As It Happens: Friday Edition
Part One
Yemen child death
Ravaged by starvation, her image became a symbol of Yemen's cruel war. Now that she's died, the young girl's mother must find the energy to mourn.
Supreme Court of Canada: Churchill Falls
Canada's highest court rejects Newfoundland and Labrador's bid for a bigger slice of the money Quebec has been raking in from the hydro project at Churchill Falls.
Bob Ross painting classes
In life, Bob Ross was American public television's art-instructor extraordin-hair. Now a class with a cardboard cut-out of the painter has a Michigan library struggling to accommodate all the painters he's inspired.
Part Two
'Lost Words' book
It began as a lark but then an English teacher in the UK built an entire literary ark aimed at saving nature words that the digital age had feretted from the Oxford Junior Dictionary.
WWI banners
A Winnipeg artist raises 900 banners in front of city homes, each with the story of a young man who lived there and who went off to die in the First World War.
Part Three
Assisted death follow-up
A friend's heartfelt tribute to a Nova Scotia woman who died fighting for her right not to undergo a medically-assisted death earlier than she wished.
Twilight Zone auction
In 1960, it terrified Twilight Zone audiences by giving humans the faces of pigs. Now the owner of the sci-fi relic prepares to auction off his mask from the episode, 'The Eye of the Beholder'.
As It Happens was produced this week by:
Jeanne Armstrong
Sarah Cooper
Tracy Fuller
Katie Geleff
Sheena Goodyear
Chris Harbord
Sarah Jackson
Samantha Lui
Ashley Mak
John McGill
Jonathan Ore
Richard Raycraft
Kate Swoger and
Donya Ziaee.
Our technician is Reynold Gonsalves.
The show director is Kevin Ball, and our Assistant Director is John McGill.
The writer this week is Kevin Robertson.
John Perry is our senior producer. And the Executive Producer of As It Happens is Robin Smythe.
We'd also like to thank some other people who helped us out this week:
Mary-Catherine McIntosh in Halifax
Susan McKenzie in Montreal
Kristin Nelson in Ottawa
Keith Hart at Radio Archives
Ashly July, Erin Noel, Ben Shannon, Chloe Shantz-Hilkes and Luke Williams — all 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.