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 career as a journalist and broadcaster, Michael will be joined by guests who have become friends of the program. The decades-long battle to achieve fairness for Indigenous kids in Canada: Cindy Blackstok: 0:37 Our turbulent times and hope for the future: Paul Rogers 16:37 Canada’s First Lady of Literature: Margaret Atwood: 33:40 How the pandemic has changed our lives: Adam Gopnik: 48:30 Peter Brown Skit 1:09:37 Turning the tables: Michael’s exit interview with Matt Galloway 1:14:37 Our “Man About Music”: Robert Harris 1:31:02 Goodbye messages from listeners: 1:46:59 Goodbye messages from friends of the show: 1:59:00 A lifelong obsession with radio and 20 years of The Sunday Edition — Michael’s essay: 2:18:24

The Sunday Edition from CBC Radio (Highlights)

Michael 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

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 recovery: 5:36 A revolutionary artist in traditionalist garb: 36:26 'For them it was just politics and it was a game': Anita Hill (reprise): 1:02:24 Richard Ford, the art of short fiction and the state of America: 1:24:37 The only Canadian to meet Beethoven: 1:51:13

Confinement chronicle; Martha Friendly; Mary Hiester Reid on childcare; Anita Hill (reprise); Richard Ford's new book; only Canadian who met Beethoven

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 the COVID-19 shutdown: 43:52 An inspiration for artists and poets, the Tantramar Marsh is under threat: 1:09:19 Bill Richardson and the pandemic version of the "Safety Dance": 1:30:20 There's a reason we procrastinate and it's not laziness: 1:37:06 Documentary: Mamma in the Mirror (reprise): 2:00:54

Confinement chronicle; Police reform; Joseph Stiglitz; Tantramar Marsh; Socially-distanced square dancing; Procrastination; Mamma in the Mirror

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 brutality in America: 5:35 How the spectacle of U.S. racism allows Canada to overlook its own: 46:52 Are humans really a kinder, gentler species? 54:56 Where’s the money coming from? 1:32:47 Sourdough Sabbath: 2:09:49 Sunday School — The dark art of the two-fingered whistle (reprise): 2:16:58

Racism and police brutality in America and Canada; Rutger Bregman on the kinder, gentler species; Modern Monetary Theory; Sourdough Sabbath; Sunday School

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 neighbourhoods: 6:26 2020 — The year of the balcony: 35:50 Zimbabweans finishing the last battle of the Falkland Islands War: 43:56 Why hospital food is so bad and how we can make it better: 59:23 Wedding bell blues in the age of COVID: 1:31:22 Remembering Larry Kramer (reprise): 1:36:30 The day that David Gutnick got a sore throat and went to a Russian steam bath (reprise): 1:58:30 Icelandic Corner — Pufflings (reprise): 2:08:30

COVID 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

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.

Michael Enright leaving The Sunday Edition to host new CBC Radio program

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 dynamics: 04:53 Stream, announce, assign, post, comment — Sam Heffer learns to teach from a distance: 31:52 To rebuild the economy after COVID-19, we'll need more government, not less: 39:29 Why Eric Hoffer was so wary of "followers": 1:07:50 Beauty, death, nature and the soul — Emily Dickinson for the 21st century: 1:28:17

COVID-19 chronicle; Anne Enright's latest novel Actress; the New School; economy and COVID-19; Eric Hoffer and The True Believer; Emily Dickinson

Listen to this week's episode with host Michael Enright: A COVID-19 confinement chronicle: week nine — Michael's essay: 0:40 Charles Taylor on what the pandemic has revealed about us and the path forward: 5:45 A new appreciation for freedom and privilege: 32:20 Music from balconies bridging communities: 40:19 How the pandemic has laid bare food insecurity: 57:52 A Winnipeg mom on life without the joys of baseball: 1:24:00 1-across and 2-down — the history and mysteries of the crossword puzzle: 1:31:12

Confinement chronicle; Charles Taylor on the path forward; pondering freedom and privilege; balcony concert bridges divide; the pandemic and food security; crossword puzzles; remembering Little Richard

Listen to this week's episode with host Michael Enright: A COVID-19 confinement chronicle: week eight — Michael's essay: 0:37 Developing a COVID-19 vaccine for all: 4:21 A very different kind of Mother’s Day in the pandemic year: 30:32 About to take their place in a world that's utterly changed: 42:47 Solitude — the “sad nurse of care”: 1:06:17  Bill Richardson ponders essential work: 1:26:49 A Newfoundland hair stylist offers empathy and advice during COVID-19: 1:33:54 Unlocking the mysteries of MBS, the presumptive king of Saudi Arabia: 1:38:58 Dame Vera Lynn (reprise): 2:08:54

COVID-19 chronicle; Vaccines; a different type of Mother’s Day; the Class of 2020; Solitude; pondering essential work; hair stylist offers empathy and advice; unlocking the mysteries of MBS; Dame Vera Lynn

Listen to this week's episode with host Michael Enright: A COVID-19 confinement chronicle: week seven — Michael's essay: 0:38 Grieving for the dead and caring for those left behind during the pandemic: 5:34 Living with anxiety and panic — before the pandemic: 34:57 Managing a public health emergency and moving beyond left, right and centre: 42:27 Delivering a better deal for restaurants and food couriers: 1:05:56 A mother's story of mourning in isolation: 1:18:07 Calls are down to women's shelters in the pandemic, and it's not good news: 1:25:38 Some people don't know what they don't know (reprise): 1:43:55 Pandemic reading, Part 3: 2:07:11

Confinement chronicle; Mourning without rituals; The Wave; Managing a public health emergency; A New Entrée; A mother's story of mourning; Women's shelters amidst COVID-19; Pandemic reading recommendations

Listen to this week's episode with host Michael Enright: A COVID-19 confinement chronicle: week six — Michael's essay on the N.S. tragedy: 0:37 Pat Armstrong on long-term care in Canada: 4:38 Two Nova Scotians reflect on an unthinkable tragedy: 32:51 Pandemic crisis management where crisis is a constant: 39:01 Amir Attarn on reforming the WHO: 51:21 Mending the world one torn garment at a time: 1:17:47 A Canadian Nobel laureate's quest to build a better ventilator: 1:30:50 Remembering Jean Little: 1:55:17

Tragedy in Nova Scotia; long-term care in Canada; supporting Ottawa's homeless; Amir Attaran on WHO; visible mending; making more ventilators; Jean Little

Listen to this week's episode with host Michael Enright:  A COVID-19 confinement chronicle: week five — Michael's essay: 0:38 Preventing surveillance and invasions of privacy from becoming normalized: 5:07 Sisters in isolation: 36:11 Stratford shut down during COVID-19, but Colm Feore keeps rehearsing: 43:37 Regulatory bodies on foreign-trained doctors: 1:10:44 Bill Richardson remembers his father's time in long-term care: 1:33:23 The evolution of evolution, under human influence: 1:40:31 Redefining dementia in Denmark with a well-rooted philosophy for elder care (reprise): 1:58:32

Isolation chronicle; COVID-19 and civil liberties; Josée Legault; Stratford and Colm Feore; foreign-trained doctors; long-term care meltdown; changing course of evolution; dementia in Denmark

Listen to this week's episode with host Michael Enright:  Michael’s Essay: 0:37 Rachel Mahon and the Coventry Cathedral organ: 4:54 Holidays and coronavirus: 36:50 Documentary: I Will Be A Bird: 44:15 Foreign-trained doctors: 1:11:32 The Meaningful Man (reprise): 1:30:24 Pat Capponi: 2:20:40

COVID-19 chronicle; Rachel Mahon; Physical distancing during the holidays; I Will Be A Bird; Foreign-trained doctors; The Meaningful Man; Pat Capponi

Listen to this week's episode with host Michael Enright: Michael's essay: 0:37 Frank Snowden on how pandemics have shaped history: 5:28 Heather MacDougall on 1918 and COVID-19 in Canada: 29:38 'Invisible workers' cleaning up COVID-19 need better protection: 43:34 Dan Wells of Biblioasis: 1:11:11 Satire: Two-metres apart film festival: 1:35:08 Doc: A book club for two on the phone (repeat): 1:40:07

COVID-19 and Spanish Flu; Pandemics shaping history; Janitorial workers; Dan Wells of Biblioasis; Two-metres apart film festival; Book club on the phone; Robert Harris’s 20 pieces of music

Michael’s Essay — A Confinement Chronicle Week Two: 0:38 Geopolitics during the pandemic: 6:38 A pox upon your productivity obsession: 46:03 COVID-19 and catastrophe medicine: 52:00 How the pandemic will affect Canada’s urban Indigenous population: 1:18:48 A Canadian conservative makes the case for universal basic income: 1:51:36 There's poetry for any occasion, even a pandemic: 2:23:44

Confinement chronicle; Geopolitics during the pandemic; Declaration of indolence; COVID-19 and catastrophe medicine; Health and urban Indigenous population; A case for universal basic income; Pandemic reading, Part 2; Pandemic poetry

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The Sunday Edition from CBC Radio (Highlights)

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