• A conversation with Canada’s Ambassador to Lebanon
    Oct 4 2024

    Plus: "The most famous bar you've never heard of" hosted gangsters in Goodfellas and Mae West on stage. We check in as it celebrates 195 years.


    Also: The prospect of a generic version or the Gilead’s PrEP treatment raises hopes and causes controversy; and at the San Diego Zoo two male flamingos make ideal foster parents.

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • An exoneration for a 1973 murder he didn’t commit
    Oct 3 2024

    Plus: Fat Bear Week in Alaska’s Katmai National Park & Preserve gets off to a grizzly – and grisly – start.


    Also: Why vulnerable children with complex needs in Ontario’s state care are living in hotels, airBnBs, offices, and trailers; and an exhibit in Vienna’s central library reveals the random stuff people have left in books over the decades.

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • A family from Lebanon, in limbo in Paris
    Oct 2 2024

    Plus: We meet an entomologist studying the tiny rove beetle who just – much to his own surprise – got an $800K MacArthur Fellowship.


    Also: How people in Asheville, North Carolina are grappling with a new reality: their city is not as safe as they once believed.

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    57 mins
  • Inside Tel Aviv during Iran’s missile strike
    Oct 1 2024

    Plus: A look at Iran’s strategy and what comes next in the region with Ali Vaez, Iran Project Director with the International Crisis Group.


    Also: A former friend of JD Vance tells us what to expect as he squares off with Tim Walz; and three Senators say they have a plan to put a dent in Canada’s doctor shortage.

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    48 mins
  • Special Episode: Solomon Ratt
    Sep 30 2024

    For the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Nil Köksal speaks with the Cree writer about residential school and preserving his language.

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    29 mins
  • A Canadian returns to Lebanon as an invasion looms
    Sep 30 2024

    Plus: “A swagger nine miles wide.” Singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell on the influence and charisma of country music legend Kris Kristofferson.


    Also: We hear from a resident of Yiftah, Israel near the border with Lebanon; and what a win for the far-right in Austria says about Europe’s shifting politics.

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    49 mins
  • Special Episode: Mishal Husain
    Sep 27 2024

    Nil Köksal’s conversation with the BBC journalist about her book Broken Threads: My Family from Empire to Independence

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    34 mins
  • A Florida family had “one minute” to swim to safety
    Sep 27 2024

    Plus: We reach the person responsible for correcting an 85 year old typo on a memorial to Anne, Charlotte and Emily Brontë.


    And: Despite a federal indictment, New York mayor Eric Adams says he's staying on the job. We hear from a city councillor from his own party who says it's time for him to go.

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    50 mins