As It Happens: Friday Edition
Part One
Afghanistan: reporter
Yesterday, the U.S. military dropped a giant bomb in Afghanistan — but details about the effect of the explosion remain up in the air.
Impaired driving overhaul
Ottawa says it's cracking down on drugged and drunk drivers — but a defence lawyer says they've gone too far with a plan to let police take take breath tests from anyone they choose.
Butterfly sentencing
In an unprecedented ruling, a British man is sentenced for capturing and killing a rare, protected butterfly called the "large blue".
Part Two
Louis Sarno obit: Jim Jarmusch
Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch remembers his friend Louis Sarno — the late American musicologist who loved the music of the Bayacka Pygmies so much he moved to the Central African rainforest.
Part Three
The Optician of Lampedusa
His name is Carmine Menna. He's an optician in Lampedusa. And BBC journalist Emma Jane Kirby found him so compelling that she wrote an award-winning book about Mr. Menna, "The Optician of Lampedusa". Ms. Kirby joins Carol for a feature interview.
As it Happens was produced this week by:
Jeanne Armstrong
Imogen Birchard
Katie Geleff
Sheena Goodyear
Chris Harbord
Samantha Lui
John McGill
Kevin Robertson
Pedro Sanchez
Earvin Solitario
Kate Swoger
and Julian Uzielli.
Our technician is Reynold Gonsalves. The show director is Kevin Ball. Chris Howden is our writer.
John Perry is the Senior Producer. And the Executive Producer of As It Happens is Robin Smythe.
We'd also like to thank some other people who helped put the show together this week:
Mary-Catherine MacIntosh in Halifax
Susan McKenzie in Montreal
Kristin Nelson in Ottawa
Keith Hart, Gary Francis and Penny Cadrain in Toronto
Suzanne Dufresne in Winnipeg
Michael O'Halloran in Calgary
and Anne Penman in Vancouver.
As It Happens will be back again on Monday. Good night, and good weekend.