30 November 2000
Thursday, 30 November, 2000
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MUSIC STING: "Winter Solstice" by the Tea Party from the album "Splendor Solis".
6:37: EBOLA VACCINE: A group of scientists in the United States have managed to successfully vaccinate a group of monkeys against the deadly Ebola Virus. Dr Gary Nabel led this research at the National Institute of Health in Maryland and he joins us to talk about this amazing new advance in medical science.
6:44: POLITICAL UPDATE: Fran Kelly updates the political situation in Canberra.
MUSIC STING: "Space Agent" by Zeb from the compilation album Tripnotic.
6:48: WILDE ANNIVERSARY: On the 100th anniversary of the death of London's self-proclaimed 'Lord of Language', Oscar Wilde, we speak to Sally Brown, co-curator of an exhibition currently underway at the British Museum, 'A Life in 6 Acts'.
7:34: POLITICAL UPDATE: Fran Kelly with another update from the nation's capital.
7:37: FRAN KELLY: Fran Kelly speaks to Meg Lees about the snwoballing Queensldan electoral rorts crisis.
7:43: QUEENSLAND LATEST: Cathy Van Extel reports from Brisbane on the latest in the Queensland electoral rorts crisis.
7:48: WHALE SONG: Michael Noad, a PhD student in the Department of Veterinary Anatomy and Pathology at Sydney University, talks about his discovery that a pod of Pacific humpback whales off Australia's east coast have adopted the mating call of another foreign pod.
7:55: GERARD HENDERSON: Gerard Henderson, director of the Sydney Institute, talks to us about the Queensland electoral rorts crisis.
8:06: AUSSIE ART CRASH: Dennis Salville, principal of Saville Galleries, talks about the boom in the Australian art market of recent times. But, now there are signs the market may have begun to top out, as Australian art sells for a fraction of the prices it was getting.
8:12: SHARKS NOW: Barry Bruce, a research scientist with CSIRO Marine Research, talks about the recent increase in shark attacks and sitings in Australian waters. Is there a genuine risk?
8:22: MAXIM'S BOOK: Beverley Will talks about her book on Maxim's restaurant, renowned as the preferred meeting and eating place of Melbourne's social elite, and touted as possibly the most significant restaurant in Australia.
8:26: IN PRINT: James Reyne reviews a new book about "Beethoven's Hair".

