CBC Podcasts

They needed certainty. They got chaos. For over a decade, countless people from at least five different countries put their trust in a Toronto company offering prenatal paternity tests. It promised clients “99.9% accuracy” — yet the results were anything but.

David Ridgen's latest investigation is 15 years in the making. Season 9 follows the story of Ontario teenager Christine Harron who disappears in 1993. A mysterious man confesses to her murder, but the police case stalls out — and then David steps in.

The surprising cultural, political, and economic circumstances that helped manufacture Céline Dion: a pop icon unlike any other.

A multi-million dollar media experiment. Would you fall for it?

Personal Best turns tiny goals into grand adventures. Comedic duo Rob Norman and Andrew Norton are BACK with Season 3!

Since the beginning of women’s sports, there has been a struggle over who qualifies for the women’s category. Tested follows the unfolding story of elite female runners who have been told they can no longer race as women, because of their biology. As the Olympics approach, they face hard choices: take drugs to lower their natural testosterone levels, give up their sport entirely, or fight.

When two men, born in the same rural Newfoundland hospital on the same day, discover an unbelievable 52-year-old secret, it changes the way they see themselves forever. Come By Chance is a story about what it means to belong in a family — and how a twist of fate can upend the life you thought you knew. Hosted by Luke Quinton.

In the latest season of Understood, Mumbai-based journalist Salimah Shivji examines how Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi went from being barred from the U.S., to becoming one of the most powerful men in the world. And asks the pressing question: what’s at stake if he wins again?

For years, players have been too afraid to talk about it. But now, the truth about a broom that almost destroyed curling is finally coming out. Over the course of six episodes, semi-professional curler and fully professional comedian John Cullen (Blocked Party) is exposing the unbelievable, never-before-told scandal that rocked the sport of curling. Yes, curling.

The Secret Life of Canada is a podcast about the country you know and the stories you don't. Join hosts Leah-Simone Bowen and Falen Johnson as they reveal the beautiful, terrible and weird histories of this land.

The story of the biggest gold discovery in history and the mysterious man behind its multi-billion dollar downfall.

The controversial reality TV show known as ‘Kid Nation’, which borrowed its premise from Lord of the Flies, was cancelled shortly after its 2007 debut. Producers took 40 kids into a makeshift desert town to fend for themselves and create their own society. Was the series an opportunity to discover what kids are capable of? Or simply a ploy for ratings?

With about 100 million visits per day, Pornhub is one of the biggest websites on the planet. This four-part series pulls back the curtain on the scrappy, Montreal-based startup that revolutionized sex on the internet — and the massive scandal that exposed its dark side. The Pornhub Empire, season 2 of Understood, releases March 11. Hosted by journalist Samantha Cole (How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex).

What if the Avril we’ve been following all these years is not the same Avril we fell in love with? What if — as a curious theory claims — Avril was replaced by a look-alike at the height of her fame? Comedian Joanne McNally searches far and wide to find out if the rumours are true. Along the way, she immerses herself in a mind-bending world of fake celebrity deaths, doppelgangers, conspiracy theories, and downright absurdity.

History remembers Charlie Chaplin as Hollywood’s first superstar. But at the height of his career, the FBI considered him something else: a threat to America. Chaplin’s granddaughter, Oona Chaplin, tells the story of how Hollywood became a battleground for the soul of America. Hollywood Exiles is a story of glamour, duplicity, and the US government’s decades-long campaign to root out communism in Tinseltown.

Journalist Samira Mohyeddin investigates what actually happened to the infamous Gay Girl in Damascus — a revolutionary blogger sharing her experiences as an out lesbian in a country where homosexuality is illegal. Until she disappeared. The result is a twisted yarn that spans the globe and challenges our thinking on love, politics and identity in cyberspace.