The Sunday Magazine Podcast
1) NATO's future, L.A. wildfire legacy, Nobel-winning economist, That's Puzzling!
Host Piya Chattopadhyay speaks with Canada's former NATO ambassador Kerry Buck and international politics professor Mark Webber about the future of NATOReporter Jacob Soboroff explores ...Show More
2) Make 2026 the year of 'recombobulation'
To kick off a new year of Word Processing, our ongoing look at language, Piya Chattopadhyay speaks with lexicographer Susie Dent about the old words you didn't know you needed to sum up...Show More
3) U.S. captures Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, Old words for modern times, Stephen Fry, The power of awe
Host Piya Chattopadhyay speaks with reporter Ana Vanessa Herrero, Lulu Garcia-Navarro from The New York Times, and University of Ottawa's Roland Paris about the bigger implications of U.S. strikes on ...Show More
4) In the face of peril, Jane Goodall never lost hope for our planet
In October, the legendary naturalist Jane Goodall died at age 91. During her life, Goodall not only saw a lot of change in the world, but made a lot of it too.Her field work with chimpanzees...Show More
5) Foreign aid cuts, Jane Goodall, Samin Nosrat
Host Piya Chattopadhyay speaks with The New York Times' Stephanie Nolen, Council on Foreign Relations fellow Ebenezer Obadare and international affairs expert Suparna Chaudhry about the consequences o...Show More
6) They're creamy, crispy, garlicky... and coming for your dinner table
Did you replace your chocolate orange with Dubai chocolate this year? Spike your eggnog with matcha? According to Ruby Tandoh, algorithms and search engine optimization are the hidden ingredients...Show More
7) Epstein files, Food virality, Cancer breakthroughs, Gary Shteyngart
Host Piya Chattopadhyay speaks with The Atlantic's Toluse "Tolu" Olorunnipa and Politico's Hailey Fuchs about the revelations in Friday's partial release of the Epstein files – and how they intersect ...Show More
8) Are AI hopes artificially inflated? The 'hype cycle' may help offer clues
This past week, Time magazine named "The Architects of AI" its 2025 Person of the Year, even as the stock market wobbled with fears of an artificial intelligence-fuelled bubble. One way to help make s...Show More
9) Year in Canadian politics, Hype cycles and AI, Russia's feminist history, Words of 2025
Host Piya Chattopadhyay speaks with journalists Shannon Proudfoot and Rob Russo about the year in Canadian politics, The Sunday Magazine’s Pete Mitton explains how the "hype cycle" concept can help us...Show More
Year in Canadian politics, Hype cycles and AI, Russia's feminist history, Words of 2025
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10) That's Puzzling! for December 2025
In our monthly challenge That's Puzzling!, Piya Chattopadhyay competes against familiar voices and clever listeners in a battle of brain games devised by puzzle master Peter Brown. In this special edi...Show More