Sleepy City Podcast

Series produced by Liz McArthur

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Sleepy City is a podcast about micro cultures in Victoria, BC and the people who fit into them. Liz McArthur hosts, edits and produces the show and takes a playful approach to production and editing to bring a fresh, engaging sound to the stories featured in the podcast.

Sleepy City is a podcast about micro cultures in Victoria, BC and the people who fit into them. Liz McArthur hosts, edits and produces the show and takes a playful approach to production and editing to bring a fresh, engaging sound to the stories featured in the podcast.


5 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
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Brother Twelve ran a colony on Vancouver Island in the late 1920s. What started as a utopian community ended in pieces. This is a weird exploration...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 43:00
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The book Michelle Remembers helped fuel a Satanic Panic in the 1980s across North America. This episode of Sleepy City looks at the tale and how i...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2015
  • Length: 38:40
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In the early 90s, Bruce Saunders started a movie night at the Eric Martin Pavilion, the psychiatric ward of the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria....

  • Added: Oct 15, 2015
  • Length: 31:49
Caption: The mural painted in memory on the side of the Wildfire Bakery
In November 2014 a vibrant young artist named Zoe Cassidy killed himself, leaving a deep wound in the arts community he was a part of. In this epi...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2015
  • Length: 33:27
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Marijuana dispensaries in Victoria, BC occupy legal borderlands. Their very existence is contrary to the law of the land, but the law isn't crackin...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2015
  • Length: 27:51