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Where I Live: The Listener Holiday Special
Dec 23, 2025“We’ve always been inventing and reinventing new worlds for taking care of each other. We just have to notice.” We asked our subscribers to send us audio postcards to encapsulate where they live, what...
Cold War Santa with Sarah Archer
Nov 25, 2025What happens when Santa trades his sleigh for a rocket ship? Christmas correspondent Sarah Archer tells Sarah about how the Cold War era affected the image of old Kris Kringle through the rampant cons...
The Dictionary Wars! with Gabe Henry
Nov 11, 2025Remember being a teen and coming up with “cool” ways of spelling common words? Well, just like the teenager it was, the United States in the 18th century was annoying their mom, England, with the hip ...
Introducing: The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall
Oct 28, 2025Listen now to the first episode of Sarah's new 8-part series with CBC Podcasts, The Devil You Know. In the 1980s and 90s, Satan and his followers were accused of brainwashing children, sacrificing bab...
Midnight Ghost Shows with Chelsey Weber-Smith
Oct 14, 2025What do you get when you combine a horror movie audience, a spiritualist séance, and a haunted house attraction? Beginning in the 1930s and lasting into the 1960s, midnight ghost shows were ghoulishly...
The Auralyn with Blair Braverman
Sep 30, 2025Are you a survival pessimist or a survival optimist? Blair Braverman surprises Sarah with a harrowing, heartening, and sometimes hilarious tale of love and endurance in the face of certain death, but ...
Samantha Smith vs. the Cold War with Maris Kreizman
Sep 16, 2025Who really ended the Cold War, Ronald Reagan or a ten-year-old girl? Eighties correspondent Maris Kreizman joins us for a heartfelt conversation about America’s Youngest Ambassador, Samantha Smith, a ...
The Insanity Defense with Mackenzie Joy Brennan
Aug 19, 2025What do John Hinckley Jr. and a jazz age tuberculosis patient have in common? Legal correspondent Mackenzie Joy Brennan takes Sarah through some of the strange cases that helped make—and break—the i...
Corn Mazes with Chelsey Weber-Smith
Jul 31, 2025Can you find your way out of the maize? The corn maze has become an enduring attraction of the American autumnal experience, seen at touristy family farms next to pumpkin patches and haunted houses. B...
Pee-wee Herman Part 2 with Jamie Loftus
Jul 16, 2025In the second part of our series, pop culture historian Jamie Loftus takes us through the meteoric rise of Pee-wee Herman and the withering of Paul Reubens' world as dubious allegations surface that t...