As It Happens

As It Happens: Tuesday Edition

Dec. 12, 2021

Episode Transcript

Part One

Kentucky Tornado - Candle Factory
A worker at a Kentucky candle factory who was trapped in the wreckage after the weekend's tornado says the business should have done more, or anything, to keep its people safe.

UK Wild Bison Re-Introduced
Bovine intervention. A new bison ranger is brimming with excitement over a project to reintroduce wild bison to a British woodland -- a move he says will help the whole ecosystem.

Utah Gingerbread House
Home extremely sweet home. A Utah interior designer has turned the exterior of her house into an immaculate imitation of a gingerbread home -- and her neighbours are eating it up. 


Part Two

Racial Violence Quilts 
Survivors' Quilt. Her brother is one of dozens depicted on a memorial quilt for Black victims of racial violence -- and our guest tells us it's an image that will stay with her always.

The Oregon Trail Game 50th
Trail blazer. It's been 50 years since the bestselling video game "The Oregon Trail" was created -- and while it earned the respect of Grade 8 students, it earned its co-creators very little money.


Part Three

Cancer Studies Problems
Under the microscope. A researcher looks at pre-clinical cancer studies...and finds fewer than half of them can be replicated.  

New Locked Letters 
Violet tendencies. The Pantone Color Institute predicts a brighter future with the choice of a bold purply-blue as the new hue of twenty-twenty-two, leaving some of us  in a bit of a colour bind.