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Celebrating CBC's As It Happens
From coast to coast and around the world on shortwave, As It Happens has been informing and entertaining listeners for 35 years. Whether it's chatting with the grower of the world's biggest cabbage or confronting a member of the Manson gang, As It Happens has tackled it all with an informative yet irreverent style. Armed with the simplest of technology — the telephone — the "world's greatest radio show" has been revolutionizing the medium ever since it first aired on Nov. 18, 1968.

	Radio revolution		'Goddamn cabbage!'		Ten years of As It Happens
	CBC Radio gambles and wins big on an innovative prime-time program. (TV; runs 8:54)		Barbara Frum's hilarious attempt to interview the grower of the world's biggest cabbage. (Radio; runs 3:30)		A perky earl, a nervous beaver and some Christmas cheer mark the show's 10th anniversary. (Radio; runs 49:38)

	The prime minister's wife goes clubbing		Looking back at her 'I am a man' interview		Fireside Al retires
	Margaret Trudeau parties with the Stones, and the press has a field day. (Radio; runs 2:23)		Barbara Frum looks back on her famous interview with Sandra Good of the Manson gang with Michael Enright. (Radio; runs 3:13)		CBC Radio pays tribute the longest serving host of As It Happens, Alan Maitland. (TV; runs 3:25)

	Three decades of As It Happens
	Former hosts gather to celebrate the show's 30th birthday. (TV; runs 2:21)

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