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Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Like swallowing salt water when you're thirsty
Sister Helen Prejean is the Catholic nun who came to international prominence in 1994 when her Pulitzer Prize nominated book, Dead Man Walking, was made into a feature film. For over two decades Helen has been a tireless campaigner against the death penalty. Her new book, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions, tells the story of two men she accompanied to their deaths at the hands of the state. From ABC's Late Night Live.
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Me and you and a parrot named Ziggy
Chris Taylor became suspicious when his parrot Ziggy croaked "Hiya Gary" whenever his girlfriend Suzy answered her mobile phone. The parrot also made smooching sounds when the name Gary was said on TV. Gary used to be his best mate...
Wake in Fright
Finding himself trapped in the Yabba, John shacks up with Doc, who takes him on a nighttime kangaroo shoot. In this ABC book reading, he wakes with the horror of the previous night. Wake in Fright is an open-eyed nightmare about landing yourself in the ultimate geographical cul-de-sac – a place without exit. But underneath its compulsively readable surface lurks another, even darker story; a sort of 'bush existentialist' tale about the nature of self-entrapment, and the way in which we are often the architects of our own worst dreams.Monday, January 16, 2006
Tears before bedtime
Masters and Mistresses, Submissives and Slaves. An exploration of bondage, discipline, and sadomasochism on the ABC's Street Stories.
17 year cicadas in their prime
The German mathematician Bernhard Riemann discovered a connection between prime numbers and a complex mathematical function called the 'zeta function'. Ever since, mathematicians have laboured to find the rules behind the elusive sequence, which cicadas cleverly use to avoid predators. Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time on the BBC.