As It Happens: Wednesday Edition
Part One
Capitol Hill: Katie Simpson
Pro-Trump protestors storm the U.S. capitol — overwhelming police, halting the certification of Joe Biden's victory, and threatening the democracy they claim to support.
Capitol Hill: Bonnie Watson Coleman
Democratic Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman was inside the capitol and tells Carol Off the ease with which the mob breached security is "incomprehensible."
Republicans: Scott Jennings
We reach a Republican strategist who's calling out President Donald Trump, saying his failure to condemn his supporters' actions is a dereliction of his duty.
Part Two
Hong Kong mass arrests
Fifty pro-democracy activists are rounded up in Hong Kong, but our guest says he's not too worried about being the next one arrested — because that's already happened to him, four times.
Danish penis show
A Danish TV critic says the country's latest provocative children's program is classic Denmark — which doesn't quite explain how a show about a man with a surprisingly long and independent penis made it to air.
Part Three
Eric Jerome Dickey obit
We remember the author Eric Jerome Dickey. For many of his readers, his portrayal of lives like theirs were so astute they made the writer feel like a friend.
Archive: Ingmar Bergman films
After a Swedish film festival offers someone a chance to hole up in a lighthouse all alone watching films — we revisit our chat with a man who watched every single Ingmar Bergman film in one sitting.
Italy COVID knitter
A Canadian expat living in Italy tells us why she's documenting the country's COVID story in knitting.