- 310
- Episodes
- 84
- Transcribed
- 70
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
About The Sunday Magazine
Smart takes. Surprising finds. Piya Chattopadhyay helps you understand the important stories with people who know them best, and goes deep with newsmakers and game changers.On Sundays, you'll get the context and forces behind the headlines.On Wednesdays, you'll learn more about the people shaping our culture, and discover something new.So whether you want to understand the world, or escape it for a while, we've got you covered.Catch live and on-demand broadcasts at https://link.mgln.ai/iUSF6q (https://link.mgln.ai/iUSF6q).
- Publisher
- CBC
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 4 Oct 2023
- Latest episode
- 23 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
84 of 310 episodes have a transcript.
23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
'Carpe diem': Less seize, more savour (and other phrases you likely get wrong)
20 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Parliament returns as Canada moves closer to the EU, further from the U.S.
16 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor sound alarm over 'end times fascism'
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'Carpe diem': Less seize, more savour (and other phrases you likely get wrong)
Published 23 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And only that the narrator will be telling themselves that they took the road less traveled, not that they actually did. So it's actually this poem is about something completely different. It is about how we make meaning out of life's arbitrary decisions after the fact and kind of how we turn those blind choices we make into some kind of a life story. So Robert Frost is arguably playing a bit of a trick on us because I think, you know, we see what we want to in the poem, which is this kind of heroic or romantic or sentimental idea of kind of being original. But really, it's about indecisiveness and finitude and even FOMO, because it's ultimately about how we kind of justify our decisions and explain away the other ones. […]
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- Eli Burnstein
- David Suzuki
- Tonda MacCharles
- Nick Taylor-Vaisey
- Paul Wells
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.3 / 5
- 48 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 22 ratings
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- 95
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 95
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