This week on “Sunday Morning” (Nov. 30)

COVER STORY: For blind climber Jesse Dufton, there may be little that is out of attain (Video)
“Climbing teaches you numerous about who you might be,” says 40-year-old rock climber Jesse Dufton, who has conquered hundreds of peaks with out the profit of imaginative and prescient. Dufton, who was born with a uncommon degenerative situation known as rod-cone dystrophy, talks with Lee Cowan about how shedding his sight didn’t result in him forsaking his potential.

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ALMANAC: November 30 (Video)
“Sunday Morning” appears to be like again at historic occasions on this date.

ARTS: Cézanne in Provence: Walking within the artist’s footsteps (Video)
Pablo Picasso himself hailed Paul Cézanne as “the daddy of us all.” And now, 186 years after his beginning, the French artist is being honored by his hometown. Aix-en-Provence is internet hosting a year-long celebration of Cézanne, exhibiting 130 work, drawings and watercolors incorporating the artist’s themes (and the areas that impressed him), together with strolling excursions and website visits. Seth Doane stories.

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HEADLINES: Trump responds to National Guard taking pictures with new anti-immigration insurance policies (Video)
On Wednesday in Washington, D.C., two National Guard troops had been shot, one fatally. The taking pictures suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who had assisted U.S. forces throughout the conflict in Afghanistan, was granted asylum by the Trump administration earlier this yr. Now, President Trump has proposed new anti-immigration insurance policies in response. Weijia Jiang stories the most recent developments.
     

MOVIES: The candid Amanda Seyfried speaks | Watch Video
Amanda Seyfried is refreshingly trustworthy, from her roles in films just like the forthcoming “The Testament of Ann Lee” and “The Housemaid,” to her battling critical anxiousness and OCD – obstacles she says typically assist her as an actor. She talks with Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz about residing a grounded life on her Upstate New York farm, and about how far she’s come from “Mean Girls.”

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Extended interview – Amanda Seyfried (Video)
In this internet unique, the star of “Mean Girls” and “Mamma Mia!” talks with Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz concerning the “emotional acrobatics” of working in movies, together with in “The Testament of Ann Lee,” and her Oscar-nominated efficiency in David Fincher’s “Mank.” She additionally performs guitar and sings for us.

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PASSAGE: In memoriam (Video)
“Sunday Morning” remembers a number of the notable figures who left us this week, together with Jamaican singer-songwriter Jimmy Cliff.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Playwright Tom Stoppard (Video)
Tom Stoppard, one of many best playwrights and screenwriters of the previous century, died on Nov. 29, 2025 at age 88. In this Feb. 28, 1999 “Sunday Morning” profile, the Czech-born Stoppard, who emigrated as a baby to England throughout World War II, talked with Eugenia Zukerman about his probing and intellectually stimulating works; the primary time he had a play carried out on the National Theatre in London; and the love for theater and language inherent in his screenplay for “Shakespeare in Love.”

FOOD: Leftovers: Giving meals a makeover (Video)
A 3rd of the meals produced globally goes to waste, however leftovers are having fun with a revival, with leftovers cookbooks, leftovers influencers, even a leftovers-themed cooking present. Nancy Giles talks with meals historian Eleanor Barnett concerning the worth positioned on meals by way of the ages; and with Chris Morocco, meals director of Bon Appétit and Epicurious, who delves into Giles’ fridge to show her leftovers into a complete new meal.

MENU: 37 Leftover Turkey Recipes from Bon Appétit Magazine

SPEAKING OF LEFTOVERS…: “Sunday Morning” 2025 “Food Issue” recipe index
Delicious menu options from prime cooks, cookbook authors, meals writers, restaurateurs, and the editors of New York Times Cooking!

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MUSIC: Metallica’s reward of giving | Watch Video
The heavy steel band Metallica has not solely modified lives with their music; they’ve additionally modified lives with their philanthropy – from donations to meals banks and catastrophe reduction, to the band’s charity All Within My Hands, which has donated to workforce schooling and different essential companies. Luke Burbank talks with band members Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield, Robert Trujillo and Lars Ulrich, and with one of many 9,000 Metallica Scholars who’ve benefitted from the band’s grants by way of commerce colleges and neighborhood faculties.

This Giving Tuesday, December 2, Metallica’s basis AWMH is partnering with their long-standing supporter, Carhartt, to assist present 5 million meals by way of Feeding America. Go to allwithinmyhands.org for extra info.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Metallica, heavy steel rock royalty (YouTube Video)
In their movie, “Metallica Through the Never,” members of the heavy steel band are blown as much as epic measurement in Imax 3-D. Anthony Mason sat down with the Grammy-winning group – Robert Trujillo, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett – to speak concerning the band’s good occasions and unhealthy, in a “Sunday Morning” story that first aired Sept. 29, 2013.    

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MOVIES: “Avatar: Fire and Ash” director James Cameron on generative AI: “That’s horrifying to me” | Watch Video
The director of “Titanic,” “The Terminator” and the “Avatar” sequence, which used efficiency seize expertise to assist create fantasy characters in 3-D, has constantly raised the extent of film visible results. But Oscar-winner James Cameron tells Jonathan Vigliotti that he believes the usage of synthetic intelligence to create a personality and efficiency with out an actor is “horrifying.”

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Extended interview – James Cameron (Video)
James Cameron, writer-director of “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” talks with Jonathan Vigliotti concerning the lengthy course of of making the second and third movies of the sequence utilizing efficiency seize of actors. He additionally talks about being self-taught in cinema strategies; beginning out in Roger Corman’s manufacturing firm; his ardour for deep sea exploration; and about films as a “waking dream state.”

FROM THE ARCHIVES: James Cameron on deep-sea exploration (YouTube Video)
The Oscar-winning director of “Titanic” lengthy had a fascination with life on the ocean ground. With cameras and deep-sea submersibles, James Cameron has introduced the intense environments of Earth’s oceans to film screens within the documentaries “Ghosts of the Abyss” and “Aliens of the Deep.” In this Jan. 30, 2005 “Sunday Morning” story, Jerry Bowen talked with Cameron, together with marine biologist Djanna Figueroa, seismologist Maya Tolstoy, and astrobiologists Tori Hoehler and Kevin Hand, about how exploring our planet’s most hostile landscapes will help in planning future manned missions to Mars and past.    

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STYLE: At residence with Architectural Digest (Video)
For greater than a century, the pages of Architectural Digest journal have captured not solely timeless designs but in addition the spirit of their topics’ houses. Their distillation of personal areas is featured in a brand new guide, “AD at Home: Architectural Digest.” Serena Altschul talks with editor Amy Astley concerning the journal’s remedies; and with actor Liev Schreiber and designer Marc Jacobs about what it means to open up one’s residing house to the journal’s photographers.

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THESE UNITED STATES: Thanksgiving (Video)
Jane Pauley appears to be like on the historical past and the mythology behind Americans’ celebration of Thanksgiving, from the preliminary harvest feast in 1621, to the way it turned a nationwide vacation amid our nation’s darkest hours.

     
NATURE: Sequoia National Park in California (Extended Video)
We depart you this Sunday morning among the many big sequoias at Sequoia National Park in California. Videographer: Carl Mrozek.

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Playwright Tom Stoppard (Video)
Tom Stoppard, one of many best playwrights and screenwriters of the previous century, died on Nov. 29, 2025 at age 88. In this Feb. 28, 1999 “Sunday Morning” profile, the Czech-born Stoppard, who emigrated as a baby to England throughout World War II, talked with Eugenia Zukerman about his probing and intellectually stimulating works; the primary time he had a play carried out on the National Theatre in London; and the love for theater and language inherent in his screenplay for “Shakespeare in Love.” 

FROM THE ARCHIVES: James Cameron on deep-sea exploration (YouTube Video)
The Oscar-winning director of “Titanic” lengthy had a fascination with life on the ocean ground. With cameras and deep-sea submersibles, James Cameron has introduced the intense environments of Earth’s oceans to film screens within the documentaries “Ghosts of the Abyss” and “Aliens of the Deep.” In this Jan. 30, 2005 “Sunday Morning” story, Jerry Bowen talked with Cameron, together with marine biologist Djanna Figueroa, seismologist Maya Tolstoy, and astrobiologists Tori Hoehler and Kevin Hand, about how exploring our planet’s most hostile landscapes will help in planning future manned missions to Mars and past. 

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Metallica, heavy steel rock royalty (YouTube Video)
In their movie, “Metallica Through the Never,” members of the heavy steel band are blown as much as epic measurement in Imax 3-D. Anthony Mason sat down with the Grammy-winning group – Robert Trujillo, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett – to speak concerning the band’s good occasions and unhealthy, in a “Sunday Morning” story that first aired Sept. 29, 2013.      

GALLERY: Notable deaths in 2025
A glance again on the esteemed personalities who’ve left us this yr, who’d touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.

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