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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 2010-04-03
Author: ABC Radio National
Sat, Apr 03, 2010
La Frontera
The borderlands between Mexico and the United States are a lawless wasteland where massacres, drug busts and battles between the military and drug-traffickers happen regularly.
Juarez has one of the highest murder rates in the world, including more than 100 young women whose random murders can't be explained or solved. Colm McNaughton journeys through La Frontera to piece together the different aspects of this complex, sad and violent story.
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360documentaries 2010-03-13
Author: ABC Radio National
Sat, Mar 13, 2010
Lost in my head
Imagine for a minute how it would be to emerge from unconsciousness, and to be unaware of who you are, or where you are, and to be overwhelmed by a sense of disorientation and confusion. That's how it was for two women who describe their experience of surviving strokes. Telling their stories isn't easy for Teresa and Wendy - some of the details have gone, or are blurred, because of the brain damage they've sustained, but this is their account of putting the pieces of the story, and their lives, back together.
Brian and Norm - a love story
Putting someone you love into a nursing home is heartbreaking for anyone but imagine visiting the person youīve shared most of your life with and not being able to show them any affection. When Brian put his partner of over fifty years into a Catholic nursing home he knew it was the best option – his partner was originally from Italy and had a strong Catholic heritage – but fear of anti-gay prejudice has kept him from showing the natural affection of a life spent together. This is a story of the everyday things that bring two lives together, and the terrible loneliness once they have been separated.
Since this program was made Norm passed away, peacefully in Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
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360documentaries 2010-03-06
Author: ABC Radio National
Sat, Mar 06, 2010
Strappers
Weīre entering a world where people rise in the middle of the night to begin work and nobody complains about the weather; where the most important creatures arenīt humans but their 500 kilogram charges. Itīs the dirty and hard working world of strappers, a poorly paid band of optimists, chancers and racehorse lovers from every nationality.
The lucky secret to success
In Hong Kong much of life is governed by the five factors of destiny, luck, feng shui, charity and education. When producer Erin Bowland moved from Australia to Hong Kong she prepared for a transition from a laid-back lifestyle to one of efficiency and hard work. But she learned the Chinese believe there are many secrets to success and, to attain it, help is often needed from elements beyond your control. She spoke to psychologists, feng shui masters, professors, and local people, to understand what makes her new neighbours tick.
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360documentaries 2010-02-27
Author: ABC Radio National
Sat, Feb 27, 2010
Bypassing Bulahdelah
The tiny NSW town of Bulahdelah argued for two years over a $300 million by-pass of the Pacific Highway. On the one side were Aboriginal protesters and environmentalists, and on the other were locals concerned about the economic future of their town and the carnage on a deadly section of the Pacific Highway. Then came a mysterious bushfire, deliberately lit, which could have served the interests of any one of a number of groups involved in the story. A local, Lachlan Colquhoun, rakes over the coals of this controversy.
Rohan You Bastard
Rohana Samarasekera is a policeman in the tiny border town of Hungerford in South East Queensland. 'Rohan', as everyone from Cunnamulla to Thargomindah affectionately knows him, is widely liked and respected and he loves the country, the people and the job. His unusual background: Sri Lankan immigrant, engineer, aspirant politician and health food retailer, has contributed to his skills and his philosophy of wanting to help people - both of which have endeared him to the locals.
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360documentaries 2010-02-20
Author: ABC Radio National
Sat, Feb 20, 2010
There's something about eels
The eel has an image problem – an unsavoury reputation that arises perhaps in part from the false notion that they feed on rotting corpses – yet eels are one of the human race's survival foods and they feature in mythology and creation stories throughout the ages. There's Something About Eels combines science, literature, history, anecdote and culinary art to present a radio portrait of this most maligned, misunderstood and unusual creature.
Winner of the Awgie Award for best best original radio script in 2009.
Just another fish
An epic tale of a beached whale and the memories of the townspeople who encountered it. The story's set in Lubec, the sardine capital of the world.
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360documentaries 2010-02-13
Author: ABC Radio National
Sat, Feb 13, 2010
The expanding shrimp
The second in a two-part series, Moving Feast, in which Radio National and the BBC world Service combined resources to produce stories about two major international food commodities.
360 producer Roz Bluett and BBC World Service producer Andrew Luck-Baker investigate the story behind Thailand's huge shrimp export industry. Every year Thailand's 30,000 shrimp farmers harvest a weight of prawns equivalent to more than 1,000 jumbo jets - making Thailand the world's top exporter of shrimp.
Roz Bluett travels to the main shrimp farming and processing areas of the country to see first hand how these numbers add up and to learn of some of the pitfalls the country has experienced along the way.
Trawler
The story of Jeremy Smith, a young trawler fisherman working the waters of Broken Bay ... who dreams of a time when life was simpler.
Jeremy lives in Patonga- a small coastal village on the shores of Broken Bay, just around the corner from the mouth of the Hawkesbury River. Itīs one of those towns thatīs been defined by the fishing industry. Generations of families have worked on trawlers or oyster punts and, over a beer, men still tell stories of sharks caught in the nets or wild storms that almost wrecked their boats. But life in the town is changing. The NSW Department of Fisheries has been slowly buying out all of the commercial fishing licences in the bay, because of concern over the depletion of fishing stocks. The new industry is tourism and the old holiday shacks are slowly being torn down and replaced by multi-million dollar mansions.
Includes poems Songs of the East Coast by Val Vallis, Dawn Fishing and Big Red by R. F. Brissenden, read by the late Neil Fitzpatrick.
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