ABC Specials
One-off events, high profile lectures, and presentations of public interest. Most entries include transcripts and links to further information.
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Airplay: Radio National
Airplay is Radio National's weekly program of new Australian radio writing and performance. Airplay's half-hour dramatic fictions experiment with form and explore a wide range of subjects, genres and styles, aiming to offer programs which are innovative and engaging.
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Australia Talks Books
Site for the Radio National program. Discussions about topical books.
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Australian Word Map
Word Map is mapping Australian regionalisms - words, phrases or expressions used by particular language groups. Add your regionalism or search to see what others have contributed.
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Behind the Scenes at the RSC
These programs provide a rare opportunity to take a behind-the-scenes look at theatre craft and theatre production. With unique access to the workshops and wardrobe of the Royal Shakespeare Company, the cameras follow the journey of new productions. Covers a range of technical problems and a rich variety of theatre craft skills in some very different contexts.
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Big Fat Science
An amusing and informed look at science and technology, by The Lab's Bernie Hobbs
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Book Box Double Act
Based on a book by Jacqueline Wilson, Double Act weaves a charming, sensitive and often hilarious story about ten-year-old twins Ruby and Garnet growing up and finding their own identities.
The girls behave alike but they have very different personalities. Everything starts to change when their widowed father brings home Rose, his new partner.
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Book Box Whats So Good About Roald Dahl
Set in the garden of the country house where Dahl conceived many of his stories, the programs explore what makes his writing so successful and feature a variety of lively readings accompanied by Quentin Blake’s wonderful illustrations. This fascinating documentary analysis of Dahl’s life and work shows how he drew upon his experience and vivid imagination to create stories.
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Books and Writing
Books and Writing is the foremost national literary program broadcast throughout Australia. It features in-depth discussions focusing on books, ideas and writing.
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Boyer Lectures
The Boyer Lectures have been delivered by prominent Australians, selected by the ABC Board, for over 40 years. They have stimulated thought, discussion and debate in Australia on a wide range of subjects. The lectures showcase great minds examining key issues and values.
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Classic Short Prose
The three short stories in this unit have been specially chosen to be read in one session. Each story is read by an outstanding actor and the programs include some biographical information on the author, along with suggestions for analysis.
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Derrida - Deconstructing Vision
Jaques derrida gave a live webcast address on the 12th of August 1999. This site has soem material concerning the man and his work.
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English Bites
English Bites is a television presentation and web site designed to help improve your English language skills. Every weekday we show a story and then help you understand the language that has been used in it. You can use the web site with or without watching the show because the web site explains all the stories in detail. Designed for Students of the English language in the Asia/Pacific region, English Bites website is increasingly being used by English students in schools in Australia and recent migrants wishing to improve their English skills in the privacy of their own home. This site is researched and written to an extremely high standard and we highly recommend it.
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Headspace
The ABC’s monthly arts and culture magazine. Features biographies, articles and reviews.
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Hyperstrumpet
If you would rather stay at home with a pencil in your eye than talk about this new, other space, then please ignore us. If terms such as ‘cultural theory, ‘intercourse', ‘discourse’, ‘postmodernism’ and ‘phallus’ annoy you, stay away. That is your privilege. Embrace it.
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Inside Out
Inside Out is a series of bright, pacy, documentary-style programs focusing on the use of English language in various contexts and through different texts and for different purposes. It encourages students not only to develop a greater critical awareness of the way in which language works in many texts, but also seeks to motivate students to use this knowledge to create their own texts.
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Lifelong Learning on Radio National
The complexity and diversity of modern life challenges us to understand the fuller context of issues and ideas. Lifelong Learning develops a theme over six to thirteen weeks, in an open, accessible manner, steadily building a big picture of the topic in question.
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National Poetry Day 1998
A celebration of the place of poetry in our lives.
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Understanding Australia
Understanding Australia offers international students, visitors and backpackers information about the continent and its people
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Vanity Fair
The site about the BBCTV television adaptation of Thackeray's Vanity Fair
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Writers on Writing
Site for TV and radio series that aired in 2000. Has writers, composers and playwrights explaining how they work.
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Your Desert, Not Mine: Australian Literature Since 1950
a timely Open Learning series on the texts and issues arising from the explosion of new writing in Australia in the past 50 years.
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