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This week: For the birds

Nov. 17: Rita Braver finds out how illustrator David Sipley became one of the most respected and successful chroniclers of bird life

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  • From the archives:

  • From 1996: The secret world of John le Carré

    From 1996: The secret world of John le Carré

    The putative end of the Cold War didn't mark the end for the master spy storyteller, who continued to write thrilling bestsellers of international intrigue and duplicity. Mark Phillips talked with the writer about how his "secret world" hadn’t changed all that much in this report broadcast November 17, 1996. Don't miss Phillips as he visits with le Carré again on November 17!

  • Rundown:

  • This week on "Sunday Morning" (November 17)

    This week on "Sunday Morning" (November 17)

    A look at the features for this week's broadcast of the #1 Sunday morning news program
  • "Ford v. Ferrari": Matt Damon and Christian Bale on a story of competition and friendship

    "Ford v. Ferrari": Matt Damon and Christian Bale on a story of competition and friendship

    A new film recreates car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles' efforts to develop a supercar that could beat the Italian automaker at the prestigious 24 hours of Le Mans road race

  • Audio Extra!

  • Listen to our "Ford v Ferrari" podcast!

    Listen to our "Ford v Ferrari" podcast!

    Download or stream Tracy Smith’s extended interview with Christian Bale and Matt Damon
  • "The Joy of Cooking" and its recipe for success

    "The Joy of Cooking" and its recipe for success

    Updating one of the most successful cookbooks ever published has been a family tradition since 1931

  • Recipes!

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    From "Joy of Cooking": Mushroom Confit

    The latest edition of the bestselling cookbook offers the perfect spread or addition to pasta. Don't miss Serena Altschul's report on "Joy of Cooking" Nov. 10!

  • From "Joy of Cooking": Roasted Mushroom Lasagne

  • Brownie recipes from "Joy of Cooking"

  • "We, the People": Mary Whyte's portraits of 50 veterans from 50 states

    "We, the People": Mary Whyte's portraits of 50 veterans from 50 states

    The South Carolina artist's subjects, exemplars of patriotism, are as diverse as the nation they served
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Mary Whyte's portraits of veterans

  • Moments in Nature:

  • Salmon

    Salmon

    "Sunday Morning" takes us to the North Fork of the Clearwater River in north-central Idaho, where Kokanee Salmon are running. Videographer: Hank Heusinkveld
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      The videographers who capture "Sunday Morning" Moments of Nature

  • Nature up close:

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    The largest bat colony in the world

    The Bracken Bat Cave, northeast of San Antonio, is the summer home of about 20 million insect-eating Mexican free-tailed bats

  • Nature up close: The unique migration of the Pronghorn

  • Nature up close: A plant that tricks butterflies

  • Nature up close: The pros and cons of introducing non-native fish species

  • Nature up close: The massive decline of bird populations

  • Take Five: Arts & events around the U.S. (November 8)

    Take Five: Arts & events around the U.S. (November 8)

    Check out the "Sunday Morning" listings of art openings and events this week
  • DOC NYC documentary film festival: Real life, both light and dark

    DOC NYC documentary film festival: Real life, both light and dark

    Highlights from the festival's 10th edition, held in New York City, which features more than 300 feature-length and short non-fiction films

  • In case you missed:

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    The armless archer

    Matt Stutzman, one of the top-ranked archers in the country, has medaled in a sport that many would have thought beyond his reach: he was born without arms

  • Mitch Albom's mission

  • Time will tell: Historians on judging presidential leadership

  • Transgender youth: Navigating gender identity in adolescence

  • A spiraling walk above the trees

  • Corporations and guns: How companies are reshaping the gun control debate

  • Pete Hamill on Jimmy Breslin and the heralded world of beat reporters

  • Hillary Rodham Clinton & Chelsea Clinton on "Gutsy Women" and Trump

  • The great electric scooter backlash

  • "Upholstery CSI": Preserving antique furniture at Colonial Williamsburg

  • How we have failed our teachers

  • Teaching anti-vax parents to trust science and the MMR vaccine

  • The Herbert Hoover you didn't know

  • One shrinking Japanese town's plan: Give away houses for free

  • On art:

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    Enter the immersive art world of Meow Wolf

    The Santa Fe-based collective of artists invites audiences to step into a whole different dimension, putting on exhibitions that tantalize with vivid visuals and storytelling that is magical, mysterious, or just plain bizarre

  • Helen Frankenthaler: An artist lost in the moment

  • Gargoyles and grotesques get their closeup

  • NYC's Museum of Modern Art gets a makeover

  • Glass art, cast in sand

  • Black models in modern art

  • Graffiti beyond the streets

  • Surrealist art and war

  • The delicate craft of wood carver David Esterly

  • Rock relics at New York's Metropolitan Museum

  • Frida Kahlo: The unapologetic artist

  • Street art: Japanese manhole covers

  • Bill Traylor: The imaginative art of a freed slave

  • Potter and author Edmund de Waal on the poetry of objects

  • The restless perfectionism of Alberto Giacometti

  • On books:

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    "The Handmaid's Tale" author Margaret Atwood: "I have never believed it can't happen here"

    The Canadian author says her sequel, "The Testaments," which continues the saga of the women of the dystopian society of Gilead, offers "tons of hope"

  • Colson Whitehead on "The Nickel Boys" and exhuming tales of the dead

  • Gen. Jim Mattis on war and Trump

  • Under the Tuscan sun with author Frances Mayes

  • George Will, a conservative rock, unmoved by chaos

  • "The Ballad of Huck & Miguel": Huck Finn revisited, in today's L.A.

  • Harper Lee, true crime writer

  • A visit to the Metropol, star of "A Gentleman in Moscow"

  • Books produced by hand

  • Louise Penny: How writing became her solace

  • On fashion:

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    Nail art: A hands-on introduction to fabulous style

    For some, getting a manicure these days is less maintenance and more masterpiece, as seen on fashion runways and the hit TV show "Claws"

  • The Japanese art of tie dyeing

  • Fashion designer Dapper Dan's rags to riches story

  • Brunello Cucinelli: Fashion and philosophy

  • The colorful history of pink

  • Ralph Lauren: "I feel cooler now than ever"

  • Maye Musk, the silver cover girl

  • Stella McCartney: Fashion with a conscience

  • Betsey Johnson, fashion's free spirit

  • Michael Kors: Still on the cutting edge

  • From the archives:

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    From 2008: Newspaper man Jimmy Breslin

    Used to be every big city newspaper had a guy who knew what was what, to whom both cops and crooks wanted to tell their stories. A guy like Jimmy Breslin, as New York as the A train. Harry Smith walks through some of the veteran newspaper reporter and author's biggest stories from the underworld, and visits what was John Gotti's favorite Queens social club, now a grooming salon for dogs, in this profile originally broadcast on "Sunday Morning" March 9, 2008

  • 2013: "Star Trek"'s George Takei: A sci-fi icon

  • 2010: A rare look at author Philip Roth

  • 2010: Florence Henderson, America's Mom

  • 2008: Marni Nixon, singing voice of the stars

  • 2007: Anthony Bourdain, the culinary bad boy

  • 2007: Bill Geist keeps germs at bay

  • 2006: Neil Simon's storied career

  • 2006: Writer Tom Wolfe on journalism and voyeurism

  • 2005: The confidential Tab Hunter

  • 2005: The wilder side of Gene Wilder

  • 2005: Leonard Nimoy on "Star Trek"

  • 2004: The Museum of Modern Art's expansion

  • 2004: Roger Bannister on breaking the 4:00 mile

  • 2004: Carrie Fisher

  • 2003: Extreme ironing

  • 2001: Photographer Mary Ellen Mark

  • 2000: Mementos at the Wall

  • 1999: Goats as lawn mowers

  • 1996: A landmark Vermeer exhibition

  • 1996: School of Circus Arts

  • 1995: Celebrating the first ATM

  • 1995: Author Pat Conroy

  • 1994: A retirement home for horses

  • 1994: The "unsinkable" Debbie Reynolds

  • 1992: Ode to Secretariat

  • 1991: Route 66, the "Main Street of America"

  • 1990: Rescuing horses for adoption

  • 1988: Bill Geist and the art of curling

  • 1982: Artist Keith Haring

  • 1980: Peter O'Toole talks "Macbeth"

  • 1979: Architect I.M. Pei on the JFK Library

  • 1979: Oil refinery vs. bald eagle

  • With deepest sympathy: The complications of coping with grief

    With deepest sympathy: The complications of coping with grief

    Those who have lost a loved one share stories of dealing with death and loss, sometimes with unexpected twists
  • "The Crown" returns with a new queen

    "The Crown" returns with a new queen

    Season 3 of the hit show about the British royal family now stars Oscar-winner Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II
  • Nikki Haley: I was asked by Cabinet members to take sides against the president

    Nikki Haley: I was asked by Cabinet members to take sides against the president

    The former U.N. Ambassador - a Trump loyalist dismissive of the Ukraine scandal being investigated by Congress - also says she doesn't feel comfortable pursuing impeachment in an election year
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      Nikki Haley: Trump isn't the only one guilty of inflammatory rhetoric
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      Nikki Haley: We should have the backs of the Kurds
  • How two "Forrest Gump" actors served their country

    How two "Forrest Gump" actors served their country

    After the 1994 Oscar-winning movie wrapped, Gary Sinise created a foundation to help returning service members, while Michael Conner Humphreys (who played Forrest as a child) grew up to serve 18 months in Iraq's Anbar Province

  • Almanac:

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    "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"

    On November 10, 1871 the Scottish explorer who'd disappeared in Africa while searching for the source of the Nile was found by a reporter for the New York Herald

  • Web exclusive:

  • Calendar: Week of November 11

    Calendar: Week of November 11

    From Veterans Day to the first public hearing in Congress' impeachment inquiry into President Trump, "Sunday Morning" takes a look at some notable events of the week ahead

  • From Steve Hartman:

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    Heaven sent

    During her 35 years as a nurse, Lori Wood has been a hero many times over. At the time Jonathan Pinkard, a 27-year-old autistic man, met Wood, doctors in Newnan, Ga., told him he had heart failure and needed a heart transplant. Being homeless, there was no way he could get on a transplant list – until Wood took matters in hand

  • No deeper love

  • A friend in need

  • What's in a name?

  • Book excerpt:

  • "Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief. Beginners Welcome."

    "Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief. Beginners Welcome."

    Rebecca Soffer writes that, when communing about grief in a social media era, no "like" can replace a conversation, or a hug, or shared double martinis. Catch Susan Spencer's story about grief November 10!

  • Book excerpt:

  • "Black Widow" by Leslie Gray Streeter

    "Black Widow" by Leslie Gray Streeter

    The Palm Beach Post columnist recounts the terrible night when her life was turned upside-down, and her unplanned, forced accommodation to the newly-dominant emotion of grief. Watch Susan Spencer's interview with Streeter November 10!

  • "Mobituaries" Season 2!

  • London Marlene Dietrich

    Marlene Dietrich goes to war

    During World War II the German-born Hollywood film star fought for her adopted country

  • Passage

  • In memoriam

    In memoriam

    "Sunday Morning" remembers Beatles photographer Robert Freeman, Maria Perego, creator of the puppet character Topo Gigio, and Robert Norris, who became famous in advertising as "The Marlboro Man," even though he never smoked

  • Missed our broadcast?

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    Watch the full November 10 episode!

    Our full show is also available to watch on CBS All Access, as well as via Apple TV, Android TV, Roku, Chromecast, Amazon FireTV/FireTV stick and Xbox
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30 years ago: The fall of the Berlin Wall
  • Jeff Lynne, the reluctant rock star, returns with Jeff Lynne's ELO

    Jeff Lynne, the reluctant rock star, returns with Jeff Lynne's ELO

    After years off-stage, the co-founder of the '70s rock band Electric Light Orchestra is back, and he's playing all the instruments himself
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      Reporter's Notebook: David Pogue on interviewing a musical idol
  • The life of Prince, revealed in "The Beautiful Ones"

    The life of Prince, revealed in "The Beautiful Ones"

    Begun just months before his death in 2016, a memoir by the legendary singer-songwriter is now being published – and a vault of his unreleased music is beginning to disclose its secrets
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      Read an excerpt: Prince's memoir, "The Beautiful Ones"
  • "Sunday Morning" rebroadcast on Pop TV!

    "Sunday Morning" rebroadcast on Pop TV!

    Our show is rebroadcast on the Pop TV cable channel Sundays at 12:30 p.m. ET/9:30 a.m. PT, and also will be available live at poptv.com and on the Pop Now mobile app. Check your cable or satellite system for more info

  • On movies:

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    Martin Scorsese, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro on "The Irishman"

    Their first-ever collaboration is an affecting mob epic of loyalty and corruption, about a hit man for a Philadelphia crime family and the fate of Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa

  • Renée Zellweger on playing Judy Garland

  • Return to "Downton Abbey"

  • Irwin Winkler on a life in movies

  • How scary music makes movies scarier

  • On music:

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    Elton John: Addiction "nearly destroyed my soul"

    The music legend has completed an autobiography, titled "Me," but his story is far from over

  • Olivia Newton-John on finding joy in a life with cancer

  • John Williams on reworking the classics – his own

  • The Backstreet Boys: "We will never turn our backs on each other"

  • BTS, the kings of K-Pop

  • The Jonas Brothers get a do-over

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    How Janis Joplin became America's first female rock star

    A new biography about the rock and blues singer, "Janis: Her Life and Music," presents a portrait of a gifted, complex and challenging artist who became an iconic trailblazer during her brief 27 years

  • Presenting Mitzi Gaynor

  • Taylor Swift on "Lover" and haters

  • Common: Love is "the best thing we got on this planet"

  • Florence Welch on her own "Hunger"

  • Cardi B on her determination: "I get up every single time, honey"

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    Lizzo: "I feel like a master"

    After overcoming poverty and homelessness, and continuing to battle self-doubt and body shaming, the 31-year-old singer-rapper, whose career she describes as "the slowest build of all time," has exploded with a #1 song

  • Mark Knopfler: Music is "a bit of an obsession"

  • Donny and Marie Osmond, going solo

  • Linda Ronstadt: A voice from the past

  • Electric Lady Studios: The "House That Hendrix Built"

  • Brandi Carlile, the "underdog," surrounded by love

  • On TV:

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    Sports announcer Jason Benetti on being a voice for those with cerebral palsy

    The Chicago White Sox broadcaster talks about his path to the microphone, contending with a condition that, he says, makes him unique

  • Mariska Hargitay, the avenging angel of "Law & Order: SVU"

  • The mysteries of "God Friended Me"

  • Hannah Gadsby: There is life after trauma

  • "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek on his cancer diagnosis

  • Emilia Clarke on "Game of Thrones" and her near-death experience

  • On stage:

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    Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at 60

    Founded by the groundbreaking dancer-choreographer, one of the world's preeminent modern dance companies continues his legacy with a new generation

  • "Ain't Too Proud": The Temptations' story comes to Broadway

  • Stephen Lang tells stories of Medal of Honor recipients in "Beyond Glory"

  • Encore: Lin-Manuel Miranda brings "Hamilton" to Puerto Rico

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