Show Highlights
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Sunday November 27, 2016
The Sunday Edition Garrison Keillor: "And that's the news from Lake Wobegon..."
A feature interview with Garrison Keillor, host and creator of the popular radio program, "A Prairie Home Companion."
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Sunday October 23, 2016
"Dear Jay. I am the person whose life you saved" — an Alisa Siegel documentary
Manjusha Pawagi is a Toronto judge and mother, whose only chance to beat leukemia was a stem cell transplant. As a member of the South Asian community, the odds were stacked against her. A world-wide search resulted in just one match. Alisa Siegel's moving documentary is called, "Manjusha Meets Her Match."
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Sunday October 16, 2016
Steve Earle on refugees, the death penalty and song-writing as literature
Of all the outlaws that country music has produced, Steve Earle has always been among the most willing to put himself on the opposite side of popular opinion and the political mood of the US. While he was releasing a string of critically-lauded album, writing fiction and drama and trying his hand at acting, he was also a committed anti-death penalty activist and a vocal critic of the way America's war on terror and its wars abroad. Now, on the 30th anniversary of his seminal debut album, Guitar Town, he has taken up the cause of refugees from Africa and the Middle East.
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Sunday December 18, 2016
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The agony and the ecstasy of the annual school Christmas concert - Michael's essay
A funny, tender description of the school concert when Michael's son was a proud member of the Grade Three Recorder Ensemble. It's our tradition to re-broadcast this delightful piece each year at this time. (Note - Michael's son is now a handsome young man in his third year of university.) More read comments
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The failure of the elites gave us Brexit and Trump
Michael Sandel, one of the world's best-known political philosophers, says liberal democracies — and the elites who run them — are failing, by rejecting appeals to national purpose. More read comments
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How to survive Christmas when one spouse loves it and the other does not
Kimberly Noble explains why creating a family is the hardest thing any of us will ever do, and why it's especially challenging at Christmas. More read comments
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How to conquer insomnia with cognitive behavioural therapy
There is growing awareness that lack of sleep is a public health epidemic. Michael talks to Dr. Colleen Carney, Canada's leading expert in what's called "CBT-I" - cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia. More read comments
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Four Small Candles - a Bill Richardson documentary
"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." The great human 'whirligig' Bill Richardson returns to the radio with a quirky, beautiful documentary inspired by candles, light and those old-fashioned twirling angel chimes. More read comments
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