To that end we invited a variety of thinkers, including a historian, an ethicist, a Jesuit priest, and a writer to talk about 9/11. But we also wanted to capture a spiritual and intellectual understanding of what had happened that Tuesday morning. We needed to know the facts on the ground and so dispatched our excellent documentary maker Karin Wells to New York. We would try to give them a feeling that the world had not gone completely mad. We decided, after much thought, that CBC Radio listeners needed comfort and context as much as coverage. The burning question facing this new program was how to make some kind of sense that following Sunday. Nor could anyone absorb its many different elements and confusions, in any kind of a coherent way. Indeed no one was prepared for what had happened. Nothing could have prepared a new radio program for the astonishing, cruel events of that terrible week. Precisely one year later, we were confronted with the most devastating event of the new century, the 9/11 attacks on the twin towers in New York. The Sunday Edition debuted in September, 2000.
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