Lorri Brewer on The Current

Lorri Brewer’s early CBC coverage is well enough supported to preserve as part of her media history, but not well enough preserved to invent an exact broadcast date or original episode URL. The surviving evidence specifically names CBC Radio’s The Current with Anna Maria Tremonti, while older LorriBrewer.com materials place Lorri’s first media period in 2012.

What we know

A later publisher biography for Lorri’s 2026 Our Paranormal Afterlife appearance states that her story and reflections attracted the attention of “the CBC radio talk show The Current, with host Anna Maria Tremonti” before Heaven Time was published.

A separate 2023 Spirit Switchboard publisher biography also lists The Current with Tremonti among Lorri’s earlier media appearances, alongside CBC National News and CBC Radio One with Mark Connolly. That second source is important because it suggests the CBC logo may represent more than one historical appearance rather than a single program.

What remains unknown

The original CBC episode page has not been recovered, and the available evidence does not support an exact broadcast day. The date remains 2012 rather than assigning a month or day that cannot be verified.

Lorri’s older website archive also preserved a photograph of her seated inside a CBC Radio studio with CBC Edmonton branding. That first-party artifact supports the broader history, but a photograph cannot by itself establish which program was being recorded on that day.

Near Heaven Time

Lorri’s archived site history says she first began speaking with media in 2012 following the period around the release of Heaven Time. The later publisher biography describes The Current coverage as occurring before publication.

The book was released in 2012, so the available evidence consistently places this CBC period near the beginning of Lorri’s public discussion of the near-death experience. Readers looking for the book-length account can continue to Heaven Time.

Evidence, not guesswork

The surviving record supports the CBC appearance, The Current, Anna Maria Tremonti and the year 2012. It does not support an exact broadcast day or original episode URL.

Early national coverage

The CBC appearance sits between Lorri’s 2010 NDERF submission and later interviews. It shows national radio interest in her story near the beginning of the public life of Heaven Time, more than a decade before the current podcast cycle. The surviving publisher biographies also place this appearance inside Lorri’s first period of media attention, before the larger archive of recent long-form interviews existed.