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It’s official. After 5 seasons of sitting beside the radio with your finger on the record button, WireTap has finally left the stone ages. Subscribe to our brand new podcast and listen at your convenience!

But whether you’re tuning in old school or new school, be sure to check out the premiere of Season 6, this Saturday at 1:30pm on CBC Radio One.

WireTap is finally streaming its episodes online! We will be uploading the back log of shows over the course of the next month, so soon you’ll be able to listen to all your favourites directly from our site. Check out the archive to get started… or check out some of my personal favourites below:

Never Say I Love You

This week on WireTap, tune in for advice from Starlee Kine on how to get over a bad break up. Plus, Jonathan reads his story "You call that Love", Howard confesses his true feelings for Jonathan, and a selection of short notes to people we have loved from dearoldlove.com.

Where Do Babies Come From and Where Do Babies Go?

Ever wondered if you were delivered by a stork as a baby, or dug up from a cabbage patch? On WireTap this week, a lesson in human reproduction as award-winning author Heather O’Neill reads her short story "Where Babies Come From". Plus, Howard takes house sitting to a whole new level.

I won something.

I don’t know what it is yet, but I get to fly to Chicago and everything just to find out.

And some other radio producers have won something too. There are sound clips of their pieces (and mine) up here.

So far, my favorite is Rhapsody in Bohemia. I think you can guess what that one’s about.

I am very excited about this.

So I was all set to write this post about how I would bet you almost everything I own that these little mountain goats would be better at interviews than me and that they would sound more articulate even when they were nervous and that with horns like that, they would feel confident walking into any room of the English Radio department at CBC, butting heads in style and impressing cultural programmers left and right.

But then, instead, I just heard back from Sarah who produces Wiretap with Jonathan Goldstein and she says that despite my sketchy and nervous interview this morning they would still like me to be their new intern! That is the coolest thing ever.

Along these lines, ever wondered what Jonathan Goldstein would sound like performing rather insulting spoken word over Sam Shalabi and his lute-like instrument? Well, he would sound something like this.