The Sunday Magazine

The Sunday Magazine

37 episodes

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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That's Puzzling! for January 2024

Published: Jan. 10, 2024, 8:10 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 45 seconds

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Rising tensions in the Middle East, That's Puzzling!, Economic Outlook, Maya Shankar

Published: Jan. 7, 2024, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 27 seconds

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For 100 years, this Mickey Mouse operation has thrived. Is Disney now losing its magic?

Published: Jan. 3, 2024, 8:10 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 11 seconds

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The year in global affairs, Disney at 100, Susan Orlean, Ed Yong

Published: Dec. 31, 2023, 3:10 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 42 seconds

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Oliver Jeffers shares his vibrant visions of a better tomorrow

Published: Dec. 27, 2023, 8:10 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 36 seconds

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Paul Rogers, Oliver Jeffers, Marion Nestle, Yotam Ottolenghi

Published: Dec. 24, 2023, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 32 seconds

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Protactile communication is 'reinventing everything,' says deafblind poet

Published: Dec. 20, 2023, 8:10 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 35 seconds

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Sunday Politics Panel: Dec 17, John Lee Clark,Whats next for the war in Ukraine, Taylor Lorenz, AITA at 10 years

Published: Dec. 17, 2023, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 21 seconds

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Adventures in Whiskyland

Published: Dec. 13, 2023, 8:10 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 15 seconds

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American influence amid crises, Adventures in Whiskyland, Emmanuel Jal, Riffing on 'rizz', COP and Shohei Ohtani

Published: Dec. 10, 2023, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 26 seconds

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Thats Puzzling! for December 2023

Published: Dec. 6, 2023, 8:10 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 10 seconds

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Humanitarian crisis in Gaza, The future of the Israel-Hamas war, That's Puzzling!, Maria Ressa

Published: Dec. 3, 2023, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 51 seconds

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Tomson Highway wants us to laugh through dark times

Published: Nov. 29, 2023, 8:10 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 24 seconds

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Israel-Hamas temporary ceasefire, Tomson Highway, Online shopping, COP28, The rise of tokens

Published: Nov. 26, 2023, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 2 seconds

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Runner Caster Semenya says she's not done fighting for the right to compete

Published: Nov. 22, 2023, 8:10 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 46 seconds

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Getting out of Gaza, Jay Ingram, Caster Semenya, Combatting antisemitism and Islamophobia

Published: Nov. 19, 2023, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 37 seconds

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'I'm certainly not a diva': Barbra Streisand wants to set the record straight

Published: Nov. 15, 2023, 8:10 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 11 seconds

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Barbra Streisand, Israel-Hamas war, Kent Monkman, Canadian peacekeepers in Vietnam

Published: Nov. 12, 2023, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 29 seconds

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Thats Puzzling! for November 2023

Published: Nov. 8, 2023, 8:10 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 25 seconds

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The week in politics, Amy Schneider, Qatar and the Israel-Hamas war, That's Puzzling!

Published: Nov. 5, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 10 seconds

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Historian Mary Beard finds lessons for our modern world in the Roman Empire

Published: Nov. 1, 2023, 7:10 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 6 seconds

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Israel-Hamas war, Indigenous identity, Mary Beard, Errol Morris

Published: Oct. 29, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 6 seconds

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The true story behind Killers of the Flower Moon

Published: Oct. 25, 2023, 7:10 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 11 seconds

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Healthcare crisis in Gaza, Zadie Smith, Grief among Israelis and Palestinians, Killers of the Flower Moon

Published: Oct. 22, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 6 seconds

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Viet Thanh Nguyen rewrites our narrative of war stories

Published: Oct. 18, 2023, 7:10 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 38 seconds

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The latest in Gaza and Israel, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Canadian Jewish and Palestinian communities, Teaching kids to read

Published: Oct. 15, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 51 seconds

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Thats Puzzling! for October 2023

Published: Oct. 11, 2023, 7:10 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 39 seconds

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Understanding the Hamas attack on Israel, John Ibbitson, Thats Puzzling!, Mnoomin

Published: Oct. 8, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 58 seconds

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Alicia Elliott on fiction, motherhood and mental illness

Published: Oct. 4, 2023, 7:10 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 32 seconds

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Irwin Cotler, Alicia Elliott, Notwithstanding clause, Science denialism, Caitlin Moran

Published: Oct. 1, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 28 seconds

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How Canada's hockey dad finds joy in a sport divided by controversy

Published: Sept. 27, 2023, 7:10 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 36 seconds

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Canada-India Tensions, Karl Subban, IPCC chair Jim Skea, Longtermism

Published: Sept. 24, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 49 seconds

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Naomi Klein on conspiracy culture and confronting our doppelgangers

Published: Sept. 20, 2023, 7:10 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 4 seconds

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Climate protests, Edward Burtynsky, Naomi Klein, Vogue Ukraine's wartime pivot

Published: Sept. 17, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 26 seconds

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Sunday Politics Panel, katherena vermette, Catherine Tait, That's Puzzling!

Published: Sept. 10, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 31 seconds

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Why making mistakes can help make your career

Published: Sept. 6, 2023, 7:10 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 30 seconds

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How to be an adult, Jerry Saltz, Terry O'Reilly, A Canadian musical mystery

Published: Sept. 3, 2023, 2:10 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes

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How 'Doom' creator John Romero shaped video games and culture at large

Published: Aug. 30, 2023, 7:10 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 38 seconds

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Canada's housing crisis, John Romero, The legacy of Pat John, Temple Grandin

Published: Aug. 27, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 40 seconds

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Frances Haugen says its time for accountability from tech giants

Published: Aug. 23, 2023, 7:10 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 47 seconds

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Are the radical roots of plant-based eating erased when meatless cuisine goes mainstream?

Published: Aug. 16, 2023, 7:10 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 9 seconds

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Environmentalist Bill McKibben, politics of plant-based eating, Taylor and Ticketmaster, Goodreads, Bianca Andreescu

Published: Aug. 13, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 21 seconds

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How navigating vision loss gave one man a new view of blindness

Published: Aug. 9, 2023, 7:10 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 29 seconds

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Trump's indictment, A journey through vision loss, Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar, Anti-Black racism in North America

Published: Aug. 6, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 1 second

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These 'tenacious beasts' are clawing their way back from extinction

Published: Aug. 2, 2023, 7:10 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 6 seconds

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Justin Trudeau's cabinet shuffle, Wildlife recovery, Mapping the ocean floor, Christine Sinclair

Published: July 30, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 21 seconds

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Hitting the brakes on the notion that travel transforms us

Published: July 26, 2023, 7:10 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 25 seconds

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Extreme heat, The history of ice, A case against travel, Barbie's feminist roots, Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hutz

Published: July 23, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes 51 seconds

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Relishing the cultural and historical impact of hot dogs with Jamie Loftus

Published: July 19, 2023, 7:10 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 34 seconds

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Mayor Olivia Chow, How hotdogs impact culture, Jacob Mikanowski, Beverly Glen-Copeland, 40 years of the Dream in High Park

Published: July 16, 2023, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 6 seconds

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Buffy Sainte-Marie turns 80, Funerals during a pandemic, Evolution of email language, An anatomy of pain

Published: Feb. 21, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 24 seconds

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Social media and democracy, Indigenous economies, Travelling While Black, the magic and mystery of the human voice

Published: Feb. 7, 2021, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 55 seconds

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Physician burnout, the so-called ‘Psychedelic Renaissance,' Author Danielle Evans, KKK in Canada

Published: Nov. 22, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 32 seconds

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MAID in prisons, Peter Mansbridge, Strongmen, William Prince

Published: Nov. 15, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 27 seconds

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A country divided, Building trust before treatment, a decade-long nose dive into the world of smells

Published: Nov. 8, 2020, 5:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 39 seconds

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Inequality and the 2020 U.S. election, Unguilty pleasures, Pandemic resilience, Storytelling in long-term care homes

Published: Nov. 1, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 41 seconds

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Understanding the nuances of the Latino vote, Sapiens reimagined as a graphic novel, the many facets of hope

Published: Oct. 25, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 24 seconds

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Facebook and election 2020, Raptors at 25, Word Processing, Viral birdsong, Nursing in the north

Published: Oct. 18, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 52 seconds

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Vaccine transparency, Why we gather, Race and racism in the U.S. under Trump, An interracial romance in 1940s Missouri

Published: Oct. 11, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 16 seconds

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A pandemic reordering society, Racist roots of common words, Vaccination in an interdependent world, Why we swim

Published: Sept. 13, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 32 seconds

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Latif Nasser and interconnectedness; a feast for migrant workers; Christopher Hitchens

Published: Sept. 6, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 48 seconds

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Sara Seager, Letters for listeners; An unlikely musical partnership

Published: Aug. 28, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 1 second

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Introducing: Seat at the Table Season 2

Published: Aug. 27, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 9 seconds

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MLB and BLM, salary secrets and Joan Didion on grief

Published: Aug. 21, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 57 seconds

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Our relationships with work, the loss of the U.S. national party conventions, a down-to-earth diva

Published: Aug. 14, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 42 seconds

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In conversation with Noor Naga, Murray Sinclair, Naomi Klein

Published: July 31, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 10 seconds

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Anne Applebaum's new book, COVID-19 in Kingston, Thelma Pepper

Published: July 24, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 58 seconds

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Thinking about fungi differently; passports in the time of COVID-19; Anne Carson's poetry

Published: July 17, 2020, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 53 seconds

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