Five Sunday Morning stories worth lingering over this week
CBS News Radio’s final chapter is among this week’s INYIM Sunday Morning picks. Image source: CBS Sunday Morning.
It’s CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley time — and this round of INYIM picks is exactly why the show remains one of television’s great little escape hatches. We pulled five stories built to fuel the brain, the imagination and a little casual-whimsy Sunday wandering.
The mix goes everywhere: Rex Reed revisiting a life lived among movie stars, David Sedaris doing what David Sedaris does to dog people, the end of an era for CBS News Radio, a closer look at Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and — because Sunday Morning understands glamour — a full detour into chandeliers. Five stories. No doomscroll required.
SUNDAY MORNING EDIT
Sunday morning, but make it cultured.
Five smart detours through film, humor, broadcasting, music and design — with a little reading for later.
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From the Archives: Rex Reed, still gloriously unfiltered
CBS Sunday Morning revisits its 2018 profile of outspoken film critic Rex Reed. Image source: CBS Sunday Morning.
Rex Reed, the film critic whose barbed reviews and even sharper celebrity stories made him a print-and-TV fixture for decades, died on May 12, 2026, at age 87. CBS Sunday Morning reached back to Mo Rocca’s February 2018 profile, and what a life to reopen: Reed had gone from reviewing A-listers to becoming one himself.
One memory alone earns the rewind. Reed recalled watching the Oscars at actress Polly Bergen’s party while sitting in her bed with Lucille Ball on one side and Paul Newman on the other. That is not a guest list. That is old Hollywood casually showing off.
The archive profile finds Mo Rocca sitting down with Reed at home as the critic looks back on movies, celebrity life and his famously unvarnished opinions.
David Sedaris takes on dogs — and the humans obsessed with them
David Sedaris turns modern dog culture into two minutes of wonderfully specific irritation. Image source: CBS Sunday Morning.
Then comes David Sedaris, patron saint of noticing the thing everyone else has somehow agreed not to say out loud. His May 3 Sunday Morning commentary starts with a New York City dog-park dispute and expands into a deadpan question about how dogs went from being pets to tiny, fur-covered citizens with appointments, travel plans and apparently legal complications.
The segment arrived alongside his 2026 essay collection The Land and Its People, and it is classic Sedaris: funny because the details are absurd, sharper because he refuses to pretend they are not.
Sedaris reflects on a dog-park encounter and the humans orbiting modern pet culture in this CBS Sunday Morning commentary.
From one very modern obsession, Sunday Morning pivots into something much bigger: the closing chapter of a broadcast institution that helped teach generations how radio news should sound.
And if you have ever loved radio — really loved radio — this next one hits differently.
CBS News Radio signs off after nearly a century
Mo Rocca looks back at the voices and standards that made CBS News Radio an American broadcasting institution. Image source: CBS Sunday Morning.
Founded in 1927, CBS News Radio became a training ground, a standard-setter and, for millions of listeners, one of the voices through which the world arrived. Its roster included giants such as Edward R. Murrow, Robert Trout, Douglas Edwards and Charles Osgood.
By the time this Mo Rocca retrospective aired in May, the end had already been announced. CBS News Radio signed off on May 22, 2026, after 99 years. Rocca speaks with current and former staffers including Martha Teichner and Dan Rather, turning what could have been a corporate obituary into something more personal: a salute to writing, voice, discipline and the strange intimacy of hearing the news through a speaker.
Mo Rocca traces CBS News Radio’s history and speaks with the journalists who learned from, worked inside and helped define the service.
Mozart, beyond the powdered-wig legend
Jane Pauley explores the man, manuscripts and objects behind the Mozart legend. Image source: CBS Sunday Morning.
Next, Jane Pauley goes from broadcast history to music history with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The segment visits the Morgan Library & Museum’s spring 2026 exhibition Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Treasures from the Mozarteum Foundation of Salzburg, which brought together manuscripts, letters, personal objects and instruments connected to the composer.
The fun of the piece is that it pulls Mozart back down from the marble pedestal. Yes, the legend was composing at five. But the surviving paper trail also lets the audience meet the human being behind all that impossible music — ambitious, funny, complicated and startlingly close once the handwriting is right in front of you.
Jane Pauley reports on the Morgan exhibition and the surviving objects that illuminate Mozart’s life and work.
And finally: chandeliers, because subtlety can take Sunday off
Sunday Morning’s annual By Design edition gives chandeliers the star treatment. Image source: CBS Sunday Morning.
We close exactly where a civilized Sunday should: staring upward at something unnecessarily gorgeous. For the show’s annual By Design edition, Mo Rocca dives into the traditions, engineering and pure theatrical excess of the chandelier — the decorative fixture that has never once entered a room quietly.
It is four minutes of craftsmanship, history and unapologetic sparkle. No scandal. No crisis. Just glass, light and the reminder that sometimes the star of the room really can be hanging from the ceiling.
Mo Rocca sheds light on the traditions of chandeliers and why these decorative fixtures can command an entire room.
Source: CBS Sunday Morning / CBS News.
