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Weekend AM

CBC Podcasts & Radio On-Demand

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.

Location:

St. John's, NL

Description:

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.

Twitter:

@CBCWam

Language:

English

Contact:

95 University Ave. Box 12010, Sta A., St. John's, NL A1B 1Z4 1-877-576-5245


Episodes
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Nelly the Adventure Cat

8/2/2025
Nelly and her human, Lisa Roy, tell Weekend AM's Maddie Ryan about how Nelly has become a sensation on TikTok and YouTube

Duration:00:10:05

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

8/1/2025
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

Duration:00:11:57

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Finding the funny in life on the reserve

7/25/2025
Indigenous comedian Don Burnstick tells us about his upcoming performance at Miawpukek First Nation.

Duration:00:10:48

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

7/25/2025
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.

Duration:00:12:57

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"No cold hands" biathlon

7/25/2025
Weekend AM's Amy Feehan tries out a summer biathlon session at the Blow Me Down Biathlon Club in Corner Brook

Duration:00:06:26

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Date Everything - including a globe with a Newfoundland accent

7/18/2025
Weekend AM's Amy Feehan tells us about a new video game that incorporates a Newfoundland character and a Newfoundland voice actor

Duration:00:15:18

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How not to rehome your goldfish

7/18/2025
We check in on the goldfish which have become an invasive species in Massey Drive's Link Pond

Duration:00:08:16

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Dick Nolan's Guitar

7/11/2025
Musician Larry Foley has acquired the guitar that was once owned by Dick Nolan, best known for his song Aunt Martha's Sheep

Duration:00:08:33

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Pride bonfires

7/11/2025
Longtime 2SLGBTQ+ activist Susan Rose remembers the first Pride week gatherings on Middle Cove Beach in the early 1980s

Duration:00:13:10

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Message in a Bottle

7/11/2025
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

Duration:00:14:39

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Author Earl Pilgrim

7/5/2025
Flanker Press publisher Jerry Cranford on his memories of Earl Pilgrim

Duration:00:10:39

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

6/28/2025
Textile artist Daniel Rumbolt explores queer rural life in his new exhibit at the Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador Gallery

Duration:00:11:55

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Mike Kavanaugh takes a jog down the Tely 10 memory lane

6/27/2025
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

Duration:00:09:18

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Lights, camera, and lots of action

6/26/2025
CBC Reporter Maddie Ryan brings us a roundup of the major film and television production projects happening in Newfoundland and Labrador this summer

Duration:00:13:00

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Deep Listening

6/20/2025
Kelly Young and Heidi Dixon of First Light demonstrate the Indigenous practice of Deep Listening

Duration:00:10:42

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The Bear Inside a Whale

6/20/2025
Stan Hill Jr. and Kenneth J. Harvey talk about their new documentary film, The Bear Inside a Whale

Duration:00:10:33

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Young bands discover the art of band show posters

6/13/2025
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

Duration:00:12:56

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Tiptoe through the tulips in Grand Falls-Windsor

6/7/2025
Duli Hua has planted more than a thousand tulips in front of her family's business, Grand Rodeo Restaurant, in Grand Falls-Windsor

Duration:00:09:15

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Take a Newfoundland road trip with Jerome and Holly McGrath

6/6/2025
Jerome and Holly McGrath document their excursions around the bay on their own YouTube Channel

Duration:00:12:57

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Bewildering. Beautiful. Mysterious.

5/31/2025
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

Duration:00:12:49