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Broomgate: A Curling Scandal

Broomgate: A Curling Scandal

By: CBC + USG Audio
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For years, players have been too afraid to talk about it. But now, the truth about a broom that almost destroyed curling is finally coming out.


Over the course of six episodes, semi-professional curler and fully professional comedian John Cullen (Blocked Party) is exposing the unbelievable, never-before-told scandal that rocked the sport of curling. Yes, curling.

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Episodes
  • Introducing Broomgate: A Curling Scandal

    Introducing Broomgate: A Curling Scandal
    Apr 25 2024

    A six-part series that tells the never-before-told story of how a broom almost killed curling. Featuring interviews with some of the biggest names in curling — and the men behind the infamous broom. Releasing May 6, 2024.
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    3 mins
  • E2: Magic Mike

    E2: Magic Mike
    May 6 2024

    Flush with an infusion of cash from investors the brothers behind the Hardline Curling company are ready to take their revolutionary curling broom into the world. Now all they need is to convince a bonafide superstar to use it. Enter Winnipeg’s Mike McEwen.
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    23 mins
  • E1: The Mystery Broom

    E1: The Mystery Broom
    May 6 2024

    It’s 2015 and we’re at the international Grand Slam of Curling, hosted in Paradise, Newfoundland. A team led by home crowd favourite Brad Gushue debuts a new and strikingly effective new technique. Instead of sweeping the way curlers always have with two brooms, they’re using only one. Within weeks, every competitive curling team on the planet would switch to this technique and the special broom that enabled it. It was the start of the biggest scandal in curling history.
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    27 mins
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