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CBC Radio’s The Sunday Magazine is a lively, wide-ranging mix of topical long-form conversations, engaging ideas and more. Each week, host Piya Chattopadhyay takes time for deep exploration, but also makes space for surprise, delight and fun.
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Manitoba collision, The week in politics, Michelle Good, Art and representation, The search for extraterrestrial life from 2023-06-18T00:10
Guest host David Common speaks with CBC Senior Reporter Sam Samson about the latest on Thursday's deadly collision in southwestern Manitoba, Susan Delacourt and Matt Gurney break down the political...
ListenInequality and the 2020 U.S. election, Unguilty pleasures, Pandemic resilience, Storytelling in long-term care homes from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week on The Sunday Magazine with host Piya Chattopadhyay: • The battle between democracy and oligarchy in the 2020 U.S. election: Robert Reich • Embracing unguilty pleasures without fear: Ch...
ListenUnderstanding the nuances of the Latino vote, Sapiens reimagined as a graphic novel, the many facets of hope from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week on The Sunday Magazine with host Piya Chattopadhyay: • Maria Hinojosa shares the nuances that inform the Latino vote in the U.S. 2020 election • Yuval Noah Harari on his graphic adaptat...
ListenFacebook and election 2020, Raptors at 25, Word Processing, Viral birdsong, Nursing in the north from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week on The Sunday Magazine with host Piya Chattopadhyay: • The U.S. 2020 election, according to Facebook • The Toronto Raptors turn 25 • Word Processing: The election edition • A 'viral' ...
ListenVaccine transparency, Why we gather, Race and racism in the U.S. under Trump, An interracial romance in 1940s Missouri from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week on The Sunday Magazine with host Piya Chattopadhyay: • Matthew Herder on why Canadians deserve greater transparency from the federal government • Samuel Veissière explains why we gather...
ListenHow the pandemic impacts higher education, Benefits of boredom and waiting, Margaret MacMillan explores the paradoxes of war, novelist Yiyun Li on aging and the roles we play in each other's lives from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week on The Sunday Magazine with host Piya Chattopadhyay: • Brenda Austin-Smith on the cracks in Canada's higher education revealed by the pandemic • Peter Toohey on boredom and waiting — a ...
ListenPam Palmater on the throne speech, Charles Pascal delves into the role of public education, Word Processing with Ben Zimmer, Jessica J. Lee explores her family history, Francesca Ekwuyasi on food as its own language from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week on The Sunday Magazine with host Piya Chattopadhyay: • The throne speech and Indigenous relations with Pam Palmater • The purpose of public education in society with Charles Pascal • T...
ListenBob Rae, Stephen Lewis and the UN at 75, Remembering John Turner and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, A firsthand account of the U.S. wildfires, How the pandemic is transforming the bed from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week on The Sunday Magazine with host Piya Chattopadhyay: • Bob Rae and Stephen Lewis on the United Nations at 75 and Canada's place in the world • Remembering the lives of John Turner and R...
ListenA pandemic reordering society, Racist roots of common words, Vaccination in an interdependent world, Why we swim from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Sunday Magazine with Piya Chattopadhyay debuts today! • How the pandemic is reordering society • Word Processing • Vaccination, interdependence and the common good • Why We Swim For more, ...
ListenLatif Nasser and interconnectedness; a feast for migrant workers; Christopher Hitchens from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Listen to this week's episode with guest-host Kevin Sylvester: Latif Nasser explores the dizzying interconnectedness of things in our world: 00:29 A feast for the forgotten ones (reprise): 24:42 ...
ListenSara Seager, Letters for listeners; An unlikely musical partnership from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Listen to this week's episode with guest-host Kevin Sylvester: Searching for another Earth while putting down roots on this one: Letters from listeners: An unlikely musical partnership (reprise):
ListenIntroducing: Seat at the Table Season 2 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Longtime friends Martine St-Victor and Isabelle Racicot return for Season 2 of Seat at the Table with in-depth conversations with notable guests from media, sports and pop culture. They capture per...
ListenMLB and BLM, salary secrets and Joan Didion on grief from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Listen to this week's episode with guest-host Kevin Sylvester: Why Major League Baseball isn't doing enough to combat systemic racism: 00:29 We guard more secrets about salaries than about sex, a...
ListenOur relationships with work, the loss of the U.S. national party conventions, a down-to-earth diva from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Listen to this week's episode with guest-host Laurie Brown: How our relationships with work, others, and ourselves are inextricably linked: 00:29 Why we shouldn't mourn the loss of the U.S. natio...
ListenMusic during a pandemic and the movement for racial justice, Aislinn Hunter on witnessing, Brian Brett and a remarkable 25-year friendship from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Listen to this week's episode with guest-host Laurie Brown: How musicians are responding to this moment in a time when live music isn't happening: 00:29 Canadian writer Aislinn Hunter on grief, w...
ListenIn conversation with Noor Naga, Murray Sinclair, Naomi Klein from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Listen to this week's episode with guest-host Elamin Abdelmahmoud: Noor Naga on why mistresses should be Muslim too: 00:30 Senator Murray Sinclair says dismantling systemic racism will be a long ...
ListenAnne Applebaum's new book, COVID-19 in Kingston, Thelma Pepper from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Listen to this week's episode with guest-host Elamin Abdelmahmoud: How Anne Applebaum's former friends became her populist adversaries: 00:00:29:742 Why Kingston, Ont., is a rare pandemic success...
ListenThinking about fungi differently; passports in the time of COVID-19; Anne Carson's poetry from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Listen to The Sunday Edition with guest host Kevin Sylvester: How fungi make life as we know it possible: 00:00:29:274 COVID-19 is changing the value of passports: 00:25:48:738 The catastrophic ...
ListenHong Kong security law; the ethics of journalism; Dick Cavett from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Listen to this week's episode with guest-host Anthony Germain: Hong Kong’s democracy in peril and its people at a crossroads: 00:30 Is objectivity an outmoded value in journalism? 21:20 A radio ...
ListenNewfoundland and Labrador's fiscal crisis; lessons from the two world wars; Pete Seeger from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Listen to this week's episode with guest-host Anthony Germain: The Rock in a hard place: 38:945 A better tomorrow or back to normal? 21:38 The bard of protest, Pete Seeger (reprise): 44:05
ListenMichael Enright's final episode as host: a look back at the past 20 years; the world's transformation; an exit interview; audio postcards; and Michael's final essay from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week, a very special program — Michael Enright’s last as host of The Sunday Edition, a position he has held for 20 years. To mark the close of this latest and longest chapter in his storied ca...
ListenConfinement chronicle; Martha Friendly; Mary Hiester Reid on childcare; Anita Hill (reprise); Richard Ford's new book; only Canadian who met Beethoven from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Listen to this week's episode with host Michael Enright: A COVID-19 confinement chronicle: week 14 — Michael's essay: 0:39 A national childcare strategy will be a lynchpin of our economic recov...
ListenConfinement chronicle; Police reform; Joseph Stiglitz; Tantramar Marsh; Socially-distanced square dancing; Procrastination; Mamma in the Mirror from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A COVID-19 confinement chronicle: week 13 — Michael's essay: 0:39 Police reform, the case for defunding, and the obstacles to both: 5:18 A Nobel laureate on reviving the global economy after th...
ListenRacism and police brutality in America and Canada; Rutger Bregman on the kinder, gentler species; Modern Monetary Theory; Sourdough Sabbath; Sunday School from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Listen to this week's episode with host Michael Enright: Michael’s Essay — America’s reckoning with racism and police brutality: 0:40 The Fire This Time — A one-hour special on racism and police ...
ListenCOVID chronicle; Fighting Amazon; Year of the balcony; Zimbabweans in Falkland Islands; Improving hospital food; Wedding bells during a pandemic; Larry Kramer; David at the Banya; Icelandic Corner from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Listen to this week's episode with host Michael Enright: A COVID-19 confinement chronicle: week 11 — Michael's essay: 0:38 Fighting Amazon’s dominance to protect local economies and neighbourhood...
ListenMichael Enright leaving The Sunday Edition to host new CBC Radio program from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Award-winning broadcaster Michael Enright is leaving The Sunday Edition after 20 seasons of hosting the current affairs radio show to host a new program on CBC Radio.
ListenCOVID-19 chronicle; Anne Enright's latest novel Actress; the New School; economy and COVID-19; Eric Hoffer and The True Believer; Emily Dickinson from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Listen to this week's episode with host Michael Enright: A COVID-19 confinement chronicle: week ten — Michael's essay: 0:38 Anne Enright's latest novel Actress is imbued with mother-daughter dyna...
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