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Summaries of programs 2002
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When possible, the most recent programs are available with audio.
December 2003
- A Little Before 'Tis Day
Saturday 20/12/2003
A cool treat for an Aussie Christmas, 'A Little Before ‘Tis Day' is a joyous celebration of a Christmas tradition from the snowy north of Canada.
- A Day in Baghdad
Saturday 13/12/2003
Australian film maker Kylie Grey first went to Baghdad before the US-led invasion. She returned two months after President Bush declared the fighting over. 'A Day in Baghdad' is her intimate portrait of one day spent in a city where anything can happen, and nothing is stable. She has lunch with a women’s rights activist who carries a gun and has employed a bodyguard, chats to a US soldier at a dangerous checkpoint, is chatted up by a poet in a café and goes out of town to inspect an unexploded bomb embedded in a living room floor. On the way home she has her bottom pinched at a street party and tries to film a dead body on the street. Another day in Baghdad.
- Not Spain
Saturday 13/12/2003
Natalie Kestecher’s account of a brief time spent in, well, a version of Spain. Entertaining, eccentric and intriguing, this is a holiday in Spain like you’ve probably never had, and probably don’t want to.
- The Battlers
Saturday 06/12/2003
This week Radio Eye accompanies the volunteers of St Vincent de Paul past the million dollar real estate, the mansions, swimming pools and harbour views of Sydney's Eastern Suburbs and into the homes and lives of people unable to afford to buy their own food, clothe their kids or pay their electricity bills.
November 2003
- Americana
Saturday 29/11/2003
The year is 1976. Niels Peter Juell Larsen hires a car and sets off on a journey through the American south. His journey becomes an epic, a series of encounters with farmers, miners, the unemployed and self-made millionaires. Moving, engrossing, confronting, this is an America where abject poverty is just down the road a ways from the plantation owner's mansion.
- The Double Life of Raymond Carver
Saturday 22/11/2003
There is in the soul a desire for not thinking.
The Double Life of Raymond Carver is a moving audio portrait of the man and the artist. Austrian radio producer Alfred Koch travelled to America to the places where Carver lived, worked and is now buried. He interviewed both Carver's first and second wives, and integrated archival recordings and readings of Carver's work to create this elegant and engaging documentary about a quintessentially American writer.
- This is America Calling: French Resistance
Saturday 15/11/2003
The United States of America is not simply the most powerful economic and military force ever known, it is also a state of mind, a culture which has profoundly affected the rest of the world. To invoke ‘America’ is to invoke myth, history, fear and desire all at once. In this series of programs,writers, journalists, sound artists and documentary producers from Australia, Europe and the U.S. explore the idea of America.
- This is America Calling: Cars & Consumption
Saturday 08/11/2003
The United States of America is not simply the most powerful economic and military force ever known, it is also a state of mind, a culture which has profoundly affected the rest of the world. To invoke ‘America’ is to invoke myth, history, fear and desire all at once. In this series of programs,writers, journalists, sound artists and documentary producers from Australia, Europe and the U.S. explore the idea of America.
- Intelligence - The Second Oldest Profession
Saturday 01/11/2003
Since the Bali and 9/11 terrorist attacks the demand for intelligent Intelligence has rarely been greater. In Australia the fridge magnet campaign encourages all of us to become potential spies….
October 2003
- Crossing the River : Stories from a Long Journey
Saturday 25/10/2003
Three stories from refugees who have only recently arrived in Australia. While each story has much in common – loss, endurance, the quest for a safe haven – each story is also unique, an insight into one person’s life. Entertaining, moving, insightful, these are stories from men and women who have crossed borders in search of something more than mere survival.
- Dear Afghanistan
Saturday 25/10/2003
Rukhshana Sarwar fled a war torn Afghanistan in 1997 to start a new life in Sydney. However immigration procedures meant that she was separated from her family in Afghanistan for over a year.
- Refugee
Saturday 25/10/2003
- Salwa's Story
Saturday 25/10/2003
For Salwa Yousif, growing up in Baghdad was a frightening experience. The traumas of war and army conscription were responsible for many of the lows in Salwa’s early life. Fleeing Iraq 5 years ago to marry her fiancee, Salwa now lives and studies in Australia. However separation from her parents and siblings who found refuge in Denmark means that life can sometimes be lonely.
- Mirrar Ground
Saturday 18/10/2003
The Ranger Uranium mine in the Kakadu National Park has been in operation for more than 20 years. Mining company ERA (Energy Resources of Australia – now owned by Rio Tinto) began construction of a second uranium mine at the neighbouring Jabiluka site in 1998, but the work met with fierce public protests, organised to support the opposition to the mine from the traditional owners of the both the Ranger and Jabiluka sites, the Mirrar clan.
- Food, Music & the Untouchable Revolution
Saturday 11/10/2003
Can the act of cooking and sharing food be the foundation of a revolution? This documentary feature by Melbourne based teacher and activist Julian Silverman explores the connections between food, music and community activism in transforming the lives of the ‘untouchables’, or dalit people in the southern Indian state of Kerala.
- For the Love of Harmony
Saturday 04/10/2003
This year the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir celebrates 150 years of belting out oratorios, cantatas, and masses. A philharmonic choir is an unwieldy beast, with hundreds of volunteer singers who need to be both inspired and disciplined. And of course, making music on such a grand scale is also an expensive business – rehearsal space needs to be hired and every public concert is a major undertaking. Yet despite intermittent financial catastrophe and tempestuous passions, the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic continues to flourish, attracting devoted choristers as diverse a 19 year old rock singer and a 104 year old veteran who has stuck with the Phil since the 1930s.
September 2003
August 2003
- Journey to the Ice Edge
Saturday 30/08/2003
A ‘contemporary classic’, a beautiful and provocative documentary by the reclusive Danish producer Niels Peter Juel Larsen.
- Two Feet and a Heartbeat
Saturday 23/08/2003
- This is Jimmie Barker
Saturday 16/08/2003
- Last Voice of an Ancient Tongue
Saturday 09/08/2003
This takes us to the edge of the Kalahari Desert in South Africa, with a story that spans three languages, thousands of years and a single lifetime.
- Jason and the Thunderbirds
Saturday 02/08/2003
A classic piece of ‘gritty Northern realism', Jason and the Thunderbirds is a sometimes harrowing glimpse into life on a Glasgow housing estate.
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