Radio highlights

The Box Seat: Seamus Heaney — Heaney was born in 1939 in County Derry, in British-occupied northern Ireland. He now both a professor of rhetoric at Harvard and a professor of poetry at Oxford. His works are richly physical in their depiction of rural life and also deeply moving accounts of "the troubles" in the north. ABC Radio National, Thursday, November 9, 9.30pm. The Story of Pop: Parental Discretion is Advised — The controversy surrounding rap and the efforts of conservatives to censor this rebellious and contradictory music. Features the music and lyrics of Chuck D, Ice T, Queen Latifah, Flava Flav and Grandmaster Flash. ABC Radio National, Friday, November 10, 8.05pm. Sex, Drugs, Blood and Death: Blood — In May 1983, blood banks around Australia called on gays to stop donating blood for fear of HIV contamination of the blood supply. This episode of the watershed radio series on HIV/AIDS investigates why blood banks were ready to begin HIV screening tests but were forced to delay them for four months by their national management. ABC Radio National, Sunday, November 12, 2pm (repeated Thursday, November 16, 2pm).

From GLW issue 210