3 July 2000
July 2000
Transcript
Transcript
July 3 - 7
The Voyage South
by Murray Bail
Writer Murray Bail travelled on the container ship, Romance, from Tilbury to Fremantle. During this voyage he compiled this diary of observations and conversations with the captain and crew.
This broadcast coincides with the launch of the all-Australian July edition of the British magazine Granta during Australia Week in London. It is read here by Graeme Blundell.
Murray Bail's most recent novel is Eucalyptus, which won the prestigious Miles Franklin Award in 1999.
Producer-director Anne Wynter
July 10 - 28
Bridge of Triangles
by John Muk Muk Burke
This novel won John Muk Muk Burke the 1993 David Unipon Award, a national literary competition for emerging Aboriginal writers.
To cross the bridge into the landscape of his Wiradjurri ancestors is a need that both torments and sustains young Chris Leeton. Of Irish and Aboriginal descent - an exile in his own land - he struggles to understand the cruel barrier between identity and acceptance while experiencing its inevitable consequences: poverty and family breakdowns.
Sound engineer Russell Stapleton
Adapted produced and directed by Anne Wynter.
