Midweek
The Radio Show
About
Midweek is a production of the Carleton University School of Journalism and Communication in Ottawa, Canada. The Midweek team’s members are journalism students in the senior years of our School’s bachelor and master of journalism programs. Most groups total about 16, and their members come from across the country and often from abroad as well. Midweek teams do nine on-air shows each, in either the Fall or Winter terms of the academic year.
Midweek’s studios are located at The School of Journalism and Communication in Richcraft Hall on Carleton’s campus, and our shows are transmitted by CKCU 93.1 FM, the campus and community radio station based at Carleton. You can listen to us live online most Wednesdays during the university’s Fall and Winter academic terms: We’re on CKCU-FM after the BBC News at noon. The shows and podcasts posted here have had all their music taken out because of copyright issues, so to get the full “Midweek” experience, tune in to CKCU!
Many Midweek alums show up every day on your radio, TV or other screens — famous folks who got their starts right here on Midweek at Carleton and others you may not have heard of who are still out there serving their communities in a wide range of ways.
Our Team: Winter 2025
The instructor and senior producer for Midweek is associate professor Nana aba Duncan. The TA and associate producer is Martin Halek. The technical producer is David Sarazin. Roger Martin is our web designer and the School’s IT coordinator.

Martin Halek, TA
Martin Halek is a radio journalist, newsreader, and Carleton grad (now grad student) who loves stories about science and nature. |

Nadia Al-Zanbouri
Nadia Al-Zanbouri is a journalist with an interest in covering culture, music and politics. |

Jessica Campbell
Jessica Campbell is a fourth-year journalism student with a passion for covering stories about politics, culture and social justice. |

Jayden Dill (he/him)
Jayden is a fourth-year journalism and political science major who works part-time at the Toronto Star and is the Chair of Carleton University’s student newspaper. |

Janson Duench
Janson Duench is a fourth-year journalism and humanities student with interests in sports, culture, business, architecture and design. |

Kathryn Fraser
Kathryn Fraser is a fourth-year journalism student who enjoys reporting on local stories with a passion for radio. |

Bo-Ning Gao
Bo-Ning Gao is an upper-year student in the Master of Journalism program at Carleton University. |

Jesmeen Gill
Jesmeen Gill is in her fourth year of journalism in the health science concentration, and she enjoys longform investigative journalism. |

Sarah Hirsi
Sarah Hirsi is a fourth-year journalism student with a minor in sociology—she loves telling stories through audio, and cares deeply about culture, justice and climate change. |

Noureen Moghadam
Noureen Moghadam is a fourth-year journalism student at Carleton University who enjoys listening to music and reading Jane Austen books in her spare time. |
Julien Brombach
Julien enjoys connecting people and ideas, both as an upcoming journalist and as a true team player. |

Hannah Daramola
Hannah is a fourth year journalism student with a minor in communications and media studies—she enjoys writing community-focused stories. |
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Archives
Listen to our shows before Fall 2024
Midweek for March 26, 2025
Our second last show! We began looking forward with Prime Minister Mark Carney’s election call and ended looking back with Ottawa’s Nostalgia and Collectible Show. In between, we heard about the last 10 sacred days of Ramadan, the Global Day for Epilepsy Awareness — also known as Purple Day — and a historic first U Sports national championship win for...
Midweek for March 19, 2025
The ground may have been shaking this week, but our team stayed sure and steady as ever! Our first story took us far from home, with newly-minted Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to Nunavut and what the new leader might mean for Indigenous Peoples across Canada. Taking us back to the Ottawa Valley were three stories of people coming together:...
Midweek for March 12, 2025
This show was recorded in front of a live studio audience! More on that later. Show 7 started with its elbows up—a documentary about a hundreds-strong protest on Parliament Hill rallying against American annexation threats and tariffs. Then, a sit-down with 2025’s Kesterton speaker, Shireen Ahmed, the first sports journalist to deliver the lecture. Rounding out the first set: a...
Midweek for March 5, 2025
It was our 6th of 9 shows this term. After an update on the mercurial U.S.-Canada tariff situation, we heard a documentary from reporter Janson Duench on Carleton University’s Ravens women’s basketball team’s defeat against Toronto Metropolitan University’s Bold, which took them to this year’s USports National Championship. Sarah Hirsi’s documentary shared the Ramadan experience at Ottawa restaurants and cafés which...
Midweek for Feb. 26, 2025
Every week, the Midweek team relies on the newsroom printer to deliver multiple copies of the script for the entire one-hour show. Every story, every word, every studio direction for the week’s 60-minute production printed on several reams of paper must be given to the hosts, show producer, music producer and Dave Sarazin who operates the studio, well before airtime....
Midweek for Feb. 12, 2025
This Midweek, listeners got a live city council update on transitional shelters, a sit-down conversation about the state of policing in Ottawa, the NCR's newest winter music attraction, and more!
Midweek for Feb. 5, 2025
This Midweek: arts and culture galore! Featuring plays, anthem-booing, bookmaking, and more.
Midweek for Jan. 29, 2025
Midweek returned to air on Jan. 29, 2025 for the Winter 2025 season. Stories included tariffs, world records, arts programming at home and abroad, and community outreach.
Midweek for Nov. 27, 2024 Season Finale
Midweek Fall 2024 has come to an end! It has been such an amazing semester with our wonderful reporting team. Tune into our last show on the Carleton SJC SoundCloud!
Midweek for Nov. 20, 2024
Today on Midweek; a stolen portrait of Winston Churchill was returned to its home in the Chateau Laurier, the Ottawa Public Library is extending its hours of operation at rural branches in 2025, and Santa Clause Parade celebrations. Tune into Midweek for more!
Midweek for Nov. 13, 2024
Today on Midweek, Canada post workers are issuing a strike notice, Remembrance Day celebrations ensue, and Carleton basketball is on a hot streak. All that and more, on Midweek.
Midweek for Nov. 6, 2024
The entire Midweek team is back in action this week, delivering a jam-packed show. Tune into Midweek on CKCU-FM for more!