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Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne
Curiouscast
3205 episodes
2 days ago
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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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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Episodes (20/3205)
Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne
 Grammy-award winning Alex Cuba returns with his most personal album yet
Guest: Alex Cuba,  Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter
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2 days ago
17 minutes

Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne
The Guess Who's Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings reunite after more than 20 years for a 2026 tour
Guest: Burton Cummings. Co-founder of The Guess Who
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2 days ago
18 minutes

Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne
Ottawa science chief urges creation of national UFO office
Guest: Tom Korski, managing editor, Blacklock’s Reporter
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2 days ago
9 minutes

Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne
How the Haida found hoops and made basketball their own
Guest: Patrick Shannon, filmmaker, director of Saints and Warriors
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2 days ago
9 minutes

Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne
Most stolen vehicles in Canada - EV mandate stall - New energy deal for Alberta? - Bella Coola bear attack
2 days ago
48 minutes

Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne
Melting point: What a reporter learned during many journies through a fast changing arctic
Guest: Neal Shea, author of Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
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3 days ago
17 minutes

Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne
The Biggest Failure in a Century of Sneakers: How Under Armour and Steph Curry’s union ended in disaster
Guest: Nick Engvall, journalist and author of Sneaker History on Substack
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3 days ago
17 minutes

Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne
Trump ‘declassifies’ thousands of Amelia Earhart files, what did we learn?
Guest: Ric Gillespie, executive director, International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery and author of One More Good Flight: The Amelia Earhart Tragedy
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3 days ago
19 minutes

Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne
Cummings on Guess Who Reunion - Olympian turned drug lord - Federal NDP rebuilding - Highly skilled immigrants moving on
3 days ago
46 minutes

Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne
Another major sports gambling scandal - Can Liberals pass the budget? - Fast Food price hike - AI song tops charts
1 week ago
43 minutes

Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne
Why is Canada opening a consulate in Greenland?
Guest: Alex Dalziel, senior fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
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1 week ago
9 minutes

Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne
Feared lost forever, how one of Europe’s most famous diamonds sat in a Canadian vault for decades
Guest: Richard Bessett, historian, associate fellow, Christ’s College, Cambridge,  and author of For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918
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1 week ago
17 minutes

Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne
How did Canada go backwards on Measles prevention and what now?
Guest: Dr. Monica Kidd, family physician and journalist based in Calgary
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1 week ago
18 minutes

Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne
Liberal MP Arielle Kayabaga's 'shocking' $173K spending spree
Guest: Tom Korski, managing editor, Blacklock’s Reporter
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1 week ago
7 minutes

Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne
The Strumbellas settle into a new groove with an EP and North American tour
Guest: Isabel Richie, violinist and vocalist, The Strumbellas
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1 week ago
18 minutes

Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald 50yrs later: what really happened
Guest: Ric Mixter, journalist, writer, diver and documentary filmmaker, author of Tattletale Sounds-The Edmund Fitzgerald Investigations.
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1 week ago
18 minutes

Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne
A reporter’s tale of Afghanistan’s tumultuous half century and the hotel that’s witnessed it all 
Guest: Lyse Doucet,  BBC Senior International Correspondent and author of The Finest Hotel in Kabul  
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1 week ago
34 minutes

Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne
Liberal MP's blunt budget assessment - Canadian military looking to boost its reserve ranks - Hitler DNA analysis - How does Canada eliminate Measles...again
1 week ago
40 minutes

Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne
Alan Doyle takes you on a journey through his favorite place, the province he's always called home
Guest: Alan Doyle, singer, songwriter, and author of The Smiling Land: All around the circle in my Newfoundland and Labrador
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2 weeks ago
19 minutes

Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne
Defense spending - Budget reaction - Mamdani Mania - Carney on pipelines
2 weeks ago
50 minutes

Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne
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.