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In ABC Radio National's 360 documentary and features program you'll hear tales of ordinary and extraordinary lives; adventures in sound, and fresh perspectives on the way ideas and culture intersect with contemporary life. From the corner shop to the rainforests of Kalimantan, the full 360-degree view.
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360documentaries 2010-02-06
Author: ABC Radio National
Sat, Feb 06, 2010
Buzzing with beans
The first in a two-part series, Moving Feast, in which Radio National and the BBC World Service combined resources to produce stories of two major international food commodities.
In Buzzing with Beans, 360 producer Roz Bluett and BBC World Service producer Andrew Luck-Baker track the story behind Vietnamese coffee beans' meteoric rise into the world coffee market. We head to Vietnam's highlands, visit coffee roasting companies, talk to the country's big players and sip the best and strongest brews. And with coffee beans now second only to oil as the most valuable commodity in world trade – this is big business.
Roz Bluett tracks the journey of Vietnam's bean – including some of the pitfalls that such a newly-emerging industrial country faces. From plantation to cappuccino it's the remarkable story of the Vietnamese bean and its arrival on the world market
Koto Cafe
In the busy streets of downtown Hanoi, in a cafe called Koto, diners sit down to a meal cooked and served by the city's former street kids.
Koto is short for 'Know one, Teach One', and according to its founder, Australian Jimmy Pham, it's about the chain like effect that can be created by the passing on of skills, help and and opportunities offered by one individual to another.
For some of the disadvantaged young people of Vietnam's capital city, becoming part of the workforce at Koto has offered them a new chance in life.
The sound of fire
Elaine Postlethwaite lost everything in the Marysville fires a year ago; her husband, her home, her dog. She recounts the dramatic events of that day and her sudden decision to leave the house in the face of the oncoming fire.
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360documentaries 2010-01-30
Author: ABC Radio National
Sat, Jan 30, 2010
Last ride at Coney Island
For more than 100 years the sideshows, roller coasters and master illusionists of Coney Island, USA have been thrilling millions of New Yorkers. Now Coney Island faces an uncertain future.
Developers are circling its prime waterfront real estate looking for a deal. Wrecker´s balls and fires have destroyed many of its famous attractions like the Thunderbolt rollercoaster and Steeplechasebut as Wendy Carlisle discovers there´s still life in this New York landmark. Donny Vomit and the Lobster Man still feature in the sideshows ... and then there are the tricksters and con artists who ply their trade in the most unexpected places.
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360documentaries 2010-01-23
Author: ABC Radio National
Sat, Jan 23, 2010
Despite what they say
The HIV virus has been with us now for more than 25 years and while most people who contracted it early on died, there are some that have survived. One of them is Shaynon, he was born HIV positive after his mother caught the virus through IV drug use. He´s now 23 and leads a fairly normal life, but he does hold some controversial views about the transmission of HIV. In this love story we hear how Shaynon has overcome the obstacles of stigma and poor health to be happy.
A place to belong: Gemma, Holly Rachael
Meet three young women who have a history of self-harm. They first met in a Brisbane hospital, after Holly had jumped from a building and broken her back and Rachael was having treatment after another bout of cutting herself. Their story takes us not only deep into their individual struggle to overcome the troubles and pain that drive them to self-harm, but into the humour, warmth and shared friendship which has kept them going. They share insights into their circumstances with tenderness and wicked humour.
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360documentaries 2010-01-16
Author: ABC Radio National
Sat, Jan 16, 2010
The Madam Butterfly effect
What is it about white men who can only contemplate an affair with or marriage to an 'Asian woman'? Are western men who crave a relationship with a serene, beautiful, passive, submissive version of the feminine ideal, sick and perverted? Or is it just a retreat from feminism? Masako Fukui bravely investigates the male psyche - and her own responses to the Asian 'ideal' - and wonders if she might be she part of the problem. A frank but humorous investigation of a syndrome that might be an obsession
Unremarkable
In the crucible of a night out in the city the strangest things can happen - some girls have party tricks that will unbalance even the coolest boys. This short fiction was part of the City Nights project and is read by Toby Schmitz.
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