CBC Podcasts has announced its new winter/spring slate of original podcasts, highlighted by a deep dive into “Who Broke The Internet?” and broadcaster Arlene Bynon’s jailhouse phone interviews with child serial killer Clifford Olson.
Understood: Who Broke The Internet launches April 14. Over four episodes, journalist and author Cory Doctorow traces the downward spiral from ’90s tech-utopianism through today’s internet experience – opining on who broke the internet and offering solutions to fix it.
Uncover: Calls From A Killer debuts April 23. The seven-episode series features former AM 640 (CFIQ-AM), CHFI-FM and CFTR-AM host Arlene Bynon’s conversations with convicted serial killer Clifford Olson, who murdered 11 children and teens in the early 1980s. Bynon, who recorded her jailhouse calls with Olson for years, is accompanied on the podcast by Nathaniel Frum, the grandson of her former reporting partner.
Other podcasts on the winter/spring slate include Uncover: Sea of Lies (7 episodes). Podcaster Sam Mullins takes listeners inside the mind of a con man, whose scams spanned continents and decades from rural Canada to coastal England.
Personally: Toy Soldier (5 episodes) launches Feb. 17. Hosted by Dan Goldberg, it shares the story of Alex Kurzem, a Jewish boy adopted by the Nazis after his family was killed during the Holocaust.
Also joining the lineup on March 25 is White Hot Hate: Agent Pale Horse (6 episodes). Produced alongside a book co-written by former undercover FBI agent Scott Payne and Michelle Shephard, it explores his time infiltrating dangerous gangs, including outlaw bikers, drug cartels and international neo-Nazi networks.
Weekly episodes also continue to be released for Season 3 of On Drugs, taking a closer look at the world of drugs — including ketamine, Ozempic, vaping and alcohol; and CBC/BBC World Service co-productionThe Con: Kaitlyn’s Baby, among ongoing podcasts like Q with Tom Power and Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud.
