The Best of The Sunday Edition

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Threats to public pensions; Rebecca Solnit's "The Faraway Nearby"; and Living like a monk

Hear The Sunday Edition Podcast for September 29, 2013, with host Michael Enright.

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[mp3 file: runs 02:16:41]

The Moral Stain of Drone Warfare; Saving the Symphony; and Birdsong

Hear The Sunday Edition Podcast for September 22, 2013, with host Michael Enright.

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[mp3 file: runs 02:09:26]

Chemical weapons; Climbing the cross; and Shostakovich

Hear The Sunday Edition Podcast for September 15th, 2013, with host Michael Enright.

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[mp3 file: runs 02:20:44]

The Judge who brought down the General; and Scott Simon

This week's Sunday Edition podcast with host Michael Enright for September 8th, 2013.

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[mp3 file: runs 01:47:58]

Mining; and Marking the 40th anniversary of the Chilean coup

Hear the Sunday Edition Podcast for September 1, 2013, with guest host Karin Wells.

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[mp3 file: runs 01:16:56]

Aug 25/2013: Stratford Festival takes on the right to die

Hear The Sunday Edition Podcast for August 25, 2013, with guest host Karin Wells.

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[mp3 file: runs 00:44:42]

A Marker to Measure Drift: Alexander Maksik; The Quebec student protests - one year later

Hear The Sunday Edition Podcast for August 18, 2013, with guest host Francine Pelletier.

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[mp3 file: runs 00:49:04]

Glaciologist Lonnie Thompson; How should the police react in crisis situations

Hear the Sunday Edition Podcast for August 11th, 2013, with guest host Francine Pelletier.

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[mp3 file: runs 00:53:45]

Rewilding the Landscape and The Elephant Listener

Listen to The Sunday Edition podcast for August 4, 2013 with guest host Laura Lynch. Interviews with George Monbiot and Andrea Turkalo.

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[mp3 file: runs 00:48:35]

The Digital Nun, Canadian Forest Firefighting

Guest host Laura Lynch talks to the Digital Nun about why the internet is sacred space, and to two Canadian experts about how to fight forest fires in Canada.

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[mp3 file: runs 00:45:23]

The Little Prince, An Iranian journalist and Alex Colville

Hear The Sunday Edition podcast for July 21, 2013.

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[mp3 file: runs 01:10:57]

The Arab Spring and women; Promoting religious freedom abroad

Listen to The Sunday Edition Podcast for July 14, 2013, with guest host Laura Lynch.

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[mp3 file: runs 00:54:15]

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and your mail

Hear the Sunday Edition Podcast for July 7, 2013. Kevin Sylvester's interview with Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and your mail.

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[mp3 file: runs 00:43:08]

The rise and fall of wartime hero Giovanni Palatucci and what we talk about when we talk about Orwell

Listen to the Sunday Edition Podcast for June 30th, 2013 with guest host Kevin Sylvester.

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[mp3 file: runs 00:47:45]

A survey of the world's Muslims and Claire Messud's latest novel

Hear the Sunday Edition Podcast for June 23, 2013. It includes Michael's Essay on summer, Sylvia Plath: doomed diva or literary legend and Sunday School - learning how to whistle.

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[mp3 file: runs 02:17:17]

TSE Podcast June 16, 2013

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[mp3 file: runs 01:45:52]

Author Edward Rutherfurd and Walking, a Pedestrian Pursuit

Listen to The Sunday Edition for June 9, 2013.

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[mp3 file: runs 02:39:40]

Residential school memoir; A History of Noise; Scottish independence; Challenging Prostitution laws; Christopher Grosskurth

The podcast for Sunday, June 2, 2013, features Chief Bev Sellars on her memoir They Called Me Number One. Your mail on noisy restaurants, and acoustician Mike Goldsmith on Discord: The Story of Noise.

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[mp3 file: runs 01:32:27]

Child Soldiers, Crosswords and Jennie Rooney on her novel "Red Joan"

The podcast for Sunday, May 24, 2013, features Opiyo Oloya on child soldiers and Jennie Rooney on her third novel, Red Joan.

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[mp3 file: runs 01:42:58]

Michael's Essay

Rob Ford, addiction, politics and rehab.

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[mp3 file: runs 00:03:19]

Rob Ford; David Sedaris; Mail on Chinese Students; Sarah McNally; Simpson on Medicare; Ray Guy; Marcia Angell on aging; Youth indiscretion; Ikebana

Michael's Essay; Sedaris on latest book; Your mail; Documentary, Another Hipster In the business; Jeffrey Simpson on saving Medicare; the wit and wisdom of Ray Guy; Marcia Angell on living and aging well; essay on youthful indiscretion; Sunday School on J

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[mp3 file: runs 02:13:38]

City cycling; Al Gore; Veronica Gaylie; A Great Leap Forward; Mail on "Work Panel"; Madam Justice Claire L'Heureux Dubé; Cara Hoffman on Cleveland; Sandra Djwa; First Nations women

Michael's essay on bikes; The former VP on "The Future"; Dealing with a mother's dementia; China's first North American University students; Your responses to our jobs forum; A mother's influence; Why Clevland shouldn't shock; Poet PK Page; Foremothers

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[mp3 file: runs 02:07:28]

Overreactions to North Korea; Euthanasia in Belgium; Forum on jobs; Alistair MacLeod; Gabor Maté; Esi Edugyan

Michael's essay on inflated fears of nuclear disaster; a documentary on euthanasia in Belgium; listener mail; our forum on "precarious" jobs and youth unemployment; an onstage interview with novelist Alistair MacLeod; Gabor Maté on toxic culture

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[mp3 file: runs 02:16:24]

Journalism worst job; painter Mary Pratt; healing at the banya; social media and social change; being a Little League ump; Norway's prisons; fixing economic inequality

Journalism called worst job; Painter Mary Pratt; Responses to "The Barista Generation"; A Russian banya heals; Nicholas Carr on social media and social change; Thoughts on being a Little League Umpire; Norweigan prisons; Jerry Muller on economic inequalit

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[mp3 file: runs 02:09:35]

A bad week for the media; Professors Paul Rogers and Michael Zekulin; The Double Grind; Mail on Jazz; Old English Prof; Happiness of Nations; Mail on PTSD

Michael's Essay - a bad week for the media: Paul Rogers and Michael Zekulin on "home-grown" terror: Documentary - The Double Grind: your mail on jazz; Andrew Orchard goes to Oxford: John Helliwell on the happiness of nations; mail on PTSD: David Bezmogis.

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[mp3 file: runs 02:13:59]

Buried alive; Threats to democracy; Responses to "Loud Music"; Lisa Moore; A disability activist; Florence Nightingale; Margaret Thatcher

9 tips on how to survive live burial; Explaining "boilerplate"; Listener responses to "noisy restaurants", Hyperlocal essay "Traffic"; Rights of people with disabilities; Mary Seacole vs Florence Nightingale; Doc on Margaret Thatcher

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[mp3 file: runs 01:41:50]

Prisoner Health Care, Donald Savoie, Responese to "Etiquette", Bank Foreclosure, Music in Restaurants, PTSD, Miriam Toews, Jerry Howarth

On this episode Michael writes about prisoners, a discussion on Civil Service, an essay on Foreclosure, a Doc on loud music in restaurants, a round-table on PTSD, Miriam Toews newest story for "Hyperlocal" and the voice of the Toronto Blue Jays.

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[mp3 file: runs 02:04:35]