The As it happens files

✍ Scribed by Finlay, Mary Lou

• Publisher: Knopf Canada;Vintage Canada
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In 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. Read more...

Abstract: In 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

✦ Subjects

As it happens (Radio program) Interviews -- Canada. Radio journalism -- Canada. Finlay, Mary Lou. As it happens (Émission de radio) Entretiens -- Canada. Radio -- Émissions de nouvelles -- Canada. PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference. Performing arts.