Storylines

by CBC

A weekly documentary show for people who love narrative podcasts. These are stories you can’t stop thinking about. That you’ll tell your friends about. And that will help you understand what’s going on in Canada, and why. Every week a journalist follows one story, meets the people at its centre, and makes it make sense. Sometimes it’s about people living out the headlines in real life. Sometimes it’s about someone you’ve never heard of, living through something you had no idea was happening. Either way, you’ll go somewhere, meet someone, get the context, and learn something new. (Plus it sounds really good. Mixed like a movie.) One story, well told, every week, from the award-winning team at the CBC Audio Doc Unit.

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Recent Episodes
  • What can a widow be?
    Nov 15, 2024 – 00:27:05
  • Hear the soldiers of WW1 speak
    Nov 8, 2024 – 00:27:19
  • Inside the brain school
    Nov 1, 2024 – 00:26:49
  • Sitting down with a January 6 protester
    Oct 25, 2024 – 00:33:26
  • Hana's Suitcase
    Oct 18, 2024 – 00:28:22
  • The tiny forest movement
    Oct 11, 2024 – 00:27:12
  • Chance Encounter
    Oct 4, 2024 – 00:25:47
  • The Professional: the bizarre story of serial imposter Brigitte Cleroux
    Sep 27, 2024 – 00:26:01
  • Inside Chad's refugee crisis
    Sep 20, 2024 – 00:27:53
  • Let it Shine: Inside U of T’s first gospel choir class
    Sep 14, 2024 – 00:27:20
  • The Burn
    Sep 6, 2024 – 00:27:13
  • The impact of Ukraine’s new draft laws in Canada
    Jun 21, 2024 – 00:27:23
  • What The Puck? The strange story of a decades-old hockey rumour
    Jun 7, 2024 – 00:30:21
  • The Detroit blue collar workers who may decide this year's election
    Jun 1, 2024 – 00:25:41
  • Artificial intelligence at the ballot box
    May 24, 2024 – 00:26:42
  • The Boxer’s Brain
    May 17, 2024 – 00:31:35
  • Return to Afghanistan
    May 10, 2024 – 00:27:47
  • The great baby last name debate
    May 3, 2024 – 00:27:14
  • The story of the Trans Mountain pipeline
    Apr 26, 2024 – 00:27:00
  • Finding freedom: Breaking the bonds of human trafficking
    Apr 19, 2024 – 00:26:26
  • Missing in Action: the decades-long effort to get stunt workers their Oscar due
    Apr 12, 2024 – 00:26:44
  • Angie’s Angels
    Apr 5, 2024 – 00:27:13
  • Flushed away: The mysterious case of the missing public toilets
    Mar 29, 2024 – 00:26:35
  • Say Yes
    Mar 22, 2024 – 00:26:29
  • Mission 300: how farming and hockey helped a former Canadian soldier on a rescue mission
    Mar 15, 2024 – 00:20:53
  • 24 Sussex: the past and uncertain future of the Prime Minister’s “rodent infested death trap”
    Mar 8, 2024 – 00:29:02
  • Separated: how an immigration system pushed to its limits is keeping refugee families apart
    Mar 1, 2024 – 00:27:14
  • A Canadian Sommelier in Paris
    Feb 23, 2024 – 00:26:50
  • Protecting the Great Bear
    Feb 16, 2024 – 00:27:24
  • Sasha's Message
    Feb 9, 2024 – 00:28:00
  • The Forgotten Children
    Feb 2, 2024 – 00:27:33
  • Unapproved: the brain cancer treatment that's not available in Canada
    Jan 26, 2024 – 00:27:18
  • Buddy, b’y and “townie twang”: the survival story of the Newfoundland accent
    Jan 19, 2024 – 00:27:01
  • The Girls Who Escaped the Taliban
    Jan 12, 2024 – 00:27:21
  • Bury Me Naked
    Jan 5, 2024 – 00:26:23
  • Adventures in Whiskyland
    Dec 29, 2023 – 00:28:39
  • Merry Christmas Mr. Kreskin
    Dec 22, 2023 – 00:27:36
  • Getting out of Gaza
    Dec 16, 2023 – 00:27:13
  • Tons Love, Doug
    Dec 1, 2023 – 00:26:58
  • 'Misogyny and climate denial seem to go together'
    Nov 24, 2023 – 00:27:12
  • Paper Orphans
    Nov 17, 2023 – 00:27:57
  • The Norwegian Spy
    Nov 10, 2023 – 00:27:20
  • Lost Tracks: What happened to Canada's passenger train system?
    Nov 3, 2023 – 00:26:50
  • The Excavation of W.H.
    Oct 27, 2023 – 00:22:22
  • Hands of a Midwife
    Oct 20, 2023 – 00:27:00
  • A River Shared
    Oct 13, 2023 – 00:27:01
  • Scotty Creek
    Oct 6, 2023 – 00:26:45
  • The Dreams of My Father
    Sep 29, 2023 – 00:26:07
  • R is for Reading
    Sep 22, 2023 – 00:26:49
  • Farmer's Island
    Sep 15, 2023 – 00:26:06
Recent Reviews
  • P H Thomas
    Habitual listener
    The team covers tons of stories that I never would have come across otherwise. It helps give me a more nuanced and comprehensive picture of Canada. Always insightful, engaging, and thought provoking. Love this new iteration of the project.
  • jashinato17
    Princess Delta Dawn
    Loved the Princess Delta Dawn episode. Such a great story of a woman finding her indigeneity through wrestling. She was a very descriptive storyteller, so well reported.
  • flugeng
    Stellar Stories
    Great podcast for unique stories.
  • Boom360$
    Do ya have a half hour for a great story
    Then look no further, this is such a great podcast , a new heart warming or knowledge bringing story every week. Subscribe and download, you’ll never regret it
  • Crosstees
    The Doc Project
    Clear, short audio glimpses into people, places, or things that you've never known about or thought about. before. The documentarians are unintrusive yet nevetheless share in-depth views of their subjects with respect and enthusiasm. A thoroughly enjoyable was to shake the cobwebs out of your head!
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