Tag: Radio National
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Hermannsburg Life
Hermannsburg LifeArtworks, ABC Radio NationalExecutive Producer: Debra McCoy The former Aboriginal mission town of Hermannsburg, 130 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs, has a long history of contemporary art practice—from the evocative watercolours of Albert Namatjira in the 1930s, to the quirky, colourful ceramics of the Aranda women’s pottery group today. Brisbane’s Artisan Gallery hosted an…
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Making “Lotte’s Gift”
Making “Lotte’s Gift”Exhibit A, ABC Radio NationalExecutive Producer: Julie CopelandCommissioned by ABC Regional Production Fund Lotte’s Gift is a new work by Australian playwright David Williamson. It is the product of a collaboration with German-Australian classical guitarist Karin Schaupp. This “drama with music” tells the story of Karin’s little-known but extraordinary grandmother, Lotte Reinke—in her…
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Mary River Sans Frontières
Mary River Sans FrontièresThe Deep End, ABC Radio NationalExecutive Producer: Debra McCoy In 2005, French-Australian environmental artist Francois Davin—a resident of the Mary Valley’s Kandanga—lured a number of like-minded artists from a symposium in Noosa to something of an artist-in-residence/farmstay on his home turf. In the process, he inspired local farmers to look at their…
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Dig, dig, dig! Yowah 4490 ½
Dig, dig, dig! Yowah 4490 ½Street Stories, ABC Radio NationalExecutive Producer: Claudia TarantoABC Regional Production Fund “Man needs space to feel free. You can be desperately lonesome in a crowd, but in the outback you can be alone without ever feeling lonely.” So says Johnny Kovac in White Man in a Hole by Rena Briand –…
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Rohan you bastard: the life and times of an outback cop
Rohan you bastard: the life and times of an outback copStreet Stories, ABC Radio NationalExecutive Producer: Claudia TarantoABC Regional Production Fund The role of the police officer in the small and remote rural community is both official and social, formal and informal. The position and mere presence of a cop are essential to both the general…