CBC ANNOUNCED TODAY six new original podcasts across multiple genres will be released throughout the fall.
“Our talented team of producers, investigative journalists, authors, filmmakers and more helm the various series, taking us deep inside other worlds and delivering podcasts that are top of class on the world stage,” said Arif Noorani, executive producer of CBC Podcasts, in a press release.
Three of the new podcasts are part of what CBC refers to as their ‘Red, White, Blue’ trilogy. The podcasts each take “a smart, curious in-depth look into subcultures of the radical right,” Noorani says.
The first podcast from the trilogy, The Flamethrowers (six episodes), will be released on Sept. 8. Hosted by Justin Ling, the podcast “tracks the rise of right wing radio in the U.S. from fringe preachers and conspiracy peddlers of the 1930s to the political firestorm that rages today.”
Second in the trilogy, The Accelerationists (six episodes) will launch Oct. 27. Hosted by Michelle Shepard, the podcast “follows the extraordinary case of Patrik Mathews, a Canadian armed forces reservist who was trying to establish a neo-Nazi extremist cell, until he was infiltrated by investigative journalist Ryan Thorpe as well as the FBI,” according to the release.
Last up in the trilogy, Boys Like Me (five episodes), will come out in November. It is a true crime podcast hosted by Ellen Chloe Bateman who joins Evan Mead, a classmate of the attacker from the April 2018 Toronto van attack, “on a journey into the dark subcultures where young men are increasingly attracted to and radicalized by a new, supercharged form of violent misogyny,” the press release reads.
Other new original podcasts to be launched by CBC this fall include Unlocking the Fountain (eight episodes) on Sept. 28, Limited Capacity (six episodes) on Oct. 21 and Sorry About the Kid (four episodes) in November.
In Unlocking the Fountain, Keith McArthur “explores the mysteries of aging” and “talks to dreamers, skeptics and cutting edge scientists, including those who believe that the first person who will live to 150 years old has already been born,” the press release reads.
Limited Capacity “is an audio fiction anthology series full of dark humour, where deeply human stories are twisted through imperfect technologies (Zoom, YouTube), and bizarre, new relationships are shaped by the weird, wired world we inhabit.”
Finally, Sorry About the Kid tells the story of “a teenager’s accidental death, by the rookie Montreal cop who killed him, and how this terrible tragedy nearly 30 years ago continues to impact everyone involved,” the press release says. It is hosted by Alex McKinnon, the victim’s brother.
Returning original CBC podcasts this fall include Front Burner, Party Lines and Pop Chat.
CBC podcasts are available on CBC Listen, and anywhere else podcasts are available.
