Quirks & Quarks

Quirks & Quarks

Other names	Quirks
Genre	Science news
Running time	ca. 54 min.
Country of origin	Canada
Language(s)	English
Home station	CBC Radio One
Hosted by	Bob McDonald
Produced by	Mark Crawley, Sonya Buyting, Amanda Buckiewicz
Executive producer(s)	Anita Gordon; Ira Basen; Ann Stewart; Jim Handman; Nick McCabe-Lokos; Jim Lebans (current)
Recording studio	Toronto, Ontario
Original release	October 8, 1975 – present
Audio format	Monophonic
Website	www.cbc.ca/quirks
Podcast	Podcast

Quirks & Quarks is a Canadian science news program, heard over CBC Radio One of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Created by CBC Producer Diana Filer ^[1] and airing since October 8, 1975, Quirks & Quarks is consistently rated among the most popular CBC programs, attracting over 800,000 listeners each Saturday from 12:06 to 13:00.^[2] The show is also heard on Sirius Satellite Radio and some American public radio stations. The show consists of several segments each week, most of which involve the host interviewing a scientist about a recent discovery or publication, combined with in-depth documentaries; however, from time to time the show does a special "Question Show" episode, during which the format consists of scientists answering questions submitted by listeners.

Quirks & Quarks has offered listeners Internet audio streams and MP3 downloads on its web page since 1993. The MP3 audio files have been archived on the program web site, going back to Sept. 2006. In 2005, Quirks became the first major CBC show available as a podcast. Since the program began, it has won more than 80 national and international journalism awards, including the prestigious Walter Sullivan Award (twice) and the Science Writing Award from the American Institute of Physics (twice).^[3]

In the mid-2000s, the CBC began repackaging episodes of Quirks & Quarks into podcast segments.^[4] On November 28, 2006, the Quirks & Quarks podcast was one of the top 10 downloads on the iTunes podcast chart.^[5]

Hosts

1975–1979: David Suzuki
1979–1991: Jay Ingram
1992: David Mowbray
1992–present: Bob McDonald

Suzuki went on to host CBC Television's The Nature of Things. Ingram left to become founding host of Discovery Channel Canada's nightly science-news program @discovery.ca. Mowbray hosted for four months and then left to make documentary films about science in international development.^[6] McDonald came to Quirks from having hosted CBC Television's children's science program Wonderstruck.^[7]

References

^ "Science Fiction As Prophecy". CBC. July 28, 2016.
^ "CBC Radio : Quirks & Quarks : About the Show". CBC Radio. Archived from the original on 2008-06-24. Retrieved 2008-10-14.
^ "Quirks & Quarks Awards". CBC.
^ Gill, Alexandra (March 23, 2005). "Radio blogs get great reception". The Globe and Mail (Toronto, Ontario). p. R.3. ProQuest 383724811.
^ Powell, Chris (December 4, 2006). "Pod pitch". Marketing. 111 (37): 6. ProQuest 227208177.
^ "Mowbray leaving Quirks and Quarks". Canadian Press. June 29, 1992.
^ Siddiqui, Tabassum (December 7, 2005). "Quirks & Quarks is 30: Host says science 'ingrained in lives' more than ever". Canadian Press Newswire.

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