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First Person is ABC Radio National's serialised reading of published autobiography, broadcast every weekday. The program brings you the best of current and classic personal narrative including memoir, travel writing, diaries and letters. Here you'll find fine writing that will keep you enthralled and deeply involved in some remarkable lives. Readings are by either the authors themselves or by well-known Australian actors.
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2009-11-06 Shots Ep: 10
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Nov 06, 2009
Don´s journey - musical, physical, emotional - has been a long one. But this episode is called `Home´.
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2009-11-05 Shots Ep: 9
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Nov 05, 2009
Don is reeling from the news of a terrible accident.
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2009-11-04 Shots Ep: 8
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Nov 04, 2009
More evocative stories from life on the road with Cold Chisel.
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2009-11-03 Shots Ep: 7
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Nov 03, 2009
During the ten years that Cold Chisel were together, the band toured Australia many times. Don shares images and experiences from those long journeys.
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2009-11-02 Shots Ep: 6
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Nov 02, 2009
In Cold Chisel's early years during the mid seventies, gigs were irregular and poorly paid, and so Don was living in a dingy Kings Cross hotel. This episode contains snap shots of some of the interesting characters mixing in the same milieu of sex and drugs and rock´n´roll.
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2009-10-30 Shots Ep: 5
Author: ABC Radio National
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Having been playing the pubs and clubs of Adelaide for a while now, Cold Chisel broadens its horizons by heading east in search of new audiences. Soon they´ll be spending much of their time on the road, travelling the triangle between Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, as they slowly build a reputation.
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2009-10-29 Shots Ep: 4
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Oct 29, 2009
After completing his university studies Don moved to Adelaide to work at the Weapons Research Establishment. But music is proving a major distraction. Cold Chisel has formed, and the late night gigs are not conducive to getting to work the next day.
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2009-10-28 Shots Ep: 3
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Oct 28, 2009
Don leaves his home town in rural New South Wales. This becomes the beginning of a life lived on the road: from his travels north to university, south to Sydney, west to Adelaide - where Cold Chisel was to form in 1973 - and the decades of touring since.
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2009-10-27 Shots Ep: 2
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Oct 27, 2009
As a teenager, Don falls under the spell of rock´n´roll.
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2009-10-26 Shots Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Oct 26, 2009
Don Walker was born in 1951, and grew up in northern New South Wales. After studying mathematics and science he moved to Adelaide to work at the Weapons Research Establishment. It was in Adelaide that he met the fellow musicians with whom he would form the band Cold Chisel, in 1973. Ten years and five albums later, the band disbanded. In the time since Don has continued to write and perform music under his own name, as Catfish, and as part of Tex, Don and Charlie.
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2009-10-21 Walking life's glorious adventure Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Oct 21, 2009
Inspired by her young daughter Lila's first steps, Tara reflects upon her own personal journey.
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2009-10-20 Writing the life of an Australian village Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Oct 20, 2009
Jennifer takes a wry self-knowing look at the inspiration and impetus for her writing, including what happened off stage in her 1997 play for the Griffin Theatre, The Big Picture.
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2009-10-19 Assemble at home Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Oct 19, 2009
Kate describes the vagaries of finding love in the age of the internet.
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2009-10-16 The diaries of André Gide Ep: 5
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Oct 16, 2009
André Gide's thoughts about happiness and religion.
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2009-10-15 The diaries of André Gide Ep: 4
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Oct 15, 2009
André Gide was married for four decades, but he also indulged in amorous liaisons and homosexual escapades. His unconventional ideas about love, marriage and sexuality were scandalous in his time, and thought-provoking today.
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2009-10-14 The diaries of André Gide Ep: 3
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Oct 14, 2009
André Gide was an inveterate traveller. What is behind that urge to travel, and what does the person gain from the experience?
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2009-10-13 The diaries of André Gide Ep: 2
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Oct 13, 2009
Gide tells his diary what he thinks of some fellow writers.
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2009-10-12 The diaries of André Gide Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Oct 12, 2009
Gide´s life was spend trying to attain a sense of balance between conflicting aspects of his personality and life by questioning all - his upbringing, his deepest thoughts, and the many and varied experiences of his long life.
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2009-10-09 Arabesques Ep: 5
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Oct 09, 2009
Robert has been travelling through Europe and North Africa in the footsteps of the great French novelist André Gide, engaging in meditations upon a range of subjects. In today´s episode it´s ageing, and what makes for a good life, that Robert is interested in.
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2009-10-08 Arabesques Ep: 4
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Oct 08, 2009
Robert is in Paris, where he starts musing upon Madeleine Gide, the wife of André. What, he wonders, does their relationship say about the true nature of love, especially given the amorous liaisons and homosexual escapades Gide engaged in throughout their long marriage.
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2009-10-07 Arabesques Ep: 3
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Oct 07, 2009
Pondering religious faith Robert has, as he calls it, an epiphany in Oporto.
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2009-10-06 Arabesques Ep: 2
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Oct 06, 2009
Robert explains what it was that triggered his journey in the footsteps of Gide, and reveals that the two men might have more than a few things in common.
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2009-10-05 Arabesques Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Oct 05, 2009
In Algiers, Robert remembers a pivotal event in the life of André Gide, and what it meant to him as a 14-year-old working in a Sydney bookshop.
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2009-09-25 Beaten by a blow Ep: 10
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Sep 25, 2009
The balancing act between Dennis's work as a shearer and the responsibility for his young family is failing. His young baby has become gravely ill and he´s also faced with terrible choice about his beloved dog. His dream of living the iconic shearer´s life is on its last legs
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2009-09-24 Beaten by a blow Ep: 9
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Sep 24, 2009
Dennis, Sonia and their baby Lonnie head off to Bourke in central New South Wales. They´ve bought a caravan, hoping that this will allow the family to be together, in spite of the itinerant nature of the work. But it´s mid-summer and the heat in the outback town is brutal. Then things start to unravel ...
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2009-09-23 Beaten by a blow Ep: 8
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Sep 23, 2009
Now, with the whirlwind of marriage and a new baby still ruffling his hair, Dennis has to return to work, conscious that he´s suddenly responsible for much more than just his own wellbeing. But this time, the work is taking him much further afield ... and he feels very torn...
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2009-09-22 Beaten by a blow Ep: 7
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Sep 22, 2009
Dennis has achieved his goal – he´s become a shearer. However he has a lot to learn, and so he´s off to shearer´s school. But his world is about to become very complicated.
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2009-09-21 Beaten by a blow Ep: 6
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Sep 21, 2009
After a year of running himself ragged as a roustabout for the endless teams of shearers, Dennis´s moment has come. He´s arrived at Greystones Station in Victoria and he´s about to find out what shearing´s really like. It´s what he´d been dreaming of ... but was it worth the pursuit?
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2009-09-18 Beaten by a blow Ep: 5
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Sep 18, 2009
Dennis arrives at Lal Lal Station in Victoria: it´s here that he´ll meet some of the extraordinary characters that will become an integral part of his world over the next few years.
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2009-09-17 Beaten by a blow Ep: 4
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Sep 17, 2009
Dennis has arrived at his first proper shed as a `board boy´. His job is to collect fleeces and keep the board clean for the team of shearers. The bell´s about to ring and he´s going to discover that shed life is tough work.
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2009-09-16 Beaten by a blow Ep: 3
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Sep 16, 2009
Dennis is heading to Warrigal Creek Station in Victoria, his first shed working for the grazier´s cooperative firm Grazcos. And he has to start at the bottom as a `board boy´, a roustabout.
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2009-09-15 Beaten by a blow Ep: 2
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Sep 15, 2009
Dennis, having been expelled from school, finds himself working on a local farm.
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2009-09-14 Beaten by a blow Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Sep 14, 2009
We meet Dennis in his early teens in Werribee, on the outskirts of Melbourne, yearning to be free of the constraints of school and suburbia.
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2009-06-17 First Person - The Omnivore's Dilemma Ep: 13
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Jun 17, 2009
Michael´s quest for the perfect meal - one in which he has taken the most active participation in the creation of, taking the raw ingredients all the way from nature to the table - is about to be realised.
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2009-06-16 First Person - The Omnivore's Dilemma Ep: 12
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Jun 16, 2009
Michael goes mushrooming with the mycophiles, as part of his mission to hunt and gather his own meal.
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2009-06-15 First Person - The Omnivore's Dilemma Ep: 11
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Jun 15, 200
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Michael sets himself a huge challenge - overcoming the moral and ethical minefield that in this day and age surrounds hunting - and shooting himself a wild animal for food.
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2009-06-12 First Person - The Omnivore's Dilemma Ep: 10
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Jun 12, 2009
Michael begins an attempt to create a meal in its entirety from things he has hunted or harvested himself.
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2009-06-11 First Person - The Omnivore's Dilemma Ep: 9
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Jun 11, 2009
As a meat-eater, Michael decides to take on board what animal ethicists have to say about meat, and experiment with vegetarianism.
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2009-06-10 First Person - The Omnivore's Dilemma Ep: 8
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Jun 10, 2009
Michael´s been spending some time on a farm in Virginia with a farmer who has a very holistic approach to raising livestcok. Part of that includes honouring the life of the animals he kills for meat by ensuring their slaughter meets his high standards concerning animal welfare. And now, Michael accepts that as a meat eater, he must be prepared to participate in the slaughter.
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2009-06-09 First Person - The Omnivore's Dilemma Ep: 7
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Jun 09, 2009
Michael was invited by farmer Joel Salatin to visit his farm in Virginia, on which he has achieved an astonishing fecundity through some of the various traditional farming practices that modern industrial agriculture has sought to displace or improve upon. Joel, and now Michael, ask - at what cost this so-called improvement?
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2009-06-08 First Person - The Omnivore's Dilemma Ep: 6
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Jun 08, 2009
Michael visits a farm that has a very unique and holistic way of approaching food production.
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2009-06-05 First Person - The Omnivore's Dilemma Ep: 5
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Jun 05, 2009
Michael turns his attention to organic food, and discovers it is not produced quite as sustainably as we may think.
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2009-06-04 First Person - The Omnivore's Dilemma Ep: 4
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Jun 04, 2009
Michael is in Kansas renewing his acquaintance with Number 534 - the young steer he bought so he could follow its progress through the process in which beef is raised. 534 was only a weaner when he was taken away from the pastures of the farm on which he was born and moved to a feed lot. And it won´t be long now before - having been fattened on corn - he ends up as part of the McDonald´s meal with which Michael concludes his investigation of the industrial food chain.
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2009-06-03 First Person - The Omnivore's Dilemma Ep: 3
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Jun 03, 2009
Michael follows the golden river of corn to Kansas, to discover that the biggest consumers of the grain are not humans but bovines.
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2009-06-02 First Person - The Omnivore's Dilemma Ep: 2
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Jun 02, 2009
Having explained how one crop, corn, has come to dominate our supermarket aisles in a myriad of permutations, Michael visits the corn belt of America´s mid-west to learn the impact corn has had on the traditional farm.
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2009-06-01 First Person - The Omnivore's Dilemma Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Jun 01, 2009
Michael Pollan poses the question 'What shall we have for dinner?', and through the lenses of ecology, anthropology and personal experience, discusses why that seemingly simple question has grown to have a very complicated answer. He explores the journey of several different meals from land to table, tracing the origin of everything he consumed and the implications of it for ourselves and the planet. What he discovers may just take away your appetite.
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2009-05-15 First Person - Births Deaths Marriages Ep: 10
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, May 15, 2009
Georgia has a home and family of her own -- she has now come full circle.
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2009-05-14 First Person - Births Deaths Marriages Ep: 9
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, May 14, 2009
Georgia describes growing up with a brother diagnosed with schizophrenia, and how Jonathan's illness affected the family.
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2009-05-13 First Person - Births Deaths Marriages Ep: 8
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, May 13, 2009
Georgia's relationship with Andrew continues.
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2009-05-12 First Person - Births Deaths Marriages Ep: 7
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, May 12, 2009
Georgia, now living in Sydney and working on her first novel, has met Andrew, a film maker. She explores true life in all its extraordinary richness, taking us deep into the heart of how we love, learn, fail and learn again!
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2009-05-11 First Person - Births Deaths Marriages Ep: 6
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, May 11, 2009
Georgia grew up with parents who were in the public eye, and craved normality. But in reality the ordinary life she longed for had always been a myth.
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2009-05-08 First Person - Births Deaths Marriages Ep: 5
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, May 08, 2009
With her parents now divorced, Georgia describes the journey to a new home in South Australia.
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2009-05-07 First Person - Births Deaths Marriages Ep: 4
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, May 07, 2009
Georgia describes an interview her father, broadcaster Ellis Blain, had with Germaine Greer in 1972, and Georgia's memories of him.
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2009-05-06 First Person - Births Deaths Marriages Ep: 3
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, May 06, 2009
As her parents' marriage unravelled, the planning of their summer holidays no longer needed to accommodate their father's needs, so Georgia and her brothers headed off with their mother on 'adventure' holidays.
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2009-05-05 First Person - Births Deaths Marriages Ep: 2
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, May 05, 2009
As a child Georgia Blain craved normality, with both parents in the public eye. In this episode, she revisits 1972 and the effect that it had on her family.
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2009-05-04 First Person - Births Deaths Marriages Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, May 04, 2009
From a bohemian childhood in the seventies to becoming a mother and a writer, Georgia Blain explores a new land - true life in all its extraordinary riches, taking us deep into the heart of how we love, learn, fail, and try to learn again.
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2009-04-24 First Person - Ghost Train to the Eastern Star Ep: 5
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Apr 24, 2009
Paul begins his journey homeward, and explores the haunting history of Siberia.
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2009-04-23 First Person - Ghost Train to the Eastern Star Ep: 4
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Apr 23, 2009
Paul explores the haunted world of modern-day Burma.
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2009-04-22 First Person - Ghost Train to the Eastern Star Ep: 3
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Apr 22, 2009
Paul explores India and Sri Lanka.
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2009-04-21 First Person - Ghost Train to the Eastern Star Ep: 2
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Apr 21, 2009
Paul leaves Georgia for Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan aboard the Ghost Train to the Eastern Star.
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2009-04-20 First Person - Ghost Train to the Eastern Star Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Apr 20, 2009
In 2006 travel writer Paul Theroux followed in the tracks of his epic 1973 journey, The Great Railway Bazaar. From the Eurostar in London, he once again sets out on a journey to the East, travelling overland through Eastern Europe, India and Asia. Will the countries he visited thirty years ago have altered as much as he has? Infused with the changes that have shaped the exterior landscape and enriched with developments to his own perceptions and psychology, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is as rich with incident and local colour as any of Paul Theroux's most loved travel books.
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2009-03-13 First Person - Return to Berlin Ep: 2
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Mar 13, 2009
In recent years the Berlin authorities have been inviting its Jewish diaspora to return, in order for the city to atone for their treatment under the Nazi regime. And although the intentions are good, it´s an awkward experience for some.
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2009-03-12 First Person - Return to Berlin Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Mar 12, 2009
Louise Adler is the daughter of a Berliner Jew whose family fled before World War II to the safety of Switzerland and then Australia. In recent years the City of Berlin has been inviting its Jewish diaspora to return and receive a formal apology for the way they were treated in the past. It is with mixed feelings that Louise accompanies her mother, Ruth, on a journey back to the home town she has not seen since 1938.
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2009-03-11 First Person - American Journeys Ep: 13
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Mar 11, 2009
As he takes his final trips on Amtrak, Don thinks perhaps now he has a little more insight into what Americans mean when they say freedom, and what it means to them.
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2009-03-10 First Person - American Journeys Ep: 12
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Mar 10, 2009
By train from Washington to Chicago and on to Portland, Don continues to meet different Americans, and to be confronted with what he sees as the paradoxes of America.
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2009-03-09 First Person - American Journeys Ep: 11
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Mar 09, 2009
Back on the road as his epic trip continues, Don is thinking about two key parts of American culture and society. One, the car, is celebrated and championed. The other, class, is denied and considered heretical.
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2009-03-06 First Person - American Journeys Ep: 10
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Mar 06, 2009
Travelling through New Mexico and on to Texas, Don discusses the fraught relationship between the US and its southern neighbour.
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2009-03-05 First Person - American Journeys Ep: 9
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Mar 05, 2009
Don travels through Utah and Colorado, and ponders on the large number of dubious evangelical preachers in the United States.
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2009-03-04 First Person - American Journeys Ep: 8
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Mar 04, 2009
Don discusses why both enviromentalists and evolutionists seem so threatening to parts of the American population.
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2009-03-03 First Person - American Journeys Ep: 7
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Mar 03, 2009
Don muses upon what two very different sons of Oklahoma - actor Will Rogers and home-grown terrorist Timothy McVeigh - signify about liberalism in America.
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2009-03-02 First Person - American Journeys Ep: 6
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Mar 02, 2009
Having taken to the road, Don spends his days driving and his nights in highway motels, giving him plenty of time to muse upon the state of American democracy.
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2009-02-27 First Person - American Journeys Ep: 5
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Feb 27, 2009
Don heads into cowboy country.
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2009-02-26 First Person - American Journeys Ep: 4
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Don ponders what happens when the many inequalities in American society - often denied but plain to see - thwart the obsession with personal success that seems to characterise the American psyche.
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2009-02-25 First Person - American Journeys Ep: 3
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Feb 25, 2009
In Washington DC, Don ponders the similarities between the modern-day presidency of the United States and the court of Louis XIV at Versailles.
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2009-02-24 First Person - American Journeys Ep: 2
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Feb 24, 2009
Don travels further into the American south, to explore the history of the civil rights movement.
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2009-02-23 First Person - American Journeys Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Feb 23, 2009
In 2005, inspired by the dramatic effect of Hurricane Katrina on the United States and the psyche of its population, Don Watson decided to take himself on a journey of discovery around America, to try and understand what makes the place tick.
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2009-02-20 First Person - Alive in Ant and Bee Ep: 5
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Feb 20, 2009
Looking back over three years of living in her old ambulance 'Ant and Bee', Gillian contemplates Australian landscape, mortality and the simple joy of a campfire under the stars.
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2009-02-19 First Person - Alive in Ant and Bee Ep: 4
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Feb 19, 2009
Gillian recalls her heart operation and how all she could think of on her way to surgery was the nonsense verse of Edward Lear.
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2009-02-18 First Person - Alive in Ant and Bee Ep: 3
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Feb 18, 2009
Now on her way to Adelaide in her old ambulance, an F-100 named 'Ant and Bee', Gillian camps in state forests, reads The Conference of the Birds and makes her own bread.
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2009-02-17 First Person - Alive in Ant and Bee Ep: 2
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Feb 17, 2009
The modified ambulance, named 'Ant and Bee' after the Angela Banner books, is now Gillian´s mobile home and writing studio. She recalls the year when an infection of her heart almost killed her.
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2009-02-16 First Person - Alive in Ant and Bee Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Feb 16, 2009
Alive in Ant and Bee is a brave, vivid, poetic and philosophical memoir. It describes Gillian´s near-death experience in 2002, her on-going battle with multiple sclerosis and her purchase of an old ambulance in 2004. Lovingly christened "Ant and Bee", the ambulance has been her mobile home and writing studio ever since.
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2009-02-06 First Person - Mother Land Ep: 10
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Feb 06, 2009
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2009-02-05 First Person - Mother Land Ep: 9
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Feb 05, 2009
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2009-02-04 First Person - Mother Land Ep: 8
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Feb 04, 2009
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2009-02-03 First Person - Mother Land Ep: 7
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Feb 03, 2009
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2009-02-02 First Person - Mother Land Ep: 6
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Feb 02, 2009
The tensions between Dmetri's parents are getting worse.
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2009-01-30 First Person - Mother Land Ep: 5
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Jan 30, 2009
In addition to the ongoing tensions with some of their Turkish neighbours on the island, Dmetri is confronted by the escalation of the tension between his parents into violence.
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2009-01-29 First Person - Mother Land Ep: 4 - UPDATED
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Jan 29, 2009
Dmetri explains how, despite the tensions between the Turkish and Greek populations of the island, there are also lasting and true friendships between people from the two cultures.
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2009-01-28 First Person - Mother Land Ep: 3 - UPDATED
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Jan 28, 2009
Despite the fact that to do so is illegal, the Turks on the island of Bozcaada have pursued a deliberate policy of marginalising the majority Greek population. Even small children like the young Dmetri are singled out by the Turks.
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2009-01-27 First Person - Mother Land Ep: 1 - UPDATED
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Jan 27, 2009
With his father, like many of the men of the island, away at sea for long periods, Dmetri has to be the little man of the household, helping his mother with chores. Today, his father returns home, but the tensions between his parents, along with the tensions on the island, make life puzzling and difficult for the young boy.
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2009-01-26 First Person - Mother Land Ep: 1 - UPDATED
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Jan 26, 2009
Mother Land is Dmetri's account of his early life on an Aegean island, and the national, political and religious differences that forced his family, Greeks living on Turkish soil, to leave their home land and settle in Australia.
The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, created in the context of the large-scale population exchanges between Turkey and Greece, specifically required Turkey to accommodate the rights of the Greek majority on several of the Aegean islands of Anatolia. However, it was not long before Turkish authorities broke both the spirit and the letter of the treaty. By the 1960s, when Dmetri was a boy, the dispute between Turkey and Greece over Cyprus had further escalated the tensions on the islands.
As an eight year-old, Dmetri struggles to understand all that is happening around him. Violence and prejudice intrude into his innocence, and his love for the place he has always called home.
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2009-01-16 First Person - Child of the Revolution Ep: 10
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Jan 16, 2009
After years of waiting, the Garcia family finally get the news they´ve been waiting for. For Luis the news creates mixed emotions as they prepare for the journey that will change their lives.
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2009-01-15 First Person - Child of the Revolution Ep: 9
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Jan 15, 2009
Cuba prepares for the country´s biggest sugar harvest, with everyone from school teachers to doctors abandoning their regular jobs to cut cane. They dream of the wealth that will follow the harvest. So when Fidel announces the cancellation of Christmas everyone becomes a little confused. Especially the children.
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2009-01-14 First Person - Child of the Revolution Ep: 8
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Jan 14, 2009
As Fidel Castro embarks on his `Great Revolutionary Offensive´ and Cubans begin working even harder than before, Luis´s family receive a fatal blow that will change the course of all their lives.
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2009-01-13 First Person - Child of the Revolution Ep: 7
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Jan 13, 2009
Luis´s uncle Tony visits Banes. Luis and his brother are very excited as Tony always brings gifts. The gifts aren´t always practical and in some cases they´re absurd, but that doesn´t dampen their enthusiasm. And even in Cuba popular music finds a way to be heard.
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2009-01-12 First Person - Child of the Revolution Ep: 6
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Jan 12, 2009
The Garcia family, along with the rest of Cuba and the world, receive the news that Che Guavara is dead. Luis can´t understand what all the fuss is about but the grown ups seem surprised to discover Guavara was found in Bolivia and not Africa, as had been reported previously by El Miximo Lider.
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2009-01-09 First Person - Child of the Revolution Ep: 5
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Jan 09, 2009
For a small boy from Banes, Havana is a very exciting place. Luis and his family are there to say farewell to his Uncle Rodolfo, Aunt Mirta and Cousin Carrie. They´re heading for the United States. Luis isn´t quite sure why his father tells him not to mention the reason for their visit to anyone but it´s a small price to pay to be able to visit Havana.
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2009-01-08 First Person - Child of the Revolution Ep: 4
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Jan 08, 2009
It gradually becomes clear to young Luis that life in Cuba was quite different before he was born. Whilst he´s happy to become a good little communist his father and mother confuse him with stories about the overthrown Batista that don´t in any way equate with the stories his school teachers tell. It´s all very confusing for a small boy.
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2009-01-07 First Person - Child of the Revolution Ep: 3
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Jan 07, 2009
Despite the rationing which Fidel Castro has blamed on the Americans, Luis´ mother and aunts have found a bounty of food for the Garcia family´s Christmas Eve celebrations. As the months pass however, Luis becomes aware of a new tension within the family and their monthly slide evenings become full of secretive adult conversation.
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2009-01-06 First Person - Child of the Revolution Ep: 2
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Jan 06, 2009
Luis begins school with some trepidation but quickly discovers the joys of learning to recite the alphabet when it includes F for Fidel, R for rifle and Y for Yankees. But his parents aren´t so pleased with his desire to become a Communist Pioneer or `pionero´ and Luis is forced to rethink his family´s place in the new Cuba.
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2009-01-05 First Person - Child of the Revolution Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Jan 05, 2009
Child of the Revolution is set in a world of uncertainty and revolutionary upheaval, where a 10-year-old has to swear allegiance to Lenin, Marx and the mythical Che Guevara, with no idea what it means. It´s also a world his parents see rapidly disintegrating under El Maximo Lider and they dream of escape.
Luis Garcia was born in Cuba in 1959, the year Fidel Castro came to power. He moved to Australia in 1972 with his parents and brother.
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2008-12-19 First Person - The Wedding Singer Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Dec 19, 2008
Juliette was born in England in 1949 to a family of singing, arguing Micks who emigrated to Australia in 1963 as ten-pound tourists. She studied opera and English, and these days writes and teaches singing. She says she will sing anything from rock to oratorio and has been known to rap.
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2008-12-17 First Person - My Father's Girlfriends Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Dec 17, 2008
Zoë Heller was born in London in 1965, and educated at Oxford and Columbia University. Now New York-based, she is a journalist and novelist. In this story, she reflects on the colourful collection of girlfriends her father had during Zoë's childhood.
Please note that this episode contains strong language
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2008-12-16 First Person - My First Love Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Dec 16, 2008
Poet, novelist, essayist and librettist Peter Goldsworthy, grew up at Minlaton, a small farming town on South Australia´s Yorke Peninsula. It was a haven for old-fashioned, hand-cranked cars, and Peter developed a pre-pubescent obsession with them.
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2008-12-15 First Person - The Men Who Would be Kings Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Dec 15, 2008
Mark Dapin, who says his favourite Elvis is Elvis Costello, was born in the UK, and until recently was a features writer and columnist for Good Weekend. In this story he tell us about a rather unusual cultural event he attended.
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2008-12-12 First Person - Name Dropping Ep: 10
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Dec 12, 2008
Kate's life makes an unexpected twist that takes even her quite by surprise.
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2008-12-11 First Person - Name Dropping Ep: 9
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Dec 11, 2008
Kate takes us from the royal yacht Britannia to a dingy Kings Cross sex shop in her usual charming style.
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2008-12-10 First Person - Name Dropping Ep: 8
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Dec 10, 2008
Maybe it´s only because of a stinking hot Adelaide heatwave that Kate ended up as an actress rather than a scientist like her father.
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2008-12-09 First Person - Name Dropping Ep: 7
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Dec 09, 2008
Kate's earliest creative endeavours were in painting - under the approving eye of Jeffrey Smart - but eventually she turned her talents to performance.
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2008-12-08 First Person - Name Dropping Ep: 6
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Dec 08, 2008
Kate talks about life on a movie shoot in an exotic location.
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2008-12-05 First Person - Name Dropping Ep: 5
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Dec 05, 2008
Kate reminisces about her childhood, in particular her father and the appreciation he gave her of the natural world.
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2008-12-04 First Person - Name Dropping Ep: 4
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Dec 04, 2008
We skip with Kate from Adelaide to Moscow via New Guinea and Perth.
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2008-12-03 First Person - Name Dropping Ep: 3
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Dec 03, 2008
Kate talks about her much-loved family.
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2008-12-02 First Person - Name Dropping Ep: 2
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Dec 02, 2008
It would seem that Kate comes from a long line of colourful characters, if the stories she tells of her family are anything to go by.
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2008-12-01 First Person - Name Dropping Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Dec 01, 2008
Kate Fitzpatrick is no stranger to writing, having worked as a screenwriter, a journalist and a political speechwriter. That´s on top of her long career as an actress in plays running the gamut from The Lady of the Camellias to The Rocky Horror Show. Then there´s the numerous film and TV roles—most recently in Neighbours and Packed to the Rafters—and a stint as a London florist. Along the way she's been something of a celebrity and has enjoyed friendships with many well-known personalities. Name Dropping is a memoir of a life that has been lived to the full.
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2008-10-24 First Person - Throwim' Way Leg Ep: 10
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Oct 24, 2008
In 1994 Tim Flannery returned to Irian Jaya to further his researches in an area that is one of the least explored regions in Irian Jaya, as far as mammals are concerned. And in exploring a nearby valley he and his team discover two young children, lost and struggling to survive in one of the nearby caves.
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2008-10-23 First Person - Throwim' Way Leg Ep: 9
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Oct 23, 2008
Unsuccessful in his first attempt to gain entry into the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya in the early '80s, Tim Flannery finally succeeds and in 1990 he leave Australia for the settlement of Kwiyawagi. Once there he sets out for some nearby caves to discover, as he tells us, a "treasure trove" of ancient remains.
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2008-10-22 First Person - Throwim' Way Leg Ep: 8
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Oct 22, 2008
While the time spent at Mount Boobiari brought some new and exciting scientific discoveries to Tim Flannery and his team, no-one was more pleased to be back at base camp than the author himself.
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2008-10-21 First Person - Throwim' Way Leg Ep: 7
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Oct 21, 2008
Tim tells of some of the wonderful findings he is making as part of his field research in Papua New Guineau.
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2008-10-20 First Person - Throwim' Way Leg Ep: 6
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Oct 20, 2008
Moving on through the mountainous west of Papua New Guinea, Tim comes across a tribe still governed by a village headman who are, by their own reckoning, the last people in Papua New Guinea to live a lifestyle largely unaffected by the European influence.
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2008-10-17 First Person - Throwim' Way Leg Ep: 5
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Oct 17, 2008
After spending two years back in Australia, studying for his doctorate in zoology, Tim returns to Papua New Guinea -this time though to work in the rugged far west of the country.
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2008-10-16 First Person - Throwim' Way Leg Ep: 4
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Oct 16, 2008
As Tim and his party continue to explore the Neon Basin, they discover that it abounds with wallabies and giant rats almost a metre long.
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2008-10-15 First Person - Throwim' Way Leg Ep: 3
Author: ABC RadioAuthor: National
Wed, Oct 15, 2008
Tim went to Papua New Guineau as a young zoologist with an interest in tree kangaroos. He gives us an insight into his first day on the job doing field research.
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2008-10-14 First Person - Throwim' Way Leg Ep: 2
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Oct 14, 2008
Tim meets the missionary priest Father Alexandre Michaellod, and hears about some of his work among the local tribespeople.
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2008-10-13 First Person - Throwim' Way Leg Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Oct 13, 2008
As a young zoologist, Tim Flannery spent a period of time in Papua New Guinea doing field research. "In New Guinea Pidgin," he explains´, `throwim way leg´ means to go on a journey. It describes the action of thrusting out your leg to take the first step of what can be a long march..."
Tim´s journey in his book Throwim Way Leg took him into the jungles of Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya where he met skilled hunters, climbed mountains never before scaled by Europeans, and discovered new species including the giant bones of extinct marsupials.
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2008-10-10 First Person - Plenty: Digressions on Food Ep: 5
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Oct 10, 2008
With the sale of Berowra Waters Inn behind her, Gay Bilson decides on a move to the countryside of South Australia, to lead a far different life to that of those many years living and working as a famous chef in Sydney.
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2008-10-09 First Person - Plenty: Digressions on Food Ep: 4
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Oct 09, 2008
Gay talks about the numerous Berowra Waters Inn recipe cards, and the history and some of the memorable people connected to those cards.
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2008-10-08 First Person - Plenty: Digressions on Food Ep: 3
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Oct 08, 2008
Janni, a former electrician from Greece now turned cook was, according to Gay, much valued for his "problem-solving".
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2008-10-07 First Person - Plenty: Digressions on Food Ep: 2
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Oct 07, 2008
Having achieved success in the restaurant world in Sydney, Gay and Tony Bilson decide to sell their Bon Gout Restaurant in 1977 and invest in Berowra Waters Inn - "a utopian landscape of water and cliff" on the Hawkesbury River.
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2008-10-06 First Person - Plenty: Digressions on Food Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Oct 06, 2008
Gay Bilson´s name is synonymous with the revolution in Australian cooking and restaurant life that began in the 1970s. Her food is legendary, as are her informed and passionate observations about food and culture. She tells us what it was like growing up as a child in a working-class Melbourne suburb in the fifties, and her early experiences with food.
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2008-09-26 First Person - Dirt Cheap Ep: 10
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Sep 26, 2008
Elizabeth is working at "Starholme" and "Excelsior", nursing homes in Northwest Hills, a notch on Sydney´s Bible Belt .
Please note that this episode contains strong language.
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2008-09-25 First Person - Dirt Cheap Ep: 9
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Sep 25, 2008
Having experienced the unexpected stresses and injustices of work as a sales assistant in a chain store, Elizabeth is about to learn more about being underpaid and under valued, this time as a casual in two nursing homes in Sydney´s genteel north western suburbs.
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2008-09-24 First Person - Dirt Cheap Ep: 8
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Sep 24, 2008
Having already experienced some pretty harsh employment conditions among low wage workers, Elizabeth is about to discover more about the stresses and injustices of life on the wrong side of the serving counter.
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2008-09-23 First Person - Dirt Cheap Ep: 7
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Sep 23, 2008
Elizabeth she faces a new challenge in another so-called "unskilled" job when she signs on to work as a sales assistant for "The Store", one of a nation-wide chain that is employing an increasing number of casual staff.
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2008-09-22 First Person - Dirt Cheap Ep: 6
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Sep 22, 2008
Elizabeth is working at two Melbourne hotels, the "The Princess" and "The Duchess".
Please note that this episode contains strong language.
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2008-09-19 First Person - Dirt Cheap Ep: 5
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Sep 19, 2008
Elizabeth went undercover to experience the grinding hardships of life on minimum wages. She began with a job in the cafeteria of an exclusive club and then moved to a rural factory. We rejoin her today on the job at "Chicken and Egg Enterprises" in "Greendale".
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2008-09-18 First Person - Dirt Cheap Ep: 4
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Sep 18, 2008
Elizabeth is on the job at "Chicken and Egg Enterprises" in "Greendale".
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2008-09-17 First Person - Dirt Cheap Ep: 3
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Sep 17, 2008
Having taken leave from her job as a senior journalist with The Australian, Elizabeth began her experience of life on the other side of the serving counter working in the cafeteria of an exclusive Sydney club. She could handle the work but the repressive atmosphere was another matter. Having determined to explore a number of so-called "unskilled" employments she quit her job at the club after just over a month to seek work further afield.
Please note that this episode contains strong language.
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2008-09-16 First Person - Dirt Cheap Ep: 2
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Sep 16, 2008
Elizabeth began her ten month "self-funded sabbatical on the breadline" working in the cafeteria of an exclusive Sydney club.
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2008-09-15 First Person - Dirt Cheap Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Sep 15, 2008
Elizabeth Wynhausen is a senior journalist with The Australian. In her distinguished career she´s often written about the lives of the working poor and this is her inside story of the year she joined them, going under cover to work long shifts on a factory production line, in a hotel kitchen, as a checkout chick and a kitchen hand in nursing homes.
Elizabeth discovers that many so-called "unskilled" jobs actually require an incredible amount of skill and that exposing the conditions of low-wage work can be hell for your health, not to mention your morale.
Dirt Cheap is a unique view of class, power and middle management seen from the other side of the serving counter. It´s a very personal account of what it´s like to be underpaid, under-appreciated and part of Australia´s emerging underclass.
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2008-09-12 First Person - Life, Death, and the Family Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Sep 12, 2008
Joanna Mendelssohn is a writer and art historian who teaches at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales . She reflects upon the life of her mother, and the change in their family dynamics brought about by a traumatic event.
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2008-09-11 First Person - The Hemingway Lectures Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Sep 11, 2008
Ian Klaus was born in 1978, and studied at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He currently lives in New York City, and is completing a doctorate in history at Harvard. Back in 2005, he travelled from Turkey to Arbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, to take up a position teaching at the Univeristy of Salahaddinin, in the thick of the war for hearts and minds. In the classroom there he finds the line between enlightening and enlightened begins to blur as he and his students, with mutual good will, attempt to cut through cultural inconsistencies and challenges. And the vehicle for that is the fiction of Ernest Hemingway.
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2008-09-10 First Person - Travelling and Reading Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Sep 10, 2008
Western Australian academic and writer Gail Jones' books included the novels Black Mirror and Sixty Lights. She´s also published short story collections, and has won a number of significant literary awards. In this reading, Gail ponders the link between travelling and books.
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2008-09-09 First Person - Why little girls love horses Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Sep 09, 2008
Elizabeth Campbell spent much of her youth with horses in the bush of the Yarra Ranges. Her first collection of poetry, Letters to the Tremulous Hand, was published in 2007 by John Leonard Press, and she is currently working on a book of essays about horses and literature.
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2008-09-08 First Person - The Galvanised Tree Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Sep 08, 2008
Stephen Lacey has a Masters in creative writing from Sydney University, and writes poetry, journalism, and novels, as well as the odd script for Home and Away. In this story, a Hills Hoist gives rise to reflection.
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2008-09-05 First Person - Thirteen Tonne Theory: Life Inside Hunters and Collectors Ep: 10
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Sep 05, 2008
Very early on in their career, Hunters and Collectors agreed to operate as a collective, with everything from the drinks rider to the song-writing credits shared equally, and important decisions made by vote of all members. And in the end, tension with the former was solved by the latter, with the group voting in 1998 in favour of disbanding.
Please note that this episode contains strong language.
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2008-09-04 First Person - Thirteen Tonne Theory: Life Inside Hunters and Collectors Ep: 9
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Sep 04, 2008
The band is on the road again - they've got to pay for that thirteen tonne PA somehow! That means long boring days of travel with all eight blokes crammed into a Tarago, gigs in the back of beyond, hangovers and greasy fried breakfasts. Today, though, something special happens.
Please note that this episode contains strong language.
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2008-09-03 First Person - Thirteen Tonne Theory: Life Inside Hunters and Collectors Ep: 8
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Sep 03, 2008
Hunters and Collectors got together in 1980, and by the late `80s had gained some commercial radio success. That´s seen them hitting the road, playing to ever larger audiences across Australia. Today, Mark tells us just how big that can be.
Please note that this episode contains strong language.
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2008-09-02 First Person - Thirteen Tonne Theory: Life Inside Hunters and Collectors Ep: 7
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Sep 02, 2008
In 1989, after nine years of hard slog, the band `broke through´ in music industry parlance with the album Ghost Nation. Commercial radio put it on high rotation, and Hunters and Collectors were signed by Atlantic Records for world markets. Part of this deal included supporting Midnight Oil on a three month tour across western Europe, Britain and North America.
Please note that this episode contains strong language plus drug and sexual references.
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2008-09-01 First Person - Thirteen Tonne Theory: Life Inside Hunters and Collectors Ep: 6
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Sep 01, 2008
Mark talks about the process of song writing.
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2008-08-29 First Person - Thirteen Tonne Theory: Life Inside Hunters and Collectors Ep: 5
Author: ABC Radio National
Fri, Aug 29, 2008
The band has arrived in London with a style of music they describe as `reggae punk fusion with rock roots and a tinge of New York underground in the guitars´ to sign a deal with Virgin Records. But they have strong philosophical and political views on their music and their internal processes, and don´t want to compromise them.
Please note that this episode contains strong language.
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2008-08-28 First Person - Thirteen Tonne Theory: Life Inside Hunters and Collectors Ep: 4
Author: ABC Radio National
Thu, Aug 28, 2008
Hunters and Collectors acquires three new band members, who all play instruments not traditionally associated with rock´n´roll but who come to give a distinctive style to the band´s music.
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2008-08-27 First Person - Thirteen Tonne Theory: Life Inside Hunters and Collectors Ep: 3
Author: ABC Radio National
Wed, Aug 27, 2008
The innards of a hot water cylinder prove 'instrumental' to the band.
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2008-08-26 First Person - Thirteen Tonne Theory: Life Inside Hunters and Collectors Ep: 2
Author: ABC Radio National
Tue, Aug 26, 2008
Mark continues his account of the early days of Hunters and Collectors.
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2008-08-25 First Person - Thirteen Tonne Theory: Life Inside Hunters and Collectors Ep: 1
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Aug 25, 2008
Mark Seymour was born into a musical family in country Victoria. They moved to Melbourne when he was young, and it was at the University of Melbourne he met the other musicians with whom he came to form Hunters and Collectors, in 1980. Over the course of the band´s life they released nine studio albums, three live ones, and a number of EPs, and played to ever growing audiences both in Australia and overseas. The music continued to evolve throughout the band's eighteen year long career, eventually making the `crossover´ from edgy alternative to commercial radio hits. And all the while, the joys and difficulties of working in a democracy of blokes kept things interesting.
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