As It Happens: Tuesday Edition
Part One
Russia shuts memorial
A Russian court has shut down the country's oldest civil rights group, Memorial International — accusing it of disparaging Soviet history. But our guest says it's just another attempt to silence dissent.
CDC reduces isolation
The U.S. CDC is bucking the isolation trend and clearing people with COVID from quarantine after just five days, if they're asymptomatic. Something our guest fears is symptomatic of decision-based evidence-making.
Egyptian Pharaoh unwrapped
A researcher in Egypt tells us about the "thrilling" moment her team revealed the face of Amenhotep the First, without removing his funerary mask.
Part Two
Encore: Brian Thomas Isaac
We revisit Carol's conversation with debut novelist Brian Thomas Isaac about being published for the first time in his seventies. And about creating a protagonist whose boyhood bears an uncanny resemblance to his own. The Okanagan First Nation writer says his novel All the Quiet Places is a tribute to his mother — and to his own memories of growing up Indigenous in B.C.'s interior.
Part Three
As It Happened: Occupations
It's another episode in our series: As It Happened: The Archive Edition. Tonight's program is all about occupations. You'll meet an intern who rescued a giant pelican and a disgruntled Chicago Cubs supporter turned free-agent fan. Plus, the official wizard of Christchurch, New Zealand tells us what it takes to achieve ripe old mage. And a champion garden snail racer shares some of the secrets to slimy success.