http://www.odeo.com/channels/2088-Night-Air-The Johnajacobs no The Night Air: listening for pleasure; an audio adventure in ideas, sounds and music remixed around a theme. It's a listening experience animated by dub versions of ABC Radio National's distinctive programming.Obliquely connected material is re-assembled with sonic glue, letting the listener's imagination build a new story. It's a space to find the music in speech and the poetry in ideas, a show that invites you to take time to unravel the usual media tangle. The Night Air: listening for pleasure; an audio adventure in ideas, sounds and music remixed around a theme. It's a listening experience animated by dub versions of ABC Radio National's distinctive programming.Obliquely connected material is re-assembled with sonic glue, letting the listener's imagination build a new story. It's a space to find the music in speech and the poetry in ideas, a show that invites you to take time to unravel the usual media tangle. The Night Air: listening for pleasure; an audio adventure in ideas, sounds and music remixed around a theme. It's a listening experience animated by dub versions of ABC Radio National's distinctive programming.Obliquely connected material is re-assembled with sonic glue, letting the listener's imagination build a new story. It's a space to find the music in speech and the poetry in ideas, a show that invites you to take time to unravel the usual media tangle. en 40 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0800 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0800 http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25421391-2009-11-08-Nine A lot of big things happened in years ending with the number 9 - like the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989); the Iranian revolution and invasion of Afghanistan (1979); the moon landing and bombing of Cambodia (1969); Luna 3 orbits the moon (1959); communist victory in China and first Soviet A-bomb (1949); the outbreak of WW2(1939). Join veteran producers, Tony Barrell and Tom Morton on a nonagonal adventure. For music details, please click on 'show transcript' A lot of big things happened in years ending with the number 9 - like the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989); the Iranian revolution and invasion of Afghanistan (1979); the moon landing and bombing of Cambodia (1969); Luna 3 orbits the moon (1959); communist victory in China and first Soviet A-bomb (1949); the outbreak of WW2(1939). Join veteran producers, Tony Barrell and Tom Morton on a nonagonal adventure. For music details, please click on 'show transcript' A lot of big things happened in years ending with the number 9 - like the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989); the Iranian revolution and invasion of Afghanistan (1979); the moon landing and bombing of Cambodia (1969); Luna 3 orbits the moon (1959); communist victory in China and first Soviet A-bomb (1949); the outbreak of WW2(1939). Join veteran producers, Tony Barrell and Tom Morton on a nonagonal adventure. For music details, please click on 'show transcript' tag:odeo.com,2009-11-07,25421391 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0800 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25397629-2009-11-01-Body-music Your hip bone´s connected to your thigh bone – true – and even if it´s not the word of the Lord you hear, perhaps it´s an instinctive sense of rhythm. That tingling, harmonic minor-scale sensation down your spine, the boom-boody-boom as your heart beats and the clanging in your head all add up to a great concert of music made on, around and within the body. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. Your hip bone´s connected to your thigh bone – true – and even if it´s not the word of the Lord you hear, perhaps it´s an instinctive sense of rhythm. That tingling, harmonic minor-scale sensation down your spine, the boom-boody-boom as your heart beats and the clanging in your head all add up to a great concert of music made on, around and within the body. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. Your hip bone´s connected to your thigh bone – true – and even if it´s not the word of the Lord you hear, perhaps it´s an instinctive sense of rhythm. That tingling, harmonic minor-scale sensation down your spine, the boom-boody-boom as your heart beats and the clanging in your head all add up to a great concert of music made on, around and within the body. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. tag:odeo.com,2009-10-31,25397629 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25369336-2009-10-25-Love-crazy The crazy pursuit of love with the help of a taxi driver-cum-matchmaker, together with love that kills – modern romance with the experience of dating USA-style, relationship experts and common-or-garden assignations – everyone keen for action without losing sight of proper etiquette. For music details please click on 'show transcript'. The crazy pursuit of love with the help of a taxi driver-cum-matchmaker, together with love that kills – modern romance with the experience of dating USA-style, relationship experts and common-or-garden assignations – everyone keen for action without losing sight of proper etiquette. For music details please click on 'show transcript'. The crazy pursuit of love with the help of a taxi driver-cum-matchmaker, together with love that kills – modern romance with the experience of dating USA-style, relationship experts and common-or-garden assignations – everyone keen for action without losing sight of proper etiquette. For music details please click on 'show transcript'. tag:odeo.com,2009-10-24,25369336 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25308047-2009-10-18-City-nights The stars may not be so bright in the sky but in the city, at night, there are other lights to guide your way. Tonight we´re stepping on to the bitumen, pacing down the concrete footpaths and committing ourselves to the big smoke, through documentaries uploaded to our media sharing site Pool, as part of the City Nights project. The City Nights project called for tales of the city at night, in any media, including photography, video, documentary, text and spoken word poetry. Over 360 pieces came in from which we curated a selection of audio for the Night Air. Works included in the program: Invisible Bird by Sherre Delys, Dark Room 3, by Virginia Madsen, Echoes of Eternity by Robyn Ravlich The Graveyard Ghost, both by Robyn Ravlich, Lunatic Road by Imogen Cranna Goulds at Night by Ross Steel, Breathe by James Laidler and Don Steward, Terrors in the night by Patrick Wright, The city at Night from Ciaran MacLennan and Scott Spresser, Where are you Going to Love? by X Press Radio, Melbou... The stars may not be so bright in the sky but in the city, at night, there are other lights to guide your way. Tonight we´re stepping on to the bitumen, pacing down the concrete footpaths and committing ourselves to the big smoke, through documentaries uploaded to our media sharing site Pool, as part of the City Nights project. The City Nights project called for tales of the city at night, in any media, including photography, video, documentary, text and spoken word poetry. Over 360 pieces came in from which we curated a selection of audio for the Night Air. Works included in the program: Invisible Bird by Sherre Delys, Dark Room 3, by Virginia Madsen, Echoes of Eternity by Robyn Ravlich The Graveyard Ghost, both by Robyn Ravlich, Lunatic Road by Imogen Cranna Goulds at Night by Ross Steel, Breathe by James Laidler and Don Steward, Terrors in the night by Patrick Wright, The city at Night from Ciaran MacLennan and Scott Spresser, Where are you Going to Love? by X Press Radio, Melbourne Noir by Michael Trott and Matthew Mckay, Buddha Belly by Cameron Semmens and Rod Gear as 'Chevrelet', Black Coffee Nights by Komninos Extra Anchovies by Ainslie Crabbe David Willey in Tripoli, Let´s Go Dancing by Sue Daniel, Pig City, by Tony Collins, The Townhouse, by Cath Dwyer, McBride and his Men by Keith Smith, Castlereigh St Ghost by John Potts Back Lanes by Nicole Steinke The stars may not be so bright in the sky but in the city, at night, there are other lights to guide your way. Tonight we´re stepping on to the bitumen, pacing down the concrete footpaths and committing ourselves to the big smoke, through documentaries uploaded to our media sharing site Pool, as part of the City Nights project. The City Nights project called for tales of the city at night, in any media, including photography, video, documentary, text and spoken word poetry. Over 360 pieces came in from which we curated a selection of audio for the Night Air. Works included in the program: Invisible Bird by Sherre Delys, Dark Room 3, by Virginia Madsen, Echoes of Eternity by Robyn Ravlich The Graveyard Ghost, both by Robyn Ravlich, Lunatic Road by Imogen Cranna Goulds at Night by Ross Steel, Breathe by James Laidler and Don Steward, Terrors in the night by Patrick Wright, The city at Night from Ciaran MacLennan and Scott Spresser, Where are you Going to Love? by X Press Radio, Melbourne Noir by Michael Trott and Matthew Mckay, Buddha Belly by Cameron Semmens and Rod Gear as 'Chevrelet', Black Coffee Nights by Komninos Extra Anchovies by Ainslie Crabbe David Willey in Tripoli, Let´s Go Dancing by Sue Daniel, Pig City, by Tony Collins, The Townhouse, by Cath Dwyer, McBride and his Men by Keith Smith, Castlereigh St Ghost by John Potts Back Lanes by Nicole Steinke tag:odeo.com,2009-10-17,25308047 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25269010-2009-10-11-ECC-and-the-full-Bob Copyright-fighters the Evolution Control Committee mash up pop music and free-wheelin' Bob Dylan wanders through his many incarnations ... Part 1: The Evolution Control Committee under the leadership of Trademark G. (aka Mark Gunderson) has been challenging copyright laws since 1986, risking millions in copyright violation fines for what the ECC calls `music´. The ECC is credited with the creation of the Mash Up or Bastard Pop genre of blended pop songs, a style popular with young listeners today. In this session TradeMark G talks about the ECC´s work and demonstrates one of its recent products, the VidiMasher 3000. Part 2: We go the full Bob — certainly not the Robert — always the Bob and for nearly half a century, consistently elusive. Whether poetic or philosophical, political or playful, socially conscious or spiritual, Mr Dylan just keeps on bobbing along with his highly-eclectic followers. We listen as the young man rubs shoulders with the old man – and the m... Copyright-fighters the Evolution Control Committee mash up pop music and free-wheelin' Bob Dylan wanders through his many incarnations ... Part 1: The Evolution Control Committee under the leadership of Trademark G. (aka Mark Gunderson) has been challenging copyright laws since 1986, risking millions in copyright violation fines for what the ECC calls `music´. The ECC is credited with the creation of the Mash Up or Bastard Pop genre of blended pop songs, a style popular with young listeners today. In this session TradeMark G talks about the ECC´s work and demonstrates one of its recent products, the VidiMasher 3000. Part 2: We go the full Bob — certainly not the Robert — always the Bob and for nearly half a century, consistently elusive. Whether poetic or philosophical, political or playful, socially conscious or spiritual, Mr Dylan just keeps on bobbing along with his highly-eclectic followers. We listen as the young man rubs shoulders with the old man – and the many Bobs in between. for music details, please click on 'show transcript'. Copyright-fighters the Evolution Control Committee mash up pop music and free-wheelin' Bob Dylan wanders through his many incarnations ... Part 1: The Evolution Control Committee under the leadership of Trademark G. (aka Mark Gunderson) has been challenging copyright laws since 1986, risking millions in copyright violation fines for what the ECC calls `music´. The ECC is credited with the creation of the Mash Up or Bastard Pop genre of blended pop songs, a style popular with young listeners today. In this session TradeMark G talks about the ECC´s work and demonstrates one of its recent products, the VidiMasher 3000. Part 2: We go the full Bob — certainly not the Robert — always the Bob and for nearly half a century, consistently elusive. Whether poetic or philosophical, political or playful, socially conscious or spiritual, Mr Dylan just keeps on bobbing along with his highly-eclectic followers. We listen as the young man rubs shoulders with the old man – and the many Bobs in between. for music details, please click on 'show transcript'. tag:odeo.com,2009-10-10,25269010 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25231431-2009-10-04-Joy-terror-and-calling-the-unknown Taste the joy and terror as we chomp into some very Dark chocolate – mixing Willy Wonka with child slavery. Then we ask: was Alexander Graham Bell trying to contact the dead when he invented the telephone? It may now be less than mystical but the 'phone still has us spellbound — conversations with unseen callers seem preferable to face-to-face communication and a phone can call up wars and assassins, convey the thrill of new arrivals and mediate the pain of love. It's the power of life, love and abandonment in a pocket device. So much trust in so much technology but don´t forget to pay the bill! Taste the joy and terror as we chomp into some very Dark chocolate – mixing Willy Wonka with child slavery. Then we ask: was Alexander Graham Bell trying to contact the dead when he invented the telephone? It may now be less than mystical but the 'phone still has us spellbound — conversations with unseen callers seem preferable to face-to-face communication and a phone can call up wars and assassins, convey the thrill of new arrivals and mediate the pain of love. It's the power of life, love and abandonment in a pocket device. So much trust in so much technology but don´t forget to pay the bill! Taste the joy and terror as we chomp into some very Dark chocolate – mixing Willy Wonka with child slavery. Then we ask: was Alexander Graham Bell trying to contact the dead when he invented the telephone? It may now be less than mystical but the 'phone still has us spellbound — conversations with unseen callers seem preferable to face-to-face communication and a phone can call up wars and assassins, convey the thrill of new arrivals and mediate the pain of love. It's the power of life, love and abandonment in a pocket device. So much trust in so much technology but don´t forget to pay the bill! tag:odeo.com,2009-10-03,25231431 Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25194942-2009-09-27-Elephant-and-Castles Elephant and Castles is a record label investigating and cultivating a field in between documentary, field recording, unusual sound practices and delicate music. Curator Cédric Anglaret is our sound guide. Using reality as a raw material, always oscillating between the extremely concrete and the abstract creating imaginary places through a non-pictorial narration, getting close to what could be a cinema of sensations where images are made up by the public's own imagination. Image by Gilles Freluche of Soyouz Design http://soyouz.design.free.fr/ Elephant and Castles is a record label investigating and cultivating a field in between documentary, field recording, unusual sound practices and delicate music. Curator Cédric Anglaret is our sound guide. Using reality as a raw material, always oscillating between the extremely concrete and the abstract creating imaginary places through a non-pictorial narration, getting close to what could be a cinema of sensations where images are made up by the public's own imagination. Image by Gilles Freluche of Soyouz Design http://soyouz.design.free.fr/ Elephant and Castles is a record label investigating and cultivating a field in between documentary, field recording, unusual sound practices and delicate music. Curator Cédric Anglaret is our sound guide. Using reality as a raw material, always oscillating between the extremely concrete and the abstract creating imaginary places through a non-pictorial narration, getting close to what could be a cinema of sensations where images are made up by the public's own imagination. Image by Gilles Freluche of Soyouz Design http://soyouz.design.free.fr/ tag:odeo.com,2009-09-26,25194942 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25155400-2009-09-20-The-last-laugh We´ll be chortling, giggling and guffawing in this side-splitting edition where we tickle your funny bone with some of the oldest jokes still in existence — then join a laughter club to share its healing powers. We´ll be chortling, giggling and guffawing in this side-splitting edition where we tickle your funny bone with some of the oldest jokes still in existence — then join a laughter club to share its healing powers. We´ll be chortling, giggling and guffawing in this side-splitting edition where we tickle your funny bone with some of the oldest jokes still in existence — then join a laughter club to share its healing powers. tag:odeo.com,2009-09-19,25155400 Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25119049-2009-09-13-Spooky Spooky is a word saying more than it means perhaps: skulduggery on the part of MI5, strange apparitions, shivery music and the barefaced dread of the unknown. Some people think they have the answers – from Frankenstein to Albert Einstein – Dracula to Arch Obler. Obler was a 1940s radio scaremonger who loved the sound of echoing footsteps and creaking doors, in the days when radio could be really scary. It couldn´t happen now, could it? Then too, there´s Erik von Daniken´s special line in explaining the `unknown´ and Colin Wilson trying to do the same for weird British mysteries; oh yes, and the revelations of a former Australian spy. For music details, please click on 'show transcript. Spooky is a word saying more than it means perhaps: skulduggery on the part of MI5, strange apparitions, shivery music and the barefaced dread of the unknown. Some people think they have the answers – from Frankenstein to Albert Einstein – Dracula to Arch Obler. Obler was a 1940s radio scaremonger who loved the sound of echoing footsteps and creaking doors, in the days when radio could be really scary. It couldn´t happen now, could it? Then too, there´s Erik von Daniken´s special line in explaining the `unknown´ and Colin Wilson trying to do the same for weird British mysteries; oh yes, and the revelations of a former Australian spy. For music details, please click on 'show transcript. Spooky is a word saying more than it means perhaps: skulduggery on the part of MI5, strange apparitions, shivery music and the barefaced dread of the unknown. Some people think they have the answers – from Frankenstein to Albert Einstein – Dracula to Arch Obler. Obler was a 1940s radio scaremonger who loved the sound of echoing footsteps and creaking doors, in the days when radio could be really scary. It couldn´t happen now, could it? Then too, there´s Erik von Daniken´s special line in explaining the `unknown´ and Colin Wilson trying to do the same for weird British mysteries; oh yes, and the revelations of a former Australian spy. For music details, please click on 'show transcript. tag:odeo.com,2009-09-12,25119049 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25083679-2009-09-06-My-Cocaine-Museum-and-Moses-Iten Part One We´re in the jungles of the Pacific coastal region of Colombia with the Australian-born anthropologist and social critic Michael Taussig who has had a long interest in the working lives and beliefs of poor communities in South America, particularly Colombia. In this piece adapted from his 2004 book, Taussig describes the effects of the `transgressive substances´ of cocaine and gold, commodities much desired by the west which have shaped Colombia´s history and its precarious present. Part Two Melbourne-based DJ and producer Moses Iten (aka Saca la Mois DJ) introduces a selector's choice session which charts the worldwide explosion of Colombia's famous cumbia as well as less well-known Afro-Peruvian folk styles. Adapted by electronic musicians, South American dance rhythms are exciting international audiences more familiar with techno and hip hop - nowhere more so than in Melbourne where Moses fuses cumbia and dub in his floor-filling Cumbia Cosmonauts project. Prepare for cu... Part One We´re in the jungles of the Pacific coastal region of Colombia with the Australian-born anthropologist and social critic Michael Taussig who has had a long interest in the working lives and beliefs of poor communities in South America, particularly Colombia. In this piece adapted from his 2004 book, Taussig describes the effects of the `transgressive substances´ of cocaine and gold, commodities much desired by the west which have shaped Colombia´s history and its precarious present. Part Two Melbourne-based DJ and producer Moses Iten (aka Saca la Mois DJ) introduces a selector's choice session which charts the worldwide explosion of Colombia's famous cumbia as well as less well-known Afro-Peruvian folk styles. Adapted by electronic musicians, South American dance rhythms are exciting international audiences more familiar with techno and hip hop - nowhere more so than in Melbourne where Moses fuses cumbia and dub in his floor-filling Cumbia Cosmonauts project. Prepare for cultural collisions and donkeys in space in this rhythm-driven edition. Part One We´re in the jungles of the Pacific coastal region of Colombia with the Australian-born anthropologist and social critic Michael Taussig who has had a long interest in the working lives and beliefs of poor communities in South America, particularly Colombia. In this piece adapted from his 2004 book, Taussig describes the effects of the `transgressive substances´ of cocaine and gold, commodities much desired by the west which have shaped Colombia´s history and its precarious present. Part Two Melbourne-based DJ and producer Moses Iten (aka Saca la Mois DJ) introduces a selector's choice session which charts the worldwide explosion of Colombia's famous cumbia as well as less well-known Afro-Peruvian folk styles. Adapted by electronic musicians, South American dance rhythms are exciting international audiences more familiar with techno and hip hop - nowhere more so than in Melbourne where Moses fuses cumbia and dub in his floor-filling Cumbia Cosmonauts project. Prepare for cultural collisions and donkeys in space in this rhythm-driven edition. tag:odeo.com,2009-09-05,25083679 Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25045564-2009-08-30-Shakin From the hip-swivlin´ Elvis to the undulating belly dance — not to mention the milk shake experience of childhood memories in 1950s Sydney, especially when those `milk-bar´ memories are combined with the Greek island of Kythera. The world turns, turns and we get a little shook up. From the hip-swivlin´ Elvis to the undulating belly dance — not to mention the milk shake experience of childhood memories in 1950s Sydney, especially when those `milk-bar´ memories are combined with the Greek island of Kythera. The world turns, turns and we get a little shook up. From the hip-swivlin´ Elvis to the undulating belly dance — not to mention the milk shake experience of childhood memories in 1950s Sydney, especially when those `milk-bar´ memories are combined with the Greek island of Kythera. The world turns, turns and we get a little shook up. tag:odeo.com,2009-08-29,25045564 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/25009691-2009-08-23-Radio-lab Similar to The Night Air, New York´s Radio Lab is a weekly experiment in story-telling with sound. Tonight a visiting Radio Lab producer showcases a selection of their prime program moments: capturing the musicality of bridges; re-living the mass hysteria produced by the 1938 broadcast of War of the Worlds; and venturing into the seething mass that is the New York Stock Exchange or 'the pit'. Similar to The Night Air, New York´s Radio Lab is a weekly experiment in story-telling with sound. Tonight a visiting Radio Lab producer showcases a selection of their prime program moments: capturing the musicality of bridges; re-living the mass hysteria produced by the 1938 broadcast of War of the Worlds; and venturing into the seething mass that is the New York Stock Exchange or 'the pit'. Similar to The Night Air, New York´s Radio Lab is a weekly experiment in story-telling with sound. Tonight a visiting Radio Lab producer showcases a selection of their prime program moments: capturing the musicality of bridges; re-living the mass hysteria produced by the 1938 broadcast of War of the Worlds; and venturing into the seething mass that is the New York Stock Exchange or 'the pit'. tag:odeo.com,2009-08-22,25009691 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24970767-2009-08-16-Fluent We dip into things hydrous – slipping into ponds and getting up river in a canoe, before negotiating the Amazon and eavesdropping on the navigation centre of the Brisbane river – later we´ll dry off and head to more arid locales with tales of wet versus dry and a walk with an Indigenous guide into the Simpson Desert. Please click Transcript for music details. We dip into things hydrous – slipping into ponds and getting up river in a canoe, before negotiating the Amazon and eavesdropping on the navigation centre of the Brisbane river – later we´ll dry off and head to more arid locales with tales of wet versus dry and a walk with an Indigenous guide into the Simpson Desert. Please click Transcript for music details. We dip into things hydrous – slipping into ponds and getting up river in a canoe, before negotiating the Amazon and eavesdropping on the navigation centre of the Brisbane river – later we´ll dry off and head to more arid locales with tales of wet versus dry and a walk with an Indigenous guide into the Simpson Desert. Please click Transcript for music details. tag:odeo.com,2009-08-15,24970767 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24934904-2009-08-09-Uni-Forms Most of us have probably felt the desire to get away from it all, to retreat from the rat race and contemplate. And for most of us – enmeshed in the business of work, family and relationships – it remains an occasional dream. But some people do indeed turn their backs on these worldly attachments and become solitaries, living to the power of One. For music details please see Transcript. Most of us have probably felt the desire to get away from it all, to retreat from the rat race and contemplate. And for most of us – enmeshed in the business of work, family and relationships – it remains an occasional dream. But some people do indeed turn their backs on these worldly attachments and become solitaries, living to the power of One. For music details please see Transcript. Most of us have probably felt the desire to get away from it all, to retreat from the rat race and contemplate. And for most of us – enmeshed in the business of work, family and relationships – it remains an occasional dream. But some people do indeed turn their backs on these worldly attachments and become solitaries, living to the power of One. For music details please see Transcript. tag:odeo.com,2009-08-08,24934904 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24900556-2009-08-02-Pest Like weeds—flowers in the wrong place—unwanted creatures infest our burgeoning suburbia and beyond. Some of them brought here with good intentions, others we wish had never been created—rabbits, foxes, rats, brumbies, cane toads, lantana or, indigenous creatures we can't abide like termites. The 'introduced species' is but a euphemism for feral vermin. And what about us? Are we not pests too? Comparing the charm of dear old Ratty and Mole to the living horror of sharing your house with a nest of ravenous rats. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. Like weeds—flowers in the wrong place—unwanted creatures infest our burgeoning suburbia and beyond. Some of them brought here with good intentions, others we wish had never been created—rabbits, foxes, rats, brumbies, cane toads, lantana or, indigenous creatures we can't abide like termites. The 'introduced species' is but a euphemism for feral vermin. And what about us? Are we not pests too? Comparing the charm of dear old Ratty and Mole to the living horror of sharing your house with a nest of ravenous rats. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. Like weeds—flowers in the wrong place—unwanted creatures infest our burgeoning suburbia and beyond. Some of them brought here with good intentions, others we wish had never been created—rabbits, foxes, rats, brumbies, cane toads, lantana or, indigenous creatures we can't abide like termites. The 'introduced species' is but a euphemism for feral vermin. And what about us? Are we not pests too? Comparing the charm of dear old Ratty and Mole to the living horror of sharing your house with a nest of ravenous rats. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. tag:odeo.com,2009-08-01,24900556 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24866636-2009-07-26-Visual In a world of the ocular and photopic we go eye-spying on visual perception in art and arcana: realms of the unseen, the partly-perceived and the imagined. With eyes open it looks as though our experience of vision and consciousness are continuous, complex, rich and colourful - thanks to some hard work put in by the brain. But, some researchers believe that we don't see the world as it actually is at all, rather it could all be a grand illusion. In a world of the ocular and photopic we go eye-spying on visual perception in art and arcana: realms of the unseen, the partly-perceived and the imagined. With eyes open it looks as though our experience of vision and consciousness are continuous, complex, rich and colourful - thanks to some hard work put in by the brain. But, some researchers believe that we don't see the world as it actually is at all, rather it could all be a grand illusion. In a world of the ocular and photopic we go eye-spying on visual perception in art and arcana: realms of the unseen, the partly-perceived and the imagined. With eyes open it looks as though our experience of vision and consciousness are continuous, complex, rich and colourful - thanks to some hard work put in by the brain. But, some researchers believe that we don't see the world as it actually is at all, rather it could all be a grand illusion. tag:odeo.com,2009-07-25,24866636 Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24830484-2009-07-19-Deep How low can you go? And will it be all the way? This evening we're in deep, trying to fathom mind under matter and over the horizon. For your listening pleasure we plummet headfirst into the nether reaches of reality and journey beyond the depths of space, sleep and sea - and that's just for starters. How low can you go? And will it be all the way? This evening we're in deep, trying to fathom mind under matter and over the horizon. For your listening pleasure we plummet headfirst into the nether reaches of reality and journey beyond the depths of space, sleep and sea - and that's just for starters. How low can you go? And will it be all the way? This evening we're in deep, trying to fathom mind under matter and over the horizon. For your listening pleasure we plummet headfirst into the nether reaches of reality and journey beyond the depths of space, sleep and sea - and that's just for starters. tag:odeo.com,2009-07-18,24830484 Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24789848-2009-07-12-Shrooms-with-a-view-bright-objects Would you rather snuff a truffle or pull up a toadstool? Either way, be sure to join us on this evening´s great fungi hunt when we find out what sounds those mycetes make. From psilocybin to shitake, it´s a magical journey with some versatile spores that could change the world like a mushroom cloud. Just remember, never eat a mushroom unless you can name it. And in Part 2 - a pick´n´mix bag of bright objects and a shaggy dog story. Would you rather snuff a truffle or pull up a toadstool? Either way, be sure to join us on this evening´s great fungi hunt when we find out what sounds those mycetes make. From psilocybin to shitake, it´s a magical journey with some versatile spores that could change the world like a mushroom cloud. Just remember, never eat a mushroom unless you can name it. And in Part 2 - a pick´n´mix bag of bright objects and a shaggy dog story. Would you rather snuff a truffle or pull up a toadstool? Either way, be sure to join us on this evening´s great fungi hunt when we find out what sounds those mycetes make. From psilocybin to shitake, it´s a magical journey with some versatile spores that could change the world like a mushroom cloud. Just remember, never eat a mushroom unless you can name it. And in Part 2 - a pick´n´mix bag of bright objects and a shaggy dog story. tag:odeo.com,2009-07-11,24789848 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24750344-2009-07-05-Conspiracy Conspiracy Theories — do you believe them? Do you laugh at them? Or do they make you frown? Enter the mirror maze of Conspiracy and decide for yourself tonight when we spend some time with collector and advocate Dr Jaimie Leonarder from the Mu-Meson Archives. We'll also hear from a host of true believers, sceptics and paranoid lunatics including David Icke, Alex Jones and Bill Kaysing, covering the left, right, centre, and parallel universes. Listen in and wonder if we have ever been to the moon, if world leaders sacrifice humans in secret meetings at Bohemian Grove, and whether the British Royal Family are actually shape-shifting reptiles? for full disclosure of music secrets, click on the transcript link below Conspiracy Theories — do you believe them? Do you laugh at them? Or do they make you frown? Enter the mirror maze of Conspiracy and decide for yourself tonight when we spend some time with collector and advocate Dr Jaimie Leonarder from the Mu-Meson Archives. We'll also hear from a host of true believers, sceptics and paranoid lunatics including David Icke, Alex Jones and Bill Kaysing, covering the left, right, centre, and parallel universes. Listen in and wonder if we have ever been to the moon, if world leaders sacrifice humans in secret meetings at Bohemian Grove, and whether the British Royal Family are actually shape-shifting reptiles? for full disclosure of music secrets, click on the transcript link below Conspiracy Theories — do you believe them? Do you laugh at them? Or do they make you frown? Enter the mirror maze of Conspiracy and decide for yourself tonight when we spend some time with collector and advocate Dr Jaimie Leonarder from the Mu-Meson Archives. We'll also hear from a host of true believers, sceptics and paranoid lunatics including David Icke, Alex Jones and Bill Kaysing, covering the left, right, centre, and parallel universes. Listen in and wonder if we have ever been to the moon, if world leaders sacrifice humans in secret meetings at Bohemian Grove, and whether the British Royal Family are actually shape-shifting reptiles? for full disclosure of music secrets, click on the transcript link below tag:odeo.com,2009-07-04,24750344 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24750345-2009-06-28-Capital This week we´re examining the rise and fall of capital; we're balancing books, laying waste to financial institutions and punishing capital crimes. Its murder, greed and the end of civilisation as we know it. So come on out Reaganites, let´s party like it´s 1984 in a show that´s light as a feather, heavy as a banker. In Part 2, we wander through aural intricacies of the centre of global finance, the sprawling labyrinth that is London. This week we´re examining the rise and fall of capital; we're balancing books, laying waste to financial institutions and punishing capital crimes. Its murder, greed and the end of civilisation as we know it. So come on out Reaganites, let´s party like it´s 1984 in a show that´s light as a feather, heavy as a banker. In Part 2, we wander through aural intricacies of the centre of global finance, the sprawling labyrinth that is London. This week we´re examining the rise and fall of capital; we're balancing books, laying waste to financial institutions and punishing capital crimes. Its murder, greed and the end of civilisation as we know it. So come on out Reaganites, let´s party like it´s 1984 in a show that´s light as a feather, heavy as a banker. In Part 2, we wander through aural intricacies of the centre of global finance, the sprawling labyrinth that is London. tag:odeo.com,2009-06-27,24750345 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24750346-2009-06-21-Animals Our fine-feathered and four-legged friends scamper up to the microphone to give us the inside info on what being an animal is all about...pampered pooches, gambolling gorillas, singing pigs and lions with largess. The featured rant on Quadrepedism is by Theodore Gottlieb The Night Share mix is Hidden Beak Funeral Bird by Jen Saunders For music details see transcript Our fine-feathered and four-legged friends scamper up to the microphone to give us the inside info on what being an animal is all about...pampered pooches, gambolling gorillas, singing pigs and lions with largess. The featured rant on Quadrepedism is by Theodore Gottlieb The Night Share mix is Hidden Beak Funeral Bird by Jen Saunders For music details see transcript Our fine-feathered and four-legged friends scamper up to the microphone to give us the inside info on what being an animal is all about...pampered pooches, gambolling gorillas, singing pigs and lions with largess. The featured rant on Quadrepedism is by Theodore Gottlieb The Night Share mix is Hidden Beak Funeral Bird by Jen Saunders For music details see transcript tag:odeo.com,2009-06-20,24750346 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24703730-2009-06-14-Food Mmm ... bring an appetite to this menu-driven edition ... an insane craving for more cake, pineapples, chilli and soup. We even visit the 40th Anniversary Dinner of the Leeton Gourmet Club. Any new recipes? Absolutely! For music details please click on Show transcript. Mmm ... bring an appetite to this menu-driven edition ... an insane craving for more cake, pineapples, chilli and soup. We even visit the 40th Anniversary Dinner of the Leeton Gourmet Club. Any new recipes? Absolutely! For music details please click on Show transcript. Mmm ... bring an appetite to this menu-driven edition ... an insane craving for more cake, pineapples, chilli and soup. We even visit the 40th Anniversary Dinner of the Leeton Gourmet Club. Any new recipes? Absolutely! For music details please click on Show transcript. tag:odeo.com,2009-06-13,24703730 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24663458-2009-06-07-Mobile-Journeys As artist Jodi Rose contemplates content on the move, we journey into the mobile future with a phone book's worth of new media artists, community groups and hip-hoppers who each teach us to change the way we think. For music details please click on show transcript. As artist Jodi Rose contemplates content on the move, we journey into the mobile future with a phone book's worth of new media artists, community groups and hip-hoppers who each teach us to change the way we think. For music details please click on show transcript. As artist Jodi Rose contemplates content on the move, we journey into the mobile future with a phone book's worth of new media artists, community groups and hip-hoppers who each teach us to change the way we think. For music details please click on show transcript. tag:odeo.com,2009-06-06,24663458 Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24633394-2009-05-31-Pulp-Pulp-fiction-Reggie-Watts Part 1: We consider the `death´ of paper in our increasingly virtual existence. Pulp focuses on the loss of tactility, words and language as humans become ever more digital. It could be seen as a bit of a mourning song - a death-rattle for die-hard stationery fans who remember reading words on a page and feeling like they could eat them. The Night Share Pool mix is Into the Dark remix by Luke Troyner Part 2: We continue a journey into pulp as we follow the Sydney lair and pulp anti-hero, Billy Glasheen as he takes a yippee pill trip down the Hume Highway back in 1956. Billy´s story, 'Cold War and Hot Dogs´ is read by the author, Sydney writer, artist and musician, Peter Doyle. We also meet the Reggie Watts, the US mic man who has been described as a 'hip hop Sly Stone reading Gertrude Stein on LSD'. Part 1: We consider the `death´ of paper in our increasingly virtual existence. Pulp focuses on the loss of tactility, words and language as humans become ever more digital. It could be seen as a bit of a mourning song - a death-rattle for die-hard stationery fans who remember reading words on a page and feeling like they could eat them. The Night Share Pool mix is Into the Dark remix by Luke Troyner Part 2: We continue a journey into pulp as we follow the Sydney lair and pulp anti-hero, Billy Glasheen as he takes a yippee pill trip down the Hume Highway back in 1956. Billy´s story, 'Cold War and Hot Dogs´ is read by the author, Sydney writer, artist and musician, Peter Doyle. We also meet the Reggie Watts, the US mic man who has been described as a 'hip hop Sly Stone reading Gertrude Stein on LSD'. Part 1: We consider the `death´ of paper in our increasingly virtual existence. Pulp focuses on the loss of tactility, words and language as humans become ever more digital. It could be seen as a bit of a mourning song - a death-rattle for die-hard stationery fans who remember reading words on a page and feeling like they could eat them. The Night Share Pool mix is Into the Dark remix by Luke Troyner Part 2: We continue a journey into pulp as we follow the Sydney lair and pulp anti-hero, Billy Glasheen as he takes a yippee pill trip down the Hume Highway back in 1956. Billy´s story, 'Cold War and Hot Dogs´ is read by the author, Sydney writer, artist and musician, Peter Doyle. We also meet the Reggie Watts, the US mic man who has been described as a 'hip hop Sly Stone reading Gertrude Stein on LSD'. tag:odeo.com,2009-05-30,24633394 Sat, 30 May 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24602715-2009-05-24-Rockin No stone´s left unturned in this geophonic edition of The Night Air. Explore the archaeological sounds of the earth, learn about the diamond trade, stalagmites and classic sculpture - all upon a founation of inscription and rockin' music. For music details please click on 'show transcript'. No stone´s left unturned in this geophonic edition of The Night Air. Explore the archaeological sounds of the earth, learn about the diamond trade, stalagmites and classic sculpture - all upon a founation of inscription and rockin' music. For music details please click on 'show transcript'. No stone´s left unturned in this geophonic edition of The Night Air. Explore the archaeological sounds of the earth, learn about the diamond trade, stalagmites and classic sculpture - all upon a founation of inscription and rockin' music. For music details please click on 'show transcript'. tag:odeo.com,2009-05-23,24602715 Sat, 23 May 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24589641-2009-05-17-Feral Tonight as feral as ... into the wild blue yonder ... past the rabbit-proof fence, scrabbling and scratching our way through a `special area´ in the Blue Mountains and scurrying around with some German boars in urban Berlin to see what happens when wildness and civilisation come head to head. Later we take wing with pigeons from all over the place - at least they can find their way back to a place they call home - unlike the anarchistic feral-punks who tried to squat Stonehenge in 1980s Britain. For music details, please click on 'show transcript. Tonight as feral as ... into the wild blue yonder ... past the rabbit-proof fence, scrabbling and scratching our way through a `special area´ in the Blue Mountains and scurrying around with some German boars in urban Berlin to see what happens when wildness and civilisation come head to head. Later we take wing with pigeons from all over the place - at least they can find their way back to a place they call home - unlike the anarchistic feral-punks who tried to squat Stonehenge in 1980s Britain. For music details, please click on 'show transcript. Tonight as feral as ... into the wild blue yonder ... past the rabbit-proof fence, scrabbling and scratching our way through a `special area´ in the Blue Mountains and scurrying around with some German boars in urban Berlin to see what happens when wildness and civilisation come head to head. Later we take wing with pigeons from all over the place - at least they can find their way back to a place they call home - unlike the anarchistic feral-punks who tried to squat Stonehenge in 1980s Britain. For music details, please click on 'show transcript. tag:odeo.com,2009-05-16,24589641 Sat, 16 May 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24573433-2009-05-17-Feral Tonight as feral as ... into the wild blue yonder ... past the rabbit-proof fence, scrabbling and scratching our way through a `special area´ in the Blue Mountains and scurrying around with some German boars in urban Berlin to see what happens when wildness and civilisation come head to head. Later we take wing with pigeons from all over the place - at least they can find their way back to a place they call home - unlike the anarchistic feral-punks who tried to squat Stonehenge in 1980s Britain. For music details, please click on 'show transcript. Tonight as feral as ... into the wild blue yonder ... past the rabbit-proof fence, scrabbling and scratching our way through a `special area´ in the Blue Mountains and scurrying around with some German boars in urban Berlin to see what happens when wildness and civilisation come head to head. Later we take wing with pigeons from all over the place - at least they can find their way back to a place they call home - unlike the anarchistic feral-punks who tried to squat Stonehenge in 1980s Britain. For music details, please click on 'show transcript. Tonight as feral as ... into the wild blue yonder ... past the rabbit-proof fence, scrabbling and scratching our way through a `special area´ in the Blue Mountains and scurrying around with some German boars in urban Berlin to see what happens when wildness and civilisation come head to head. Later we take wing with pigeons from all over the place - at least they can find their way back to a place they call home - unlike the anarchistic feral-punks who tried to squat Stonehenge in 1980s Britain. For music details, please click on 'show transcript. tag:odeo.com,2009-05-16,24573433 Sat, 16 May 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24562749-2009-05-10-Whales 'Thar she blows'. Was Captain Ahab carrying out 'scientific research' when he sought out the great white whale? An acoustic herd, a whale that takes on the President of the United States, the killer whales of Eden that drove the humpbacks to their death, the Steve Irwin and Operation Musashi and one big fish story. Join us as we take to the sea in search of cetaceans and their mysterious songs. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. 'Thar she blows'. Was Captain Ahab carrying out 'scientific research' when he sought out the great white whale? An acoustic herd, a whale that takes on the President of the United States, the killer whales of Eden that drove the humpbacks to their death, the Steve Irwin and Operation Musashi and one big fish story. Join us as we take to the sea in search of cetaceans and their mysterious songs. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. 'Thar she blows'. Was Captain Ahab carrying out 'scientific research' when he sought out the great white whale? An acoustic herd, a whale that takes on the President of the United States, the killer whales of Eden that drove the humpbacks to their death, the Steve Irwin and Operation Musashi and one big fish story. Join us as we take to the sea in search of cetaceans and their mysterious songs. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. tag:odeo.com,2009-05-09,24562749 Sat, 09 May 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24589642-2009-05-10-Whales 'Thar she blows'. Was Captain Ahab carrying out 'scientific research' when he sought out the great white whale? An acoustic herd, a whale that takes on the President of the United States, the killer whales of Eden that drove the humpbacks to their death, the Steve Irwin and Operation Musashi and one big fish story. Join us as we take to the sea in search of cetaceans and their mysterious songs. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. 'Thar she blows'. Was Captain Ahab carrying out 'scientific research' when he sought out the great white whale? An acoustic herd, a whale that takes on the President of the United States, the killer whales of Eden that drove the humpbacks to their death, the Steve Irwin and Operation Musashi and one big fish story. Join us as we take to the sea in search of cetaceans and their mysterious songs. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. 'Thar she blows'. Was Captain Ahab carrying out 'scientific research' when he sought out the great white whale? An acoustic herd, a whale that takes on the President of the United States, the killer whales of Eden that drove the humpbacks to their death, the Steve Irwin and Operation Musashi and one big fish story. Join us as we take to the sea in search of cetaceans and their mysterious songs. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. tag:odeo.com,2009-05-09,24589642 Sat, 09 May 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24589643-2009-05-03-Robot-Love After the abject treatment of robots as slaves for so many years, it´s time to find some compassion and realise robots can be our friends (and in some instances, yes, even our lovers). The Night Air offers a tribute in song and clanking industrial noise to the history of robot-human friendship - from the days of old tin pants to the invasion of the nanobots. After the abject treatment of robots as slaves for so many years, it´s time to find some compassion and realise robots can be our friends (and in some instances, yes, even our lovers). The Night Air offers a tribute in song and clanking industrial noise to the history of robot-human friendship - from the days of old tin pants to the invasion of the nanobots. After the abject treatment of robots as slaves for so many years, it´s time to find some compassion and realise robots can be our friends (and in some instances, yes, even our lovers). The Night Air offers a tribute in song and clanking industrial noise to the history of robot-human friendship - from the days of old tin pants to the invasion of the nanobots. tag:odeo.com,2009-05-02,24589643 Sat, 02 May 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24532418-2009-05-03-Robot-Love After the abject treatment of robots as slaves for so many years, it´s time to find some compassion and realise robots can be our friends (and in some instances, yes, even our lovers). The Night Air offers a tribute in song and clanking industrial noise to the history of robot-human friendship - from the days of old tin pants to the invasion of the nanobots. After the abject treatment of robots as slaves for so many years, it´s time to find some compassion and realise robots can be our friends (and in some instances, yes, even our lovers). The Night Air offers a tribute in song and clanking industrial noise to the history of robot-human friendship - from the days of old tin pants to the invasion of the nanobots. After the abject treatment of robots as slaves for so many years, it´s time to find some compassion and realise robots can be our friends (and in some instances, yes, even our lovers). The Night Air offers a tribute in song and clanking industrial noise to the history of robot-human friendship - from the days of old tin pants to the invasion of the nanobots. tag:odeo.com,2009-05-02,24532418 Sat, 02 May 2009 07:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24589644-2009-04-26-Quacks-and-Concrete-Air Part 1: Quacks Please sit down. What seems to be the problem? This week on The Night Air we're checking pulses and monitoring vital signs as we open up perceptions of health and medicine and see what sort of snake-oil cures and charlatans crop up. Hypochondriacs are advised to eat more chocolate, hysterical women are prescribed a night of sexual satisfaction and some patients in America are prescribed anything they've seen advertised on late-night television. We'll also learn from Oliver Sacks how the right tune can hold the key to recovery and just how William Chaucer defined a good physician. If symptoms persist, tune in. Part 2: Concrete & Air Twin poles of 20th century electro-acoustic manipulation, Jamaican dub and European musique concrète attract and repulse one another, whilst several Cambodians, Ghanaians and New Zealanders offer brief interjections. Part 1: Quacks Please sit down. What seems to be the problem? This week on The Night Air we're checking pulses and monitoring vital signs as we open up perceptions of health and medicine and see what sort of snake-oil cures and charlatans crop up. Hypochondriacs are advised to eat more chocolate, hysterical women are prescribed a night of sexual satisfaction and some patients in America are prescribed anything they've seen advertised on late-night television. We'll also learn from Oliver Sacks how the right tune can hold the key to recovery and just how William Chaucer defined a good physician. If symptoms persist, tune in. Part 2: Concrete & Air Twin poles of 20th century electro-acoustic manipulation, Jamaican dub and European musique concrète attract and repulse one another, whilst several Cambodians, Ghanaians and New Zealanders offer brief interjections. Part 1: Quacks Please sit down. What seems to be the problem? This week on The Night Air we're checking pulses and monitoring vital signs as we open up perceptions of health and medicine and see what sort of snake-oil cures and charlatans crop up. Hypochondriacs are advised to eat more chocolate, hysterical women are prescribed a night of sexual satisfaction and some patients in America are prescribed anything they've seen advertised on late-night television. We'll also learn from Oliver Sacks how the right tune can hold the key to recovery and just how William Chaucer defined a good physician. If symptoms persist, tune in. Part 2: Concrete & Air Twin poles of 20th century electro-acoustic manipulation, Jamaican dub and European musique concrète attract and repulse one another, whilst several Cambodians, Ghanaians and New Zealanders offer brief interjections. tag:odeo.com,2009-04-25,24589644 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24506562-2009-04-26-Quacks-and-Concrete-and-Air Part 1: Quacks Please sit down. What seems to be the problem? This week on The Night Air we're checking pulses and monitoring vital signs as we open up perceptions of health and medicine and see what sort of snake-oil cures and charlatans crop up. Hypochondriacs are advised to eat more chocolate, hysterical women are prescribed a night of sexual satisfaction and some patients in America are prescribed anything they've seen advertised on late-night television. We'll also learn from Oliver Sacks how the right tune can hold the key to recovery and just how William Chaucer defined a good physician. If symptoms persist, tune in. Part 2: Concrete and Air Twin poles of 20th century electro-acoustic manipulation, Jamaican dub and Euro-American musique concrète attract and repulse one another, while several Cambodians, Ghanaians and New Zealanders offer rowdy interjections. Part 1: Quacks Please sit down. What seems to be the problem? This week on The Night Air we're checking pulses and monitoring vital signs as we open up perceptions of health and medicine and see what sort of snake-oil cures and charlatans crop up. Hypochondriacs are advised to eat more chocolate, hysterical women are prescribed a night of sexual satisfaction and some patients in America are prescribed anything they've seen advertised on late-night television. We'll also learn from Oliver Sacks how the right tune can hold the key to recovery and just how William Chaucer defined a good physician. If symptoms persist, tune in. Part 2: Concrete and Air Twin poles of 20th century electro-acoustic manipulation, Jamaican dub and Euro-American musique concrète attract and repulse one another, while several Cambodians, Ghanaians and New Zealanders offer rowdy interjections. Part 1: Quacks Please sit down. What seems to be the problem? This week on The Night Air we're checking pulses and monitoring vital signs as we open up perceptions of health and medicine and see what sort of snake-oil cures and charlatans crop up. Hypochondriacs are advised to eat more chocolate, hysterical women are prescribed a night of sexual satisfaction and some patients in America are prescribed anything they've seen advertised on late-night television. We'll also learn from Oliver Sacks how the right tune can hold the key to recovery and just how William Chaucer defined a good physician. If symptoms persist, tune in. Part 2: Concrete and Air Twin poles of 20th century electro-acoustic manipulation, Jamaican dub and Euro-American musique concrète attract and repulse one another, while several Cambodians, Ghanaians and New Zealanders offer rowdy interjections. tag:odeo.com,2009-04-25,24506562 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24532419-2009-04-26-Quacks-and-Concrete-Air Part 1: Quacks Please sit down. What seems to be the problem? This week on The Night Air we're checking pulses and monitoring vital signs as we open up perceptions of health and medicine and see what sort of snake-oil cures and charlatans crop up. Hypochondriacs are advised to eat more chocolate, hysterical women are prescribed a night of sexual satisfaction and some patients in America are prescribed anything they've seen advertised on late-night television. We'll also learn from Oliver Sacks how the right tune can hold the key to recovery and just how William Chaucer defined a good physician. If symptoms persist, tune in. Part 2: Concrete & Air Twin poles of 20th century electro-acoustic manipulation, Jamaican dub and European musique concrète attract and repulse one another, whilst several Cambodians, Ghanaians and New Zealanders offer brief interjections. Part 1: Quacks Please sit down. What seems to be the problem? This week on The Night Air we're checking pulses and monitoring vital signs as we open up perceptions of health and medicine and see what sort of snake-oil cures and charlatans crop up. Hypochondriacs are advised to eat more chocolate, hysterical women are prescribed a night of sexual satisfaction and some patients in America are prescribed anything they've seen advertised on late-night television. We'll also learn from Oliver Sacks how the right tune can hold the key to recovery and just how William Chaucer defined a good physician. If symptoms persist, tune in. Part 2: Concrete & Air Twin poles of 20th century electro-acoustic manipulation, Jamaican dub and European musique concrète attract and repulse one another, whilst several Cambodians, Ghanaians and New Zealanders offer brief interjections. Part 1: Quacks Please sit down. What seems to be the problem? This week on The Night Air we're checking pulses and monitoring vital signs as we open up perceptions of health and medicine and see what sort of snake-oil cures and charlatans crop up. Hypochondriacs are advised to eat more chocolate, hysterical women are prescribed a night of sexual satisfaction and some patients in America are prescribed anything they've seen advertised on late-night television. We'll also learn from Oliver Sacks how the right tune can hold the key to recovery and just how William Chaucer defined a good physician. If symptoms persist, tune in. Part 2: Concrete & Air Twin poles of 20th century electro-acoustic manipulation, Jamaican dub and European musique concrète attract and repulse one another, whilst several Cambodians, Ghanaians and New Zealanders offer brief interjections. tag:odeo.com,2009-04-25,24532419 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24470578-2009-04-19-Kind-of-Oriental What is it about white men who can only contemplate an affair with or marriage to an 'Asian woman'? Is it a perversion to crave a relationship with a serene, beautiful, passive version of the feminine ideal? Masako Fukui bravely investigates the male psyche -- and her own responses to this 'ideal'. Along the way we visit Okinawa for their secret to longevity and back home, hear what Japanese Australians have to say about traditional Asian values. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. What is it about white men who can only contemplate an affair with or marriage to an 'Asian woman'? Is it a perversion to crave a relationship with a serene, beautiful, passive version of the feminine ideal? Masako Fukui bravely investigates the male psyche -- and her own responses to this 'ideal'. Along the way we visit Okinawa for their secret to longevity and back home, hear what Japanese Australians have to say about traditional Asian values. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. What is it about white men who can only contemplate an affair with or marriage to an 'Asian woman'? Is it a perversion to crave a relationship with a serene, beautiful, passive version of the feminine ideal? Masako Fukui bravely investigates the male psyche -- and her own responses to this 'ideal'. Along the way we visit Okinawa for their secret to longevity and back home, hear what Japanese Australians have to say about traditional Asian values. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. tag:odeo.com,2009-04-18,24470578 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24439129-2009-04-12-Revelation Part 1 According to Jewish tradition, 36 righteous beings - the lamed vav tzaddikim - keep the world turning. If they didn't exist there would be greater strife in the world than there already is, yet we don't even know who they are. Rabbis, mystics and scholars speak about the idea and we find these beings in the most unlikely places. Part 2 A Night Air selection of garbled future prophesy, Gospel soul-stirring and rousing endorsements of the risen Messiah. Maybe not all will be revealed... Part 1 According to Jewish tradition, 36 righteous beings - the lamed vav tzaddikim - keep the world turning. If they didn't exist there would be greater strife in the world than there already is, yet we don't even know who they are. Rabbis, mystics and scholars speak about the idea and we find these beings in the most unlikely places. Part 2 A Night Air selection of garbled future prophesy, Gospel soul-stirring and rousing endorsements of the risen Messiah. Maybe not all will be revealed... Part 1 According to Jewish tradition, 36 righteous beings - the lamed vav tzaddikim - keep the world turning. If they didn't exist there would be greater strife in the world than there already is, yet we don't even know who they are. Rabbis, mystics and scholars speak about the idea and we find these beings in the most unlikely places. Part 2 A Night Air selection of garbled future prophesy, Gospel soul-stirring and rousing endorsements of the risen Messiah. Maybe not all will be revealed... tag:odeo.com,2009-04-11,24439129 Sat, 11 Apr 2009 06:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24410935-2009-04-05-The-Library Run your finger along the spines and settle in for a trip down the Dewey decimals. We´re taking an audio tour of public archives, private collections, borrowed ideas and forgotten footnotes; we look at the effects of censorship and the history of book burning - with the help of Ray Bradbury´s Fahrenheit 451 - and Walter Benjamin provides an insight into the mentality of the private collector in an adaptation of his essay, Unpacking My Library. It´s access all areas for late-night browsers and the shuffling of pages as we turn up the volumes. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. Run your finger along the spines and settle in for a trip down the Dewey decimals. We´re taking an audio tour of public archives, private collections, borrowed ideas and forgotten footnotes; we look at the effects of censorship and the history of book burning - with the help of Ray Bradbury´s Fahrenheit 451 - and Walter Benjamin provides an insight into the mentality of the private collector in an adaptation of his essay, Unpacking My Library. It´s access all areas for late-night browsers and the shuffling of pages as we turn up the volumes. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. Run your finger along the spines and settle in for a trip down the Dewey decimals. We´re taking an audio tour of public archives, private collections, borrowed ideas and forgotten footnotes; we look at the effects of censorship and the history of book burning - with the help of Ray Bradbury´s Fahrenheit 451 - and Walter Benjamin provides an insight into the mentality of the private collector in an adaptation of his essay, Unpacking My Library. It´s access all areas for late-night browsers and the shuffling of pages as we turn up the volumes. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. tag:odeo.com,2009-04-04,24410935 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24381532-2009-03-29-Suggestive Tonight we´re getting a little suggestive—not too much, but our slip's showing a touch because, as the father of modern advertising—Goebbels—knew all too well, a nudge really is as a good as a wink. There's graffiti, Hitler and ventriloquists, as well as suggestive tunes ... For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. Tonight we´re getting a little suggestive—not too much, but our slip's showing a touch because, as the father of modern advertising—Goebbels—knew all too well, a nudge really is as a good as a wink. There's graffiti, Hitler and ventriloquists, as well as suggestive tunes ... For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. Tonight we´re getting a little suggestive—not too much, but our slip's showing a touch because, as the father of modern advertising—Goebbels—knew all too well, a nudge really is as a good as a wink. There's graffiti, Hitler and ventriloquists, as well as suggestive tunes ... For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. tag:odeo.com,2009-03-28,24381532 Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24341867-2009-03-22-Letters From Derek Mahon and Ted Hughes to Sigmund Freud and Groucho Marx, they all wrote them. This Night Air honours the good old-fashioned letter, the love kind the lost kind and all the alphabet of letters in between. From Derek Mahon and Ted Hughes to Sigmund Freud and Groucho Marx, they all wrote them. This Night Air honours the good old-fashioned letter, the love kind the lost kind and all the alphabet of letters in between. From Derek Mahon and Ted Hughes to Sigmund Freud and Groucho Marx, they all wrote them. This Night Air honours the good old-fashioned letter, the love kind the lost kind and all the alphabet of letters in between. tag:odeo.com,2009-03-21,24341867 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24308075-2009-03-15-Beach-Crossings From the depths of the sea to far distant shores, stories of Pacific navigation recalled in myth and history are often about the meeting of very different people. The wonder, fear, and possibilities of these encounters resonate down the years. In this edition, indigenous and settler voices try to steady their sense of the world, sometimes in the most trying of circumstances. And in part two, Rome-based musician and writer, Mike Cooper has created a musical suite informed by some of the ideas of the late Australian anthropologist Greg Dening, who spent a lifetime engaged in cross-cultural research with special attention to the experience of beach-combers - men who were forced to cross from their former European lives and adapt to new Pacific realities. There´s also a meditation on the violence of colonialism culminating in the nuclear tests wrought on atolls of the Pacific and the Indonesian presence in West Papua. For music details hit show transcript From the depths of the sea to far distant shores, stories of Pacific navigation recalled in myth and history are often about the meeting of very different people. The wonder, fear, and possibilities of these encounters resonate down the years. In this edition, indigenous and settler voices try to steady their sense of the world, sometimes in the most trying of circumstances. And in part two, Rome-based musician and writer, Mike Cooper has created a musical suite informed by some of the ideas of the late Australian anthropologist Greg Dening, who spent a lifetime engaged in cross-cultural research with special attention to the experience of beach-combers - men who were forced to cross from their former European lives and adapt to new Pacific realities. There´s also a meditation on the violence of colonialism culminating in the nuclear tests wrought on atolls of the Pacific and the Indonesian presence in West Papua. For music details hit show transcript From the depths of the sea to far distant shores, stories of Pacific navigation recalled in myth and history are often about the meeting of very different people. The wonder, fear, and possibilities of these encounters resonate down the years. In this edition, indigenous and settler voices try to steady their sense of the world, sometimes in the most trying of circumstances. And in part two, Rome-based musician and writer, Mike Cooper has created a musical suite informed by some of the ideas of the late Australian anthropologist Greg Dening, who spent a lifetime engaged in cross-cultural research with special attention to the experience of beach-combers - men who were forced to cross from their former European lives and adapt to new Pacific realities. There´s also a meditation on the violence of colonialism culminating in the nuclear tests wrought on atolls of the Pacific and the Indonesian presence in West Papua. For music details hit show transcript tag:odeo.com,2009-03-14,24308075 Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:00:00 -0700 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24273268-2009-03-08-Tower In the skyscraper just how high can you go? This evening we climb high-rises modern and medieval. Come with us as we go up a vertiginous stack of heady ideas and lofty soundscapes until we reach the very top. Hold your spinning head as you gaze out at the wide world from towers of power ... and fun. For music details, please click on 'show transcript. In the skyscraper just how high can you go? This evening we climb high-rises modern and medieval. Come with us as we go up a vertiginous stack of heady ideas and lofty soundscapes until we reach the very top. Hold your spinning head as you gaze out at the wide world from towers of power ... and fun. For music details, please click on 'show transcript. In the skyscraper just how high can you go? This evening we climb high-rises modern and medieval. Come with us as we go up a vertiginous stack of heady ideas and lofty soundscapes until we reach the very top. Hold your spinning head as you gaze out at the wide world from towers of power ... and fun. For music details, please click on 'show transcript. tag:odeo.com,2009-03-07,24273268 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:00:00 -0800 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24237983-2009-03-01-Bones We´re dancing around in our bones. We play them, burn them, bury them and venerate them; sometimes we steal them. We read their signs in crime scenes, in the Bible and in the landscape of Lake Mungo, which contains clues to the indigenous society who once were there. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. We´re dancing around in our bones. We play them, burn them, bury them and venerate them; sometimes we steal them. We read their signs in crime scenes, in the Bible and in the landscape of Lake Mungo, which contains clues to the indigenous society who once were there. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. We´re dancing around in our bones. We play them, burn them, bury them and venerate them; sometimes we steal them. We read their signs in crime scenes, in the Bible and in the landscape of Lake Mungo, which contains clues to the indigenous society who once were there. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. tag:odeo.com,2009-02-28,24237983 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:00:00 -0800 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24156765-2009-02-22-String String theory: it may be the final explanation of how the universe runs or just a lot of violin and lute players with a few twiney twangs. Get tied up in knots, hear about the science and the art of stringing along and help to decide just how long a piece of string ought to be. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. String theory: it may be the final explanation of how the universe runs or just a lot of violin and lute players with a few twiney twangs. Get tied up in knots, hear about the science and the art of stringing along and help to decide just how long a piece of string ought to be. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. String theory: it may be the final explanation of how the universe runs or just a lot of violin and lute players with a few twiney twangs. Get tied up in knots, hear about the science and the art of stringing along and help to decide just how long a piece of string ought to be. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. tag:odeo.com,2009-02-21,24156765 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:00:00 -0800 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24102788-2009-02-15-Towns All around the houses, up the street and down the road: including a chat with urban planners and with those who live at `ground level´, we visit Hull, the north-east of England seaport that once voted itself first place in The Book of Craptowns. Rupert Murdoch's News of the World called it 'Hell on Earth', but Australian poet Peter Porter has described it as `the most poetic city in England´. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. All around the houses, up the street and down the road: including a chat with urban planners and with those who live at `ground level´, we visit Hull, the north-east of England seaport that once voted itself first place in The Book of Craptowns. Rupert Murdoch's News of the World called it 'Hell on Earth', but Australian poet Peter Porter has described it as `the most poetic city in England´. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. All around the houses, up the street and down the road: including a chat with urban planners and with those who live at `ground level´, we visit Hull, the north-east of England seaport that once voted itself first place in The Book of Craptowns. Rupert Murdoch's News of the World called it 'Hell on Earth', but Australian poet Peter Porter has described it as `the most poetic city in England´. For music details, please click on 'show transcript'. tag:odeo.com,2009-02-14,24102788 Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:00:00 -0800 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24056596-2009-02-08-Fire-coal Setting the radio alight with our manipulation of the element unique to our species—fire—there´s a conversation with a firefighter and later in the show a trip down a coal mine in The Big Hewer; miners´ tales and folk songs, and a visit to Coledale Miners´ Hospital on NSW's south coast where a mining community took on a medical bureaucracy and won. This week's Night Share items are Falling Twigs and Forgretchen contributed by Benn DeMole via pool.org.au Please click on 'show transcript' for music details. Setting the radio alight with our manipulation of the element unique to our species—fire—there´s a conversation with a firefighter and later in the show a trip down a coal mine in The Big Hewer; miners´ tales and folk songs, and a visit to Coledale Miners´ Hospital on NSW's south coast where a mining community took on a medical bureaucracy and won. This week's Night Share items are Falling Twigs and Forgretchen contributed by Benn DeMole via pool.org.au Please click on 'show transcript' for music details. Setting the radio alight with our manipulation of the element unique to our species—fire—there´s a conversation with a firefighter and later in the show a trip down a coal mine in The Big Hewer; miners´ tales and folk songs, and a visit to Coledale Miners´ Hospital on NSW's south coast where a mining community took on a medical bureaucracy and won. This week's Night Share items are Falling Twigs and Forgretchen contributed by Benn DeMole via pool.org.au Please click on 'show transcript' for music details. tag:odeo.com,2009-02-07,24056596 Sat, 07 Feb 2009 06:00:00 -0800 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24159105-2009-02-08-Apology-Coal-UPDATED The producers of The Night Air wish to apologise for the broadcast of an edition of the show entitled 'Fire' on February 8th and 13th, 2009. The programme was inappropriate in view of the bush fire disaster in Victoria. The Night Air team sincerely regrets any distress that the programme may have caused listeners. The broadcast of the programme (which was originally aired in 2007) was a unfortunate oversight and was not intended in any way as a comment on the 2009 bush fires Listen Now to Part 2 Part 2: Coal Come on a trip down a coal mine in The Big Hewer and hear miners´ tales and folk songs. The Night Air also visits Coledale Miners´ Hospital on the New South Wales south coast where the miners took on a medical bureaucracy and won. The producers of The Night Air wish to apologise for the broadcast of an edition of the show entitled 'Fire' on February 8th and 13th, 2009. The programme was inappropriate in view of the bush fire disaster in Victoria. The Night Air team sincerely regrets any distress that the programme may have caused listeners. The broadcast of the programme (which was originally aired in 2007) was a unfortunate oversight and was not intended in any way as a comment on the 2009 bush fires Listen Now to Part 2 Part 2: Coal Come on a trip down a coal mine in The Big Hewer and hear miners´ tales and folk songs. The Night Air also visits Coledale Miners´ Hospital on the New South Wales south coast where the miners took on a medical bureaucracy and won. The producers of The Night Air wish to apologise for the broadcast of an edition of the show entitled 'Fire' on February 8th and 13th, 2009. The programme was inappropriate in view of the bush fire disaster in Victoria. The Night Air team sincerely regrets any distress that the programme may have caused listeners. The broadcast of the programme (which was originally aired in 2007) was a unfortunate oversight and was not intended in any way as a comment on the 2009 bush fires Listen Now to Part 2 Part 2: Coal Come on a trip down a coal mine in The Big Hewer and hear miners´ tales and folk songs. The Night Air also visits Coledale Miners´ Hospital on the New South Wales south coast where the miners took on a medical bureaucracy and won. tag:odeo.com,2009-02-07,24159105 Sat, 07 Feb 2009 06:00:00 -0800 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/24008532-2009-02-01-Once-Upon-a-Time Are you ready? Then I´ll begin: Once upon a time there were fairytales, stories, fables and myths ... distorted and passed down from generation to generation—some you remember and some you think you remember. This show re-tells many of them—as well as the art of telling the stories themselves—which lived on, and on, and on, sometimes happily, sometimes not but, of course, always ever after. For music details please click on 'show transcript'. Are you ready? Then I´ll begin: Once upon a time there were fairytales, stories, fables and myths ... distorted and passed down from generation to generation—some you remember and some you think you remember. This show re-tells many of them—as well as the art of telling the stories themselves—which lived on, and on, and on, sometimes happily, sometimes not but, of course, always ever after. For music details please click on 'show transcript'. Are you ready? Then I´ll begin: Once upon a time there were fairytales, stories, fables and myths ... distorted and passed down from generation to generation—some you remember and some you think you remember. This show re-tells many of them—as well as the art of telling the stories themselves—which lived on, and on, and on, sometimes happily, sometimes not but, of course, always ever after. For music details please click on 'show transcript'. tag:odeo.com,2009-01-31,24008532 Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:00:00 -0800 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/23938450-2009-01-25-Reviewing-Scope-The-Lost-Episodes-Program-6-The-Last-Scope-Dance More from the archival series which explores the once popular ABC radio show Scope, presented by former producer on the show and more recently `corporate voice of Dubai´, Barry Mortlock Anthony. Tonight, after 18 years and 867 episodes, a fond look back at the final, 868th episode of Scope from 1976, which is when senior producer and Scope's guiding light, Donald Ingram Smith decided that enough was enough - or rather that it was never going to be enough. And there's more fascinating information about the schemozzle surrounding the discovery and authentication of the Scope tapes, including the startling allegation that two of the shows may have been faked. As Mr Anthony says, 'Goodnight...and good listening.' Part 2 - DanceNow we Salsa! A flower behind each ear and get down. Join mild-mannered copy editor Suzanne as she hits the dance floor in search of hot feet and cold hands. It´s one woman's attempt to learn the dance steps that can bring a little bit of Latin romance into everyd... More from the archival series which explores the once popular ABC radio show Scope, presented by former producer on the show and more recently `corporate voice of Dubai´, Barry Mortlock Anthony. Tonight, after 18 years and 867 episodes, a fond look back at the final, 868th episode of Scope from 1976, which is when senior producer and Scope's guiding light, Donald Ingram Smith decided that enough was enough - or rather that it was never going to be enough. And there's more fascinating information about the schemozzle surrounding the discovery and authentication of the Scope tapes, including the startling allegation that two of the shows may have been faked. As Mr Anthony says, 'Goodnight...and good listening.' Part 2 - DanceNow we Salsa! A flower behind each ear and get down. Join mild-mannered copy editor Suzanne as she hits the dance floor in search of hot feet and cold hands. It´s one woman's attempt to learn the dance steps that can bring a little bit of Latin romance into everyday life. And let´s not forget boyfriend John, who is just a little bit shy... This week's Night Share item is Can you hear it buzzing? Put your ear on it contributed by Nick McCorriston via pool.org.au You will hear it in the podcast and on the Friday 30th version of the Night Air More from the archival series which explores the once popular ABC radio show Scope, presented by former producer on the show and more recently `corporate voice of Dubai´, Barry Mortlock Anthony. Tonight, after 18 years and 867 episodes, a fond look back at the final, 868th episode of Scope from 1976, which is when senior producer and Scope's guiding light, Donald Ingram Smith decided that enough was enough - or rather that it was never going to be enough. And there's more fascinating information about the schemozzle surrounding the discovery and authentication of the Scope tapes, including the startling allegation that two of the shows may have been faked. As Mr Anthony says, 'Goodnight...and good listening.' Part 2 - DanceNow we Salsa! A flower behind each ear and get down. Join mild-mannered copy editor Suzanne as she hits the dance floor in search of hot feet and cold hands. It´s one woman's attempt to learn the dance steps that can bring a little bit of Latin romance into everyday life. And let´s not forget boyfriend John, who is just a little bit shy... This week's Night Share item is Can you hear it buzzing? Put your ear on it contributed by Nick McCorriston via pool.org.au You will hear it in the podcast and on the Friday 30th version of the Night Air tag:odeo.com,2009-01-24,23938450 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:00:00 -0800 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/23938451-2009-01-18-Reviewing-Scope-The-Lost-Episodes-Program-5-Living-in-Boxes-Highroller-Mix More from the archival series which explores the once popular ABC radio show Scope, presented by former producer on the show and more recently `corporate voice of Dubai´, Barry Mortlock Anthony. This week, Mr Anthony introduces a 1972 edition of Scope entirely devoted to the notion that we're Living in Boxes. The executive producer of Scope Donald Ingram Smith was never reticent about riding a favourite hobby horse on the show and this evening, he mounts a strong case for dismantling most social norms or as Barry Anthony puts it:[questioning] habits of thought, calcifications of knowledge on both an individual and social level, expressing themselves as personal prejudices and, more broadly, as traditions, customs and taboos, the sorts of things that exercise an authority over further thought.Keep thinking and keep listening this evening with another in the vivid archival series, Reviewing Scope, presented by the peripatetic ruminator and one-time free-wheeling ABC 'trouser', Barry A... More from the archival series which explores the once popular ABC radio show Scope, presented by former producer on the show and more recently `corporate voice of Dubai´, Barry Mortlock Anthony. This week, Mr Anthony introduces a 1972 edition of Scope entirely devoted to the notion that we're Living in Boxes. The executive producer of Scope Donald Ingram Smith was never reticent about riding a favourite hobby horse on the show and this evening, he mounts a strong case for dismantling most social norms or as Barry Anthony puts it:[questioning] habits of thought, calcifications of knowledge on both an individual and social level, expressing themselves as personal prejudices and, more broadly, as traditions, customs and taboos, the sorts of things that exercise an authority over further thought.Keep thinking and keep listening this evening with another in the vivid archival series, Reviewing Scope, presented by the peripatetic ruminator and one-time free-wheeling ABC 'trouser', Barry Anthony. 	 Part 2 - HDDDJ HDD, who´s more formally known as DJ Hickory Dickory Dock, is a sample surgeon of impressive dexterity. This evening he slices and stitches his way through interviews, sermons, pop songs, and carefully chosen bits of media detritus to assemble a lurching monster of a Night Air mix. After it´s animated, the monster´s only tasks are to warn you about the seductive perils of gambling, pour you another martini and accompany you to the casino. More from the archival series which explores the once popular ABC radio show Scope, presented by former producer on the show and more recently `corporate voice of Dubai´, Barry Mortlock Anthony. This week, Mr Anthony introduces a 1972 edition of Scope entirely devoted to the notion that we're Living in Boxes. The executive producer of Scope Donald Ingram Smith was never reticent about riding a favourite hobby horse on the show and this evening, he mounts a strong case for dismantling most social norms or as Barry Anthony puts it:[questioning] habits of thought, calcifications of knowledge on both an individual and social level, expressing themselves as personal prejudices and, more broadly, as traditions, customs and taboos, the sorts of things that exercise an authority over further thought.Keep thinking and keep listening this evening with another in the vivid archival series, Reviewing Scope, presented by the peripatetic ruminator and one-time free-wheeling ABC 'trouser', Barry Anthony. 	 Part 2 - HDDDJ HDD, who´s more formally known as DJ Hickory Dickory Dock, is a sample surgeon of impressive dexterity. This evening he slices and stitches his way through interviews, sermons, pop songs, and carefully chosen bits of media detritus to assemble a lurching monster of a Night Air mix. After it´s animated, the monster´s only tasks are to warn you about the seductive perils of gambling, pour you another martini and accompany you to the casino. tag:odeo.com,2009-01-17,23938451 Sat, 17 Jan 2009 06:00:00 -0800 no Night Air, The http://www.odeo.com/episodes/23899631-2009-01-18-Reviewing-Scope-The-Lost-Episodes-5-Living-in-Boxes-Highroller More from the archival series which explores the once popular ABC radio show Scope, presented by former producer on the show and more recently `corporate voice of Dubai´, Barry Mortlock Anthony. 	 Part 2 - HDDDJ HDD, who´s more formally known as DJ Hickory Dickory Dock, is a sample surgeon of impressive dexterity. This evening he slices and stitches his way through interviews, sermons, pop songs, and carefully chosen bits of media detritus to assemble a lurching monster of a Night Air mix. After it´s animated, the monster´s only tasks are to warn you about the seductive perils of gambling, pour you another martini and accompany you to the casino. More from the archival series which explores the once popular ABC radio show Scope, presented by former producer on the show and more recently `corporate voice of Dubai´, Barry Mortlock Anthony. 	 Part 2 - HDDDJ HDD, who´s more formally known as DJ Hickory Dickory Dock, is a sample surgeon of impressive dexterity. This evening he slices and stitches his way through interviews, sermons, pop songs, and carefully chosen bits of media detritus to assemble a lurching monster of a Night Air mix. After it´s animated, the monster´s only tasks are to warn you about the seductive perils of gambling, pour you another martini and accompany you to the casino. More from the archival series which explores the once popular ABC radio show Scope, presented by former producer on the show and more recently `corporate voice of Dubai´, Barry Mortlock Anthony. 	 Part 2 - HDDDJ HDD, who´s more formally known as DJ Hickory Dickory Dock, is a sample surgeon of impressive dexterity. This evening he slices and stitches his way through interviews, sermons, pop songs, and carefully chosen bits of media detritus to assemble a lurching monster of a Night Air mix. After it´s animated, the monster´s only tasks are to warn you about the seductive perils of gambling, pour you another martini and accompany you to the casino. tag:odeo.com,2009-01-17,23899631 Sat, 17 Jan 2009 06:00:00 -0800 no Night Air, The