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Weekends with Ben O’Hara Byrne will showcase Ben’s signature curiosity, good humour, and love for great Canadian stories - whenever you're listening. Learn new things, hear surprising perspectives, and head into your day with fresh stories to talk about.

Ben O’Hara Byrne brings decades of experience in journalism, broadcast, and connecting with people to the microphone. Throughout his career, he’s held reporting & anchor roles across Canada, from Quebec City to Ottawa to Victoria. He’s been a network bureau chief in Beijing and London, U.K. And, he’s reported on stories around the world, including Afghanistan, North Korea, Libya, Ukraine and Russia.

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Guest: Alex Dalziel, senior fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
Guest: Richard Bessett, historian, associate fellow, Christ’s College, Cambridge,  and author of For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918
Guest: Dr. Monica Kidd, family physician and journalist based in Calgary
Guest: Tom Korski, managing editor, Blacklock’s Reporter
Guest: Isabel Richie, violinist and vocalist, The Strumbellas
Guest: Ric Mixter, journalist, writer, diver and documentary filmmaker, author of Tattletale Sounds-The Edmund Fitzgerald Investigations.
Guest: Lyse Doucet,  BBC Senior International Correspondent and author of The Finest Hotel in Kabul
Guest: Alan Doyle, singer, songwriter, and author of The Smiling Land: All around the circle in my Newfoundland and Labrador
Guest: Andy Curran, founding member, guitar and vocals, Coney Hatch
Guest: Tim Carpenter, former head of the FBI’s Art Crime team and author of The Grave Robber: The Biggest Stolen Artifacts Case in FBI History and the Bureau’s Quest to Set Things Right
Guest: Rick Westhead, TSN Senior Correspondent, author of We Breed Lions: Confronting Canada’s Troubled Hockey Culture
Guest: Dennis Molinaro, author of Under Assault: Interference and Espionage in China's Secret War Against Canada
Guest: Rachel Cousins, singer, songwriter, her new albums is called What Hasn’t Killed Me
Guest: Trish Neufeld, Canadian filmmaker and director of The Thirst Trap: The Fame. The Fantasy. The Fallout,
Guest: Francine Pelletier, journalist and author of Dream Interrupted: TheRise and Fall of Quebec Nationalism.
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Kirsty Mac

I would subscribe if more content like this

Oct 29th
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