Front Burner
Hosted by Jayme Poisson and Jason Markusoff and Matthew Amha · CBC
4.4from 2,955 ratings
- 2,151
- Episodes
- 715
- Transcribed
- 2,955
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
About Front Burner
Front Burner is a daily news podcast that takes you deep into the stories shaping Canada and the world. Each morning, from Monday to Friday, host Jayme Poisson talks with the smartest people covering the biggest stories to help you understand what’s going on.
- Publisher
- CBC
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 25 Oct 2018
- Latest episode
- 22 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
715 of 2,151 episodes have a transcript.
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
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How did the Houthis become so powerful?
Published 22 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] How does this help us understand their opposition to the Saudis? Sort of back at the beginning of their history, their first sort of fighting centered around actually a religious school that was up in Sardar in their homeland that was funded by Saudi Arabia. So you could take some of this back to almost a blowback from the funding of religious schools that spreads the Salafi Islam from Saudi Arabia into northern Yemen that didn't previously exist until the kind of 1980s. So on an ideological and religious front, that is relevant because a lot of the fighters on the anti-Houthi side have come out of not just that school, but other schools that were connected to it that were funded across Yemen as well. […]
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Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Iona Craig
- Rosie Barton
- Sean Speer
- Drew Hinshaw
- Joe Parkinson
Reach and audience
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 3.9 / 5
- 247 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.5 / 5
- 2,708 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 69 / 100
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- Quality
- 98
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 100
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Questions about Front Burner
Who hosts Front Burner?
Jayme Poisson and Jason Markusoff and Matthew Amha host the show. Published by CBC.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does Front Burner take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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