As It Happens

As It Happens: Tuesday Edition

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Full episode transcript

Part One

Fentanyl addict
Three months ago, Kati Mather was a hard-core fentanyl addict who had overdosed 17 times. Now she's been clean for 60 days — and tonight, she'll tell us how she turned her life around. 

Turkey photographer
Our guest was there to photograph the art opening at the gallery in Turkey yesterday — and even after the gunman started firing, Burhan Ozbilici kept taking pictures. 

Iceland weather man
An Icelandic meteorologist keeps blocking half the country while he's giving his forecasts — and the people he's standing in front of will no longer stand for his stance.  

Part Two

Reading: "To Everything There Is A Season"
When presents are less important than presence of mind. In tonight's story by the late, great Alistair MacLeod, one family's Christmas in Cape Breton is full of epiphanies — not all of them merry. 

Part Three

As it Happened: The Frank Episode
In our frank assessment, you'll hear no franker half-hour of radio than tonight's trip into the "As It Happens" archives — on the theme of people being, or people being named,  Frank.