Breakfast

MUSIC STING: "Space Agent" by Zeb from the compilation album "Tripnotic".

6:37: US EXECUTION MORATORIUM:
Rob Freer, a London-based researcher with Amnesty International talks about an open letter sent to Bill Clinton to ask him to put a moratorium on federal executions. This comes less than a month before the scheduled execution of Juan Raul Garza - the first federal death row inmate to be executed since 1963.

MUSIC STING: "So What" from "Ronny Jordan meets DJ Krush".

6:42: US CONFUSION:
Jo Little is a law professor at Florida University. He talks from Gainville. Also, Herb Asher, Emiritus Professor of political science at OHIO State University and author of "Polling and the Public: What every Citizen Should Know". They talk about the legal wrangling over who will be the next US President.

MUSIC STING: "Boardwalk" by Bobby Womack from "Across 110th Street".

7:34: CASSIDY INQUIRY:
Max Prenall, racing editor with the Sydney Morning Herald talks with Helen thomas about Jim Cassidy. The jockey, who rode Diatribe in the Melbourne Cup, is facing an inquiry after his owners and trainers revealled they were unhappy about the way he rode his horse.

7:43: POLITICAL UPDATE:
Michelle Grattan, chief political correspondent with the Sydney Morning Herald talks with Shadow Treasurer Simon Crean.

7:50: GERARD HENDERSON:
The director of the Sydney Institute talks about the tension currently existing between the Federal Government and St Vincent de Paul. The welfare organisation has lashed-out at the Government for sending people no longer eligible for government payments to charitable organisations.

8:06: STRANGE FLORIDA:
Scott Hiassden, reporter with the Palm Beach Post talks from his office about the strange nature of Florida politics.

8:12: BLACK RABBITOHS:
Lyall Munro, member of the Metropolitan Land Council - and a veritable encyclopaedia on the history of Aboriginal sport, talks about the Council's support for the South Sydney Rabbitohs.

8:20: BEATLES BIZ:
Alan Livingstone, president of US music label Capitol Records in the 60s, talks about one of his producers dismissing a young band from the UK as a 'bunch of long-haired kids'. He ignored the advice and signed them anyway and is now thanking his lucky stars he didn't PASS on the biggest band in history. Capitol Records is about to release another Beatles anthology.

8:26: IN PRINT: James Reyne talks with Helen Thomas about "The Big Ask" by Shane Maloney. Published by Text.

Publications

Title: The Big Ask
Author : Shane Maloney
Publisher: Text