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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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    • Sep 7, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    The Bowring Park bridge with connections to the Sydney Opera House

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2025 14:01


    Architect Robert Mellin takes us on a walk over a mid-20th century architectural gem in the west end of St. John's

    Remembering D.F. Cook

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2025 13:04


    Longtime music educators Doug Dunsmore and Andrea Rose talk about the legacy of their friend and colleague Donald F. Cook, the founding director of Memorial University's School of Music

    Kevin Tobin's career in drawing the news

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2025 12:29


    Editorial cartoonist Kevin Tobin talks about his long career and body of work with The Telegram and other newspapers in Newfoundland and Labrador

    The story of Churchill Park/Newtown

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2025 10:19


    Louise Moyes talks to Weekend AM's Julia Israel about her latest Docudance, Churchill Park/Newtown - I Lived Here

    Meet Larry the Bedazzle Lobster

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2025 12:18


    WAM's Melissa Tobin speaks with artist Larry Weyand, who created a giant stuffed lobster and matching disco-ball cracker for this year's Bonavista Biennale.

    Serenaded by Seal

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2025 10:01


    Musicians Becca Bartlett and Summer Bennett flew to New Jersey for an three-day artist retreat, where they sat around the campfire with GRAMMY-Award winning artist Seal.

    Dropping from Spotify

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2025 9:39


    CBC report Maddie Ryan tells us why some local musicians are taking their music off the world's biggest streaming platform.

    The threads of family

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2025 13:02


    We hear about Stitches We Share: From Grandmother's Hands to Ours, an exhibit at the 2025 Bonavista Biennale, where three granddaughters curated their grandmother's work.

    Ride for Recovery NL

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2025 13:23


    Joel Thomas Hynes, Leslie Smith and Carl Smith talk about their first ever Ride for Recovery NL, the vibrant recovery in Eastern Newfoundland, and their love of motorcycles.

    Bonavista Biennale 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2025 9:20


    Rose Bouthillier, artistic director, and Heather Igloliorte, curator, of the 2025 Bonavista Biennale, tell us about the artwork to explore on the Bonavista Peninsula.

    Circus and sports

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2025 15:02


    We meet circus performers at Wonderbolt Circus who talk about the physical art of circus, and what circus performers have in common with Canada Games athletes.

    Parasport NL is helping disabled athletes thrive

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2025 11:26


    We meet Team NL para athletes Jeremy Jones and Seamus Reardon, and hear from Parasport NL president Margaret Tibbo and vice-president Doug Copp about how the organization works

    Meet Team New Brunswick's Mac Gnome

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2025 7:42


    Mac Gnome, along with his chaperone, Bruce MacFarlane of Team NB, talks about his role as unofficial Team NB mascot

    Lacrosse dancers

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2025 4:47


    Team NL Box Lacrosse players Abby Adams, Jana Whiffen, and Paige O'Neill explain why Team NL and Team PEI Lacrosse players danced together after their matches

    wildfire update

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2025 6:43


    Mark Lawlor, N.L. Fire Duty Officer, gives a Sunday morning update on the wildfires, focusing on the Kingston wildfire, currently raging out of control.

    One family volleys their way across the country

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2025 7:58


    Rob and Madelyn Tomyn tell us about their connections to volleyball, the Canada Games, and several parts of Canada

    Mayor Curtis Delaney on the Kingston wildfire

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2025 6:49


    Curtis Delaney, mayor of Small Point-Adam's Cove-Blackhead-Broad Cove, gives a Sunday morning update on the Kingston wildfire, burning out of control.

    Lacrosse runs in the Mont family

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2025 3:05


    The Mont brothers - Leo, Emmett and Henry, with their mother, Jessica, talk about their roles on Nova Scotia's Canada Games male lacrosse team.

    In sync in every way

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2025 8:20


    Taylor and Maddie Buchanan are identical twins and artistic swimmers with Team New Brunswick at the 2025 Canada Games.

    Wearing a hijab - while wrestling

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2025 6:04


    Shahad Alouch of Chester, Nova Scotia explains how she showcases her culture and her wrestling skills in Canada Games competition.

    Back in the scrum

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2025 12:57


    Mya Roberts and Owen Connolly, rugby players with Team Prince Edward Island at the 2025 Canada Games, talk about how they are overcoming obstacles to pursue their sporting dreams

    Nelly the Adventure Cat

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2025 10:05


    Nelly and her human, Lisa Roy, tell Weekend AM's Maddie Ryan about how Nelly has become a sensation on TikTok and YouTube

    It's back to the 1980s for local musicians who play bar gigs

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2025 11:57


    Musician Brad Jefford has been crunching the numbers and starting a conversation about the wages for musicians who play in the bars and pubs around Newfoundland and Labrador

    "No cold hands" biathlon

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2025 6:26


    Weekend AM's Amy Feehan tries out a summer biathlon session at the Blow Me Down Biathlon Club in Corner Brook

    Why Newfoundland and Labrador is a good place to dig for family roots

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2025 12:57


    Craig Morrissey of the Family History Society of Newfoundland and Labrador and David Allen Lambert, the Chief Genealogist at American Ancestors, talk about this weekend's Rockbound Roots Conference on Genealogy.

    Finding the funny in life on the reserve

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2025 10:48


    Indigenous comedian Don Burnstick tells us about his upcoming performance at Miawpukek First Nation.

    How not to rehome your goldfish

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2025 8:16


    We check in on the goldfish which have become an invasive species in Massey Drive's Link Pond

    Date Everything - including a globe with a Newfoundland accent

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2025 15:18


    Weekend AM's Amy Feehan tells us about a new video game that incorporates a Newfoundland character and a Newfoundland voice actor

    Message in a Bottle

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2025 14:39


    In 2012, Anita and Brad Squires wrote a message, put it in a bottle, and threw it into the ocean off Bell Island. Now, in 2025, that bottle has been found and opened in Ireland by Kate Gay and Martha Farrell

    Dick Nolan's Guitar

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2025 8:33


    Musician Larry Foley has acquired the guitar that was once owned by Dick Nolan, best known for his song Aunt Martha's Sheep

    Pride bonfires

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2025 13:10


    Longtime 2SLGBTQ+ activist Susan Rose remembers the first Pride week gatherings on Middle Cove Beach in the early 1980s

    Author Earl Pilgrim

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2025 10:39


    Flanker Press publisher Jerry Cranford on his memories of Earl Pilgrim

    In rural Newfoundland and Labrador, 2SLGBTQ+ are Forever There

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2025 11:55


    Textile artist Daniel Rumbolt explores queer rural life in his new exhibit at the Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador Gallery

    Mike Kavanaugh takes a jog down the Tely 10 memory lane

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2025 9:18


    Runner and walker Mike Kavanaugh of Mount Pearl remembers his 40 Tely 10 road races, from his top 10 finish, to his last place finish

    Lights, camera, and lots of action

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2025 13:00


    CBC Reporter Maddie Ryan brings us a roundup of the major film and television production projects happening in Newfoundland and Labrador this summer

    Deep Listening

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2025 10:42


    Kelly Young and Heidi Dixon of First Light demonstrate the Indigenous practice of Deep Listening

    The Bear Inside a Whale

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2025 10:33


    Stan Hill Jr. and Kenneth J. Harvey talk about their new documentary film, The Bear Inside a Whale

    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.

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