 | April 05, 2024 | | This newsletter will take three and a half minutes to read.
Can’t make time right now? All episodes of Hollywood Exiles are now available. There are new episodes of The Secret Life of Canada, Crime Story, Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? Joanne McNally Investigates, PlayME, and The Pornhub Empire: Understood. You can pop this link open in a new tab for later. | | | The Webby Award honorees & nominations are in! | | |  | Welcome back with another edition of Sounds Good: CBC’s Podcast newsletter. We’d like to congratulate these Honorary Webby Award winners and nominees! And here’s where you can help! The Webby Award polls are officially open and you can cast your vote for the talented teams behind: - The Africas VS. America: Documentary podcast award nominee (vote here)
- The No Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman: Crime & Justice limited series podcast award nominee (vote here)
- The Naked Emperor: Limited series podcast award nominee (vote here)
Thank you and on to this week’s newsletter :) | | | | | All Episodes Now Available | | |  | | | Ellen Geer (left) and Oona Chaplin (right) at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga, California. Photo by: Glyn Tansley/BBC. | | All episodes of Hollywood Exiles are now available to binge listen. In the finale, Oona Chaplin examines the aftermath of Hollywood’s blacklist era. Although the chapter in history has ended, the scars remain. Ellen Geer shares heartfelt memories of her father, actor Will Geer, and how he stood firm against the blacklist, refusing to betray his fellow industry peers. | | | | | | | | | New Episodes! | | |  | - Attention Lord of the Rings fans, did you know that Gimli is more than just a fictional character? Manitoba is home to the world’s largest Icelandic population outside of Iceland and the rural community of Gimli is its heart. In the most recent episode of The Secret Life of Canada, Leah and Falen are on a quest for answers as to how it all began.
- In 2018, former Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher found himself at the center of controversy, accused of committing war crimes. The latest from Crime Story takes listeners behind the scenes of Dan Taberski’s hit podcast, The Line. Hear Taberski’s personal story and the road to unpacking the contentious topic of war in America.
- Believe it or not, there are two sides to every conspiracy theory. In the fifth episode of Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? Joanna speaks to the crème de la crème of online rumour spreading. Apparently, whoever started this viral conspiracy theory may have done so by accident.
- The latest from PlayME, Paolo Santalucia’s multi-Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee play Prodigal! Edmund Clark who identifies as queer is the eldest son of a prominent Toronto family. He’s an alcoholic. Tensions rise when he unexpectedly returns home after being cut off from the family trust.
- Did Pornhub attempt to delete their history with a new name and new owners? The latest episode of The Pornhub Empire: Understood, follows Pornhub’s attempt at scrambling to remain one of the world's largest adult websites. Check out Sam Cole's recent article on how the site has had to pivot to navigate this new digital age.
| | | | | | | Sneak Peak | | |  | Click to see the official Split Screen: Kid Nation artwork by Anna Campbell. | Check out a sneak peek of Split Screen: Kid Nation: Cancelled after the first season, Kid Nation producers dropped 40 kids in a New Mexico ghost town and kept the cameras rolling. What could have possibly gone wrong? Josh Gwynn examines the cultural impact of the Lord of the Flies-style reality TV experiment: was it entertainment clickbait or a genuine portrayal of the resilience of kids? Split Screen: Kid Nation, available wherever you get your podcasts on April. 17. | | | | | | | | | What We're Listening To | | | Jason Paris, Manager of Audience/Production Support at CBC Podcasts & National Chair of outCBC recommends: Retail Insider. | | |  | | | | “My early 20s involved many USB scanners in my hand as I rang customers through at various retail establishments. While I’m happy to be out of that grind, my interest in this trade, both on urban ‘high streets’ and in suburban-style shopping centres has remained. It has become even more fascinating recently as the sector has dealt with the double-whammy of online shopping, and the ongoing challenges stemming from COVID-19. Enter the 'Retail Insider' which analyzes all this, but also provides perspective, trend speculation, advice, and just the right amount of gossip, about where the retail scene is headed in Canada’s major cities, and beyond.” | | | | | | | Thank you for reading!
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