TORONTO – CBC Radio One has announced an upcoming true-crime podcast, already being hailed as the Canadian answer to the US podcast ‘Serial’, which will detail the circumstances surrounding the public broadcaster’s choice to continually employ and support sexual harasser Jian Ghomeshi.
“From CBC and This Canadian Life it’s ‘Someone Knows Something,’ says host David Ridgen at the start of episode one as jaunty piano music plays. “One story of malfeasance and willful blindness, told week by week.”
“Here is the case we are working on: almost twenty years ago a former musician and scarf enthusiast named Jian Ghomeshi was hired by CBC to host the program ‘Q’. Then, despite his unprofessional and degrading treatment of female employees, and well known reputation for aggressive sexual passes at interns, CBC kept him on the air. Why? That is the question we are going to spend the next 12 episodes answering.”
The show promises to use the full power of CBC’s investigative and journalistic resources to examine the facts, talk to the parties involved, and generally do all the other things CBC execs didn’t bother to do at the time.
‘Someone Knows Something’ probes theories, debunks rumours and aims to uncover the information we have purposefully buried and hidden away,” CBC said in a press release.
Insiders say that if the show is a hit, they are already hard at work finding a less interesting and far more complicated story to examine in season two.
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