As It Happens: Wednesday Edition
Part One
Alabama: Black Women Vote
Democrat Doug Jones defeats Republican Roy Moore to become the new Senator from Alabama — and the state owes its un-Moore-ing to one key group of voters: black women.
Norway FM
Norway phases out FM radio in favour of digital — but our guest says his FM stations will remain stationary, and he'll keep broadcasting doubt on the official decision.
Huge Penguin
If you'd met them, nothing would be certain but death and tuxes. Well, we have no idea whether newly-discovered giant penguins were violent — but they were big enough to have rented their formal wear from a store for humans.
Part Two
North Korea Prison System
Comparisons may be odious. But in this case, the things being compared are odious — and when an international criminal court judge says North Korean political prisons are like Nazi concentration camps, he's speaking from experience.
College Renaming
For 37 years after the Civil War, a former slave worked as a janitor at Colby College in Maine — and now, the school's president has decided to name his own home after that man: Samuel Osborne.
Part Three
Baltimore Trial
There have been 328 murders in Baltimore so far in 2017. Solving those murders has been a challenge — because witnesses are refusing to come forward. And with the recent murder of a state witness before he could testify, it's not hard to figure out why.
Encore: Amy Krouse Rosenthal Obit
An encore presentation with a friend of the late Amy Krouse Rosenthal — who wrote the heartbreaking essay, You May Want to Marry My Husband.