Michael's essay (39 secs); Panel on juries (5:25); Doc: 'Guilty Pleasure' (35:57); Colum McCann (59:01); Migrant workers and #MeToo (1:24:09); Doc: 'On this rock' (1:51:24)

Michael's essay on 'menial' work (37 secs); Canada's first female Indigenous psychiatrist (5:19); Listener mail: childhood bereavement (33:12); Doc: 'Just to have had you' (39:42); Malcolm Harris on millennials (1:06:11); New production about Claude Vivier (1:30:31); Think again: Canadian vs. American beer (1:55:31)

Michael's essay: Bread price-fixing scandal (38 secs); Henry Mintzberg on Canadian healthcare (5:16); Personal essay on heroin overdose (33:53); Doc: 'Like-minded' (41:33); Mail: 'Jews and Jazz' (52:45); When to bail on books (55:55); Childhood bereavement (1:22:01); Essay: 'Dark curriculum' (1:49:31); Mini-doc: Tobogganing (1:56:50)

Michael's essay on anti-Semitism (36 secs); Mary Beard (5:17); Mail: Gould (34:48); Doc: Safe Harbour (43:10); Axworthy on global refugee crisis (1:06:29); Organ donation and assisted death (1:28:43); Obit: Ursula Le Guin (1:56:01); Mini doc: Homeless Post Office (2:06:00)

Kamila Shamsie novel on ISIS recruits (39 secs); Doc: 'Men's Sheds' (28:47); Le Dain epilogue (39:43); Tim Wu on net neutrality (1:00:26); Life after gangs (1:26:31); Doc: Backyard ice rinks (1:51:56)

Michael's essay on journalism movies (39 sec); How depression cost Gerald Le Dain his post on the Supreme Court of Canada (5:35); Mail: Marijuana (36:30); Hassan Diab's release (43:55); Novelist Sharon Bala (58:57); Adam Gopnik on Trump's 1st yr (1:22:48)

Michael's essay: Who's coming to the wedding? (38 secs); The rush to legalise marijuana (5:04); Doc: The brave women of White Pony Lodge (40:35); Essay: Marguerite (1:15:25); The macho Hemingway legend (1:21:49)

Michael on radio’s impact (3:51); interview highlights (8:18); Icelandic corner (44:04); more invus (48:35); documentary highlights (1:05:57); interviews with writers (1:21:23); music interviews (1:42:36); more documentary highlights (2:16:30)

Michael's essay: Christmas windows (23 secs); Why nothing will stop people from migrating (4:59); Listener mail (33:46); 'Shut up! I'm thinking!': A quiz game for word nerds (37:30); Robert Harris on bad Christmas music (1:29:59)

Michael's essay on the Gordie Howe bridge (26 secs); Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin (4:06); Doc: Shipocalypse Now (39:17); Think Again: Hand drying (1:13:40); Wallace Stevens's enigmatic poetry (1:24:35); Doc: Go Tell It On the Mountain (1:44:21)