The Sunday Edition from CBC Radio (Highlights)

Michael's essay on the Ecstasy of Xmas concerts; A look at Grimm's Fairy tales; Frank Faulk's documentary about The Testament of Mary; Listener Mail on Shootings, Xmas consumerism

Unchanging gun culture in the US; The dark side of charitable gift giving; prospects for peace in the Middle East; Newfoundlanders love for Balogna; A memorial to Vancouver's missing women: Rawi Hage, An essay on Friendship; Chinese massacre

What the world thinks of Toronto's (in)famous mayor; Young adults who grew up in some of Toronto's toughest neighbourhoods; English conductor Andrew Davis talks discusses his long career; Mail on "rape of Nanking"

Andrew Solomon on his new book, Far From the Tree, which explores identity and disability; Brenda's Angel, a documentary about the daughter of a woman who died on Robert Pickton's pig farm. British aristocrat Vita Sackville-West's little-know judicial car

Human rights implications of guaranteeing equal access to a good haircut; Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page; Documentary on fighting bullies; A humorous touch to US affairs; Graphic Novels; Author of "The Monkey Ranch";

Parliamentary Budget Officer on his ongoing fights with the government over his work.

Pat Barker on Toby's Room; Canadian veterans of the Spanish Civil War; Jim Wallis on the U.S. election; Deborah Lipstadt on Adolf Eichmann's trial; Bernd Horne, Desmond Morton and Lora Senechal Carney on courage

U.S. Election special; Avis Jones-DeWeever and Norman Ornstein on partisans and the US Presidency; Gary Segura and Valerie Martinez-Ebers on the importance of the Latino vote; Kathleen Dolan on the voting gender gap; Kathleen Hall Jamieson on polling and

Wind Farms documentary "Windfall" by Paige Ellis; interview with wind engineering specialist John Twidell of Britain; Mail about interview with Cardinal Thomas Collins; Jim Blight author of Armageddon Letters; Essay by Paula Dunning about Cuban Missile Cr

Essay on unplug tech toys at school; Cardinal Thomas Collins; Sunday School on Algorithms; Doc Baba Yaga's House; Mail on Raylene Rankin and the UN; One hour special "The Great Weight Debate"

Doc The Whale's Choice; mail on Glenn Gould, John Major and Sunday School; political strategy from Cicero; mail on park benches; essay on parenting and pets by Ken Dafoe; Jeffrey Toobin; Rachel Joyce.

Michael Enright presents his latest essay: an interview with former Brithish Prime Minister John Major the author of My Old Man, a personal history of music hall: Sunday School "Lost and Found": John Chipman's documentary Four Days in April about the 1971

Michael Enright presents his latest essay: an inteverview former Brithish Prime Minister John Major the author of My Old Man, a personal history of music hall: Sunday School "Lost and Found": John Chipman's documentary Four Days in April about the 1971 Kingston prison riot: an inteview with Howard Sapers the Correctional Investigator of Canada, an ombudsman for prisoner complaints.

Michael's essay on the perils of ideology: The case for buying and selling donor organs: Listener Mail on hy should high schools teach algebra to all?: A Documentary on how a transgender woman broke the news of her past: Teaching philosophy to children: L

A tribute to the late Peter Lougheed, former Premier of Alberta: Conversation with David Carr, media and culture critic for The New York Times: Documentary about Denmark’s restrictive immigration laws: “Sunday School” lesson on German pronunciation: M