As It Happens

Plus: Two New Zealand fishermen knew they had a big one on the line, but they didn’t expect to find a shark along for the ride.

Also: Jordan Heber, the Santa Monica painter creating watercolours of lost homes.

Plus: A photographer and model dive deep to get some pictures on the deck of a sunken ship -- and the results are breathtaking and record-breaking.

Also: We reach the former prosecutor who helped put Leonard Peltier in prison, then campaigned for his release.

Interviews with Canada’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson, Thomas A. Saenz of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and more.

Plus: A New Zealand woman sets a new world record for sprinting - on a track covered with Lego. 

Also: Some LA residents who had just gotten into housing find themselves right back where they started thanks to the wildfires;  and an expert provides a nuanced perspective on the ban of Red Dye #3.

Plus: The terrifyingly massive “big boy” that will super size your arachnophobia. 

Also: We speak to one of the Quebec pilots flying water bomber missions over the Los Angeles fires.

Plus: Casey Stoney explains how she’ll lead Canada’s women’s soccer team out of scandal and back into the win column. 

Also: A British pizzeria shows its reluctance to put pineapple on pies by charging the equivalent of 175 dollars Canadian to anyone who dares to order it. And we are pine-appalled.

Plus: On Prince Edward Island, a man nearly gets beaned by a meteorite…and ends up capturing a historic image with his home security system. 

Also: After visiting the region, Canada's Minister for International Development Ahmed Hussen tells us he sees a window of opportunity for countries to support the rebuilding of a peaceful and prosperous Syria.

Plus: Russell Howells hits a “bleak” moment in his long fight to recover a fortune in Bitcoin from a dump in Wales.

Also: A team of Italian physicists think they've found the recipe for the perfect cacio e pepe pasta, featuring…cornstarch?

Plus: Zora Neale Hurston's last novel was almost destroyed in a fire. But the well-timed instincts of a friend helped save it for a new generation. 

Also: We'll hear from the co-owner of a Los Angeles theatre – Public Displays of Altadena – destroyed in the Eaton fire about the livelihoods lost and the fine art of rebuilding.

Plus: That’ll do, donkey. We bid farewell to the beast of burden who served as a model for Shrek’s two-dimensional donkey sidekick.

Also: After our story about a mysterious pile of bananas in England, listeners tipped us off to an equally unexplained phenomenon in Whitehorse.