Sunday Morning was a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 radio news and information program, which aired on CBC Radio One

CBC Radio One

CBC Radio One is the English language news and information radio network of the publicly-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It is commercial free and offers both local and national programming...

. The magazine style program was one of the highest budget shows on CBC Radio and featured documentaries, interviews, round table discussions, book reviews, arts reports, puzzles and various features including a weekly satirical song by Nancy White

Nancy White

Nancy White is a Canadian singer-songwriter, whose topical songs were a regular feature on CBC Radio from 1976 to 1994 on the public affairs show Sunday Morning...

. The show was conceived by producer Mark Starowicz

Mark Starowicz

Mark Starowicz, is a Canadian journalist and producer.Born in Worksop, England, the son of son of Polish émigrés, he and his family immigrated to Montreal in 1954. He received a B.A. from McGill University in 1968. In 1964, he started as a reporter for the Montreal Gazette...

 as a "Sunday New York Times of the air" and was launched in 1976 with Bronwyn Drainie

Bronwyn Drainie

Bronwyn Drainie is a Canadian arts journalist. Currently editor of the Literary Review of Canada, she has also been a columnist and book reviewer for The Globe and Mail, and was formerly a host of programming on CBC Radio including the flagship program Sunday Morning...

 and Warner Troyer

Warner Troyer

Warner Troyer was a Canadian broadcast journalist and writer.Troyer was born in Cochrane, Ontario, the son of Gordon Troyer, a Presbyterian circuit minister...

 as hosts. The show was one of CBC Radio's highest rated programmes, drawing 1.1 million listeners per week. Among others, it was the inspiration for Godmorgon, världen!

Godmorgon, världen!

Godmorgon, världen! is a long-running Swedish radio programme, sent on the Sveriges Radio channel P1 between 9 and 11 every Sunday morning since 1986. The programme covers the news of the last week with reports and interviews, includes a panel of selected Swedish media personalities who comment...

 in Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

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After being unsuccessfully revamped in 1995 and given a new host, Ian Brown

Ian Brown (journalist)

Ian Brown is a Canadian journalist and author, winner of several national magazine and newspaper awards.He is currently the host of Human Edge and The View from Here on TVOntario, and has hosted programming for CBC Radio One, including Later the Same Day, Talking Books, and Sunday Morning...

, the series ended in 1997 after twenty years when CBC Radio merged Sunday Morning with Morningside

Morningside (radio program)

Morningside was a nationally broadcast Canadian radio program, which aired on CBC Radio from September 20, 1976 to May 30, 1997. It was broadcast from 9AM to 12 Noon, Monday to Friday...

to create the new morning series This Morning

This Morning (radio program)

This Morning was a Canadian radio program which aired from 1997 to 2002 on CBC Radio One. It was not always successful with CBC audiences, and underwent several format and hosting changes during its lifetime....

. In 2000, the programming schedule was altered again and the Sunday morning block was made a separate program again as The Sunday Edition

Sunday Edition

Sunday Edition is a Sunday morning radio show on CBC Radio One, hosted by Michael Enright. As the title might imply, the program was originally simply the Sunday edition of This Morning, which Enright co-hosted until the Sunday program became a separate entity in 2000.Its subject matter is wide...

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Personalities associated with the show included Mary Lou Finlay

Mary Lou Finlay

Mary Lou Finlay is a Canadian radio and television journalist, best known for hosting various programs on CBC Radio and CBC Television.Finlay graduated from the University of Ottawa in 1967 with a BA in English and French literature...

, Barbara Smith, Linden MacIntyre

Linden MacIntyre

Linden MacIntyre is a Canadian journalist, broadcaster and novelist. He has won eight Gemini Awards, an International Emmy and numerous other awards for writing and journalistic excellence.-Life and career:...

, Stuart McLean

Stuart McLean

Andrew Stuart McLean is a Canadian radio broadcaster, humourist and author, best known as the host of the CBC Radio programme The Vinyl Cafe. He is often described as a "story-telling comic", though he has written many serious stories...

, Nancy White

Nancy White

Nancy White is a Canadian singer-songwriter, whose topical songs were a regular feature on CBC Radio from 1976 to 1994 on the public affairs show Sunday Morning...

, Elizabeth Gray

Elizabeth Gray

Elizabeth Gray is a Canadian radio broadcaster, who has been a host and documentary producer for CBC Radio.Previously a researcher on Cross-Country Checkup and a substitute host on This Country in the Morning and Morningside, Gray took over from Barbara Frum as cohost of As It Happens in 1981.In a...

, Patrick Martin

Patrick Martin (journalist)

Patrick Martin is a Canadian journalist who is the Jerusalem-based Middle East bureau chief for The Globe and Mail, a national newspaper....

, Bruce Rogers

Bruce Rogers (broadcaster)

Bruce Rogers is a Canadian broadcast journalist, author and politician. Rogers is best known for his work as a television host on TVOntario and as a radio broadcaster on CBC Radio and CFRB in Toronto....

 and Bruce Dowbiggin.