Listen Now - 2010-07-24 | Download Audio (24.9 MB) - 24072010
A journey to South Australia and the fragile wetlands of the Coorong. This once-magnificent landscape was made famous by Storm Boy, the story of a boy and a special pelican. But today this ecosystem is choking to death. Read Transcript
Listen Now - 2010-07-17 | Download Audio (24.9 MB) - 17072010
San Francisco through the eyes of the city's first poet laureate and founder of world famous City Lights Bookstore, Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Read Transcript
Listen Now - 2010-07-10 | Download Audio (25.1 MB) - 10072010
Broadcaster Harvey Broadbent who was himself a cultural tour leader for some years interrogates the phenomenon of cultural tourism. Read Transcript
Beth Spencer takes us on her journey to Uluru as she joins the stream of tourists 'Doing the Rock'. Read Transcript
Listen Now - 2010-07-03 | Download Audio (24.9 MB) - 03072010
An intriguing and reflective documentary about the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta, the centre of classical Javanese art and culture. But it's a documentary with a difference. The documentary maker neglected to take her microphone and recorder with her when she visited this ancient and exotic city. How then to make radio documentary without the basic building blocks of location recordings? In this case, she begins with the sound of language - and arrives at the language of sound. This beautiful, meditative feature by the multi-award winning producer Kaye Mortley is as much an essay about sound and memory as it is about Yogyakarta. Read Transcript
As every Italian village has a church and a cypress grove, every small town in Japan has a cement factory. Seen from the windows of a speeding bullet train they seem harmless. The postcard writer in this series discovers that yawning in public is not acceptable. Read Transcript
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In late 2001 writer Hamish Sewell travelled from Brisbane to Burma to undertake nine weeks of Satipatthana Buddhist meditation. For most Australians Burma -- Myanmar -- remains a place of mystery, best known for SLORC and the long term house arrest of Aung Sun Suu Kyi.
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