As It Happens: Thursday Edition

Part One

BC hospital help
The weather in British Columbia made it impossible to transfer an injured man — so a doctor and his colleagues made an hours-long journey to take the ICU to the patient. 

Exoneration Malcolm X
Two men who spent decades in prison for the murder of Malcolm X have just had their convictions thrown out — but our guest says the damage of that injustice cannot be undone.

12th Century poem find
A scholar of early English literature discovers two hugely significant fragments of medieval text — on bits of paper used to reinforce the binding of another, later book. 

Part Two

Apple right to repair
Time was we weren't welcome around those parts. But now Apple says it'll send us the parts, and let us repair our own devices — although a right-to-repair activist says there's a reason the company's mending its ways. 

Soane medal
Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum believes design should serve all people, not just the wealthy — and now she's been honoured for honouring that vision. 

Part Three

Chinese tennis player missing
Tennis commentator Stephanie Myles delves into the mystery surrounding Peng Shuai — the Chinese doubles champ who put accused a Communist Party official of sexual assault, and hasn't been seen since. 

UK smallest car drive 
The little engine that could. Well, actually the whole car is little. Smallest in the world, in fact. And our guest is driving the thing some 14-hundred kilometres down the whole length of Britain. He says there's a simple reason for that: he's got weird interests.