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- The Music Show with Andrew Ford
Saturday 17 May, 10am (Rpt 8pm)
Live from Canberra...come and join us!
The Music Show is broadcasting live from the Street Theatre in the national capital as part of the Canberra International Music Festival. Hear live performances and interviews with artists such as Don Byron, Iva Bittova, Lisa Moore, the Grainger Quartet, Claude Delangle, Polygraph Lounge and Alan Hicks. It's a cabaret venue so bring your coffee and anything else...and get along to the Street Theatre (Cnr Childers St and University Ave, Canberra City West) for a 10am kick-off this Saturday.
- The Science Show with Robyn Williams
Saturday17 May, 12pm
Great balls of...something!
They have been seen all over the world and defy explanation. Great hovering balls of lightning. If that's really what it is? Now Canberra physicist Profesor Robert Crompton has collected a file of cases and attempted to vet the theories. Are folk deluded? He thinks not. But the science struggles. And what was a ball of lightning doing floating in a flying aircraft?
Repeated Monday 19 May, 7pm
- All In The Mind with Natasha Mitchell
Saturday 17 May, 1pm
The science of happiness
The pursuit of happiness is a global obsession. But can science investigate its slippery, subjective nature? What are the metrics—self report, brain activity, or the good deeds we do? Five world leaders in the field join Natasha Mitchell in conversation: neuroscientist Richard Davidson, Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, Buddhist scholar B. Alan Wallace, psychologist Daniel Gilbert and philosopher David Chalmers.
Repeated Monday 19 May, 1pm
- Into the Music with Robyn Johnston
Saturday 17 May, 5pm
The Silence
Composer Iain Grandage and actor Humphrey Bower are both men of the theatre, enchanted by the power of storytelling. They collaborated to write a piece for narrator and orchestra, exploring darkly dramatic themes (as well as naughtily childish ones) in The Silence, written for an audience of 8- to 13-year-olds.
Repeated Friday 23 May, 3pm
- Encounter
Sunday 18 May, 7.10am
Australian Inland Mission
Headed by the remarkable Reverend John Flynn, the Presbyterian Australian Inland Mission gave birth to the Royal Flying Doctors Service, 80 years old this year, and the Australian School of the Air. We consider the mission’s history, and its legacy in the Uniting Church’s Frontier Services today.
Repeated Wednesday 21 May, 7pm
- Background Briefing
Sunday 18 May, 9.10am
Peddling influence and money
A new register of some of the biggest 'third party' lobbyists and their clients will go some way to making public who has access to government in Canberra. But most lobbying and schmoozing will continue unchecked through old networks, secret meetings, and confidential discussions.
Repeated Tuesday 20 May, 7pm
- Rear Vision with Annabelle Quince and Keri Phillips
Sunday 18 May, 1pm
Georgia
Since the Republic of Georgia declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, its people have endured corrupt government and periods of civil war. Georgia has also become the arena for a tug of war between the US and a revived Russia. Rear Vision investigates the reasons for this tension.
Repeated Tuesday 20 May, 8.35pm
- Big Ideas
Sunday 18 May, 5pm
Muhammed Yunus
The Grameen Bank is heralded internationally as a lifesaver for tens of thousands of people. Based on the unworldly principle of micro-credit, the bank lends over half-a-billion each year. It invokes inverse rules of banking: if you have nothing they want to know you. Business Week named its founder Muhammed Yunus one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time.
Repeated Saturday 24 May, 7pm
- All In The Mind with Natasha Mitchell
Monday 19 May, 1pm
The science of happiness
The pursuit of happiness is a global obsession. But can science investigate its slippery, subjective nature? What are the metrics—self report, brain activity, or the good deeds we do? Five world leaders in the field join Natasha Mitchell in conversation: neuroscientist Richard Davidson, Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, Buddhist scholar B. Alan Wallace, psychologist Daniel Gilbert and philosopher David Chalmers.
First broadcast Saturday 17 May, 1pm
- Awaye! with Daniel Browning
Monday 19 April, 3pm
Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature
What defines Aboriginal literature? Is it history and politics or are black writers now free to exercise their creativity in works of the imagination? Anita Heiss and Peter Minter have edited a new anthology which, in a chronological way, documents the Aboriginal voice.
First broadcast Saturday 17 April, 3pm
- The Science Show with Robyn Williams
Monday 19 May, 7pm
Great balls of...something!
They have been seen all over the world and defy explanation. Great hovering balls of lightning. If that's really what it is? Now Canberra physicist Profesor Robert Crompton has collected a file of cases and attempted to vet the theories. Are folk deluded? He thinks not. But the science struggles. And what was a ball of lightning doing floating in a flying aircraft?
First broadcast Saturday 17 May, 12pm
- Artworks with Amanda Smith
Tuesday 20 May, 3pm
The legendary Bon
As a teenager Bon Scott played in a Scottish pipe band in Fremantle. He went on to become the archetypal rock star who lived hard and died young. The former lead singer of AC/DC has now attracted artists from all over the country in the Bon Scott Project at the Fremantle Arts Centre.
First broadcast Sunday 18 May, 10am
- Background Briefing
Tuesday 20 May, 7pm
Peddling influence and money
A new register of some of the biggest 'third party' lobbyists and their clients will go some way to making public who has access to government in Canberra. But most lobbying and schmoozing will continue unchecked through old networks, secret meetings, and confidential discussions.
First broadcast Sunday 18 May, 9.10am
- Rear Vision with Annabelle Quince and Keri Phillips
Tuesday 20 May, 8.35pm
Georgia
Since the Republic of Georgia declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, its people have endured corrupt government and periods of civil war. Georgia has also become the arena for a tug of war between the US and a revived Russia. Rear Vision investigates the reasons for this tension.
First broadcast Sunday 18 May, 1pm
- By Design with Alan Saunders
Wednesday 21 May, 3pm
Trends: learning from spiders
Trends and Products is the part of the show where each week we look at what's happening in a particular part of the designed world. And this week the product is very much part of the natural world. We're looking at spider silks, and how what we can learn from common spider webs might help us design some remarkable new man-made products.
First broadcast Saturday 17 May, 9am
- Encounter
Wednesday 21 May, 7pm
Australian Inland Mission
Headed by the remarkable Reverend John Flynn, the Presbyterian Australian Inland Mission gave birth to the Royal Flying Doctors Service, 80 years old this year, and the Australian School of the Air. We consider the mission’s history, and its legacy in the Uniting Church’s Frontier Services today.
First broadcast Sunday 18 May, 7.10am
- Lingua Franca with Maria Zijlstra
Thursday 22 May, 3.45pm
Accent elimination
The daughter of multilingual migrants, American artist Nina Katchadourian has been obsessed with language, translation, communication and miscommunication. In a video project called Accent Elimination she enlisted her parents to explore some of the contradictory aspects of foreign-ness and assimilation.
First broadcast Saturday 17 May, 3.45pm
- In Conversation with Robyn Williams
Thursday 22 May, 7.35pm
Eating the Sun
All plants and animals, (apart from a few bugs in deep vents) depend on the sun to stay alive. Gigantic amounts of sunlight hit the Earth every day and chlorophyll in leaves captures it. We eat the leaves or other parts that they supply, and the cycle goes on. But could we make more of this supply and what are its limits? Now Oliver Morton, news editor of the journal Nature, has written a book called Eating the Sun and the potential is extraordinary.
- The Night Air
Friday 23 May, 9.35pm
Museum
Sound artist, composer and guest curator Robert Iolini explores the changing roles in that storehouse of knowledge and halfway-house for art: the museum. What is a museum? How does art get into a museum? We roam through a diverse collection and (re)arrange the exhibits
First broadcast Sunday 18 May, 8.35pm
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