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How to listen to Overheated, CBC Radio's special look at how heat affects us

In a collaborative series across programs, join Bob McDonald on Quirks & Quarks, Dr. Brian Goldman on White Coat, Black Art and Laura Lynch on What On Earth as they explore the effects of heat in our world.

Listen to all three parts of CBC Radio's multi-program collaboration

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The Current14:13Overheated looks at impact of rising temperatures

As the world gets hotter, CBC Radio is exploring the effects of heat from three different perspectives on Overheated, a series of programs each focused on one major aspect of how we're all affected by climate change.

On Quirks & Quarks, host Bob McDonald and producer Amanda Buckiewicz examine how a city's design can uniquely change the way we experience and cope with heat. 

Two men and two women stand in front of a bicycle with special antenna and mapping devices in a park in Montreal.
Left to right: Concordia University students Bella Richmond and Johanna Arnet, with Quirks & Quarks host Bob McDonald and producer Amanda Buckiewicz with a specially equipped bicycle in Montreal on Aug. 20, 2024. Richmond and Arnet use the equipment on the bicycle to capture heat data in real time, as they ride it throughout the city. (Félix Côté/CBC)

To examine the effects of heat on health, White Coat, Black Art host Dr. Brian Goldman and producer Stephanie Dubois take an iron worker to Brock University in St. Catharines, Ont., where a researcher is studying the link between hot work spaces and health.

A woman wearing a protective face mask and yellow jacket speaks to an adult man wearing a black tshirt.
Britnee Miazek, left, speaks with Brock University researcher Stephen Cheung during an experiment to test how Miazek's body responds to extreme heat. (Stephanie Dubois/CBC)

And for What On Earth, host Laura Lynch and producer Rachel Sanders look at heat and climate. They travel to Whitehorse to cover the devastating impacts of heat on the Chinook salmon population and the First Nations leading the charge to save this species.

An adult woman wearing a brown-grey jacket holds a microphone, interviewing a young woman wearing a blue autumn-weather jacket.
Laura Lynch, right, host of CBC Radio's What on Earth, interviews Bêlit Peters, a youth community co-ordinator with a project called How We Walk with the Land and Water in Yukon. (Rachel Sanders/CBC)

Here's how you can listen to Overheated on CBC Radio One:

Saturday, September 7: 
Quirks & Quarks at 12 p.m. (Thursday at 1 p.m., 1:30 p.m. NT)
White Coat, Black Art at 1:30 p.m. (Sunday: 6:30 p.m. ET., 7:30 p.m. AT., 8:00 p.m. NT.)

Sunday, September 8:
What On Earth at 11 a.m. (Wednesday at 2 p.m., 2:30 p.m. NT)

All three shows are also available on demand on the CBC Listen App and everywhere you get your podcasts — and on Monday, Sept. 9, an Overheated bonus podcast drops in all three feeds, with McDonald, Goldman and Lynch in conversation about their programs, with behind-the-scenes insights.

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