Past Programs
Health - 2008
Michael Sorokin
04/12/2008
Michael Sorokin was born and raised in a small gold-mining town near Johannesburg. Trained as a specialist physician in South Africa and Scotland, he joined the British Overseas Civil Service in the early 1960s.
From his first posting to the Solomon Islands to long years in Fiji, he observed first-hand the dying days of Empire and the often troubled transitions to independence.
1919 Spanish Flu
16/10/2008
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.
In the first half of that year, normal life in the country came to a standstill, as desperate governments tried to stem the spread of the disease.
Dr Clair Isbister
18/09/2008
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.
Clair Isbister died in August 2008.
