About The Sunday Magazine
About the Show
The Sunday Magazine is a lively and wide-ranging CBC Radio One program that helps you make sense of our changing world and reflects upon ideas in the air. Host Piya Chattopadhyay brings you a smart mix of long-form conversations that cut deep and mine the forces driving our society, politics and cultures today. Every weekend, we take time for deep exploration, but always make space for music, surprise, delight, and fun.
Air Times
The Sunday Magazine | Sundays at 9 a.m. [9:30 a.m. NT]
The Sunday Magazine Encore | Sundays at 10 p.m. [11 p.m. AT, 11:30 p.m. NT]
The Sunday Magazine | Sundays at 9 a.m. ET [10 a.m. AT / 8 a.m. CT / 7 a.m. MT / 6 a.m. PT]
The Sunday Magazine Encore | Sundays at 10 p.m. ET [11 p.m. AT / 9 p.m. CT / 8 p.m. MT / 7 p.m. PT]
About Piya
In her more than two decades as a journalist, Piya Chattopadhyay has been a reporter and host, for both radio and TV, in Canada and abroad.
Prior to hosting The Sunday Magazine, she hosted and co-created CBC Radio's Out in the Open, and worked as a guest host for TVO's The Agenda and CBC's The Current.
Piya also spent several years reporting from abroad as Fox News Radio's Middle East correspondent, based in Jerusalem, but travelling throughout the region. She has covered war and natural disasters, politics, healthcare and education from many international locations, including Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, India, Israel, Lebanon, Egypt, the Palestinian territories, Kenya, the United Kingdom, and France, to name but a few.
She has received many accolades for her work including: New York Festival awards, RTDNA awards, two Gabriel awards and a South Asian Journalists Association award.
In her off-air life, Piya has a daughter and identical twin boys. She is married to fellow CBC journalist and economics correspondent, Peter Armstrong.
Piya was born and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan to parents who immigrated to the province from India in the late 1960s. She has one sister.
The Sunday Magazine Team
Producers
Sarah-Joyce Battersby
Levi Garber
Brianna Gosse
Andrea Hoang
Peter Mitton
Orondé Williams
Lu Zhou
Senior Producer
Howard Goldenthal
Executive Producer
Brian Coulton