As It Happens
As It Happens is a long running interview show on CBC Radio One in Canada. It has long been one of the most popular and acclaimed shows on CBC radio.The show was introduced in 1968 as a reverse call-in show - rather than having the public call in, the reporters at As It Happens would call newsmakers and pundits for their opinions.
In its history, the show has had many notable interviews. These include:
- the wife of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn just after his arrest
- Sandra Good[?], the best friend of Squeaky Fromme[?], just after her friend had shot Gerald Ford
- A Rwandan woman seemingly moments away from being killed by Tutsi militia in during the 1995 genocide - she stayed on the phone with As It Happens up to the point when the attackers knocked on her door
Despite the gravity of many of its stories, As It Happens is also well known for being very light hearted and carrying much news of the obscure and bizarre. For instance, for two or three years during the early nineties there were updates on the battle over a large fiberglass fish that annoyed a neighbour in England. The show is also well known for noting how far each city in the UK is from Reading.
The show is broadcast each day between 6:30 and 8:00 pm throughout Canada, and can be heard throughout much of the northern United States. As It Happens can be heard on Radio Canada International[?] and on the internet via streaming audio[?]. In some areas of the US, the program is carried on National Public Radio.
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were likely to be ashamed of their parents, and to despise their humble
their dinners of two courses, and their horses and grooms, he suggested
as brushing their clothes, and cleaning their boots and shoes; that they
activity, he added, would render them robust, enable them to bear the
and to inspire the respect and obedience of the soldiers under their
that he never deviated from these principles. The establishment of the
pronounced his opinion openly and decidedly, he did not remain long at
of him, accelerated the period of his examination, and he obtained the
I proceeded in the following year to Vienna, with a letter of
Embassy at the Court of Austria.
I remained two months at Vienna, where I had the honour of twice seeing
his dignified and elegant manners, and graceful conversation, will never
me in the first steps of diplomacy, he advised me to go to one of the
I accordingly repaired to Leipsic, about the time when the French
law of nations, and the German and English languages. I afterwards
1791 and 1792 at Warsaw, where I was most graciously received by Princess
the sister of Prince Poniatowski. The Princess was very well informed,
several evenings in company with the King in a circle small enough to
frequently asked me to read the Moniteur; the speeches to which he
Princess Tyszicwiez wished to print at Warsaw, at her own expense, a
I gave the title of 'L'Inconnu'."
--[A play known on the English stage as The Stranger.]--
I arrived at Vienna on the 26th of March 1792, when I was informed of the
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