About Podcast Playlist
ABOUT
There are now close to five million podcasts in the world - a number that grows everyday. On Podcast Playlist we curate fresh, exciting and thoughtful stories to help you unearth new podcasts to add to your rotation. From true crime to comedy, from current affairs to audio fiction and everything in between. Each week we take you on a journey with lots of discoveries along the way.
As the first and longest running podcast curation show in the world we've worked with the biggest names in the podcast industry: Glynn Washington, Rainn Wilson, Anna Sale, Nate DiMeo, Nick Quah, Phoebe Judge, Roman Mars, Sean Rameswaram, Latif Nasser, Dan Savage, W. Kamau Bell, Lainey Lui, Hrishikesh Hirway, Aisha Tyler, Jamie Loftus, Shan Boodram, Wendy Zuckerman, David Ridgen, Nicole Byer...and many more. We air nationally across Canada, the United States and in France.
We also pride ourselves on searching far and wide for talented independent producers to shine a light on their work. We've featured such indie podcast as: SaskScapes, Oologies, Wild Thing, Dungeons & Daddies, You're Wrong About, Maintenance Phase, Métis in Space, Drilled and more!
PODCAST
You can hear our show early by subscribing to our free podcast: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PocketCasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, CBC Listen...or wherever you get your podcasts.
AIR TIMES
Radio One
Mondays at 11 p.m. and Tuesdays 2 p.m. ET
Sirius XM
Mondays at 10:05pm ET, Tuesdays at 2:05 ET and Thursdays at 12:05pm ET.
HOST
Leah-Simone Bowen
Leah-Simone Bowen is the co-host and creator of CBC Podcasts' The Secret Life of Canada with Falen Johnson. The irreverent history podcast debuted in August 2017 and immediately rose to the top of the iTunes charts.
In 2019, it would become the first independently created show to be picked up by CBC podcasts. In September 2021, Leah became the new host of Podcast Playlist. In addition to her work in podcasting, she is a playwright, producer and director who has worked across Canada and the US.
SENIOR PRODUCER
Kate Evans
Kate Evans comes to the CBC from the world of commercial radio (Indie88, CHUM). Her work with Podcast Playlist was awarded a New York Festivals' Bronze Medal in 2017 for an hour of radio that glorified the 90s.
Along with Podcast Playlist Kate is the senior producer of The CBC Podcast Showcase hosted by Gavin Crawford and acts as a coordinating senior producer with CBC Podcasts.
Her love of discovering new pods led her to host a podcast trending column for CBC Radio 1 and act as a judge for the National Media Awards Foundation, in the podcast category (naturally).
In addition to her work at the CBC she is an adjunct professor for the Humber College Radio and Media Production postgraduate program. She designed the curriculum for the first podcast class offered at the college. More recently Kate taught podcasting to students from all over the world with the Humber Global Summer School program.
When she's not obsessively listening to podcasts you can find her behind a book, making coffee or outside enjoying the fresh air.
PRODUCER
Julian Uzielli
Julian discovered podcasts in the early 2010s, but really fell in love with them when one of his journalism school professors played an episode of This American Life for the class (it was episode 460, "Retraction").
After that, he set his sights on radio and podcasting and hasn't looked back.
He got an internship at CBC Radio in 2015 and managed to stick around, working for programs including The Current, As It Happens, Tapestry and Day 6. He lives in Guelph with his family, and when he's not making radio he can probably be found riding a bicycle somewhere in southern Ontario.
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Kelsey Cueva
Kelsey has always loved sound, but never expected to fall in love with podcasts. After interning at SiriusXM Canada and CBC Radio, she eventually found herself at Podcast Playlist. She's also transcribed for programs like The Current and a handful of CBC Podcasts.
Kelsey was also the Station Manager of SpiritLive – the RTA School of Media's online broadcast station at Ryerson University. While getting her undergraduate degree she co-hosted and produced a TARA-award-winning radio show and was the sound mixer on her thesis film which is currently running the festival circuit.
In her spare time Kelsey loves writing and making music. In her actual spare time, she enjoys baking, binge-watching new Netflix shows and scrolling through Instagram for quality memes.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Cesil Fernandes
Cesil Fernandes is Executive Producer of Production and Sound Design for CBC Podcasts, managing titles such as Someone Knows Something, The Village and The Kill List.
Before creating one of the studio's first original series, Back Story, Cesil traveled Canada and the world for CBC News, covering stories from the Papal Conclave to the Sochi Winter Olympics. He's covered elections in Canada and the US and his reports from the remote island of Eleuthera shone a light on over-fishing in the Bahamas.
Is there a podcast you want our team to know about? Email us at podcastplaylist@cbc.ca. Or find us on Facebook. For more great podcasts, check out CBC's podcast portal, and subscribe for free in Apple Podcasts.