Weekend AM
CBC Podcasts & Radio On-Demand
Weekend AM is CBC Radio One's province-wide, Saturday and Sunday morning show across Newfoundland and Labrador. You'll meet creative people up to all sorts of things that keep life in Newfoundland and Labrador interesting.
Location:
St. John's, NL
Networks:
CBC Podcasts & Radio On-Demand
Description:
Weekend AM is CBC Radio One's province-wide, Saturday and Sunday morning show across Newfoundland and Labrador. You'll meet creative people up to all sorts of things that keep life in Newfoundland and Labrador interesting.
Twitter:
@CBCWam
Language:
English
Contact:
95 University Ave. Box 12010, Sta A., St. John's, NL A1B 1Z4 1-877-576-5245
Website:
http://www.cbc.ca/wam/
Email:
cbcinput@cbc.ca
Episodes
Creating space and never slowing down
4/27/2024
We with multi-talented theatre and screen artist Santiago Guzman, who's made Newfoundland his home.
Duration:00:11:40
Pope Youth Film Festival
4/26/2024
Filmmaker Hunter Taplin and festival director Sophie Leon tell us about the films created by 25 young filmmakers for the third annual Pope Youth Film Festival
Duration:00:10:29
Greening the local film and television industry
4/26/2024
Jenny Hawley of Picture NL tells us how the industry is working towards reducing its carbon footprint
Duration:00:08:25
Remembering Irene of the Georgestown Bakery
4/25/2024
St. John's bakery owner Stephen Lewis talks about Irene Keating, the legendary counter worker at his bakery who recently died at the age of 84.
Duration:00:06:27
Telling the future through bones
4/20/2024
Osteomancy is one of the many forms of divination and healing, using trinkets and bones. Chantelle Galinski on Saved by a Spell tells Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin about the craft, and gives her a look into her future.
Duration:00:12:47
Adapting Grace for the stage
4/20/2024
Lisa Moore wrote the short story over 20 years ago, now playwright Megan Gail Coles has adapted Grace for the stage. The acclaimed writers join Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin to talk about working together.
Duration:00:13:59
Walking the runway of the rock
4/13/2024
The inaugural St. John's Fashion Week is coming this August. We talk with organizers Jessica Brown and Tera McDonald about why style matters and how you could be a model.
Duration:00:12:46
Transient Maternal
4/6/2024
Weekend AM's Sarah Blackmore explores the latest exhibit by artists Daze Jefferies and B.G. Osborne at the Eastern Edge Gallery, which how the water around us acts as an archive of human life
Duration:00:12:39
Meet the folks of the CFMAs
4/5/2024
Weekend AM reporter Sarah Blackmore drops by sound check for the Canadian Folks Music Awards in St. John's to meet the visiting musicians in town.
Duration:00:12:48
Acting up
4/5/2024
We drop by the acting workshop at the 72nd annual NL Drama Festival and meet this year's adjudicator, Kate Smith.
Duration:00:09:35
The province's inaugural sketch comedy festival is happening in St. John's
4/2/2024
Melissa chats with NL Sketch Fest director Andrew Tremblett, and visiting performer Cam Wyllie, about the dawn of a new sketch comedy festival in the province.
Duration:00:12:16
Goo-goo, gaa-gaa, and savasana! We look into Baby Yoga.
4/2/2024
Once a week at the Gander Public Library, Zoë Granville hosts baby yoga! Melissa recently got to chat with her about this unique fitness class, and also got to meet class attendees Robyn Stead and her five-month-old, Ellis.
Duration:00:10:10
Newfoundland and Labrador's seventy-second provincial drama festival
4/2/2024
Weekend AM's Sarah Blackmore chats with NL Provincial Drama festival co-chairs Bert Peddle and Randy Sooley, ahead of the festival which runs from March 31-April 6.
Duration:00:11:42
A chat with Wade Pinhorn ahead of the Canadian Folk Music Awards
4/2/2024
Melissa chats with local chair of the Canadian Folk Music Awards events, Wade Pinhorn, ahead of St. John's hosting this year's ceremonies from April 3-7.
Duration:00:11:28
Celebrating Nowruz
3/23/2024
The CBC's Nabila Qureshi takes us to Persian New Year celebrations in St. John's
Duration:00:11:48
Why 1990s skateboarding is part of Newfoundland and Labrador's intangible cultural heritage
3/22/2024
Nicole Penney of Memorial University's Folklore and Language Archive, and Nik Sexton, skateboarder and film maker, talk about the significance of the 1990s St. John's skateboarding scene
Duration:00:12:49
Learn how to fix your small appliances
3/22/2024
Daniel O'Keeffe, a volunteer with the St. John's Tool Library, shows us how he repaired his rice cooker, and tells us how you can learn to fix your own small appliances
Duration:00:08:45
It's Queer Prom night at Memorial University
3/22/2024
Manaar Shahabuddin and Cale Stevens of Memorial University's Sexual and Gender Advocacy talk about the inclusive Queer Prom event at the Breezeway.
Duration:00:05:31
Bringing the writing of Tom Dawe to the stage
3/16/2024
Susan Bonnell and Chris Panting of Theatre CBS tell us about their upcoming production of Duckish - featuring the ghost and fairy stories of Tom Dawe
Duration:00:10:59
2023 BMO Winterset Award
3/15/2024
Highlights from the award ceremony at Government House in St. John's, honouring the best in Newfoundland and Labrador writing.
Duration:00:15:37