CBC Podcasts

This season, host Daemon Fairless takes you inside the business of suicide and a deadly corner of the internet: the online world helping people take their own lives.

What happens when a human becomes intimately enmeshed with a chatbot? From people who’ve married their bots or who grieve their loved ones with the help of AI, host Victoria Hetherington dives into the stories of the people who have invited these digital avatars into their hearts, minds, and even beds.

A small Ohio city was drowning in unsolved murders. Until one day something happened. And suddenly those cold cases? Started to get closed. A ground breaking Canadian AI technology was coming to the rescue. Tracking criminal behaviour to bring justice where humans had failed. But as the cases stack up, and charges are laid, two lawyers grow skeptical. Human cracks appear in the mysterious new tech. Can the doubters open up this black box and reveal its true workings, before it takes hold across the world?

The Big Five answers the most pressing question of our time: what are the “Big 5” of any given category? Not the best 5. Not the top 5. But objectively, the Big 5. In each episode, Donovan Woods, Tom Power, and a celebrity guest tackle new topics and debate things like: what are the Big 5 farm animals? Types of hats? Slang terms for “butt”? Ways to cook a potato? Guys named Paul?

In Season 10 of Someone Knows Something, host David Ridgen investigates the sudden 2021 disappearance of Jaclyn Ferland Smith - a Canadian expat living in Playas del Coco, a paradise veiled in rumour and fear on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.

When a cult leader calling herself the “Queen of Canada” occupies a prairie school, a tiny village becomes a battleground over truth, tolerance, and how to confront extremism.

After the decision not to have kids ended Helena de Groot's marriage, a 40-year-old podcast producer grabs her mic to find out: did she make a mistake?

PlayME is back with the iconic Canadian play, Kim’s Convenience. Now, the story of a Korean-Canadian family that owns a Toronto corner store is reimagined in this two-part audio drama. Playwright and actor Ins Choi is hilariously heartwarming in the role of Appa.

This is the inside story of Allison Mack—from TV star to NXIVM enforcer to federal prisoner. With exclusive access post-release, this series explores her rise, fall, and what comes next. Is she a victim, a villain, or something far more complicated?

The gripping, entertaining and unsettling story of how Fox duped a group of women into believing they were dating a man who was fifth in the line to the British throne.

Resurrection is the story of Dane Stewart, a playwright in Montreal, and what he did with a cache of love letters and scripts by a playwright named Daryl Allen, who died in 1991 from HIV/AIDS.

What explains Elon Musk? Could his most outlandish ambitions and most toxic qualities trace back to his youth in Apartheid South Africa? Understood: The Making of Musk, hosted by Jacob Silverman, explores his seemingly insatiable drive for dominance, which connects everything from his birthrate obsession (and fourteen children) to his fixation with colonizing Mars.

Celebrate the beauty and messiness of human connection. Real stories of real, complicated relationships.

The stories behind the court battles that changed Canada – and the unlikely people who made it happen. Host Falen Johnson teams up with a new journalist each episode to revisit cases that changed everything.

Every living member of my family who has been married has gotten divorced. Can my marriage end differently?

Where the law of the land ends, the story begins. Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Ian Urbina returns with a new season of his riveting podcast anthology, The Outlaw Ocean, which explores the most lawless place on earth — the vast unpoliceable ocean. In season two, Urbina sheds light on the secretive Libyan prisons swallowing up sea-faring migrants; flagrant human rights abuses in China’s massive off-shore fleet; the horrors of a shrimp processing plant in India; and the wild story of a modern-day James Bond — if he were a repo man.