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Broomgate: A Curling Scandal

by CBC + USG Audio
Comedy

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    October 13, 2026 · 40 min

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  • EP 6: Broom to Broom

    June 27, 2024 · 29 min

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  • E5: Sweeping Summit

    May 27, 2024 · 33 min

    For as long as curling has been a game there was nothing in the rulebook about brooms, and so players had nowhere to turn when Broomgate hit. Tensions kept growing, and there were near blow ups and confrontations on-ice. What’s a World…

  • E4: Rumble at High Park

    May 20, 2024 · 30 min

    Another company, BalancePlus, decides to get into the broom modification game to challenge the Hardline broom. It all comes to a messy confrontation when teams go head to head at a 2015 bonspiel. The ice ends up shredded — and an emergency…

  • E3: The Chess Master

    May 13, 2024 · 24 min

    Some people say Brad Gushue, Olympic gold medalist and world title holder, plays the sport of curling with the strategy and cunning of a chess grandmaster. So when he starts losing to two particular teams, he takes a closer look at why and…

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  • E1: The Mystery Broom

    May 6, 2024 · 27 min

    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…

  • E2: Magic Mike

    May 6, 2024 · 23 min

    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…

  • Introducing Broomgate: A Curling Scandal

    April 25, 2024 · 3 min

    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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About the show

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.