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Summaries of programs 2001
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December 2001
- Von Trapped
Saturday 01/12/2001
A woman obsessed by The Sound of Music
- Three by Three
Sunday 02/12/2001
An obsession with 3's
- A Contrary Woman
Saturday 08/12/2001
The story of Ruth Blatt
- Looking Back Now...
Sunday 09/12/2001
Two life stories from the United States.
- Glass Towers on Shifting Sand
Saturday 15/12/2001
Examines the 'new contract' being forged between the worker and the corporation.
- Artists' Lives
Sunday 16/12/2001
What relationship is there between playing violin, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and furtive sex?
- It's the Day's. Lucy's
Saturday 22/12/2001
Christmas rituals in Sweden
- A Big Affair
Sunday 23/12/2001
Can love between a man and an elephant endure?
- Dusted by Pindan
Saturday 29/12/2001
Tales from a Pilbara Sojourn.
- The Exorcist & Me
Sunday 30/12/2001
The story of a pivotal childhood moment centred around the film The Exorcist.
November 2001
- Strong Language
Saturday 03/11/2001
Strong Language examines the importance of language to Aboriginal people.
- Life Outside
Sunday 04/11/2001
The story of Bryan Gillam.
- Ocean of Time
Saturday 10/11/2001
Rare sound recordings of the voices and sounds of the Pacific region.
- Ocean of Time Part 2
Sunday 11/11/2001
- Mai I Te Kü Ki Te Kütä: A View of Maori Music
Saturday 17/11/2001
The Maori strategy of adapting and altering sounds.
- New Pacific City
Sunday 18/11/2001
Perspectives on Maori and Islander identity and culture.
- Timor Hananu - Timor Sings
Saturday 24/11/2001
During the occupation of East Timor, the Indonesian soldiers told the people that, after the independence ballot, only the birds would remain to sing in East Timor - that there would be no people left.
- A Refugee Returns
Sunday 25/11/2001
The story of a Vietnamese refugee in Canada.
October 2001
- I Love You Jimmie
Saturday 06/10/2001
From 1968 until his death in 1972, Jimmie Barker, a Muruwari man from north-western NSW, recorded onto tape more than one hundred hours of language documentation, myths, songs, and autobiographical reflections. In this program Jimmie Barker tells the poignant story of a most formative experience from his early life, his first taste of romantic love.
- Reflections on Yemen
Sunday 07/10/2001
Each year fashion designer Mariana Hardwick takes tour groups to Yemen.
- Eric & Milena
Saturday 13/10/2001
Stories of love.
- Most of My Dreams are About Dancing
Sunday 14/10/2001
Amanda Keast lost the use of her arms, legs and lungs after a traffic accident
- Love, Sex, Art and Communism
Saturday 20/10/2001
"Senora, in future, everyone will be an artist, like yourself, we will create the conditions for it. There will be no such thing as the individual artist", Leon Trotsky from In The Blue House by Meaghan Delahunt
- Intimacies
Sunday 21/10/2001
A suite of short stories for radio.
- Mucho Corazon
Saturday 27/10/2001
A love story for the radio.
- Travelsick
Sunday 28/10/2001
So you like the idea of travel...
September 2001
- Ana's Story
Saturday 01/09/2001
Over 10 years ago, Ana and Pat and her husband Paul featured in a documentary about premature babies.
- Karaoke Counsellor
Sunday 02/09/2001
An obsession with karaoke goes too far...
- Knitting with Dog Hair
Saturday 08/09/2001
From its origins in fifteenth century Spain to the contemporary practice of this fun and ecologically-friendly hobby, this program includes tips on harvesting, spinning, garment design and odour management.
- Nylons
Sunday 09/09/2001
During the way years, Nylon took on a special significance; as currency, gift, luxury and vice.
- Chatwinesque
Saturday 15/09/2001
A prismatic portrait of the legendary writer Bruce Chatwin, who died in 1989.
- City of Glass
Sunday 16/09/2001
Alana Valentine took up the offer of a residency at the Booranga Writers' Centre on the campus of Charles Sturt University.
- Trawler
Saturday 22/09/2001
Jeremy Smith is a trawler fisherman in a small coastal town.
- Deeper and Deeper
Sunday 23/09/2001
...your eyes are getting heavy...'
- The Green Divide
Saturday 29/09/2001
This is the story of a community divided over a 'community' vision.
- Hawaii
Sunday 30/09/2001
American radio maker Joe Frank returns to Radio-Eye with another of his inimitable productions.
August 2001
- Try Not to Breathe
Saturday 04/08/2001
Ever feel like you're being watched?
- Return to the Kalahari
Sunday 05/08/2001
The story of the Khoisan people of the southern Kalahari and their battle for their land and their language.
- Mandatory Sentences
Saturday 11/08/2001
Last year composer Robert Iolini conducted a series of workshops with Aboriginal kids at the Don Dale Detention Centre in Darwin.
- Articulating the Indigenous
Sunday 12/08/2001
What does it mean when we name a people or a culture as 'indigenous'?
- Unlaced: A Passion for Shoes
Saturday 18/08/2001
A program for foot fetishists and lovers of beautiful shoes.
- Underground
Sunday 19/08/2001
Underground is about the dangers miners face in doing their jobs.
- Rhino Diary
Saturday 25/08/2001
An exploration of the nose in story and music.
- Reverberations
Sunday 26/08/2001
Chris Shakallis explores the sonic and therapeutic qualities of Tibetan singing bowls.
July 2001
- Greetings from White Australia
Sunday 01/07/2001
A look at the mass-produced Aboriginalia we now call kitsch.
- An Everyday Story of Country Folk
Saturday 07/07/2001
Britain's countryside, at the height of the Foot and Mouth crisis, is a mad, surreal place.
- Ocean Saga
Sunday 08/07/2001
A sailing trip turns to disaster and an American couple are pushed to the limits of their endurance.
- Walking Well Worn Paths
Saturday 14/07/2001
Writer Randolph Stow writes about the relationship between white Australian psyche and the harsh landscape of the country.
- Shark Attack
Sunday 15/07/2001
The horrific story of a shark attack.
- Affairs of the Mind
Saturday 21/07/2001
A jilted wife, her private detective, and their.
- Casanova (...the camera cuts away)
Sunday 22/07/2001
In 1995 a male performer in the 'adult entertainment industry' committed suicide, shooting himself in the head on his ex-girlfriend's doorstep.
- Pretending
Saturday 28/07/2001
This program examines the circumstances surrounding the conviction for the murder of Melbourne man Jamie Koeleman.
- Joe Frank
Sunday 29/07/2001
Joe Frank is a broadcaster in the US who makes compelling entertainment of people's fears and phobias.
June 2001
- Native Dog or Devil Dingo
Saturday 02/06/2001
The Australian dingo - dangerous pest or national icon?
- My Cocaine Museum
Sunday 03/06/2001
Michael Taussig discusses the effects of gold and cocaine on the economy of Columbia
- Lingua Music on Tour
Saturday 09/06/2001
Roma Randles has been conducting classical music tours of Europe for 14 years
- No Radio-eye - Goons Special
Sunday 10/06/2001
- Travellers not Tourists
Saturday 16/06/2001
Harvey Broadbent discovers the growing dynamic force of cultural tourism
- Hope - Part 1
Sunday 17/06/2001
Mary Zournazi talks with philosophers in Australia, Europe and the United States about their idea of hope and how it can - and must - be sustained in the midst of cynicism and despair. Link includes 24 Hours article.
- 101 Degrees - The Beaumont Children
Saturday 23/06/2001
On Australia Day 1966 three children disappeared from Adelaide's Glenelg Beach
- Hope - Part 2
Sunday 24/06/2001
Continuing the feature in which Mary Zournazi talks with world philosophers about their ideas of hope. Link includes text of 24 Hours Magazine article.
- A Child's Garden of Voices
Saturday 30/06/2001
Four decades ago, the Thorne family of Sydney won 100 thousand pounds in the Opera House lottery. Then their 8-year old son was kidnapped
May 2001
- Elijah's Cup
Saturday 05/05/2001
Over the past few years, some twenty thousand refugees and asylum seekers have arrived in Ireland
- In the Jewish History Museum
Sunday 06/05/2001
Christos Tsiolkas in conversation with Mary Zournazi
- Timor Hananu - Timor Sings
Saturday 12/05/2001
Radio Eye joins the Timorese choir, Anim Murak, and the residents of Kangaroo Valley for a very special concert
- No Program due to Deakin Lecture
Sunday 13/05/2001
- Heart of the Journey
Saturday 19/05/2001
Lucy Dann is 40 when she travels to meet her father for the first time. The journey takes her from Broome in Western Australia to a fishing village in Japan.
- No program due to Deakin Lecture
Sunday 20/05/2001
- Alice Wonderland
Saturday 26/05/2001
German independent radio producer Ursula Weck spent more than a year in Alice Springs. Alice Wonderland is her response.
- Betwitched
Sunday 27/05/2001
People with Tourette's Syndrome talk about living with tics.
April 2001
- Von Trapped
Sunday 01/04/2001
A dark tale about a woman obsessed with The Sound of Music
- Last Days at Big Harry's Place
Saturday 07/04/2001
The end of steelmaking at BHP's Newcastle works prompted scenes unprecedented in Australian industrial history
- Cinema of Solitude
Sunday 08/04/2001
French film-maker Robert Bresson created one of the most distinctive bodies of work in world cinema
- The Certainty of Uncertainty
Saturday 14/04/2001
The final of Radio-eye's Newcastle trilogy documents working life post BHP
- Smoke in the Woods
Sunday 15/04/2001
Memories of 50s milk-bar Sydney and the Greek island of Kythera
- Assembly Line in the Head
Saturday 21/04/2001
Call centres - does anyone have a kind word to say about them?
- Watching Silently Weeps
Sunday 22/04/2001
A program about a composer writing the score for a new version of one of the great film classics
- Working it Out
Saturday 28/04/2001
How a couple put their lifestyle on the line to launch a new business
- Camera natura
Sunday 29/04/2001
How has what we've seen in the cinema influenced our connection to the Australian landscape?
March 2001
- The Blackwater Estuary - Britain's Tropical Rainforest
Saturday 03/03/2001
The first in Radio Eye's Global Perspectives series in which broadcasters from around the world look at the way climate change and environmental neglect are putting nature in the balance
- Tape Buggery
Sunday 04/03/2001
A feature exploring the world of hoaxers and impersonators
- No Word for Robin
Saturday 10/03/2001
The second program in Radio Eye's Global Perspectives series looks at some effects of climate change in Canada's western Arctic
- The Luther Blissett Enigma
Sunday 11/03/2001
This feature charts the history of Luther Blissett from his humble beginnings as a footballer to his mutation into an international cultural virus
- Fire and Ice
Saturday 17/03/2001
The third in Radio Eye's Global Perspective series examines methods of tracking large-scale climate change including methods such as tree ring research
- Young People Against Heavy Metal T-shirts
Sunday 18/03/2001
Does young people's moral decline have anything to do with Heavy metal t-shirts?
- Kiribati in Crisis
Saturday 24/03/2001
The fourth in Radio Eye's Global Perspective series looks at what happens to a low-lying atoll nation as sea levels rise
- Living in Negativeland
Sunday 25/03/2001
The San Francisco-based group Negativland has spent two decades deconstructing media sounds and images and 'shuffling the pieces back into very different shapes'.
February 2001
January 2001
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