Oooooh, who doesn't love a podcast about your hometown? This scandal rocked Calgary and it was so confusing. It was one of those times where you're living while history is being made and don't have the time or space to figure it all out. Fortunately, this CBC/BBC podcast puts it all in perspective--the winners, losers, and potentially murder ( Read more... )

I didn't enjoy this podcast at all. I listened to first season and couldn't determine if what I listening to was fact or fiction. The breathy announcer and the moody music seemed out of place. I didn't bother with season 2.

https://wondery.com/shows/the-devil-within/

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One thing true crime podcasts are very good at, is, unfortunately, doing deep dives into true crime. Sometimes it's reopening an old case or shining a spotlight on an unsolved crime. Ambushed, which first aired in 2017, does a bit of both, trying to keep the deaths of a Southern Alberta couple alive on the Internet.

A well-liked couple - an RCMP ( Read more... )

Do you love cultural mysteries??? Most of us probably do, but we just take for granted that we don't know. Host Willa Paskin deep dives into the origins of things, habits, cultural norms and media to deliver fun stories and interesting trivia ( Read more... )

One thing I love about podcasts is the deep dives into long ago events. What stories were untold? What was unknown? How has society changed since then ( Read more... )

Tomorrow, September 30th, is Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation as well as Orange Shirt Day. Canada's past treatment of Indigenous people has, quite frankly, been absolutely terrible and atrocious. The day honours children who never returned home from residential schools as well as survivors, their families and communities ( Read more... )

Red Elvis is a biographical look at the life and death of Dean Reed who went from teen idol to Soviet superstar. Narrated by Dean's daughter, his interesting life met a suspicious end.

Dean Reed's Hollywood career was brief, but he became an international superstar during the height of the Cold War, living in Latin America and communist Europe. ( Read more... )

CBC's long-running radio show Ideas launched in 1965, and is currently hosted by Nahlah Ayed. Sometimes they feature shows from the BBC, Australia's ABC and the topics tend to be mostly high-brow such as interviews with noteworthy people, environmental and cultural topics as well as Massey lectures ( Read more... )

Narrated by British author and journalist Hari Kunzru, Into the Zone sadly only lasted ten episodes. I keep hoping it will return, hence why I keep it in my podcast list. Hari's voice is compelling and the stories and connections he makes on different topics are truly interesting. There isn't a clear theme across the episodes--they're all about ( Read more... )

CW: Child abuse and death

As I've mentioned, I'm picky about true crime podcasts, but Broken Harts is a thoughtful look into undetected child abuse and American adoption laws. It's also a look at how people manipulate the exterior image of a happy family on social media while hiding the reality. It's a tough listen.

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