The As It Happens Files: Radio That May Contain NutsIn the tradition of Peter Gzowski’s The Morningside Papers comes a book that celebrates the great stories and personalities behind As It Happens. For eight years, Mary Lou Finlay had the pleasure of being the co-host of one of CBC Radio’s most enduring institutions. On any given day she and Barbara Budd interviewed people on subjects varying from the Air India investigation to a man who invented a suit that would withstand an attack from a grizzly bear to a cheese-rolling contest in Cheshire. The As It Happens Files gives us the great stories – the hilarious eccentrics, the audience favourites, the poignant moments – that make up, for many Canadians some of the fondest, most vivid memories of the last decade. |
Contents
1 | |
14 | |
Tim and Colin and Julie and Yulya | 39 |
Touching the Earth | 61 |
The Man in the Bear Suit | 82 |
Verse and Worse | 100 |
This Is the Dance Portion | 128 |
The Wrath of Grapes | 149 |
The Maple Leaf Forever | 166 |
Millennium Madness | 184 |
Air India | 207 |
Mike the Headless Chicken | 221 |
War and Pax | 239 |
Mike the Music Man | 260 |
Acknowledgments | 278 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
actually Air India American asked Baghdad Barbara Budd Barbara Frum boat Bolero Cabbage called Canada Canada Council Canadian Canadian Alliance CBC Radio chicken Chuck Strahl Colin course Dennis Mills Diana Don Cherry election Flight going Happens heard Hello hockey honking honku hope interview Iraq Iraqi kids kill knew Kodiak later listeners live look marmots Mary Lou Menomonie Michael Enright Mike never night Okay Ontario Ottawa party play pretty Prime Minister producer programme RCMP Reading remember reporters Reyat Saddam Salam Pax Sheshatshui someone sort space Stanley Cup started Stephen Harper Stockwell Day story studio suit sure talk tell there's thing thought told Toronto Troy Hurtubise trying ubuntu Vancouver Vendée Globe vote weeks wonderful Yeah