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Listening to As It Happens is like taking a trip around the world. From the complex headlines of the day to the weird and wacky, As It Happens brings you the story behind the story. Primary Format : Public Broadcasting Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Unknown State/Province : Unknown User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of CBC Radio: The Best of As It Happens Podcasts Methings.com listings of CBC Radio: The Best of As It Happens Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of CBC Radio: The Best of As It Happens As It Happens for Friday, November 20, 2009 * FTR: Military Judge Advocate * Afghan Torture: Int’l Law * FTR: Soldier Gets Vimy Awards * TAPE: Jeanne-Claude Obit * Best Utensil * New EU President * France vs. Ireland Soccer * FOA: The Taking of Pelham 1 The outcome of whats come out. If Richard Colvin's testimony is accurate, one expert tells us, then Canada violated international humanitarian law. Building consensus? Not a chance. A member of a Jewish group against settlements in the occupied territories gives us a window into her thinking. Herman on the mount. The European Union's first permanent president may not be a firebrand -- but he's no Belgian waffler. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, November 19, 2009 * FTR: Afghan Torture QP * Afghan Torture: Colvin Profile * SCR/EMAIL * FTR: Abdullah Abdullah * Katrina US Army Corps * TAPE: Burnt Church Mother * Pen One Humanity Award Capturing a lightning rod in a bottle. We'll find out more about Richard Colvin -- the Canadian diplomat whose testimony about torture in Afghanistan has shocked the country. Close encounters of the fourth-estate kind. A feature interview with Lydia Cacho -- a Mexican journalist who defied beatings and death threats to tell her stories. Once more unto the breach. An American judge finds The Army Corps of Engineers responsible for levee failures during Hurricane Katrina. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, November 18, 2009 * FTR: Richard Colvin * Afghan Torture Testimony * FTR: Obama GITMO Closes * GITMO Closes * SCR: Cenotaph Correction * FDLR Arrests * Dateline: Tortoise Mix-Up * Army Mother Detained Bearing unbearable witness. A Canadian intelligence officer says it's likely that all detainees transferred to Afghan prisons by Canadians were tortured. Necessity puts the mother in detention. An American soldier refuses to go to Afghanistan because she can't find a babysitter -- and is promptly arrested. Keep terrorism suspects at Bay. American officials are seeking a new home for Guantanamo detainees -- but one Congressman says, "Not in my back yard." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, November 17, 2009 * Clayton Willey Case * Mammogram Study * SCR: By the Numbers * Hamster Hotel * NS Tuna Fine * Indian Luger * GG Fiction Winner What's wrong with these pictures. A B.C. Grand Chief demands the RCMP release video footage showing the death of Clayton Willey in custody. Sore luger. A back-and-forth with the man who's carrying all of India's Winter Olympic hopes on his slender shoulders. What's a woman to do? Officials with American Preventive Services cause an uproar with their conclusions on mammograms Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As it Happens for Monday, November 16, 2009 * New Greenpeace Head * CRTC Hearing * FOA: Enid Blyton Ban * FTR: Forgotten Australian * Home Children Apology * SCR: RLS Archive * 9/11 Cancers Greenpeace de resistance. The new head of the conservation group makes saving humanity from itself his top priority. Two sorry situations. Australia apologies to its mistreated British "home children" -- but Canada has no plans to do the same. The truth will set your fees. The CRTC prepares to decide who's right in the battle between cable providers and broadcast networks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, November 13, 2009 * Khadr Trial * German Killers Wikipedia * Ned Kelly * Digital Cloud * UK Nazi Looted Items * Russian Luxury Car * PEI Show Cows * New Killer Whale No trial by jury. The U.S. rules that Omar Khadr will face a military commission, rather than a trial in a civilian court. The loot of all evil. At long last, British museums prepare to return artifacts stolen by the Nazis to their rightful owners. And...out of the belly of a whale. At one point, the future looked black for killer whales near B.C. -- but thanks to a surprise birth, it's now looking black and white. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, November 12, 2009 * Priest Released * Medvedev Speech * Unknown Composer * FDA Oyster Ban * Clip: Facebook Meeps* Pregnant Shark Attack * Script: Musician Hearing* India Nuclear Deal * FTR : Roadside Bomb Soldier * Russian Jour Tonight:No longer a voice crying in the wilderness. After thirty-two days in captivity in the Philippines, a seventy-nine-year-old Irish priest is freed. The oyster was their world. The American Food and Drug Administration bans Gulf Coast oysters -- leaving the people who farm them high and dry. Putin, his feet to the fire. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev goes ballistic about his country's "primitive economy" -- right in front of its former president. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, November 11, 2009 * NB Cenotaph on Remembrance Day * Roy Bennett Trial * Dateline: Reading Rail Money * Giller Prize Winner * John Irving A monumental victory. Despite a devastating act of vandalism on a cenotaph, veterans and citizens turn out en masse for Remembrance Day. Stream of consciousness. A feature interview with John Irving about his reflections on his country, our country, and his new novel Last Night in Twisted River. And...most stories, we're not married to. But in this case, we're espousing more than the Giller-winning book The Bishop's Man -- Carol has espoused its author, Linden MacIntyre. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, November 10, 2009 * Ice Floe Rescue * Emma Thompson * Ticker Tape * Charles Taylor Cross* Hero Train Driver * Alaska Net Loss The guys who came in from the cold. We'll talk to one of three men who leaped from a plane to rescue a teenager trapped on an ice floe in Nunavut. A defendant's defiance. In The Hague, the prosecution begins its cross-examination of Charles Taylor -- who stands accused of war crimes. And...Hitting below the pelt. An infestation leads the government of Saskatchewan to put a bounty on the head of every wild canine in the province. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, November 9, 2009 * Destroyed Cenotaph * El Salvador Flood * Hadron Collider Bread * Alberta Bison * US Healthcare Bill * Priest Sentencing * Fort Hood PTSD Service and disservice. Just before Remembrance Day, vandals inflict heartbreaking damage on a cenotaph in Fredericton. For good and ill. President Obama's health care bill passes after a close vote -- but the legislation is compromised by some pre-existing conditions. A flood of tears. Hurricane Ida unleashes torrential rains and mudslides on El Salvador -- killing more than a hundred-and-twenty people. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Friday, November 6, 2009 * Fort Hood: Soldier * FTR: Gordon Brown * German Deer * SCR: Olympic Red Tape * Riddle Answer * US Internet Negotiations * DA: Korea TV Taxis * Where Was Hernando * Giller Reading They were preparing to take fire overseas -- but not at home. An American soldier opens fire on his colleagues at Fort Hood -- and we'll talk to a soldier who was on the base when it happened. Casting their net wide to shrink yours. An international anti-counterfeiting conference may turn your computer use upside-download. De Soto voce. We hear from an American archaeologist who's found evidence of the travels of sixteenth-century explorer Hernando de Soto. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, November 5 * Fort Hood Shooting * BC Salmon Inquiry * DA: Koop Letter * Story Telling Laureate * FTR: Nfld Helicopter Crash * Inshore Great White Sharks * FTR Abbotsford Heat * Ivory Coast Blackmail One of their own. A shooting a Fort Hood Military Base in Texas leaves several soldiers dead. Sole survivor. The only man to live through a Newfoundland helicopter crash finally tells his story. And...where the gills are. If you think sharks don't cruise around near public beaches -- well, nothing could be closer to the tooth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Wednesday, November 4, 2009 * H1N1: First Nations * TB - H1N1 Flames * CIA Rendition Verdict * Algae Slime Birds * Climate Belief Ruling * Giller Reading * Automatiste Exhibition * Email: Worcestershire Sauce Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, November 3, 2009 * Fletcher on Euthanasia * Euthanasia Announcement * Clip: Levi-Strauss Obit * Giller Reading * Winnipeg TB * Worcestershire Sauce * Ontario Brooklyn Bar The right to die. MP Steven Fletcher -- who was paralyzed in a car accident -- tells us why he'll abstain from a Parliamentary vote on legalizing euthanasia. Reaching a conclusion about reaching conclusions. After years of discussion, the Quebec College of Physicians conditionally endorses euthanasia. It is the best of times, it is the Worcestershire of times. A list of the mystery ingredients in the popular brown sauce proves it is, in part, a labour of cloves. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Monday, November 2, 2009 * Afghan Election Reaction * Afghan Ambassador * FTR: Atleo Massey Lecture * Endangered Languages * H1N1 Vaccine * Dateline Jolt Cola * Arar Case Dismissed * SC: Baritone Domingo Still Karzai after all these years. When a run-off election is cancelled in Afghanistan, the West has to cope with a controversial run-on presidency. Mob vaccine. A shortage of shots causes health officials in Winnipeg to close clinics completely. Taking their words for it. Thousands of languages are endangered -- but a team of linguists works to keep the dialects from dying. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As it Happens for Friday, October 30, 2009 * FTR: Daphne Coffin * Breast Cancer Settlement * Honduras Deal? * Tony Blair & EU * No Pupil School * FTR: Soldier's Mother * PTSD Dallaire * Obit: Ray Browne * OLY: Cowichan Deal Resolution of a testing issue. Victims of Newfoundland and Labrador's breast cancer exam scandal accept a multi-million-dollar settlement. In charge again? Ousted president Manuel Zelaya may just get his job back -- as negotiations to return him to power conclude. And this proves it's the principal that counts. For nineteen years, a headmaster in Scotland presides over a school -- without a single pupil. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Thursday, October 29 * Nowak Deported * NB Power Sale * FTR: MLA Stabbed * United Loses Luggage * Munyaneza Sentencing * Animal Morality * Nudist B&B A guest gets second-guessed. U.N. torture investigator Manfred Nowak arrives for an assignment in Zimbabwe -- and is promptly given the boot. Life after deaths. A Quebec Superior Court judge hands Desire Munyaneza the maximum sentence possible for his role in the Rwandan genocide. Do unto otters as you would have them do unto you. An animal behaviourist explains his theory that animals are capable of "moral intelligence". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As it Happens for Wednesday, October 28, 2009 * UN Kabul Attack * Zimbabwe UN Investigator * FTR: Botched Rescue * Somali Yacht Hijack * DA: Sarkozy Shower * US Drones Alston * TB/Email: Mi'k Maq Choir * Wigs on Cats * SC: Schwarzenegger Veto Anarchy in Afghanistan. A Taliban attack on a U.N. guesthouse, the death of another Canadian soldier -- and ten days until Afghanistan's run-off election. Thinking better of a look at their worst. The Zimbabwean government invites an expert to investigate torture claims -- and then abruptly rescinds the invitation. And...we've all seen cats on rugs. But thanks to the efforts of feline wigmaker Julie Jackson, we can now see rugs on cats. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens for Tuesday, October 27 * Mi'q Maq Choir Minister * Mi'q Maq Choir Follow * Japanese Church * Dateline: Snake Smuggler * TB: Broom Day * FTR: GG Munro * Colvin Legal Bills * FTR: H1N1 La Ronge Hotel * Steppe Bison * SC: Twitterature * Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As It Happens Daily: 2009-10-26 As It Happens for Monday, October 26 * End of Sanctuary* Baghdad Bombing* FTR: Paul Quarrington* Greek Empire* Hillier's Legacy* TB Mi'k Maq Choir* 100 Canadian Photos* Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website