Audible.ca, the world’s largest producer and provider of original spoken word entertainment and audiobooks, is now offering original premium audio entertainment on a monthly basis featuring some of Canada’s most distinguished voices.
Canadian Audible Originals features a range of celebrated Canadian writers and storytellers including Yannick Bisson, Sarika Cullis-Suzuki, Catherine Hernandez, Robert J. Sawyer, Tanya Talaga, Jael Richardson, Andrew Pyper and many more.
Titles will continue monthly throughout 2020 and much of 2021, with more projects to be announced and released regularly in the future.
The complete schedule of Canadian Audible Originals, with release dates and details, is available here: www.audible.ca/audiblecaoriginals.
The Revisionaries (Antica Productions)
with Michele Romanow
available October 13, 2020
Dragons’ Den’s Michele Romanow sits down with today’s leading business innovators and entrepreneurs to reveal the inside story of the early pitfalls, landmines and almost insurmountable setbacks they encountered on their journeys to become visionaries.
True North Heists (Pacific Content)
with Colm Feore
available October 13, 2020
Actor Colm Feore takes you on a deep dive inside the gripping, true stories of Canada’s most infamous thefts, from an eighteen-million-dollar maple syrup scheme, to Canada’s first great train robbery.
Seven Truths (Antica Productions)
with Tanya Talaga
available November 26, 2020
Award-winning author and indigenous rights activist Tanya Talaga tells her personal story of the fight for human rights in Canada’s First Nation Peoples as told through the lens of the Seven Grandfather Teachings that guide Anishinaabe life.
Wild Sounds of Canada / Paysage sonore de la nature canadienne (Rotating Planet)
bilingual series
English with Sarika Cullis-Suzuki (available in December 2020)
Français interprété par Laurence Lafond-Beaulne (available in December 2020)
Join Sarika Cullis-Suzuki for an intimate tour of the wild heart of the nation. From the Tombstone Mountains of the Yukon Territory to the coastal plains of Newfoundland, each episode is alive with the buzzes, warbles and howls of wildlife at different locations across the country.
Suivez Laurence Lafond-Beaulne, du duo musical Milk & Bone, dans un voyage intime à travers les régions sauvages de la nation. Du mont Tombstone au Yukon jusqu’aux plaines côtières de Terre-Neuve, chaque épisode prend vie avec des bourdonnements, gazouillis et hurlements de la nature sauvage provenant de divers lieux à travers le pays.
The Secret Diaries of Detective Murdoch (Shaftesbury)
with Yannick Bisson
available in 2021
With the detective himself, this 10-part companion to the popular Murdoch Mysteries series peers into the detective’s diaries, giving fans deeper insight into the character and his most notable cases.
Field Guide to Eating in Canada / Guide pratique des saveurs canadiennes (Antica Productions)
bilingual series
English with Meredith Erickson
Interprète francophone annoncé bientôt
available in 2021
Food writer and cookbook author Meredith Erickson takes listeners on a coast-to-coast culinary adventure across Canada, exploring far-flung destinations to find great food and the people who make it.
Les auditeurs sont transportés dans une aventure culinaire d’un océan à l’autre au Canada, explorant des destinations lointaines pour découvrir de la bonne nourriture et les gens qui la cuisinent.
Imminent Disaster
with Catherine Hernandez
available in 2021
Created by Canadian author and playwright Catherine Hernandez, this sharp-eyed sketch comedy series takes aim at the absurdities of our chaotic modern world, from tackling technology to juggling family and workplace to navigating everyday relationships.
The Awesome Project (Breakthrough Entertainment)
with Louisa Jewell
available in 2021
Positive psychology expert Louisa Jewell shares her profound and often hilarious journey with guests, inspiring change, overcoming obstacles and helping us all to live a better, more fulfilling and totally awesome life.
Witch [Working Title] (Audible Studios)
with Hannah Moscovitch
available in 2021
In this eerily fun and gritty 10-part original drama from Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch, a downtrodden young woman can barely hold it all together when, in the midst of being overwhelmed by the chaos of her daily life, she learns she has extraordinary supernatural abilities and discovers she’s more powerful than she thought.
Oracle (Audible Studios)
written by Andrew Pyper
performer to be announced
available in 2021
In this psychological thriller from bestselling author Andrew Pyper, a police psychic tracks an elusive serial killer, finding the missing and murdered by “reading” those close to them, an unwanted gift that comes with a terrible price.
Note: This title will cost 1 credit for Audible.ca members or may be purchased a la carte.
Oracle: The Dreamland Murders (Audible Studios)
written by Andrew Pyper
performers to be announced
available in 2021
In this 10-part thriller series from bestselling author Andrew Pyper, police psychic Nate Russo races against the clock to solve a series of grisly ritual murders, all linked to cold cases from decades past, and mysteriously connected to a sinister derelict amusement park called Dreamland.
China White (Audible Studios)
bilingual series
written by Sarah Richards
English performer to be announced
Interprète francophone annoncé bientôt
available in 2021
In China White—the first instalment of a series from an exciting new voice in fiction—a disgraced ex-police officer forms an unlikely alliance with a teenage cult member, and together they expose an opioid drug ring and bring those responsible to justice.
Dans China White, le premier titre d’une série provenant d’une nouvelle voix passionnante en fiction, un ex-policier disgracié forme une alliance improbable avec un adolescent membre d’une secte pour démasquer un réseau de distribution d’opiacés et traduire les responsables en justice.
Note: This title will cost 1 credit for Audible.ca members or may be purchased a la carte.
The Stand In (Audible Studios)
written by Lily Chu
available in 2021
Set in Toronto, The Stand In is an #OwnVoices romantic comedy that tells the story of a young Chinese-Canadian woman, who is approached by Chinese movie stars and offered a job as a body double. But as she spends more time posing as the beautiful starlet alongside the leading man, she realizes that she may not be able to keep up her end of the bargain without losing her heart.
The Jael Richardson Project [Working Title]
with Jael Richardson
available in 2021
Jael Richardson, author of Gutter Child (forthcoming in Jan 2021) and founder of The FOLD, examines what it means to be a person of colour in Canada. This podcast covers all the things you’re not supposed to talk about at the dinner table, but that need to be explored, unraveled and shared.
The Walrus Foundation (The Walrus Lab)
available in 2021
The Walrus Lab develops four original podcast series; all tackling the complex issues that provoke conversation and addressing matters vital to Canadians.
The Downloaded (Audible Studios)
written by Robert J. Sawyer
performer to be announced
Created by award-winning Sci-Fi author Robert J. Sawyer, this series chronicles a humanity that must rescue itself from the blissful oblivion of a digital immersive world to rescue the actual planet Earth from destruction.
How Not to F*ck Up Your Marriage Too Bad (Pacific Content)
with Stephen Marche
released in June 2020 & available now!
This irreverent podcast is a 10-part guide to modern marriage, with frank advice on how to tackle the tough questions and thorny issues faced by ordinary couples, including sex, money and even death.
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