As It Happens

As It Happens: Thursday Edition

Dec. 26, 2019

Full Episode Transcript

Part One

Tsunami Anniversary
A decade and a half after the Indian Ocean Tsunami, communities gather around the Bay of Bengal to remember what was lost when the giant waves hit. 

Wearable farm
An architecture professor weaves together worries about climate change and the need to eat into a vest that promises to grow you vegetable so long as you keep it fertilized with human waste. 

Part Two

Encore: WWII video game
A 93-year-old woman tells her grandson about growing up in the middle of the Second World War. Now he's turned her story into a video game about hardship and her human spirit. 

Reading: The Hockey Sweater
It's almost time for the puck to drop on Rock Carrier's annual reading of The Hockey Sweater, the Canadian winter classic about catalogue shopping gone awry.

Part Three

Encore: Scotty Bowman and Ken Dryden
Scotty Bowman won more Stanley Cups than any other NHL coach — and tonight we've got the man himself teamed up with former Montreal Canadiens goalie Ken Dryden as we revisit their book about Scotty's life behind the bench — and on the ice.