Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne

A reporter’s tale of Afghanistan’s tumultuous half century and the hotel that’s witnessed it all  15.11.2025 34:38 ↓

Guest: Lyse Doucet,  BBC Senior International Correspondent and author of The Finest Hotel in Kabul  

Alan Doyle takes you on a journey through his favorite place, the province he's always called home 09.11.2025 19:29 ↓

Guest: Alan Doyle, singer, songwriter, and author of The Smiling Land: All around the circle in my Newfoundland and Labrador

Canadian classic rockers Coney Hatch on 40 years of metal and remastering their 1982 debut 08.11.2025 18:28 ↓

Guest: Andy Curran, founding member, guitar and vocals, Coney Hatch 

How the FBI solved the biggest stolen artifacts case in the bureau’s history 08.11.2025 18:52 ↓

Guest: Tim Carpenter, former head of the FBI’s Art Crime team and author of The Grave Robber: The Biggest Stolen Artifacts Case in FBI History and the Bureau’s Quest to Set Things Right

One of Canada’s premier investigative journalists tackles hockey’s troubled culture 08.11.2025 26:43 ↓

Guest: Rick Westhead, TSN Senior Correspondent, author of We Breed Lions: Confronting Canada’s Troubled Hockey Culture

A timely warning about the past as Canada looks to reset relations with China 02.11.2025 18:36 ↓

Guest: Dennis Molinaro, author of Under Assault: Interference and Espionage in China's Secret War Against Canada

Newfoundland’s Rachel Cousins teams up with A-list producer Greg Wells for a new album and new sound 02.11.2025 9:36 ↓

Guest: Rachel Cousins, singer, songwriter, her new albums is called What Hasn’t Killed Me 

How one Canadian heartthrob found fame and failure on Tik Tok 02.11.2025 10:31 ↓

Guest: Trish Neufeld, Canadian filmmaker and director of The Thirst Trap: The Fame. The Fantasy. The Fallout,

 How the 1995 referendum result saw Quebec turn inward and crush separatism, is that about to change?  01.11.2025 18:53 ↓

Guest: Francine Pelletier, journalist and author of Dream Interrupted: TheRise and Fall of Quebec Nationalism.

Canada is at a breaking point, how do we keep it from falling apart?  01.11.2025 18:49 ↓

Guest: Darrell Bricker, CEO, Ipsos Public Affairs and co-author of Breaking Point

Tempe “Bones” Brennan returns in Kathy Reichs’ 24th novel Evil Bones 01.11.2025 18:11 ↓

Guest: Kathy Reichs, forensic anthropologist and writer, author of Evil Bones

Mob ties and rigged bets: Inside the NBA’s gambling scandal  01.11.2025 18:11 ↓

Guest: Scott Burnstein, investigative journalist, organized crime author and host of the Gangster Report Podcast

Nattie Neidhart on ups and downs of being part of wrestling royalty in her tell all memoir The Last Hart Beating 26.10.2025 18:25 ↓

Guest: Nattie Neidhart, professional wrestler and author of Last Hart Beating

Why did a group of teenage girls kill a man in Toronto parkette? Inside the crime that shocked a city—and the courtroom drama that followed 25.10.2025 17:48 ↓

Guest: Inori Roy, Toronto-based features writer

Railway Tycoons Shaped Canada. Don’t Let AI Barons Do the Same. 25.10.2025 18:22 ↓

Guest: David Eliot, author of the upcoming book Artificially Intelligent: The Very Human Story of AI

30-years after the referendum, why has appetite for separation been so muted and is that about to change? 25.10.2025 18:15 ↓

Guest: Andrew McDougall, assistant professor of political science, University of Toronto Scarborough and author of Sleeping Dogs: Quebec and the Stabilization of Canadian Federalism after 1995

The true story behind the new Bruce Springsteen biopic 25.10.2025 18:16 ↓

Guest: Warren Zanes, musician and writer, author of Deliver Me From Nowhere

Why your brain is skilled at creating its own reality 19.10.2025 17:25 ↓

Guest: Daniel Yon, neuroscientist and director of the Uncertainty Lab at the University of London and author of A Trick of the Mind: How the Brain Invents Your Reality