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The Age of Persuasion The Age of Persuasion
Terry O'Reilly explores the countless ways marketers permeate your life, from media, art, and language, to politics, religion, and fashion.
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Bande a part Bande à part
Bande à part vous propose chaque semaine une sélection musicale à télécharger, ponctuée par de courts extraits de conversations avec des mélomanes ou des artisans. Fréquence de publication : Hebdomadaire
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Being Jann Being Jann
Features the wit, the warmth and the whimsical storytelling of Jann Arden. Each week, Arden will spin her favourite tunes, chat with some of her favourite artists and celebrities, and reflect on what it's like Being Jann. Updated Saturdays.
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Canada Live Radio 2: Canada Live
Every night on CBC Radio 2, Canada Live presents the best in live music from concert stages across the country. And every week the Canada Live podcast brings you highlights from some of those amazing concerts, from pop to jazz, roots to world, and everywhere in between. Updated Fridays.
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Canada Reads from CBC Radio Canada Reads
Canada Reads celebrates five Canadian books for three months online, at public events and on air. It all leads up to a week-long show hosted by Jian Ghomeshi. In this annual title fight, five celebrity panelists defend their favourite work of Canadian fiction. One by one, books are voted off the list, until one panelist triumphs with the book for Canada to read this year. Full series available.
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Christiane Charette - Radio-Canada Christiane Charette
Une émission ouverte à tous les horizons, un rendez-vous avec l'actualité culturelle, sociale et politique. Entrevues en profondeur, débats, rubriques, tables rondes, toutes les formules seront bonnes pour s'entretenir avec les invités, qu'ils soient à Montréal, Vancouver, Paris, New York ou ailleurs... Fréquence de publication : Quotidienne
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Comedy Factory Comedy Factory
If a joke's worth telling, it's worth repeating. The Comedy Factory collects our favourite skits, commentaries and funny bits that appeared on CBC Radio over the past week. It's an assembly line of humour, safety-tested and priced to move! Updated Thursdays.
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The Debaters The Debaters
For reasons associated with copyrights of creative content, we're unable to offer episodes of The Debaters for free download via podcast; however, you can now purchase episodes of The Debaters with host Steve Patterson! iTunes Purchase Season 1iTunes Purchase Season 2iTunes Purchase Season 3iTunes Purchase Season 4iTunes Purchase Season 5
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The Best of DNTO The Best of DNTO
DNTO invites you to make discoveries about who we really are - flawed, funny, and beautiful - one story at a time. Updated Saturdays.
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DNTO from CBC Radio Enhanced Highlights DNTO: Enhanced
If you have iTunes or an iPod, you can now download and experience the Definitely Not the Opera enhanced podcast, complete with chapters, photos and links! The enhanced podcast format makes it easier for you to navigate through our weekly collection of highlights. It's like an audio slideshow on your iPod! Updated Saturdays.
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Eli Glasner on Film Eli Glasner on Film
CBC Radio Film Reviewer Eli Glasner shares his big screen thoughts on the latest and greatest movies appearing at theatre near you. Some cinema smarts (and snark) to go with your popcorn. Updated Fridays.
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The Irrelevant Show The Irrelevant Show
A weekly romp of original, biting, ridiculous, outrageous and ultimately hilarious sketch comedy from a crack team in Edmonton. Updated Saturdays.
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The Irrelevant Show Sketches The Irrelevant Show: Sketches
This summer, you can download some of your favourite Irrelevant Show sketches from past seasons, including the wisdom of Reba McEntire, the Jane Austen Drinking Game, and the thrilling infomercial for the latest invention, The Mug! Updated Saturdays.
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Laugh Out Loud's Laugh of the Day from CBC Radio Laugh of the Day
CBC Radio's Laugh Out Loud presents a new, quick joke for you every day with the Laugh of the Day podcast!
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Laugh Out Loud Laugh Out Loud
CBC Radio's Laugh out Loud is Canada's new home for comedy. Every week host Craig Norris features the best and funniest comics in the business. Recorded at festivals and comedy clubs across the country, LOL is the show to hear to stay on top of the Canadian comedy scene. From the famous to the found, LOL will bring you the funny every week. Updated Saturdays.
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Listener's Choice Listener's Choice
The Podcast programmed by YOU! Your favourite interview, documentary or episode selected by YOU - our listeners. Updated Fridays.
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The 2010 CBC Massey Lectures by Douglas Coupland 2011 CBC Massey Lectures
The 2011 CBC Massey Lectures celebrates fifty years with bestselling author, essayist, cultural observer, and famed New Yorker contributor Adam Gopnik. His subject is winter - the season, the space, the cycle. iTunes Now available for purchase on iTunes
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Mendelssohn and Schumann - The Great Classical Romantics Mendelssohn and Schumann
Six conversations about the music and life of Felix Mendelssohn and Robert and Clara Schumann. Bramwell Tovey - Music Director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra - joins CBC Radio 2's Bill Richardson as they talk about the life and music of these three great composers and what makes their music endure. Tovey illustrates passages on the piano.Updated twice weekly.
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The Next Chapter The Next Chapter
Shelagh Rogers travels the country, conversing with authors and readers of all kinds. Updated Mondays.
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Par 4 chemins Par 4 chemins
Avec un esprit d'ouverture et une curiosité toujours en éveil, Jacques Languirand arpente les chemins de la connaissance qui vont droit à l'essentiel: le moi, la nature, la société et la transcendance avec des questions fondamentales et incontournables. D'où venons-nous? Qui sommes-nous? Où allons-nous? Par ses réflexions et un choix musical éclectique, Jacques Languirand se révèle à la fois déstabilisant et "tripatif", à l'image du monde actuel. Fréquence de publication : Hebdomadaire
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Q Q: The Podcast
Q is Canada's liveliest arts, culture and entertainment magazine. It's a smart and surprising tour through personalities and cultural issues that matter to Canadians. Hosted by Jian Ghomeshi, Q covers pop culture and high arts alike. Q brings you big names, big ideas, and those paving the way in Canada's cultural community. Q is your cultural intervention! Updated Daily.
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Q: The Video Podcast Q: The Video Podcast
QTV is the televised version of CBC Radio One's Q with Jian Ghomeshi, which also airs on CBC's bold tv. Featuring full length interviews with celebrities and personalities in the worlds of arts, culture and entertainment. The video podcast brings you the best interviews for you to download and watch. Check it out.Updated often.
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Q Vault from CBC Radio Q Vault
Q Vault offers individual interviews-to-go: memorable conversations from North America's liveliest arts, culture and entertainment magazine. Discover - or revisit - host Jian Ghomeshi's in-depth interviews with some of the world's most fascinating cultural personalities in music, TV and film, books, theatre, visual arts, media, and more. Updated Mondays.
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The R3 30 The R3-30
Every week, host Craig Norris counts down the very best in new music, according to CBC Radio 3. His producer Pedro Mendes rides shotgun as they chow down on a twisted jungle gym of new music, listener picks, Chartbreakers™, and mixed metaphors. And Love. Always Love.
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CBC Radio 3 CBC Radio 3
CBC Radio 3 is a weekly hour of 100% Canadian music from new and emerging artists. It's one of the most popular podcasts in the country, playing the best in new rock, pop, singer-songwriters, hip hop, and electronica. Updated Fridays.
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CBC Radio 3 Ab-Originals CBC Radio 3 Ab-Originals
Ab-Originals is a weekly podcast of the hottest Aboriginal music in Canada. Four of the best-known musical hosts in Indian Country will bring you live concerts, urban and hip-hop music, top 10 chart artists, and all the rest of it in their musical podlatch.Updated weekly.
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CBC Radio 3 Breakfast Club CBC Radio 3 Breakfast Club
Join R3 Host Vish Khanna as he meets with musicians and artists for a frank, informal interview over breakfast. They pick the place, Vish picks their brains. And occasionally at their plates...Updated weekly.
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CBC Radio 3 Extended Play CBC Radio 3 Extended Play
CBC Radio 3's Extended Play is a bi-weekly podcast that explores current events happening in the world of Canadian independent music. Hosted by Lisa Christiansen, it is an ongoing conversation between artists and listeners about the issues having an impact on music culture today.Updated bi-weekly.
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CBC Radio 3 Sessions CBC Radio 3 Sessions
When it comes to breaking new sound, we are the jackhammer on the pavement of commercial music. Every week we feature artists recorded live off-the-floor as they experiment with alternate arrangements and new songs before they're released. Hosted by Tariq Hussain, it's music straight from the heart, with artists at their sweaty best. Updated Wednesdays.
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CBC Radio 3 Super Feed Radio 3 Super Feed
CBC Radio 3 is the part of Canada's public broadcaster that devotes itself entirely to new Canadian music. With the CBC Radio 3 Super Feed, you can catch every podcast we make and loads of amazing new tunes in just one place.Updated Daily.
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ReVision Quest ReVision Quest
ReVision Quest is a convention-breaking radio show, hosted by Shuswap comedian Darrell Dennis, that explodes myths about Aboriginal life, and explores what it means to be First Nations in Canada today through story-telling, interviews and comedy. Updated Wednesdays.
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The In Concert NEXT! Podcast In Concert's NEXT! Podcast
CBC Radio 2's "In Concert" puts the spotlight on Canada's emerging classical music talents. The Next! podcast takes listeners behind the scenes with portraits of these young musicians along with live concert performances recorded across the country. Hosted by Bill Richardson. Updated from February 13 to April 17, 2011.
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Saturday Night Blues Saturday Night Blues
Saturday Night Blues has been CBC's flagship program of great blues, swing, boogie, gospel and roots music since 1986. Holger Petersen is at the helm. Subscribe to the podcast to download our exclusive interviews.Updated Saturdays
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The Signal Radio 2: The Signal
Every week, the Signal Podcast brings you contemporary music without borders, from "New Music" to new hybrids. A show for the musically curious.Updated Thursdays.
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Stranger Than Fiction Stranger Than Fiction
Funny, outrageous, heartbreaking true stories by Canadian writers. Hosted by Heather O'Neill, author of the novel Lullabies for Little Criminals.Updated on Sundays.
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Sunday Edition The Sunday Edition
A podcast of the best of this lively program with host Michael Enright who tackles everything from politics to pop culture, in Canada and around the world. Updated on Mondays.
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This Is That from CBC Radio This Is That
This Is That is a current affairs program that doesn't just talk about the issues, it fabricates them. Nothing's off limits--politics, business, culture, justice, science, religion--if it's relevant to Canadians, we'll find out the "This" and the "That" of the story. Each week, hosts Pat Kelly and Peter Oldring will introduce you to the voices that give this country character and through these stories provide a new perspective as to what it means to live in Canada. Updated weekly.
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Trust Inc. from CBC Radio Trust, Inc.
Trust, Inc. is a drama-satire series that takes us deep inside the big stories in the news, revealing what takes place in a public relations company out of public view 'as details emerge.' The details, of course, just don't emerge. They spin. Updated Thursdays.
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Under the Influence Under The Influence
The first 50 years of modern advertising was hard-sell. The next 50 years was persuasion through creativity and media tonnage. But advertising is no longer a loud one-way conversation. It's a delicate dialogue now. The goal is no longer to triumph by weight, but to win by influence. Welcome to Under the Influence. An exploration of that critical shift.Updated Saturdays.
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Up Close Up Close: The CBC Radio 2 Sessions
Up-close and intimate performances by some of Canada's best musicians, recorded live off the CBC studio floor.Updated Tuesdays.
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Vinyl Cafe Vinyl Cafe Stories
The stories and misadventures of Dave, the owner of the "Vinyl Cafe", the world's smallest record store, where the motto is "We may not be big, but we're small."Updated Saturdays.
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Wachtel on the Arts Wachtel on the Arts
IDEAS presents a monthly feature with CBC Radio's celebrated arts journalist Eleanor Wachtel. Wachtel on the Arts is similar to Eleanor's program Writers & Company but, instead of focusing on writers, it presents hour-long in-depth interviews with artists, architects, composers, filmmakers, theatre and opera directors and choreographers from Canada and around the world.Updated monthly.
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Wiretap WireTap
Enter the world of Jonathan Goldstein. You wouldn't want to live there, but it's a hell of a place to visit.Updated Saturdays.
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Word of Mouth Word of Mouth
Join CBC Radio producer and language fanatic Colleen Ross for Word of Mouth, her monthly podcast about the ever-evolving English language. She pokes her nose into everything from trends in grammar and vocabulary to how multiculturalism, technology, politics and Hollywood affect the way we talk.Updated monthly.
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Word of the Week Word of the Week
C'est la vie's Word of the Week is a window into the life of French-speaking Canadians -- one word at a time. Updated weekly.
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Writers & Company Writers & Company
Host Eleanor Wachtel explores the lives, thoughts and works of remarkable writers from around the world. Updated Sundays.
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Pinchas Zukerman on Brahms Radio 2: Zukerman on Brahms
Four conversations about Brahms' Symphonies, with Pinchas Zukerman - Music Director of the NAC Orchestra - and CBC Radio 2 host Bill Richardson. Some musical illustrations are played by violinist Pinchas Zukerman himself, and also by pianist Les Dala. Concert performances of the symphonies by Zukerman and NACO are also available for streaming at CBC Radio 2's Concerts on Demand.Complete series available.
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