The voice of PapuaThursday, 8 Jan 2009 | Media Report
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Journalist and former Media Report presenter Andrew Dodd takes us to Indonesian-controlled Papua. [more]
Radio National: War
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Speech Is Silver, Silence Is GoldSunday, 4 Jan 2009 | Street Stories
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Young people in Iraq are living through a dangerous war, resiliently maintaining a sense of humour and optimism. [more]
Billy Hughes part 1: Hughes the manSaturday, 3 Jan 2009 | RN Life And Times
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The summer season of Life & Times is another opportunity to hear John Thompson's three-part documentary, first broadcast in 1960, about prime minister Billy Hughes. [more]
George Gittoes in AfghanistanFriday, 2 Jan 2009 | Radio National Breakfast
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Our very own Prime Minister called it a hell hole, when he visited the Australian troops in Afghanistan just before Christmas. [more]
Peter CareyWednesday, 31 Dec 2008 | RN Book Show
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Peter Carey has written novels, highly acclaimed collections of short stories and a memoir Wrong about Japan. [more]
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Third day of strikes on the Gaza StripTuesday, 30 Dec 2008 | Radio National Breakfast
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Israel has continued its military strikes against the Gaza Strip for the third straight day, with the government vowing to continue until every Hamas building is destroyed. [more]
Israel continues to target Gaza StripMonday, 29 Dec 2008 | Radio National Breakfast
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For the second day running Israel's airforce has pounded targets in the Gaza Strip. [more]
PakistanMonday, 29 Dec 2008 | Radio National Breakfast
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An estimated 150,000 people turned up to Benazhir Bhutto's family mausoleum over the weekend, to commemorate the first anniversary of her assassination. [more]
Poetry and military life: teaching literature at West PointMonday, 29 Dec 2008 | RN Book Show
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Elizabeth Samet has spent the last 10 years teaching literature to cadets at West Point, where her students go from reading poetry in the morning to training for combat in the afternoon. [more]
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Cultural History of TerrorismSaturday, 27 Dec 2008 | Saturday Breakfast RN
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If terrorism has become one of the great practical challenges of our age, how is it affecting the fabric of our culture? What does it ask of us as individuals, in terms of our morality, our judgments of our governments, police forces, neighbours -- all of which are connected with the verdicts we pass on the terrorists themselves? The prominent historian Michael Burleigh never shrinks from these edgy questions. [more]
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