As It Happens: Friday Edition
Part One
North Korea defectors list
Hackers steal the personal data of nearly one thousand North Korean defectors and our guest says it's the families left behind who now face detention or worse.
Polio-like illness
Dr. Erick Sell is a paediatric neurologist at Ottawa's children's hospital who has treated three cases of a rare polio-like disease — but he says doctors still don't know what's causing it.
World's rarest bird
Conservationist Peter Cranswick describes efforts to bring the world's rarest birds back from the brink of extinction — efforts that began in the bathtub in a hotel in Madagascar.
Part Two
Congo protests
Election day is suspended in parts of Congo because of what the electoral commission is calling an outbreak of Ebola. But the opposition leader tells us that the vote should go ahead.
Encore: homeless reunion
Mary MacKillop went a year without hearing from her son, Danny. But earlier this year, we heard about how the pair were reunited, thanks to a special constable with Toronto Community Housing.
Part Three
Encore: The As it Happened Archives - The Against All Odds Edition
Incredible tales of survival, inconceivable chances of birth, and a two-in-a-row one-in-a-million shot — this episode explores what happens when fortune and fervour overcome seemingly insurmountable odds.
As It Happens was produced this week by:
Jeanne Armstrong
Imogen Birchard
Katie Geleff
Sheena Goodyear
Chris Harbord
Sarah Jackson,
Samantha Lui
Ashley Mak, and
John McGill.
Our technician is Reynold Gonsalves.
The show director is Kevin Ball. 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, Rebecca Efrat in the Music Library, Varad Mehta and Luke Williams in Toronto
Adam Carter in Hamilton
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.