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.

Mary Lou Finlay has had an illustrious 35-year career in broadcasting in TV and radio, for the CBC and CTV. She co-hosted Live It Up at CTV (1978?1981) and she helped launch the CBC prime-time news program The Journal in 1982. In 1988 she moved into radio to host Sunday Morning. From 1997 to 2005, she co-hosted As It Happens. This is her first book.

Introduction

One: The Man Who Wouldn't Drown
Two: The Princess of Love
Three: Cabbages and Kings
Four: Tim and Colin and Julie and Yulya
Five: Touching the Earth
Six: Rugged Roses
Seven: The Man in the Bear Suit
Eight: There'll Always Be an England
Nine: Verse and Worse
Ten: Runaway Chevy
Eleven: This Is the Dance Portion
Twelve: The Wrath of Grapes
Thirteen: The Maple Leaf Forever
Fourteen: Millennium Madness
Fifteen: Air India
Sixteen: Mike the Headless Chicken
Seventeen: War and Pax
Eighteen: Mike the Music Man
Nineteen: It's All About Ubuntu

Acknowledgments
As It Happens Interview Credits
As It Happens Producers 1997 to 2003