TORONTO – CBC last week announced its fall 2023 podcast and audio slate, which includes several new podcast series, an exclusive interview with Mick Jagger on Q With Tom Power, and the return of true crime investigative series Someone Knows Something.
Premiering Oct. 16, the new weekly podcast Crime Story hosted by investigative journalist Kathleen Goldhar “goes deep into a true crime investigation with the storyteller who knows it best,” reads a CBC press release. Season one guests include Gilbert King (Bone Valley), Eric Benson (Project Unabomb) and Carole Fisher (The Girlfriends).
Launching Oct. 23, Bloodlines is “a powerful exploration into the children caught up in the ISIS Caliphate web”, the release explains. This new eight-episode podcast is hosted by BBC investigative reporter Poonam Taneja, who has covered the ISIS story for many years. In this series, Taneja embarks on a dangerous journey to find out what happened to two-year-old Salmaan and his Canadian-born mother who disappeared in Syria in 2018.
Another new CBC podcast premiering this fall is Gay Girl Gone, a six-episode series about the disappearance of a revolutionary Syrian blogger fighting for justice and gay liberation. Before her reported abduction, out lesbian Amina documents her life on the blog Gay Girl in Damascus, a brave act in a country where homosexuality is illegal. Journalist Samira Mohyeddin investigates what actually happened to Amina in this series, which will launch in November. “The result is a twisted yarn that spans the globe and challenges our thinking on love, politics and identity in cyberspace,” the release says.
Today, Sept. 18, Q With Tom Power features an exclusive Canadian interview with Mick Jagger, in which the Rolling Stones frontman talks about 60 years of the band, losing friend and drummer Charlie Watts who died in August 2021, Jagger’s own mortality and “why The Rolling Stones are so much more than a rock band.”
In a new seven-episode series launching Sept. 18, the eighth season of Someone Knows Something looks at the 2007 disappearance and unsolved murder of Whitehorse high school student Angel Carlick. Host and investigative journalist David Ridgen “joins Angel’s friends, family and the community in a search for answers, and strives to bring her justice,” the release says.
On Oct. 11, a 10-episode installment of comedy podcast Let’s Make a Horror will launch. Hosts Maddy Kelly, Mark Chavez and Ryan Beil “will attempt to make audiences laugh (and scream) as they learn what it takes to make a truly frightening horror movie.” The hosts will also be performing a live episode at the Just For Laughs Festival in Toronto on Sept. 30 and at On Air Fest in Los Angeles on Nov. 1.
Other CBC fall 2023 audio highlights include: the Polaris Music Prize, airing Sept. 22 at 2 p.m. (2:30 NT) on CBC Radio One and CBC Listen, and Sept. 25 at 6 p.m. (6:30 NT) on CBC Music and CBC Listen; and Reclaimed Presents: ʔəm̓i ce:p xʷiwəl Come Toward the Fire, airing Sept. 30 at 5 p.m. (6 AT, 6:30 NT) on CBC Music and CBC Listen, and at 9 p.m. (10 AT, 10:30 NT) on CBC Radio One.
In addition to the new podcasts, CBC’s ongoing podcasts include Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud, The Dose, Front Burner and Sickboy. Select titles are available to stream on CBC Podcasts’ newly launched YouTube page.
Image screen captured from CBC Podcasts’ YouTube channel teaser.
