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Thursday 29 July 2010
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In this program, Phillip travels to New Orleans East, on the outskirts of the city. It's an area which was hit hard by Hurricane Katrina and five years later, many houses are still abandoned. New Orleans East boasts the 'highest concentration of Vietnamese outside Vietnam', it's a tight-knit community, anchored by strong Catholic leadership. But many people work in the fishing industry and have been unable to work since the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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In this program, Phillip explores one of the most important features of Cajun culture: its food. He talks to Marcelle Bienvenu, 'the Queen of Cajun Cooking', about the cross-cultural influences (French, Spanish, African, American Indian) that make the cuisine so unique. This conversation was recorded in the historic town of St Martinville which sits alongside Bayou Teche.
Wednesday 28 July 2010
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A plan to build an Islamic Cultural Centre, two blocks from the original World Trade Centre site, has unleashed sentiments which the New York Times has described as 'vitriolic commentary, pitting Muslims against Christians, Tea parties against staunch liberals, and September 11 families against one another.'
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Earlier this year, the head of Amnesty International's gender unit, Gita Sahgal, told a London newspaper that the organisation's reputation was being damaged by its closeness to former Guantanamo inmate Moazzam Begg. Describing Begg as the Taliban's biggest English supporter, Sahgal argued that he and his group, Cageprisoners, use the language of human rights as a cover for a fundamentalist agenda. Her remarks have split the human rights community in two.
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Phillip takes a tour of the oldest cemetery in New Orleans and hears about the burial customs in that city.
Tuesday 27 July 2010
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This week Bruce talks about the Wikileaks Afghanistan document case and puts it in the context of leaks in American history. He then goes on to discuss the case of Shirley Sherrod, African-American wife of a civil rights-movement pioneer and an appointee in the Department of Agriculture. Sherrod was fired from the department and condemned by the NAACP after a speech she gave was clipped and re-edited by a right-wing blogger.
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Not many of us can claim to be part of history. But David Jenkins, the former foreign editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, was banned by the late Indonesian president Suharto from entering the country for eight years from 1984 to 1994. His book titled Suharto and his Generals: Indonesian Military Politics 1975-1983 and subsequent article about the Suharto family's wealth earned him the late president's ire.
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Lucy Worsley, the chief curator at the Historic Royal Palaces charity in London, has the job of bringing history to life. She's done it by researching all the things people really want to know about monarchs but were too afraid to ask like, how big exactly were Queen Victoria's underpants?
Monday 26 July 2010
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Christian Kerr analyses last night's debate between Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott and discusses the preference deal between Labor and the Greens.
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According to all predictors, China will overtake the American economy within the next 30 years. One of the world's leading proponents of the 'realist' school of international relations believes that the balance of power in Asia will change significantly over that time and that China's ascent is likely to spark an intense security competition with the US, with profound implications for Australia.
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Donald Campbell has been working as a psychoanalyst for over thirty years. He talks, particularly, about his work with violent adolescents in the UK.
Friday 23 July 2010
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The serial killer is both horrifying and perversely fascinating, yet the most successful serial killers survive because they fit in so well. So who is the serial killer and what do we know about the psychological make-up and motivations of this most elusive and incomprehenible of creatures?
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Biographer Kitty Kelley talks about the death of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis at the age of 64. Originally broadcast on 23/5/94.
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Nicholas Humphrey writes about the problem of explaining how states of consciousness arise in human brains and, more specifically, about how our feelings enter consciousness. The first in a series of interviews on consciousness. Originally broadcast on 23/5/94.
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