As It Happens

As It Happens: Thursday Full Episode

Thursday, April 26, 2018

Part One

Cosby guilty
Legend of stand-up comedy. Now, guilty of sexual assault. One of the first women to come forward with allegations about Bill Cosby tells us how she feels about today's verdict. 

Testosterone athletes
 New regulations for female athletes will ban those with naturally high testosterone from competition -- and that has some people's blood boiling. 

Texas .5 km race
A Texas town prepares to hold an athletic event that's already something of a running joke: a point-five K race -- I said point- five K -- with a coffee and donut station at the halfway mark.

Part Two

Golden State Killer suspect
Michelle McNamara spent years writing about the Golden State Killer before she died -- and tonight, one of the people who helped finish her book reflects on the news that police have finally arrested a suspect.

Lynching memorial
Bryan Stevenson is the man behind a new memorial to thousands of victims of lynchings that has just opened in Montgomery, Alabama.

Part Three

Prentice Flight: Transportation Safety Board
The Transportation Safety Board says pilot disorientation was likely the cause of the plane crash that killed former Alberta Premier Jim Prentice -- but without a black box recording, we'll never know for sure. 

Penis-scrotum transplant
Surgeons complete the first-ever full penis and scrotum transplant on a wounded war veteran. And one of the doctors in the operating room says the patient's life was profoundly changed by the procedure.