7 July 1999
August 1999
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Transcript
This transcript was typed from a recording of the program. The ABC cannot guarantee its complete accuracy because of the possibility of mishearing and occasional difficulty in identifying speakers.
July 19 - Aug 20
Night Letters
by Robert Dessaix
read by the author
What would you do if you received news that you are dying?
Robert is shocked by the news, which comes out of the blue. He takes a journey through Switzerland and northern Italy to Venice. He writes twenty letters home, charting his journey, the places he visits, the people he meets, and the stories he hears. The letters also chart his journey from panic and despair to a state of grace in which he finds ways to live with the knowledge of his own mortality.
Night Letters won various awards in 1997, including the ASEL Gold Medal. It was short-listed for the 1997 Miles Franklin Award, and for both the NSW and Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. It was also judged Australian booksellers' favourite book of the year. Writer and broadcaster Robert Dessaix's latest book is ...and so forth.
Robert Dessaix's reading of Night Letters was first broadcast in February last year. Cassettes of the reading are available from ABC Shops and booksellers.
Published in paperback by Picador.
Adapted and produced by Kate Bochner
August 23 - September l0
Last of the Sane Days
by Fiona Capp
"Way back before his body became his enemy or he had even heard of Friedrich Nietzsche, a boy named Rafael sat at his bedroom window and waited for a silvery-white flash to appear in the blue dome of the sky."
Fiona Capp's new novel is a story of ambivalence - philosophical, sexual and emotional as a relationship develops between Rafael and Dr Hilary Noon.
Their paths cross as Hilary travels Europe, haunted by her loss of faith in medicine, and Raf embarks on a pilgrimage in Nietzsche's footsteps, fascinated by the philosopher's writings and his similar experience of constant and inexplicable pain.
Last of the Sane Days, published this year by Allen & Unwin is the second novel by Melbourne writer Fiona Capp. Her first, Night Surfing, was published in l996 and has been reprinted three times.
Reader Leith Taylor
Sound engineer: David le May
Adapted and produced by Christine Kinsella
The Radio National Short Story
Radio National, Sundays at 8.30am and 8.15pm
August 1
Distant Lands
by Tim Winton
August 8
The Chaplet
by Saki
August 15
The Bond
by Louise Mack
August 22
Love and Nuts
by Julian Davies
August 29
The Tramp
by Barbara Baynton
The ABC Classic FM Short Story
Tuesdays at 1.45pm
August 3
Tell us About the Turkey Jo
by Alan Marshall
August 10
Relics of the Past
by Gillian Mears
August 17
Sredni Vashtar
by Saki
August 24
Various Actions, Capricious Forms
by Moya Costello
August 31
The Boatman of Lake Burley Griffin
by Dorothy Johnston
