As It Happens

As It Happens: Wednesday Edition

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Full episode transcript

PART 1

Bill O'Reilly

​Bill O'Reilly is out of a job. Today, the host of "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News was given the boot, amid a growing number of sexual harassment allegations against him.  

Racial Testimony

Buck may not stop here after all. Twenty years after Duane Buck was put on Death Row, partly due to racist testimony from a so-called "expert witness", a Texas court vacates his death sentence.

Secret Tomb

"I've found a secret tomb," he said gravely. When renovations began at a London museum, its director never dreamed workers would uncover a mysterious crypt containing the remains of five Archbishops of Canterbury. 

PART 2

Dreamer deported

A rude awakening. Jose Manuel Montes is a so-called DREAM-er -- an undocumented immigrant who moved to the U.S. as a child. Now, he's been sent back to Mexico -- and appears to be the first DREAM-er deported under President Trump. 

Sylvia Moy Obit

And...without her, he could have been a one-hit Wonder. Remembering the woman who saved Stevie Wonder's career when Motown wanted to drop him: the late songwriter and producer Sylvia Moy. 

PART 3

Dairy farmer

David Wiens says Donald Trump has some things to learn about Canadians and their cows. Mr. Wiens is a Manitoba milk producer and the chair of the Dairy Farmers of Manitoba. 

Short story prize

When asked to describe her CBC Short Story prize entry in five-ish words, Alix Hawley declared: "Soldier comes home, girlfriend flips." Her short story was selected from eighteen-hundred submissions to the CBC Short Story Prize.