CBC launches new spring/summer podcast lineup

CBC on Thursday announced its spring and summer slate of original podcasts, featuring the new anthology series Split Screen as well as in-depth examinations of a curling scandal, the rise of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and the Bre-X goldmine fraud. In its first season, Split Screen traces the true story behind Kid Nation, one of reality TV’s most controversial experiments, which was cancelled shortly after its 2007 debut. Borrowing its premise from William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies, the show’s producers took 40 kids into a makeshift desert town to fend for themselves and create their own society. “With access to former Kid Nation contestants,...