This needs javascript and flash to work
CBC Radio One
What You'll Hear
Everywhere in North America, CBC Radio One is your Canadian source of award-winning news, current affairs, documentaries, comedy, drama, arts journalism and a wide range of first-rate music.
Schedule is subject to change. CBC Hourly News can be heard at the top of each hour. For full schedule details, please visit the CBC Radio One Sirius Satellite page.
What we play: Our schedule features major newscasts - World Report and The World at Six - as well as hourly news updates. Weekdays include The Current, Ideas, Q and As It Happens. On weekends, join us for GO!, DNTO, The Sunday Edition, Cross-Country Checkup and more.
What's Hot
Q with Jian Ghomeshi
10 am, 3 pm and 11 pm ET
Q covers pop culture and high arts alike with forays into the most provocative and compelling cultural trends. From The Kids in the Hall Reunion to an intimate in-house concert by Martha Wainwright or Salman Rushdie on pop culture, CNN operas and the branding of politicians... Q brings you big names, big ideas, and those paving the way in Canada's cultural community.
Follow the Q Blog.
Sook-Yin Lee hosts Definitely Not the Opera
Saturdays 12 pm and 10 pm ET
Sook-Yin Lee is widely known throughout Canada as a gifted musician, actor, filmmaker, television host and producer. She first garnered national attention as the lead singer of the influential Vancouver alternative band Bob's Your Uncle. She subsequently released several solo albums, performed in a wide range of theatre, film and television projects, and in 1995 became a VJ for national music video network MuchMusic. There she proved herself to be a thoughtful and articulate host and interviewer whose inside knowledge of music proved an enormous benefit in establishing a rapport with her subjects.
On DNTO, our friendly host Sook-Yin Lee always looks at the world in new and surprising ways. And the best part of the show is that each week she invites you to make discoveries along with her.
Link: Read more about Sook-Yin Lee
Stuart McLean hosts Vinyl Cafe
Fridays 6 am and 8 pm ET; Sundays 3 pm ET
Stuart is a best-selling author, award-winning journalist and humorist, and host of CBC Radio program The Vinyl Cafe. He began his broadcasting career making radio documentaries for CBC Radio’s Sunday Morning. In 1979 Stuart won an ACTRA award for Best Radio Documentary for his contribution to the program’s coverage of the Jonestown massacre. More than 700,000 people listen to The Vinyl Cafe every weekend on CBC Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio and on a growing number of Public Radio stations in the United States.
Link: Read more about Stuart McLean
Anna Maria Tremonti hosts The Current
Mondays - Fridays 7:37 am and 11:37 am ET
Anna Maria Tremonti joins The Current after two years as a correspondent and host on CBC TV's flagship investigative program "the fifth estate". She has spent much of her career roaming the country and the world for the CBC. Between 1991 and 2000 Anna Maria filed regular news and documentary reports for CBC Television from a rotating cast of international home bases: Berlin, London, Jerusalem, and Washington. She has covered conflict and crisis in more than 30 countries, providing the CBC with eyewitness accounts of the war in Bosnia, the Arab-Israeli conflict and the break-up of the Soviet Union.
Link: Read more about Anna Maria Tremonti
Jonathan Goldstein hosts WireTap
Fridays 4:30 pm ET; Saturdays 3 am and 11:30 am ET
Jonathan Goldstein's radio stories and essays have appeared on numerous CBC programs. In the US, his work frequently appears on Public Radio International's This American Life where he is a contributing editor.
Link: Read more about Jonathan Goldstein
Rick MacInnes-Rae hosts Dispatches
Fridays 12 am and 9 am ET; Sundays 10 pm ET
For nearly 30 years, Rick MacInnes-Rae has been a voice listeners count on when they tune to CBC Radio.
From Kosovo, Bosnia, Chechnya, Rwanda, northern Ireland,Iraq, Haiti, El Salvador and more, he brings a Canadian perspective to international conflict, and tells it with award-winning panache.
Link: Read more about Rick MacInnes-Rae
Shelagh Rogers hosts The Next Chapter
Mondays 9 am ET; Tuesdays 12 am ET; Sundays 2 pm ET
Veteran broadcast journalist Shelagh Rogers talks to Canada's best-known authors and the literary stars of tomorrow. It's the destination show for anyone who wants to know about Canadian books and writing.
Link: Read more about Shelagh Rogers
Randy Bachman hosts Bachman’s Vinyl Tap
Saturdays 4 pm ET; Sundays 3 am and 11 pm ET
Born in Winnipeg, Canada, Randy Bachman has become a legendary figure in the rock and roll world through his talents as a guitarist, songwriter, performer and producer. He has earned over 120 Gold and Platinum album/singles awards around the world for performing and producing. His songwriting has garnered him the coveted #1 spot on radio play lists in over 20 countries and he has amassed over 40 million records sold. His songs have been recorded by numerous other artists and placed in dozens of television, movie and commercial soundtracks. His music has provided a veritable soundtrack of the last thirty years of popular music.
Link: Read more about Randy Bachman
Michael Enright hosts The Sunday Edition
Sundays 7 am and 12 pm ET
Michael Enright has been the host of CBC Radio One's The Sunday Edition since September 2000. Enright's journalistic credits are impressive. Prior to joining The Sunday Edition, he hosted This Morning for three years, and he spent ten years hosting CBC Radio's As It Happens.
Link: Read more about Michael Enright
Rex Murphy hosts Cross Country Checkup
Sundays 4 pm ET
Rex Murphy was born and raised in St. John's, Newfoundland, where he graduated from Memorial University. In 1968, Murphy, a Rhodes Scholar, went to Oxford University (along with former U.S. President Bill Clinton).
Link: Read more about Rex Murphy
Paul Kennedy hosts Ideas
Mondays - Fridays 7 pm ET; Tuesdays - Saturdays 2 am ET
Paul Kennedy is a veteran broadcaster and award-winning documentarian . He is well known to CBC Radio listeners as a regular replacement host on such flagship programs as Morningside, Stereo Morning and Arts National. He has produced and presented close to 200 documentaries for Ideas over the past 26 years. He researched and wrote his first documentary, "The Fur Trade Revisited," for an Ideas series entitled Red Man, White World in 1977.
Link: Read more about Paul Kennedy
Bob McDonald hosts Quirks & Quarks
Saturdays 8 am and 3 pm ET; Wednesdays 12 am ET
One of Canada's best known science journalists, Bob has been presenting the program since 1992. Bob is also a weekly science commentator on CBC Newsworld Morning, and science correspondent for CBC TV's The National. Before joining Quirks & Quarks, Bob was the host of CBC Television's children's science program Wonderstruck. He is also the author of two books based on the program, Wonderstruck I and Wonderstruck II.
Link: Read more about Bob McDonald
Bernard St-Laurent hosts C’est la vie
Sundays 9:30 pm ET; Mondays 1 pm ET; Tuesdays 3 am and 4:30 pm ET
Bernard St-Laurent is the host of CBC Radio One's C'est la vie, which he co-created in 1998. This award-winning national program about life in French-speaking Canada explores areas such as media, arts and culture, sports and life in general. For more than 30 years St-Laurent has covered all the major political events in Quebec from the election of the Parti Quebecois in 1976 to the 1995 referendum and the re-election of the PQ government in 1998.
Link: Read more about Bernard St-Laurent
Jian Ghomeshi hosts Q
Mondays - Fridays 10 am, 3 pm and 11 pm ET
Jian Ghomeshi is a broadcaster, writer and musical artist from Toronto. He has been the host of Q since its inception in 2007. He has also been host of, or contributor to, a variety of other CBC radio and TV programs including The National Playlist, Sounds Like Canada, 50 Tracks, Zed, The End, and The Hour. He spent three years as the host of the Gemini Award-winning CBC Television program, Play.
Link: Read more about Jian Ghomeshi
Brent Bambury hosts GO!
Saturdays 9:30 am and 6:30 pm ET
Brent began his radio career at CBC stations in Saint John, Halifax and Montreal. In 1984, he started working for Radio Two's Brave New Waves and then joined the show in 1985 as permanent host. Brent became known as a purveyor of obscure and emerging music, and a guide to alternative culture.
Link: Read more about Brent Bambury
Kathleen Petty hosts The House
Saturdays 7 am ET; Sundays 1 am ET
Seasoned journalist and broadcaster Kathleen Petty has been named the new host of CBC News: The House as well as the host of Ottawa’s No. 1 morning show, Ottawa Morning. Petty, who has been with CBC Newsworld since 1989, has been a producer, reporter and, most recently, the anchor of CBC News: Today and CBC News: Canada Now Newsworld Edition.
Link: Read more about Kathleen Petty
Nora Young hosts Spark
Saturdays 6 am and 8 pm ET; Mondays 4 am ET
Nora has a love hate relationship with technology, culture, and armchair sociology, which she pursues on CBC Radio, on television, in print, and online.
Link: Read more about Nora Young
Bernie McNamee hosts The World This Hour
Mondays - Fridays 3 pm and 4 pm ET
Bernie McNamee has been in front of a microphone for more than 35 years. He fell in love with broadcast journalism while working part time at a local radio station in his hometown of St. Catharines, ON while attending college.
Link: Read more about Bernie McNamee
Carol Off co-hosts As it Happens
Mondays - Fridays 5:30 pm and 9:30 pm ET
With extensive experience in both Canadian and international current affairs, Carol Off has covered conflicts in the Middle East, Haiti, the Balkans and the sub-continent, as well as events in the former Soviet Union, Europe, Asia, the United States and Canada.
Link: Read more about Carol Off
Mary Hynes hosts Tapestry
Sundays 10 am ET; Mondays 5 am ET
Mary began her career as a journalist in 1983 with United Press Canada. From 1984 to 1987, she worked overseas as a freelance sports writer/correspondent for CBC Radio, Broadcast News, Canadian Press, the Globe and Mail and Southam newspapers. In 1987, as a news and feature writer in the Globe and Mail's sports department, Mary covered the 1988 Seoul Olympics and the subsequent Dubin Inquiry into drugs in sports, winning a Sports Canada Award. In 1989, Mary came to CBC Radio One as the host of The Inside Track. The program won a Bronze Award at the New York Radio Festival in 1991 and was judged "CBC Radio/Best Weekly Show" in 1993.
Link: Read more about Mary Hynes
Eleanor Wachtel hosts Writers & Company
Thursdays 6 am and 8 pm ET; Sundays 11 am ET
In the fall of 1987, Wachtel moved to Toronto to work full-time as Literary Commentator on CBC Stereo's "State of the Arts," and then as writer-broadcaster for "The Arts Tonight," and Toronto reporter for "The Arts Report." She was host of "The Arts Tonight" from 1996 to 2007, and has been host of CBC Radio's "Writers & Company" since its inception in 1990.
Link: Read more about Eleanor Wachtel
Tom Power hosts Deep Roots
Tom Power is a musician, broadcaster and writer, raised and based in St. John's, Newfoundland. As a musician Tom is in high demand as an instrumentalist/vocalist and has shared the stage with such diverse artists as accordion virtuoso Graham Wells, jazz guitarist Duane Andrews and bluegrass innovator Bill Keith.
Link: Read more about Tom Power