Culture

  • RTE1 News 27.09.2003 (Ireland's national news)

    What do youtell us tonight?That part of a ceiling ata wedding receptioncollapsed,leaving bride and groombruised.Meanwhile the worldwidemarch of peopledefied claims the war is over.Perhaps you ignored usbecause you echo those claims,like a friend of

  • Tony Benn - then and now

    Dare to be a Daniel: Then and NowBy Tony BennHutchinson, 2004278 pages REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER Tony Benn is rightfully one of the most well-respected figures in the history of the British Labour Party during the second half of the 20th century.

  • Indigenous prisoners broadcast

    For the fourth year running, Australia's only prison radio broadcasts will go to air. Indigenous prisoners in Victoria will be broadcasting live radio from July 4-8 on community radio 3CR during NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and

  • Poet of the poor

    Pablo Neruda: A Passion for LifeBy Adam FeinsteinBloomsbury, 2004497 pages, $65 (hb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON Pablo Neruda was a poet who won the Nobel prize for literature. He was also a lifelong, if increasingly troubled, Stalinist. As Adam

  • Radical TV now on DVD

    Help support the development of progressive and radical TV — Actively Radical TV is offering the Art Resistance Community TV weekly program for purchase on DVD or VHS. The Art Resistance hour is broadcast 9.30-10.30pm on Sunday

  • On the box

    Australian Biography: Jack Mundey — As secretary of the NSW branch of the Builders Labourers Federation, Jack Mundey led the union's famous "green bans", a conservation campaign that redefined the development of Australia's major cities. SBS,

  • Borderlines

    Charmaine Chew is one of hundreds of presenters who volunteer their time for Melbourne community radio 3CR's 132 programs that go to air each week. Chew presents the Borderlines program at 5-5.30pm each Wednesday, which deals with

  • As if we were dung beetles

    Home renovating,Decorating,Auction.Swapping wives,Choosing women,Fashion.Models in a house,On an island,In a ship.Viewers watching,Viewing "life"As they sit.What does the TV industrydo to our reality?It bites and chews selectively,digests vitamins B

  • Letters from US soldiers

    Will They Ever Trust Us Again? Letters From the War ZoneBy Michael MoorePenguin Books, 2004218 pages, $24.95 REVIEW BY ALEX SALMON In his latest book, Will They Ever Trust Us Again, Michael Moore set out to continue the work of his most recent

  • Larry Kirwan and Black 47 rock hard against the war

    Green Suede ShoesBy Larry KirwanThunder's Mouth Press, 2005Larry Kirwan despises US President George Bush's war policy. "Our troops have been betrayed by a bunch of grasping politicians who have cast them into this morally

  • Downtown Baghdad Blues

    Got a buddy in Najaf, he's playing it straightPrays to the Lord Jesus Christ every nightGot a homey in Samarra goin' up the wallsEvery time he hears an Islamic prayer callMe, I don't care much for Jesus or MohammedThey don't stop bullets to the best