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1. FD 2008/12/29 - Through a Boy's Eye: Dylan Peek, Chris Abani, Junot Diaz
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More goodies from the vault, tonight, as we look the world through the eyes of young men and boys. We meet Chris Abani, a remarkable novelist from Nigeria and talk about his novella, 'Song for Night' which gives lyrical voice to a wounded boy soldier. Dylan Peek, a ten-year old, visually impaired pu
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public date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:02:47 GMT - (13 MB Type: MPEG)
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2. FD 2008/12/22 - Fight or Flight: Najaf Mazari, Robert Hillman, Charlotte Wood
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This week: stories of running towards or away from disaster, and of negotiating passage between warzones and safehavens. We're revisiting two of our favourite interviews from 2008. We speak with Charlotte Wood about her novel, 'The Children', a tale about a war correspondent with plenty of pity for
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public date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:50:04 GMT - (13 MB Type: MPEG)
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3. FD 2008/12/15 - The Personal Library: Prelinger Library, bookshelf interview, Sean Hurley
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Ever wondered what 'Trees as Good Citizens' and 'Trailer Ahoy!' have common? Find out tonight as we browse in some very unusual, very personal libraries. We meet the creators of the Prelinger Library in San Fransicsco, a fascinating library designed to help you find what you don't know you need. We
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public date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:11:06 GMT - (13 MB Type: MPEG)
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4. FD 2008/12/08 - Making the Most of It: Kim Salmon, Charles Cross, Roma Tearne
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We're scanning the skies for silver linings and learning to cherish, or at least live with the damaged, the fallible, and the badly written. Join us as we stick the knife in yet another subcontinental epic novel about a family, celebrate Kurt Cobain's sadly abbreviated life, and listen to the latest
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public date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:40:44 GMT - (16 MB Type: MPEG)
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5. FD 2008/12/01 - Size Matters: Amanda Lohrey, Booker Prize
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This week, we're reminding ourselves that good things come in small packages. We speak to Amanda Lohrey about her new short novel, 'Vertigo'; and, we look behind the Booker Prize and ask: does it have a prejudice against small stories? Amanda Lohrey, 'Vertigo', Black Inc. Sebastian Barry, 'The Secr
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public date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:09:40 GMT - (18 MB Type: MPEG)
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6. FD 2008/11/24 - Soul-searching: Gary Bryson, Hanif Kureishi, Cumbersome
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This week is all about soul-searching. We're in a contemplative mood, and we'll be burrowing into our pasts and asking questions about our values and beliefs, as we walk a few more miles on that life-long journey of self-discovery. Gary Bryson, Turtle, Allen & Unwin Hanif Kureishi, Something to Te
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public date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:25:56 GMT - (17 MB Type: MPEG)
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7. FD 2008/11/17 - How Did I End Up Here?: Jenny Hocking, Indra Sinha
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This week we reflect on how the events and experiences of childhood can profoundly ? and sometimes cruelly ? mould our destinies. We?ll look at two very different lives ? one formed on the sleepy streets of Canberra, another in the slums of an Indian town ? but both offering different insights into
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public date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:21:51 GMT - (21 MB Type: MPEG)
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8. FD 2008/11/10 - Consuming Passions: Rebecca Huntley, Rae Frances, Cumbersome
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This week we're getting caught up in the consuming passions of food and sex: the way each is produced, bought and sold and what happens to people in the process. Rebecca Huntley, Eating Between the Lines, Black Inc. Rae Frances, Selling Sex: A Hidden History of Prostitution, UNSW Press Bruce Willia
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public date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:35:50 GMT - (21 MB Type: MPEG)
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9. FD 2008/11/03 - Kafkaesque: James Hawes, Jonathein Goldstein and David Rakoff
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Everything you thought you knew about one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century is wrong. Sorry, but it's true. Franz Kafka was no lonely Nostradamus of middle Europe, scribbling away in unrecognised, solitary genius. He was a connected, calculating careerist, a gung-ho imperialist and a
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public date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:01:38 GMT - (20 MB Type: MPEG)
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10. FD 2008/10/27 - New Lives: Katherine Cummings and James Woodford
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We've all dreamt of making ourselves anew, haven't we? Well, sometimes sacrifice comes with fulfillment. Spend some time this week with two people who have made courageous and dramatic transformations. Joining us are librarian, activist, writer and transsexual, Kate Cummings, and the sea-changing jo
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public date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:48:14 GMT - (14 MB Type: MPEG)
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11. FD 2008/10/20 - Radiothon 2: Bookshelf #2 and Cumbersome Corner
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Wrapping up our radiothon series, we're in the mood for a little intimacy. While we seduce you into pulling out your credit card and jumping on the phone, we woo your ears with some great spoken word from the lion of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes and from the Ventriloquist Band. We'll also
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public date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:52:39 GMT - (10 MB Type: MPEG)
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12. FD 2008/10/06 - Ghosts of Campaigns Past: Geoff Law, Thurston Clarke, Michael Hastings
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We're getting out the ouija board and communing with the ghosts of campaigns past. From the wild rivers of southwest Tasmania to the streets of Baghdad, to the hotel in which Bobby Kennedy was shot, we're examining some of the most important and interesting environmental, political and military camp
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public date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:01:15 GMT - (20 MB Type: MPEG)
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13. FD 2008/09/29 - Troubling Childhoods: Margaret Atwood, Susan Hetherington, Bookclub of the Air
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A dark, confronting book for teenagers ends up on the wrong shelf in a Brisbane bookshop with unexpected consequences, and a fictional artist returns to the scene of her painful early years. This week we're talking books about troubled childhoods, and the troubles books can cause kids. Also, the fir
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public date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:19:13 GMT - (20 MB Type: MPEG)
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14. FD 2008/09/22 - The Mobile Library: Ryszard Kapuscinski, Chris Abani, Cumbersome
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Welcome aboard the mobile library! Not the invaluable book bus, but the corpus of stories that refuses to stay put, the tales that migrate from place to place and from time to time. Travelling companions include: the remarkable Nigerian writer, poet and activist, Chris Abani, and the celebrated Poli
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public date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:52:26 GMT - (20 MB Type: MPEG)
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15. FD 2008/09/15 - Copycats: Lynda La Plante, Anita Heiss, Robert Larkins
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It may be the sincerest form of flattery, but that doesn't mean we all need to jump on the bandwagon. Tonight we're blowing the whistle on plagiarists and tipping the copycats out of the bag. With Alastair Penny Cook we discuss allegation recently made against Lynda La Plante and ask: what constitu
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public date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:55:21 GMT - (20 MB Type: MPEG)
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16. FD 2008/09/08 - Transgressions: Phillip Gourevitch, Karen Knight, Cumbersome
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The way of the transgressor is proverbially hard. Karen Knight is now an acclaimed poet, but as a young woman she was marked as a deviant and thrown into a psychiatric hospital. Only now, four decades later, has she found the voice to write of the experience. Phillip Gourevitch also knows a thing or
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public date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:23:52 GMT - (20 MB Type: MPEG)
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17. FD 2008/09/01 Don't Get Too Comfortable: David Rakoff
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David Sedaris says his friend David Rakoff 'successfully manages to pass himself off as the wittiest and most perceptive man in the world.' We concur, and have, accordingly given over the whole show to Mr Rakoff. His latest book is a grand tour of our contemporary culture of excess. On this tour we
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public date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:59:14 GMT - (20 MB Type: MPEG)
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18. FD 2008/08/25 - Lost and Found Department: Caren Florance, David Sedaris, Mary Spongberg, Cumbersome
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Tonight we?re rummaging through the lost and found box. We?re talking about different ways of getting lost, being lost, and losing things. And we?re pricking up the antennae, looking for different ways of finding things. We?ll meet Caren Florance, who designed the cover for Michelle de Kretser?s aw
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public date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:13:37 GMT - (21 MB Type: MPEG)
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19. FD 2008/08/18 - Goodies and Baddies: Chris Womersley, Alan Sillitoe, Wendy Harmer
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Goodies and baddies, cops and robbers, heroes and villains. They're everywhere, signalling our deep-seated need to divide the world into implaccably opposed camps. This week we grapple with these archetypes, and celebrate the grey space, the in-between spaces in which it becomes hard to tell the goo
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public date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:56:51 GMT - (20 MB Type: MPEG)
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20. FD 2008/08/11 - Abiding Passions: Jane Austen, Bruce Williams, Sherwin Sleeves
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Passions, the great Greek storyteller, Aesop said, are like fire and water. They make great servants, but lousy masters. Join us as we indulge in a few of our abiding passions, and find out what happens when the servants get all uppity. We meet one of Jane Austen's most passionate admirers, eavesdro
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public date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:18:45 GMT - (20 MB Type: MPEG)
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