Prix-Italia winner The Heart, presents the first audio fiction from CBC Podcasts. The Shadows is a story about the anatomy of a relationship: a crush, a choice, ...MORE Host Kaitlin Prest
Producer/Network CBC STORIES
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 1.1KFacebook 26.9KTwitter 807Instagram 32K Avg Length 34 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

20. Let's Not Be Kidding with Gavin Crawford

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If laughter really was the best medicine, Gavin Crawford would have cured his mother of Alzheimer's disease. As a son, his mother's dementia has been devastating. As a comedian though… it's been sort of funny. Honestly, how do you respond when your mom confuses you with her teenage crush and wants you to take her to the high-school dance? Well, you laugh. Because it's the only thing you can do...MORE Host Gavin Crawford
Producer/Network CBC STORIES
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 1.7KFacebook 26.9KTwitter 11.4KInstagram 32K Avg Length 27 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

21. Limited Capacity

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Limited Capacity is a collection of six short stories about the strange and twisted ways we interact with the internet, and with each other. Punctuated with dark humour and surprising twists, each episode blurs the lines between horror, thriller, mockumentary and satire. The stories take on digital appropriation, toxic positivity, a self-help podcast for people who hate self-help and a talking chicken. Each immersive episode is packed with intimate and jarring stories that are both completely familiar and somehow confoundingly alien. It's like Black Mirror for your ears...MORE Host Rob Norman
Producer/Network CBC STORIES
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 200Facebook 26.9KTwitter 114Instagram 32K Avg Length 32 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

22. Wiretap

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You never quite know where WireTap will take you. From a scientist who documents the final words of parrots to what it's like to date Lois Lane after she's broken up with Superman, the minds of Jonathan Goldstein and his friends and family are truly unique.MORE Host Jonathan Goldstein
Producer/Network CBC STORIES
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 488Facebook 15K Avg Length 28 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

23. Tested

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Who gets to compete? Since the beginning of women's sports, there has been a struggle over who qualifies for the women's category. Tested follows the unfolding story of elite female runners who have been told they can no longer race as women, because of their biology. As the Olympics approach, they face hard choices: take drugs to lower their natural testosterone levels, give up their sport entirely, or fight. To understand how we got here, Host Rose Eveleth (they/them) traces the surprising, 100-year history of sex testing.MORE Host Rose Eveleth
Producer/Network CBC STORIES
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 397 Avg Length 33 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

24. Broomgate: A Curling Scandal

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For years, players have been too afraid to talk about it. But now, the truth about a broom that almost destroyed curling is finally coming out.Over the course of six episodes, semi-professional curler and fully professional comedian John Cullen (Blocked Party) is exposing the unbelievable, never-before-told scandal that rocked the sport of curling. Yes, curling.MORE Hosts John Cullen, Robbie Doherty
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 492 Avg Length 26 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact