TORONTO — CBC announced today the addition of three new podcasts to its fall 2021 slate.
Season two of Stuff the British Stole is launching on CBC Podcasts on Wednesday, Oct. 20. The podcast examines “the not-so-polite history behind artifacts locked up in respectable institutions around the world,” says a press release.
In each episode of this five-part series, “award-winning journalist Marc Fennell picks one artifact and takes listeners on the wild, evocative, sometimes funny, often tragic adventure of how it got to where it is now,” the release says.
Season two of Stuff the British Stole was produced by Australian Broadcasting Corporation in partnership with CBC.
On Thursday, Oct. 21, CBC Podcasts will launch Carrie Low Vs. (above), an all-new five-episode investigative series hosted by award-winning journalist Maggie Rahr that looks at one woman’s fight for justice as she takes on an entire police force after her brutal rape was not investigated properly.
“Carrie Low is taking on an extraordinary battle; one that could determine how rape investigations are conducted in RCMP detachments nationwide,” the release says.
“She immediately reported the rape but what followed were roadblocks and multiple failures on the part of the police to investigate the assault. She had to become her own investigator, and her fight, originally against her attackers, became a fight against the police, and a system that she thought was there to help. Now, she’s on a mission to hold these institutions accountable to every sexual assault victim in Canada and fighting for the rights of future victims.”
Finally, White Hot Hate (formerly The Accelerationists) will launch on CBC Podcasts on Wednesday, Oct. 27. This six-episode true crime series follows Winnipeg Free Press journalist Ryan Thorpe’s first-hand experience as an infiltrator in a white supremacist group calling itself The Base.
After going undercover and meeting with a stranger in a city park one summer night in 2019, “Ryan uncovered that the man in Whittier Park was Patrik Mathews, a Canadian Armed Forces reservist who was trying to establish a neo-Nazi extremist cell in the Manitoban capital, and had formed sinister plans for violence and destruction abroad,” the press release reads.
White Hot Hate is hosted by veteran national security reporter Michelle Shephard, who “explores the rise of white supremacist accelerationism: the racist and ultra-violent ideology that drives believers to seize control, after creating chaos.”
All of CBC’s original podcast series can be found on CBC Listen and everywhere podcasts are available.
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Image borrowed from the CBC Podcasts website.
