Explore: A Canadian Geographic podcast
Hosted by David McGuffin · Canadian Geographic
4.9from 82 ratings
- 145
- Episodes
- 11
- Transcribed
- 82
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
- 6M
- YouTube views
About Explore: A Canadian Geographic podcast
Host David McGuffin talks to Canada’s greatest explorers about their adventures and what inspires their spirit of discovery.
- Publisher
- Canadian Geographic
- Category
- history · science · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 19 Mar 2019
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
11 of 145 episodes have a transcript.
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Alan Doyle: Songs, stories and The Smiling Land
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
What black bears taught bestselling author Trina Moyles about coexistence
8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The places that change us with Eric Weiner
Inside a recent episode
Alan Doyle: Songs, stories and The Smiling Land
Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And so you'll get a song about a shipwreck or a boat or a tragedy or a dirge about a tragedy or a disaster or whatever. Then you might also get a funny song about a garden party where someone got drunk and lost their shoe or something, or somebody who sank a boat by accident. And so Newfoundland... through the 1920s and 30s and 40s and 50s became dotted with these songs that were specific to little places and told stories of little places like Tickle Cove Pond or like Lukey's Boat or these songs that now feel global or ancient or whatever but they weren't. Lukey's Boat was about a guy in town who stupidly painted his boat green And everybody made fun of him for it. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on Explore: A Canadian Geographic podcast
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- Alan Doyle
- Trina Moyles
- Eric Weiner
- James Raffan
- Bobbi Rose Koe
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 6,213,278
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 24 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 58 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 65 / 100
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- Quality
- 60
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 90
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