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CBC Radio One Summer - Season Launch 2014-2015

AS IT HAPPENED - THE ARCHIVE EDITION
Wednesdays at 11:30 p.m. (12 NT) / Fridays at 7:30 p.m. (8 NT) on CBC Radio One
 
Those AS IT HAPPENS interviews you just can’t get out of your head…For 46 years, the show has been bringing listeners the most hilarious, dramatic and downright strangest news of the day - straight from the people making it. Tune in each week to hear the show’s most compelling characters and their wild and wonderful sagas all over again. Hosted by Jeff Douglas.
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THE BUGLE AND THE PASSING BELL
Thursdays at 9:30 a.m. (10 NT) / Sundays at 6:30 p.m. (7:30 AT/8 NT) on CBC Radio One
 
Fifty years ago, CBC Radio devoted 17 hours to the voices and stories of the men who fought in World War One. This summer, to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the war, documentary producer Steve Wadhams and host Beza Seife bring those voices and stories back to life.
 
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GROWNUPS READ THINGS THEY WROTE AS KIDS
Wednesdays at 9:30 a.m. (10 NT) / Saturdays at 6:30 p.m. (7:30 AT/8 NT) on CBC Radio One
 
Host Dan Misener invites brave Canadians to read their childhood writing…out loud in front of an audience. Embarrassing, moving, hilarious - all captured live during a 10-city tour.
 
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HEAD TO TOE
Tuesdays at 11:30 a.m. (3:30 NT) / Thursdays at 11 p.m. (11:30 NT) on CBC Radio One
 
HEAD TO TOE stops you on the street and peers into your closet to ask “What are you wearing, and why?” Host JJ Lee finds threads of vulnerability and surprise in our clothing and, through history and social science, peels back the layers to give us a new understanding of what we put on.
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HOW TO DO IT: THE GUIDE TO EVERYTHING ELSE
Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m. (10 NT) / Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. (8 NT) on CBC Radio One
 
After last summer’s successful run, hosts Josh Bloch and Sarah Treleaven are back with another helpful guide to handling life’s more improbable situations, like how to get rid of a body, how to survive the apocalypse and how to sell out.
 
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LIVE THROUGH THIS
Mondays at 9:30 a.m. (10 NT) / Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. (8 NT) on CBC Radio One
 
No one turns the dial when the hero is hanging off the cliff. For 10 weeks you’ll hear extraordinary stories of survival - from the most extreme to the seemingly mundane, from mutinies at sea to desperately seeking silence. Everyone has something they’re surviving. Hosted by Andrew Kaufman.
 
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THE MOTH RADIO HOUR
Fridays at 1 p.m. (1:30 NT) / Sundays at 7 p.m. (8 AT/8:30 NT) on CBC Radio One
 
From PRX, our public radio partners in the U.S., true stories told live. In the words of the judges who awarded the program a Peabody Award: “Storytelling, likely the oldest art, is revered and reinvigorated by this hour for everyday raconteurs.”
 
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NEWSHOUNDS
Mondays at 11:30 a.m. (3:30 NT) / Saturdays at 11:30 a.m. (12 noon NT) on CBC Radio One
 
You’ve got to be first, but you’ve got to be right. That’s what drives the news business, and it’s what drives CBC Radio’s new quiz show. Play along with host Adam Growe and two guest contestants, and discover how much attention you really did pay to the world this week.
 
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PROJECT MONEY
Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. (8 NT) / Fridays at 9:30 a.m. (10 NT) on CBC Radio
 
PROJECT MONEY with host Anna Maria Tremonti is the best of THE CURRENT‘s year-long series about money—from fraud and vengeance to charity and love—how money shapes our world and motivates our actions.
 
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WACHTEL ON THE ARTS
Wednesdays at 1 p.m. (1:30 NT) on CBC Radio One
 
Host Eleanor Wachtel interviews 10 of the world’s most exciting and important artists. In these in-depth conversations, Eleanor’s guests discuss the ideas, obsessions and chance encounters that shaped their vision and practice.
 
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WHAT A WASTE
Mondays at 7:30 p.m. (8 NT) / Fridays at 11:30 a.m. (3:30 NT) on CBC Radio One
 
CBC Radio science columnist Torah Kachur starts from the premise that there is no such thing as waste, just wasted resources. As we try to clean up the mess we’ve made of the planet, Torah explores what can be done with everything from our leftover food to our nuclear detritus.
 
 
 
 

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