[New-Poetry] Fwd: ABC Radio National Books and Drama newsletter, 8-15 February

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Subject: ABC Radio National Books and Drama newsletter, 8-15 February

ABC Radio National
ooks and Drama newsletter
 - 15 February 2008

OETICA
/2/2008 15:00
3/2/2008 15:00 (repeat)
ICOLETTE STASKO - GLASS CATHEDRALS, featuring readings by Jeanette Cronin and 
ebecca Havey, produced by Lisa Warczak 
RL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/poetica/stories/2008/2141609.htm
icolette Stasko reads from her new and selected collection of poems, 'Glass 
athedrals' and talks about her writing with Lisa Warczak.

INGUA FRANCA
/2/2008 15:45
3/2/2008 15:45
E AND OTHER LANGUAGES
RL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/linguafranca/stories/2008/2157586.htm
arking the United Nations-declared International Year of Languages, as well as 
ts goal to preserve and promote linguistic diversity, the linguist Alexandra 
ikhenvald tells the story of her own multilingualism, reflecting the story of a 
ountry that no longer exists.

HORT STORY
0/2/2008 - 8.30
N MY OWN, by Rosemary Van Den Berg, read by Kyas Sherriff.
RL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/shortstory/stories/2008/2150991.htm
n Aboriginal grandmother finds it difficult to cope with a trip away from her 
amily.

HORT STORY
3/2/2008 - 15.35
HE EXTRACTION, by Jon Bauer, read by Neil Pigot
RL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/shortstory/stories/2008/2150994.htm
he dentist and the dental surgery he operated in have to suffer one last 
xtraction.

IRPLAY
0/2/2008 15:00
5/2/2008 21:00 (repeat)
HE SPOOK - Part 2, by Melissa Reeves, featuring a large cast including Tom Long 
nd Kerry Walker, produced by Anne McInerney
RL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/airplay/stories/2008/2141626.htm
n part two of Melissa Reeves’s award-winning play, Martin, now officially 
ccepted into the South Bendigo Branch of the Communist Party, finds it 
ifficult to think of the seemingly normal people he has met as dangers to the 
ountry but Alex convinces him they are up to no good. 
eeves' play shows how the atmosphere of threat and fear that was prevalent at 
he height of the Cold War took its toll on the thinking of ordinary 
ustralians.

HE BOOK SHOW
onday to Friday 10:00am (repeated at midnight)
11/2/2008
HARLOTTE WOOD'S NOVEL 'THE CHILDREN'
RL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2008/2157938.htm
oing back home, at whatever age, can reignite those sibling rivalies and 
ealousies that we thought we'd grown out of can't it? In Charlotte Wood's new 
ovel The Children, this is what confronts Mandy a foreign correspondent who's 
itnessed war in Bosnia and Bagdad. She returns home to be with her father who's 
n hospital but finds herself reimersed in the tensions of her childhood.
12/2/2008
ARKETING LADY CHATTERLEY - ORIGINS OF SPIN IN PUBLISHING WITH JONATHAN ROSE 
RL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2008/2157949.htm
riters are often thought of as demi-gods and the words they create are 
onsidered sacred, so it's easy to forget that their work is still marketed to 
he public, that they have to deal with agents, lawyers and designers. Jonathan 
ose is a book historian who's looked at the origins of publishing spin and how 
he works of Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolfe and D.H. Lawrence were originally 
arketed.
13/2/2008
OY JACOBSEN'S NOVEL 'THE BURNT-OUT TOWN OF MIRACLES'
RL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2008/2157952.htm
he story of a man who goes through a winter war with the help of some very 
nlikely friends.
14/2/2008
ETER STOTHARD 
RL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2008/2158003.htm
pdate from the editor of the Times Literary Supplement.
15/2/2008
O BURN OR NOT TO BURN? 
RL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2008/2157977.htm
imitri Nabokov is 73, and he has a difficult decision to make - he has 
ragments of an unpublished manuscript by his father that Vladimir wanted burned 
fter his death. Vera Nabokov couldn't do it and Dimitri Nabokov has been the 
iterary executor of Vladimir Nabokov's estate since his mother died in 1991 and 
e hasn't carried out his father's wishes. What should he do?

HE BOOK READING
onday to Friday 14:00 (repeated at 23:00)
/2/2008 - 15/2/2008
N IMAGINARY LIFE, by David Malouf, read by Tony Llewellyn-Jones, produced by 
nne Wynter
RL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookreading/stories/2008/2104942.htm 
he Roman poet Ovid, in exile, tells the story of his encounter with a wild boy, 
rought up among wolves in the snow. At first the poet assumes the role of 
rotector to the boy; gradually, however, the role of protector and protected 
re reversed as the two form a curious and touching alliance.

IRST PERSON
onday to Friday 10.45am
/2/2008 - 15/2/2008
AD HAIR DAYS, written and read by Pamela Bone, produced by Anne McInerney
RL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/firstperson/stories/2008/2108970.htm
nsentimental, clear and often full of dark humour, 'Bad Hair Days' is Pamela 
one's account of her experience with cancer.
amela Bone, esteemed newspaper journalist and columnist, was on assignment in 
frica when she first became ill. On her return to Melbourne, she was diagnosed 
ith multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow. It can be treated but it 
annot be cured.
n her honest, no-holds-barred account of her journey, Bone describes the 
hysical, psychological and emotional consequences of cancer both for herself 
nd her family.

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