The CBC played an April Fool's prank on its listeners over the weekend, and ended up fooling a journalism stalwart instead - the Globe and Mail newspaper.

The Globe ran a front page story Monday about, what appeared to be, a terse interview on softwood lumber between CBC Radio host Michael Enright and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

Under the headline Wood chips fly over lumber the Globe reported Carter expressed concern that subsidized Canadian lumber producers will use two-by-fours to pound into submission U.S. border guards standing vigil against a much feared 'wall of wood' from the north.

The Globe reported that Enright referred to Carter as a washed up peanut farmer. A person who sounded like the former president fired back - weren't you on the air once five times a week.

But it turns out the interview was all in jest.

At the end of the program Enright thanked the actor who had impersonated Carter.

A point the Globe reporter appeared to have missed.