The As It Happens Files Radio That May Contain Nuts

In the tradition of Peter Gzowski'sThe Morningside Paperscomes a book that celebrates the great stories and personalities behindAs 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 Filesgives 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. From the Hardcover edition.

Mary Lou Finlay has had an illustrious 35-year career in broadcasting in TV and radio, for the CBC and CTV. She co-hosted Live It Up at CTV (1978—1981) and she helped launch the CBC prime-time news program The Journal in 1982. In 1988 she moved into radio to host Sunday Morning. From 1997 to 2005, she co-hosted As It Happens. This is her first book.


From the Hardcover edition.

Introduction

One: The Man Who Wouldn’t Drown
Two: The Princess of Love
Three: Cabbages and Kings
Four: Tim and Colin and Julie and Yulya
Five: Touching the Earth
Six: Rugged Roses
Seven: The Man in the Bear Suit
Eight: There’ll Always Be an England
Nine: Verse and Worse
Ten: Runaway Chevy
Eleven: This Is the Dance Portion
Twelve: The Wrath of Grapes
Thirteen: The Maple Leaf Forever
Fourteen: Millennium Madness
Fifteen: Air India
Sixteen: Mike the Headless Chicken
Seventeen: War and Pax
Eighteen: Mike the Music Man
Nineteen: It’s All About Ubuntu

Acknowledgments
As It Happens Interview Credits
As It Happens Producers 1997 to 2003