The Big Dig

44 épisodes

Highway Teardown Tour | 3. Rochester, NY
03/06/2026 | 41 min
Once the highway is gone, can the divisions these structures created actually be healed? Can the people on either side become neighbors again? Rochester, NY is trying to answer that question.
Guests: Erik Frisch, Brian Sharp, Shawn Dunwoody, Suzanne Mayer
Recorded live at the WXXI studios in Rochester, NY.
Highway Teardown Tour | 2. Syracuse, NY
27/05/2026 | 47 min
Is it possible to re-write the Interstate map and send highways around cities instead of through them? Syracuse, NY is doing just that.
Guests: Marie Therese Dominguez, Lanessa Owens-Chaplin, Joe Driscoll
Recorded live in partnership with WRVO and the Syracuse Museum of Science and Technology.
Highway Teardown Tour | 1. New York, NY
20/05/2026 | 51 min
What to do with the BQE? It’s a one of a kind highway in desperate need of repair, but no one can agree how to fix it.
Guests: Polly Trottenberg, Lara Birnback, Stephen Nessen
Recorded live at WNYC’s Greenspace.
Archival audio courtesy of Municipal Archives, City of New York.
Highway Teardown Tour | Enter Here
20/05/2026 | 7 min
Every American city is divided by crumbling old highways. Every city is trying to figure out what to do with them. But even if the problems with these structures are obvious, the solutions are not – often they are contentious. Welcome to The Big Dig Highway Teardown Tour.
Introducing: The Cult Queen of Canada from CBC’s Uncover
15/04/2026 | 39 min
In The Cult Queen of Canada from CBC’s Uncover, a tiny Saskatchewan town faces a surreal crisis when a cult leader calling herself “The Queen of Canada” occupies an abandoned school. As neighbours turn on each other, a retired teacher leads resistance in a story about what happens when online extremism spills into the real world. Hosted by Rachel Browne.
Crime. Investigation. Revelation. Uncover brings you explosive, high-caliber true crime year-round. From CIA mind control to serial abuse, mysterious disappearances to wrongful imprisonment.
More episodes of The Cult Queen of Canada are available wherever you get your podcasts, and here: https://link.mgln.ai/CQOCxCF
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When I decided to take on the story of the Codfather, I realized it was a little more true-crime than anything I had done before, and so it was important to me that we do true crime in a way that served a larger purpose. That there was a point to it all besides just people breaking the law and getting caught. And for me, one of the models of that kind of storytelling is the CBC’s Uncover. It’s an ongoing feed that has released just a stunning run of highly original and intensely engaging crime stories that also help us understand our world. They have a new series out this spring so we wanted to feature an episode of that here.
It’s called ‘The Cult Queen of Canada.’ It’s set in a small prairie town of 120 people in Saskatchewan, which becomes the unlikely home base for a cult leader known as the “Queen of Canada.” In the series, journalist Rachel Browne uncovers how online extremism bleeds into everyday life and divides this small town. It’s a story about polarization, power vacuums, and what happens when a small community becomes the testing ground for extremism.

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