Episodes
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Monday 19 November 2012 - Deaths and Disappearances
This week a retro Melbourne crime special! We have a couple of books that are both more whydunit than whodunit set among the mean streets of working class Melbourne, but that's about where the similarities end. We're starting off in 1933 with The Richmond Conspiracy by Andrew Grimes, which…
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Monday 5 November 2012 - Islands
Tonight we are talking all about islands - those wonderful remote places that harbour some of the most unique landscapes and eco-systems, inspire some of the greatest literary adventures and forays into the human psyche and in their isolation can hide some of the worst abuses and dirtiest…
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Monday 29 October 2012 - Into That Forest
Playwright, librettist, essayist, screenwriter, novelist, memoirist… Louis Nowra, it seems, has tried his hand at writing almost everything. His new novel, Into That Forest, is ostensibly written for young adults, because Louis says he needed readers who could suspend their disbelief. And why?...
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Monday 22 October 2012 - How to Read a Novelist
Have you ever wondered how to read a novelist? Not just what they write, but who they are? Or rather, who we think they are, reading between their lines and superimposing our own lives upon theirs? Have you ever tried to figure out what makes them tick, the layers they dress their characters in,...
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Monday 15 October - The Way We Were and the Way We Are (+ Supporter Drive!)
This week we’re talking about home and who we are. Which is fitting, really, because this week is also Supporter Drive, and we’d like to share with you who we are here at 2SER, and fill you in on some of the things that have been going on at this station. The next fortnight is 2SER's annual...
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Final Draft - Monday 8 October 2012 - The Middle East
In our globetrotting world, although we're dipping into the Middle East, this is also a show about Australia. About the consuming nature of place, about living across two countries, and of going away and coming home again. Foreign correspondent Irris Makler speaks to Will Mumford about her…
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Final Draft - Monday 24 September - Australian Gothic
Tonight we're going for a stroll down empty suburban streets and across wide-open isolated paddocks as we have a look at what constitutes Australian gothic. It's not always haunted houses, long white dresses, and psychological thrills... or is it? Jeanavive spoke to writer Chi Vu, who has...
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Erotic Fan Fiction - Kara Kidman
Kara Kidman is a writer and broadcaster. She presents FBi's Out of the Box, and the unbelieveably popular Unwatchable TV segment on Radio National Drive. She was last seen onstage at her Year Six rendition of Agadoodoo, where she starred as the pineapple who got pushed. In this story, Hillary...
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Erotic Fan Fiction - Jess Bellamy
Jessica Bellamy is a playwright and Lindsay Lohan anthropologist. She also has a Hot Or Not blog called "Would Jess Like It?" which can be found by googling 'shit in a bucket'. This is her first piece of erotic fan fiction and she's pulled out all the stops. It's called Princess of the Pilbara....
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Erotic Fan Fiction - Nick Coyle
Nick Coyle is a writer and theatre maker whose shows have travelled to the New York Fringe Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Here he is, reading his story about when Carrie Bradshaw meets Oprah Winfrey, and fiction and reality collide.
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Australian Poetry Slam champion Luka Lesson | 2SER 107.3
Slam poetry. It’s electrifying. At the Sydney Writers Festival four performers got up in a converted woolshed filled with cocktail tables, the back of the room filled with people standing, craning to get a look at the action. The overflow spilled into the barn next door, watching on screens as...
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Barry Heard's Well Done Those Men - A memoir of the Vietnam War | 2SER 107.3
Barry Heard was conscripted to the army and was sent off to the Vietnam War with no idea of how it would change his life. His memoir, Well Done, Those Men charts his experience in training camp, his year in Vietnam as a radio operator, and the several decades that followed as he tried to…
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Final Draft - Monday 14 November 2011 - Alex Miller on Autumn Laing
Novelist Alex Miller is one of Australia’s most successful, with two Miles Franklin awards under his belt for Journey to the Stone Country and The Ancestor Game. His latest book, Autumn Laing, began as a work loosely modelled on the life of artist Sidney Nolan, but quickly morphed into something...
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The Wire - 21 November 2011 - Will the police crackdown stop the Occupy Movement? | 2SER FM
The Occupy Wall Street movement this last week in New York reached a turning point when a judge evicted protesters after several weeks of camping. Occupations across the world have clashed with authorities, and organizers are now faced with the task of reevaluating how the movement will go…
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Final Draft - Monday 14 November - Diane Armstrong's 1948 Australia
A child survivor of the Holocaust, Diane Armstrong migrated to Australia from Poland in 1948 during the postwar boom. With a long career as a journalist and novelist, in her new book she’s returned to that time. Empire Day follows the lives of the residents of Wattle Street in Sydney, as the…
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Celluloid Dreams - Saturday 19 November - The Tall Man interview
In 2004, Aboriginal man Cameron Doomadgee swore at a police officer in the street. 45 minutes later, he was dead in a police cell, having sustained injuries more typical seen in high-speed car crashes. The man accused of killing him, Chris Hurley, was a police officer in Cameron’s hometown of…
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Final Draft - Monday 31 October 2011 - Kim Barker on the Taliban Shuffle
American journalist Kim Barker turned up in Kabul not long after 9/11 without much of an idea what she was doing. She was swiftly swept up in the maelstrom that is the life of a foreign correspondent, doing the Taliban Shuffle between Afghanistan and Pakistan for eight years for the Chicago...
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2SER FM's Razors Edge - Sri Lanka war crimes claim
This week an Australian citizen filed charges of war crimes against the Sri Lankan president before a Melbourne magistrate. The Federal Attorney-General stopped the motion, citing President Rajapaksa’s “diplomatic immunity” as he visits Australia for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting...
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2SER's Final Draft - Derek Hansen - 25 July 2011
When’s the last time you read an all-Australian comedy crime caper? Author Derek Hansen thought it had been far too long. He’s cooked up a story about a drought-ravaged country town called Munni-Munni. The residents find $3 million buried by robbers, and their bank manager uses it to re-establish...
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2SER's Celluloid Dreams - Beginners director Mike Mills - 20 August 2011
Beginners is the new film from director Mike Mills. It's the story of graphic designer Oliver (Ewan McGregor) falling in love with Anna (Melanie Laurent). Oliver's a solitary artist, drawing portraits of old girlfriends and rewinding memories of his past. He's grieving for his father Hal...
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2SER's Final Draft - Monday 26 September 2011 - Joseph Braude
When Joseph Braude became the first-ever journalist to embed with a Moroccan police unit, beatings of suspects, curses on his apartment, and truth-dodging on the part of the authorities were all to be expected. Being involved in a covert investigation of a murder cover-up by the police, on the...
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2SER's Final Draft - Monday 24 October 2011 - Teen Dystopias
With the film adaptation of the bestselling trilogy The Hunger Games in production, the boom in teen dystopian fiction is undeniable. But where does this interest in bleak and brutal futuristic societies come from? I spoke to two young adult dystopian writers to find out why the genre is so...
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Producer and presenter with 2SER 107.3's weekly book show, Final Draft.It's one of Australia's longest-running radio book programs, and we run the gamut from Miles Franklin award winners to erotic fan fiction.
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