Past Programs
Books - 2005
A Crude Realisation About Oil
28/05/2005
Oil is a resource we cannot live without, yet few of us know how and when it was discovered -- or how many products are made from it or are dependent on it, from cars to fertilizers and pesticides, plastics -- and even stockings.
Corporations and nations have gone into battle over finding and owning this liquid gold.
Yet it is a finite resource and debate has been stirring on when levels of oil will start declining, and what we will do then.
Holocaust Denial
21/05/2005
Deborah Lipstadt on her long, ultimately successful, legal battle with Holocaust denier, David Irving.
Writers' Houses
12/02/2005
Next Sunday in Sydney's Centennial Park The National Trust of Australia will launch its public appeal for funding to acquire the former home of this country's only Nobel Prize-winning author, the late Patrick White.
The Trust is appealing to federal, state and local governments as well as the public in an effort to raise the four million dollars needed to keep the house in public hands and run it as a writers' centre.
There are numerous examples around the world of writers' houses that have been kept either as house museums or writers' centres. Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam for instance. And most notably in Australia there's Varuna, the Blue Mountains home-turned-writer's-retreat, of novelist Eleanor Dark.
We explore the place of the writer's house and the contribution they make to cultural life.
Want to help keep the White house in public hands?
The rally for Patrick White's house is on Sunday, February 20, at 11am in Centennial Park (near Martin Road gates, inside Park, in front of Patrick White's house. Speakers include Tom Keneally AO, Jack Mundey AO, Kate Fitzpatrick and Kerry Walker.
