Podcasts by Storylines
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. (Plus it sounds really good. Mixed like a movie.)
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The Librarians & The Drag Queens from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
When two librarians in Kelowna B.C. decide to hold Drag Queen Story Hour for kids, they plan everything… from the books about inclusion and diversity that educational assistant Tyson Cook will read...
ListenAlone, Together from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Two stories about COVID and companionship: Dusty Springfield is the luckiest cat on earth. When COVID-19 hit, Dusty’s owner, Jennifer Yoon, was suddenly home all the time. What a luxury for a rescu...
ListenSuper Duty Tough Work from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Super Duty Tough Work is the first ever hip-hop group from Manitoba to be nominated for the Polaris Music Prize. We follow frontman Brendan Kinley, a rapper who draws on the past to make music for ...
ListenCaravan PART 3: Homecoming from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Trevor Campbell has unfinished business. After abandoning ship, he never reconnected with Paul and Nans. It’s been five years. Now he wants to find them, to finally talk about the day he fled.
ListenCaravan PART 2: Theatre Pirates from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Trevor Campbell joins the anarchist stage company “Caravan" and has his first taste of life with this ragtag family of theatre pirates. It's all terribly romantic, as Trevor travels with them in Eu...
ListenCaravan PART 1: The Bonnie and Clyde of Canadian Theatre from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In 2012, Trevor Campbell ran away with the sea circus. He joined a floating experiment: “Caravan,” a renegade theatre troupe who sail around in a tall ship, putting on provocative theatre from its ...
ListenWhat Helps Us Through from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Two stories about the rituals that help us through. First, Eva Voinigescu's Romanian grandparents are obsessed with their own burials — from who their "neighbours" will be to the shoes they plan to...
ListenInconceivable from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In 2013, Torontonian Simon Smith sent away his DNA for analysis. Simon wanted to see if he had inherited his late grandfather's heart troubles. When Simon got the results, he was pleased to learn h...
ListenPaddle of the Century from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A good canoe trip takes good planning. Don Starkell knew that better than anyone. He spent a whole decade planning for the one he promised his two boys. Then again, he was planning to take them fur...
ListenBlood Money from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
As a journalist, Kim Wheeler has been covering Indigenous stories for nearly thirty years. But there's one story that has taken her decades to tell: her own. When she was 13 days old, Canadian auth...
ListenBreaking History from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
As a student, Beryl Dickinson-Dash was crowned the Carnival Queen at McGill University. She wasn't at all interested in competing (in fact, she hadn't even entered herself) but her mother, her boyf...
ListenResistance in the Bloodline from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Miyawata Dion Stout and Sunny Enkin Lewis are youth climate activists from Winnipeg. Both say they get their drive for justice from their grandmothers: one survived residential school and the other...
ListenShelter in Place from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Sean Towgood knows a thing or two about sheltering in place. Sean uses a wheelchair to get around and snowy sidewalks during Canadian winters can mean staying at home for days, or even weeks. As so...
ListenIndependence Day (Rebroadcast) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
(Prequel to "Shelter in Place") Think finding housing is hard? Try adding a wheelchair... Sean Towgood has cerebral palsy and has been on a waiting list for supportive housing for four years. He's ...
ListenWalk This Way from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Kent Hoffman thinks about walking all the time. For him, it requires focus: where to place his feet, how to keep his balance, how to avoid falling. Kent lives with Becker muscular dystrophy, a prog...
ListenDeaf Heart from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
When Jodee Mundy was a kid she had to explain the fall of the Berlin Wall to her parents. Her family watched the TV as Jodee translated the words coming from the news report. It was normal for Jode...
ListenAn Urgent Matter from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
"T" was being held in Toronto East Detention Centre when a Sargent came down the range, trying to warn the prisoners about COVID 19. She told them if they could get bail, to go for it. To try to ge...
ListenLiving as We from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Rachel lives with dissociative identity disorder. She shares a body with nine other distinct identities. In addition to Rachel there's Liam, Noell, Lexi, Jaime, Aleksa, Our Little, Jaejin, Minnie, ...
ListenTalking About Vane from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Julie Arounlasy's parents were born and raised in Laos.They came to Canada in 1987. Julie doesn't know much about her family's origins because they never really discussed it. There's a lot they've ...
ListenFeeling Detention from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Psychiatrist Rachel Kronick will never forget her first interviewees at the Laval Immigration Holding Centre. Two parents with their daughters, aged three and 10. Rachel and a team of researchers h...
ListenGoing Home from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
When Natasha Greenblatt landed in London, England to see the opening night of a play she produced, she got two texts: "The play is cancelled" and "Welcome to the apocalypse". Amidst the spread of C...
ListenPortrait of a Foster Family from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
When Sharon and Ken Greenock took in their first foster child, they were oblivious to the grief, chaos and love it would bring to their home. Now, with 7 children, this family is trying to keep tog...
ListenSwinn's Service from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
For the past 50 years Doug Swinn has started his day by opening Swinn's Service, the auto repair shop he founded near Tillsonburg, Ontario. He makes some coffee, turns on the radio, and checks the ...
ListenThe Pedersons from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In 1969, the lives of two young sisters in Buffalo Narrows, Saskatchewan, were changed forever. Six members of their family, including both of their parents, were murdered in their home while the s...
ListenPeople Like Jack from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
When Kate McKenna started worrying about her drinking, she wanted to talk to the only person in her family who she knew had struggled with alcohol and gotten sober: her grandfather, Jack. But Jack ...
ListenMe, Myself and Han *Repeat* from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Eunice Kim immigrated to Canada from Korea when she was five years old. She speaks fluent Korean, but recently, Eunice stumbled upon an unfamiliar word: han. Han is a word that has no English trans...
ListenWhat's in a voice ? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Our voices say so much about us ...whether we like it or not. This week, we have two stories which investigate the power of how we sound. Gretel Kahn was born and raised in Panama, but moved to Mon...
ListenLife in Hiding from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ngurimuje "Laka" Mujoro lives in constant fear of a knock at her door. She came to Canada from Namibia in 2011 as an asylum seeker, but when her refugee claim was denied, she stayed. She has two Ca...
ListenCredit Mills from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Early in Karina Levin's grade 12 data management course, she knew she wasn't going to pass, so she dropped the course. She'd heard a lot of her friends were signing up at private schools to get bet...
ListenRumours of Extinction from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Shelly Boyd is Sinixt. She's from the Colville Reservation in Washington, just across the British Columbia border. Shelly is proud of her heritage and who she is... But her sense of home, of where ...
ListenLibrary Shame from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Catherine Cole is a self proclaimed bookaholic, with a particular affection for libraries. But returning library books has never been high on her list of priorities. Which was OK, until the day she...
ListenThe Spy Who Loves Me from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Camilla Gibb has always known that her mother, Sheila, worked for MI5, the UK's counter-intelligence agency. (FYI, James Bond worked for MI6.) Camilla knows that her mom was a "secretary" and that ...
ListenThe Cantonese Opera Singer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In 1938, Gar Yin was just 19 years old when she boarded a boat from Hong Kong to Vancouver. It was during the years of The Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned Chinese immigrants from entering Cana...
ListenIts Own Little Life from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Richard Kelly Kemick is the benevolent overlord of a miniature Christmas village. Bustling with 18 buildings, more than 60 people, and countless accessories. But this village of his own making... i...
ListenThe Rainbow Railroad from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jane and Patricia are on their way to Canada, from Barbados, in the dead of winter. They're a couple, and in Barbados being gay can be punishable by life imprisonment. After enduring years of fear,...
ListenThe Kerr Portions from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Bob Kerr went from being a chubby kid to a fat teen. He learned to use his weight for jokes, even though he realized that his bullies weren't necessarily laughing with him. In college, Bob develope...
ListenBlue Mountain from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In 2018, as part of a special pilot program, Georgian College in southern Ontario recruited students almost exclusively from northern India, to help fill a desperate need for labour in hotels and r...
ListenThe Long Walk from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Last Spring, Amiththan Sebarajah hiked the 1000+ kilometre Arizona Trail. The trail starts at the US-Mexico Border in Southern Arizona. These borderlands are contentious, uneasy places for brown-sk...
ListenThree Oaks from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Halfway through her 12th grade year at Three Oaks Senior High School in Summerside, PEI, Lydia MacDonald started feeling sick. Fatigue, nausea, severe headaches. Lydia's mom, Toby, started hearing ...
ListenRhonda's Roots from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In 1968 a group of students at Sir George Williams University in Montreal (what is now Concordia) called out a professor for racism. The university's mishandling of that complaint led to one of the...
ListenRhonda's Roots from 2019-10-28T00:10
In 1968 a group of students at Sir George Williams University in Montreal (what is now Concordia) called out a professor for racism. The university's mishandling of that complaint led to one of the...
ListenRhonda's Roots from 2019-10-28T00:10
In 1968 a group of students at Sir George Williams University in Montreal (what is now Concordia) called out a professor for racism. The university's mishandling of that complaint led to one of the...
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