As It Happens: The Friday Edition
Part One
Jan. 6: Republican
As Washington begins hearings into last year's riot at the Capitol, a Republican tells us he hopes it's a moment of reflection, and shame, for members of his party who've defended Donald Trump.
Handmade electrical cars
A climate activist has been driving around in an electric car that she built herself out of an old jalopy -- which makes her an ideal person to offer big polluters some constructive criticism.
Lou Reed archive
Never-before-heard recordings of a young Lou Reed are beginning to see the light -- thanks to a new exhibition of material from his personal archives.
Part Two
Antarctica microplastics
It doesn't get much more remote than Antarctica -- so it's not remotely good that researchers have discovered microplastics in the snow of an isolated ice field.
Cancer exhibit
A London museum hopes people will overcome their discomfort to visit an extensive exhibit on cancer -- which looks to inform, inquire -- and ideally, inspire.
Part Three
Northern Ireland curlew camera
A popular webcam proves it's not just rare birds who want to watch rare birds -- and our guest hopes the worldwide interest in a pair of nesting curlews could be lifesaving.
Optical illusions
Researchers showed people an optical illusion that tricked them into thinking they were seeing an expanding black hole. And found their minds reacted -- but so did their pupils.
As It Happens was produced this week by:
Sheena Goodyear
Chris Harbord
Sarah Jackson
Kate McGillivray
Lara O'Brien
Morgan Passi
Kevin Robertson
Olsy Sorokina
Kate Swoger
Chris Trowbridge
and Aloysius Wong.
Our technician is Reynold Gonsalves. The show director is John McGill.
The writers this week are Chloe Shantz-Hilkes and Chris Howden.
Austin Webb is the senior producer of As It Happens. And the Executive Producer of As It Happens is Robin Smythe. Leslie Amminson is our intern.
We'd also like to thank some other people who helped out this week:
Mary-Catherine MacIntosh in Halifax
Susan McKenzie in Montreal
Andreas Bellemare, Tim Lorimer, Nick Purdon, Alex Redekopp, Brandie Wiekle and Luke Williams — all in Toronto
Suzanne Dufresne in Winnipeg
Donna McElligott in Calgary
and Anne Penman in Vancouver.
As It Happens will be back again on Monday. Good night, and good weekend.