The Australian Bite
Archive for the ‘ Popular Culture’ Category
Cheese, “toughness” & a legend of motor sport
28 October 2010
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This week on the Bite, journalist Colin Fulton talks about his new book that looks at the early years of Australian racing legend, Peter Brock. we’ll hear how acting tough on a mine site is not necessarily good. And with the European Union looking to pursue tighter rules on what people from elsewhere can call their cheeses, we find out what two Australian cheesemakers think.
Farewell to a Diva & Aboriginal seafarers
14 October 2010
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This week on the Australian Bite, New Zealand Soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa talks about the legacy of the late Australian opera singer Dame Joan Sutherland, who died in Switzerland on October 10. We check out a exhibition at Sydney’s Mitchell library that tells the many and varied stories of aboriginal seafarers. And with the anniversary of the 2002 Bali bombings just passed, we’ll hear how a small group of survivors is campaigning for the site of the former Sari Club to be turned into a peace park.
New book turns heat on footballers behaving badly
7 October 2010
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This week on the Australian Bite, we meet doctor and crime fiction author Kathryn Fox, whose new book Death Mask is set against a background of sex, violence and football stars. We also hear how Tasmanian expertise in growing pyrethrum is helping subsistence farmers in Papua New Guinea.
A shed, an opera & a tame impala
5 August 2010
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This week on the Bite, we drop in on the Dubbo Men’s shed, where men from all walks of life get together for a yarn and a cup of tea. We meet some teenagers who are writing and staging their very own operas. And we travel to Cape Grim in Tasmania, where samples of air are collected and sent all around the world.
