In response to the kidnappings of James Cross and Pierre Laporte, the federal government invokes the War Measures Act. And when the body of Pierre Laporte is discovered, popular sentiment turns against the FLQ and leads to the collapse of the g

Episode 4: The Whole Wide World

Sep 21st, 2020 41m 11s

The FLQ’s campaign for liberation did not spring from a vacuum: radical Québec separatists were inspired by and in turn inspired decolonization movements around the world, including the Black Panthers.For transcripts of this series, please vi

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Recall Introduces: Hollywood Exiles

Jan 29th, 2024 36m 20s

From the BBC World Service and CBC Podcasts comes Hollywood Exiles. Host Oona Chaplin tells the story of the decades-long campaign to root out communism in Hollywood. It’s a campaign that eventually drove her grandfather, Charlie Chaplin, and m

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Recall Introduces: Stuff The British Stole | Season 3

Jul 4th, 2023 42m 31s

Throughout its reign, the British Empire stole a lot of stuff. Today the Empire's loot sits in museums, galleries, private collections and burial sites with polite plaques. But its history is often messier than the plaques suggest. In each epis

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Recall Introduces: The Africas VS. America

Feb 8th, 2023 53m 8s

In 1985, at the height of the Black Power era, police dropped a bomb in a Philadelphia neighborhood. Their target? A family of Black radicals known as ‘MOVE,’ who found themselves ensnared in a city — and nation’s — domestic war on Black Libera

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Recall Introduces: Pressure Cooker

Sep 5th, 2022 36m 10s

John and Amanda have lived on the fringes their whole lives. They’re on welfare, living with John’s grandma, and struggling with addiction to opioids and Dungeons and Dragons. They’ve followed crooked paths to this point. John played in heavy m

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Recall Introduces: Kuper Island

May 17th, 2022 32m 46s

Kuper Island is an 8-part series that tells the stories of four students: three who survived and one who didn’t. They attended one of Canada’s most notorious residential schools – where unsolved deaths, abuse, and lies haunt the community and t

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Recall Introduces: The Secret Life of Canada

Feb 3rd, 2022 45m 15s

The Secret Life of Canada is a podcast about the country you know and the stories you don't. Join hosts Leah-Simone Bowen and Falen Johnson as they reveal the beautiful, terrible and weird histories of this land. The Secret Life of Canada is ba

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Introducing: Telling Our Twisted Histories

May 31st, 2021 23m 8s

Discovery. Reserve. Savage. After centuries of colonization, some words have the power to hurt us deeply and twist our collective history. Host Kaniehti:io Horn guides listeners through over 70 conversations with people from 15 Indigenous commu

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Introducing: Brainwashed

Nov 12th, 2020 23m 57s

Brainwashed investigates the CIA’s covert mind control experiments – from the Cold War and MKULTRA to the so-called War on Terror. It’s the story of how a renowned psychiatrist used his unwitting patients as human guinea pigs at a Montreal hosp

Episode 6: Liberation

Oct 5th, 2020 51m 51s

With the kidnappings of James Cross and Pierre Laporte, the FLQ earns the headline attention it craves, and creates a national crisis in the process.For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/recall-how

Episode 5: The Bomber

Sep 28th, 2020 48m 20s

Pierre-Paul Geoffroy and Bob Côté were at opposite ends of the busiest period of FLQ bombing activity. It began in May 1968 with a bomb at the 7-Up factory, and ended in February 1969 with the explosion at the Montreal Stock Exchange. Geoffroy

Episode 3: The Mastermind

Sep 14th, 2020 40m 59s

Pierre Vallieres taps into the anger and alienation felt by Francophone Quebecers by penning a book of essays that earns him comparisons to Malcolm X and Che Guevara. The revolutionary text inflames separatist sentiment, cements Vallieres’s pos

Episode 2: The Stranger

Sep 8th, 2020 40m 52s

The story of how a Hungarian born, Austro-German raised, ex-French Foreign Legionnaire became a radical Quebec separatist demonstrates the allure of the FLQ message in the political tinderbox that was Montreal in 1964.For transcripts of this

Episode 1: Suicide Commandos

Sep 8th, 2020 30m 5s

The 1960s began as a time of promise for Quebec, with the feeling that the province was throwing off the shackles of its parochial past. But despite plenty of reason for hope, the seeds were being sown for radical revolt, and by 1963, Montreal

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Recall: How to Start a Revolution - Trailer

Aug 24th, 2020 2m 40s

Introducing Recall, a series about history that is still hot to the touch. The first season, How to Start a Revolution, explores the story of a groundbreaking political movement that rocked Canada in the 1960s. Host Geoff Turner will examine ho

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