Listen Now - 09102008 | Download Audio - 09102008
In the late 1930s and 1940s, playwright Oriel Gray was a bright star in Sydney's bohemian literary and artistic milieu. She began her long career writing political revues and plays for the New Theatre, which operated under the stern patronage of the Communist Party of Australia.
Listen Now - 02102008 | Download Audio - 02102008
With just a pair of scissors, a sheet of black paper and nimble hands, John Ross has been cutting silhouettes for 65 years. From Detroit's Put-in-Bay Steamer to the humid tents of WW2 Philippines to the Australian agricultural show circuit, John takes us on a colourful journey of his life.
Listen Now - 25092008 | Download Audio - 25092008
There were a number of Australian journalists who provided eye-witness accounts from the battlefields of the Great War, between 1914 and 1918. Among them was the writer Katherine Susannah Prichard who, while working as a journalist in Britain, was sent to France to report on the Australian hospitals set up to help the wounded on the Western Front.
Listen Now - 18092008 | Download Audio - 18092008
Paediatrician Dr Clair Isbister was the anonymous 'Woman Doctor' on ABC Radio in the 1950s and 1960s, offering child care and other advice, always leavened with a strong dose of common-sense. She later became more widely known through television and other public appearances; as a researcher; and as a pioneer of many practices at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney.
Thursday 8.35pm
repeated Sunday 5am
Executive Producer
Claudia Taranto
Thursday 16 October 2008
Nurses and doctors recall the Spanish influenza epidemic which swept Australia in 1919. At least twenty million people died of the flu around the world, including twelve thousand Australians.
10am AEDT
Artworks
with Amanda Smith
Looking at the big themes, views, issues and events in the arts here in Australia and overseas
