• The Sunday Magazine

  • Written by: CBC
  • Podcast

The Sunday Magazine

Written by: CBC
  • Summary

  • 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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Episodes
  • From awkward kid to tech titan: Bill Gates reflects on how growing pains, persistence shaped him
    Feb 5 2025

    As the co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft, Bill Gates made his name as one of the most influential people in modern tech. Now, in his new memoir Source Code: My Beginnings, he's looking back on the forces that made him. In a wide-ranging Canadian broadcast exclusive interview, Piya Chattopadhyay speaks with Gates about navigating childhood social challenges, how his passion for computers blossomed, what drove his confidence to take on tech giants as a teen, and his candid belief that he'd be diagnosed with autism if he was growing up today.

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    36 mins
  • Trump's tariffs, Pico Iyer on silence, Aviation politics, Foreign interference, That's Puzzling!
    Feb 2 2025

    Guest host David Common speaks with CBC News senior business reporter Peter Armstrong and The Globe and Mail's Marieke Walsh about the economic implications of – and political response to – Donald Trump's tariffs on Canadian goods, writer Pico Iyer reflects on what embracing silence has taught him about life and loss, aviation journalist Kerry Lynch discusses recent changes in aviation and politics, former CSIS national security analyst Stephanie Carvin unpacks key takeaways from the foreign interference report, and we play another round of our monthly challenge, That's Puzzling!.


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    1 hr and 36 mins
  • Living with 'little monsters': Author David A. Robertson shares his mental health journey
    Jan 29 2025

    David A. Robertson is an award-winning author, editor and sought-after speaker on Canadian arts and Indigenous issues. But he says his interior life is filled with "little monsters" – chronic, often-debilitating anxiety and depression. Robertson joins Piya Chattopadhyay to talk about why it's important for him to share his mental health struggles with his new book, All the Little Monsters, and what pillars of support have helped him along the way.

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    31 mins

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