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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.

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    • Jun 14, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    Young bands discover the art of band show posters

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2025 12:56


    St. John's area punk bands are embracing their DIY roots and crafting their own physical show posters, in addition to advertising shows on social media

    Tiptoe through the tulips in Grand Falls-Windsor

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2025 9:15


    Duli Hua has planted more than a thousand tulips in front of her family's business, Grand Rodeo Restaurant, in Grand Falls-Windsor

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    Take a Newfoundland road trip with Jerome and Holly McGrath

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2025 12:57


    Jerome and Holly McGrath document their excursions around the bay on their own YouTube Channel

    Finding humour everywhere

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2025 12:31


    Kids in the Hall member Kevin McDonald talks about his solo career in comedy and why it's only now he's coming to Newfoundland.

    A pane to fix

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2025 9:00


    Glass artist Rod Taylor takes us through the process of fixing a broken stained glass window at the St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in Gander.

    The highs and lows of entertaining a crowd

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2025 12:51


    Musician Dave White has played stages big and small over his 20 year career. He talks about the mental strain the job can have and how he's learned to stay healthy. 

    Bewildering. Beautiful. Mysterious.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2025 12:49


    Newfoundlander Veronica Sullivan says she works to hike. She tells WAM's Gavin Simms about a recent thousand-mile solo hike in the untouched wilderness of Utah and Arizona

    Controlling the volume

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2025 8:37


    Audiologist Ian Verge talks about the importance of hearing health and how to protect your ears from overuse.

    Mic drop!

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2025 13:58


    Melissa Tobin tells us how a smashed up microphone from a highway in Newfoundland and Labrador wound up in the Shure company archives

    International Drone Day

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2025 10:43


    Sarah Harris and Michelle LaCour of Lawnya Vawnya demonstrate what will happen during International Drone Day in St. John's 

    Vyshyvanka show and tell

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2025 13:29


    Maria Lesic, Iryna Pegasina, Olena Antymiychuk, and Olena Horbatenko bring their traditional Ukrainian embroidered shirts into the Weekend AM studio

    Eastern RC Racing

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2025 9:07


    Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin visits a session of Eastern Radio Controlled Racing

    Blacksmith Marc Fiset forges on the road

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2025 11:52


    Fogo Island blacksmith Marc Fiset sets up his workshop at the Central MinEx Conference in Gander

    Meet Charlie Wall-Andrews, the SOCAN Foundation's Executive Director

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2025 12:05


    Charlie Wall-Andrews, originally from Newfoundland and Labrador, talks about her work supporting emerging Canadian musicians and music industry professionals 

    Turning memories into a comic strip

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2025 10:30


    Jamie Fitzpatrick interviewed Snowden Walters about his comic strip, Sculpin Tickle.

    Tapping into the local sweet stuff

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2025 12:43


    Local forager Shawn Dawson shows the CBC's Gavin Simms how to make maple syrup

    The Irish Descendants look back

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2025 13:10


    35 songs to mark 35 years. A new boxed set from the iconic Newfoundland and Labrador band.

    Openly Karl

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2025 10:04


    His time at the CBC made him a media celebrity. Now, Karl Wells tells his story in a new memoir.

    Without a Trace: The Dana Bradley Murder Investigation

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2025 15:03


    Weekend AM goes to an early reading of Mike Heffernan's stage work in progress about a 1981 murder and its investigation

    Chains and Crowns

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2025 10:41


    Stephane Alexis tells us about his photography exhibit at Eastern Edge Gallery which documents the meanings behind various Afro-Caribbean hair styles. 

    Knitting for the war commemoration effort

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2025 10:40


    Cast On Cast Off is releasing a digital knitting book, Wartime Knits - In Support of the Juno Beach Centre.

    The 2024 BMO Winterset Award

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2025 13:20


    We hear from the writers celebrated at the 2024 BMO Winterset Award presentation at Government House in St. John's. 

    The founder of Mernini raincoats is weathering out the trade storm

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2025 6:43


    Maria Halfyard, the founder of Mernini, explains how she is adapting her export plan for Mernini raincoats to weather out international trade disputes.

    The art of healing

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2025 11:32


    NL Health Services and artists give us a tour of the artworks placed at the new Mental Health and Addictions Centre in St. John's 

    Zaynab Wilson, musical traveller, feels at home in St. John's

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2025 9:37


    Percussionist Zaynab Wilson tells us how her love of music and travel led her to this province, and how living in St. John's has broadened her musical horizons

    From Stage 4 to the opera stage

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2025 8:24


    Cancer survivor Paige Sargent is pursuing her dream of becoming an opera singer 

    The JAG Soundhouse is a feast for the ears and eyes

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2025 10:54


    Shawn Basha of Brigus Productions takes us on a tour of the province's newest live music venue, the JAG Soundhouse. 

    Meet "The Commish" of the Glovertown Oldtimers

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2025 9:16


    Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin takes in a rec hockey game in Glovertown, where the star on the ice is 80-year-old Donald Sparkes. 

    The latest on the NL Folk Festival and ECMA week

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2025 19:40


    Heather and Melissa discuss the latest on the controversies surrounding two big music events scheduled for St. John's - The ECMA week in May and the NL Folk Festival in July. 

    OneStream Suffah is a new podcast about Muslim life

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2025 12:53


    Masud Rahman and Fuaz Khan are the hosts and producers of OneStream Suffah, a new podcast produced at Memorial University about Muslim life 

    Hurry, hurry hard - to a physics lesson about curling

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2025 10:12


    Joe Fitzgerald, Memorial University physicist and curler, explains the physics behind curling.

    The true costs of music streaming

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2025 11:55


    Liz Pelly, author of Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, speaks to Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin.

    The Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival is in dire straits

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2025 13:55


    Julie Vogt, president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Arts Society, explains why the group is asking for donations to help make the annual folk festival happen in 2025.

    Shaun Majumder is coming back from away

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2025 12:19


    Actor and comedian Shaun Majumder explains why he and his family have moved from Los Angeles in the United States and are coming back to live in Atlantic Canada. 

    Ramadan Mubarek!

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2025 13:28


    Sa'adatu Usman, founder of Global Citizens, Inc. and Abrar Al Shafi of Memorial University's Muslim Students' Association tell us about their Ramadan intentions. 

    Musicians in Newfoundland and Labrador are pivoting

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2025 11:30


    MusicNL's Executive Director, Tamara Kater, tells us how NL musicians are diversifying into markets other than the United States 

    A TwillinGREAT RPM Challenge

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2025 5:21


    A group of musicians in Twillingate is recording an RPM Challenge album called Twillingreat

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    Karim Elnaas and the art of medicine

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2025 10:50


    Memorial University medical student Karim Elnaas describes how his experience with cancer treatment and his passion for art are helping him with his medical studies 

    From the ashes of Los Angeles to the snow of Winterton

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2025 15:45


     Los Angeles based music producer Greg Wells talks to Weekend AM's Melissa Tobin about why, after losing his L.A. home and studio in the January fires, he feels compelled to return to Winterton

    The magic of sticky tape

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2025 6:59


    Visual artist Les Sasaki creates portraits out of tape for his exhibit, Invisible, at Gallery 59 in the Gander Airport International Lounge 

    Record Club gets Generation X back on the dance floor

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2025 13:39


    Local cover band Record Club is about to fill the St. John's Convention Centre with fans of 1980s dance floor classics

    Terra Nova School of Swords

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2025 6:28


    German long sword fighting instructor Edmund Quigley shows us the basics

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