The Sunday Edition from CBC Radio (Highlights)
Summary: CBC Radio's The Sunday Edition is a lively three-hour program of conversation, documentaries and music. Michael Enright, an accomplished journalist and broadcaster, is the host and tackles everything from politics to pop culture, in Canada and around the world.
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Podcasts:
Michael's Essay: Getting used to the threat of nuclear war again;Yair Rosenberg on truth and bias in Gaza; Sabreena Delhon's essay "Yuppie", Panel on homeless youth in Canada; Donald Schaffner on food safety and debunking the 5-second rule; Professor Robert Frank on luck's influence on gaining wealth; Jennifer Chrumka’s Sisters of St. Anne documentary.
Michael's Essay: Racial profiling and stereotypes; Jagmeet Singh on dousing fires in his NDP caucus; Singing the Heavenly Music of 18th Century Quebec Nuns; Documentary: Table Stakes; late author Tom Wolfe on the foundation of fiction; scholar Cheryl Wall and writer Edwidge Danticat on the late author Zora Neale Hurston.
Michael’s Essay: Ford turns its back on the family sedan (38 secs); MSNBC's Ali Velshi on the Canadian perspective of Trump (5:32); Promo for Zora Neale Hurston (36:32); Documentary: Her Mother’s Threads (43:37); Dr. Iris Gorfinkel on price of prescription drugs (1:08:05); Ken Whyte on publishing (1:22:17); Essay: Life Lessons (1:50:31).
Journalist Mary Beth Pfeiffer on the emerging lyme disease epidemic; Henk Ovink on flooding; Curtis Barlow’s essay on artist Sylvie Barcelo; Clemantine Wamariya on escaping Rwanda’s genocide in her new book; Tania and Martina Halik embark on a 2300 kilometre mountain hike in new documentary; Lawyer Paula Mallea on reducing Canada’s prison system.
Intro (11 secs); Michael's essay: The horror of mass murder by vehicle comes to Toronto (39 secs); A primer on the Kinder Morgan pipeline (6:24); Mail: handkerchiefs (37:08); Documentary: Women Behind the Wheel (45:09); How “post-truth” entered the political mainstream (1:06:12); Beverley McLachlin’s journey from top judge to crime novelist (1:34:20); Dirge Without Music (2:00:39).
Michael’s essay: Re-thinking our relationship with animals (30 secs); Jennifer Robson on micro-data (5:22); Essay on handkerchiefs (33:36); Doc: From the roof to table (40:11); Listener mail on libraries (58:38); Sister Nora Nash on corporations (1:06:09); Author David Grossman (1:26:59)
Michael’s essay: In praise of librarians (39 secs); Paul Rogers on Syria (4:58); Listener mail on Indigenous business (31:17); Doc: Drug Court (37:20); Listener mail on PhDs quitting academia (1:10:59); Yascha Mounk on liberal democracy (1:21:49); Doc: Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1:53:04)
Michael’s essay (39 secs); Indigenous business (4:50); Essay: 'The Train, Re-Taken' (36:03); Doc: PhDs who quit (42:28); Reaction to our April Fools' interview (1:14:52); Jo Fox on rumours (1:27:14); Joanne Lipman on 'unconscious bias' (1:54:12)
Michael's essay (39 secs); Pino Coluccio (5:14); Essay: Women's friendships (27:00); John Cacioppo on loneliness (34:36); Gender-bending Shakespeare (53:23)
Michael's essay: 'Testilying' (37 secs); Mexican repatriation (4:51); Listener mail (33:00); Doc: The Last Hare (37:28); Listener mail (57:42); Self-represented litigants (1:04:59); Maggie O'Farrell (1:30:07); Doc: Young Philosophers (2:02:24)
Michael's essay (39 secs); Catherine McKenna (4:11); How to generate unique, strong passwords (37:54); Doc: Just Notes and Rhythms (45:28); Convict criminology (1:03:37); Think Again: Origin of hockey (1:32:47); Listener mail (1:45:30); New Indigenous law program (1:53:29)
Michael's essay (33 secs); Gordon Ritchie (4:58); Sarah Polley and #MeToo (34:01); Doc: 'Just Watch Me' (39:38); Listener mail (1:14:30); Lessons from the Spanish Flu (1:22:15); Marty Baron (1:44:15)
Michael's essay on the NRA (36 secs); Peter Herrndorf (5:00); Listener mail on curling (42:43); Political panel on Ontario PCs (48:02); Doc: 'The Call of the Yodel' (1:14:14); Bob Rae on the Rohingya crisis (1:36:02); Canadian Blood Services CEO (2:00:53)
Michael's essay (39 secs); Left and right politics (4:53); Trump vs. FBI (42:13); Listener mail (1:14:47); Doc: 'Life Lessons' (1:21:03); Paying Canadians for plasma (1:40:27); Appalachian folk singer (2:08:43)
Michael's essay (39 secs); Panel on juries (5:25); Doc: 'Guilty Pleasure' (35:57); Colum McCann (59:01); Migrant workers and #MeToo (1:24:09); Doc: 'On this rock' (1:51:24)