As It Happens

CBC

Hosts Nil Köksal and Chris Howden take you on a trip around the world with CBC Radio's As It Happens. Hear from the people at the centre of the stories of the day — from the urgent to the utterly strange.

  • 31 minutes 45 seconds
    The Shepherd

    A Christmas Eve tradition since 1979. As It Happens presents Frederick Forsyth's The Shepherd, read by our late host “Fireside” Al Maitland.

    24 December 2024, 4:10 pm
  • 50 minutes 25 seconds
    A BC city takes a new approach to attracting doctors

    Plus: New Zealanders know there’s only one way to make the biggest splash. We reach scientists who studied the manu…and its epic impact. 


    And we present Chris Howden’s reading of the Alistair MacLeod short story To Everything There Is a Season.

    23 December 2024, 5:10 am
  • 1 hour 18 minutes
    Liberal MP Wayne Long says it’s time for Trudeau to go

    Plus: We revisit Nil’s conversation with British broadcaster Mishal Husain, whose memoir brings her journalistic skills to bear on own family's story.


    And as we build toward The Shepherd on December 24, tonight’s reading is another “Fireside” Al Maitland classic: The Gift of the Magi.

    20 December 2024, 5:10 am
  • 1 hour 7 minutes
    An activist in Avignon on the heroism of Gisèle Pelicot

    Plus: We reach a medic in Italy who helped rescue a caver trapped deep in the dreaded Bueno Fonteno Abyss.


    Also: Our holiday readings continue. Tonight, former As It Happens host Barbara Budd reads from ‘Who Has Seen the Wind’.

    19 December 2024, 5:10 am
  • 1 hour 11 minutes
    A former US Ambassador to Canada weighs in

    Plus: The director of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation brings the holiday classic home…to Montreal. 


    Also: For 40 years, CBC producer Karen Levine told some of radio's most moving stories, and amplified women's voices on and off the air. Today, she's been appointed to the Order of Canada -- and says she's thrilled at the honour.

    18 December 2024, 5:10 am
  • 1 hour 50 seconds
    ‘Prorogue parliament and resign,’ Liberal MP tells Trudeau

    Plus: Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson is free after Denmark refuses a Japanese extradition request — and he says he's ready to get back to work.


    Also: Ex-Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes says the PM’s feud with Chrystia Freeland is part of a troubling and potentially anti-feminist pattern; and a Wendat lyricist helps reimagine the Huron Carol through an Indigenous lens.

    17 December 2024, 5:10 am
  • 59 minutes 24 seconds
    A shocking resignation has Ottawa on edge

    Plus: New archeological evidence of a horrific cannibal attack that shows the lengths our predecessors might have gone to dehumanize their enemy.

    Also: Postal workers get set to return to work -- but given the backlog and the holiday rush, a small business owner tells us it won't do him much good.

    16 December 2024, 5:10 am
  • 1 hour 1 minute
    The mail could be returning, but resentment lingers

    Plus: An ancient stone tablet of the ten commandments goes up for auction, minus one commandment. It’s still very expensive. 



    Also: Why Switzerland is reinvesting millions in its incredibly comprehensive system of nuclear shelters; and at a combined age of 202 years and 271 days, Marjorie Fiterman and Bernie Littman are the oldest recorded newlyweds ever.

    13 December 2024, 5:10 am
  • 1 hour 5 minutes
    The voice who brought Assad’s brutality to the world

    Plus: Scrim the stray dog has become a New Orleans folk hero. We reach the person working day and night to track him down. 


    Also: We reach Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey, as he negotiates a historic energy deal with Quebec.

    12 December 2024, 5:10 am
  • 1 hour 6 minutes
    A decade later, companies face charges in a mining disaster

    Plus: She helped restore the artwork of Notre-Dame de Paris. Today she sang there as part of a workers choir. 


    Also: The Washington Post’s Dan Diamond brings us the latest on Luigi Mangione and we remember the late, great Amazing Kreskin.

    11 December 2024, 5:10 am
  • 56 minutes 15 seconds
    Repercussions in Europe after the fall of Syria’s regime

    Plus: Kwame Alexander remembers difficult and joyful days with his former teacher, the legendary poet Nikki Giovanni.


    Also: Dahlia Scheindlin on Benjamin Netanyahu’s day in court. 

    10 December 2024, 5:10 am
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