Broadcast nationally at 10:05 weekdays on ABC Classic FM
END OF YEAR SPECIALS
Monday
18 December 2000
MARGARET
SCOTT (repeat)
One of Australia's best-loved poets.
This year she published Family Album: A Novel of Secrets and
Memories.
Tuesday
19 December 2000
SIR PETER USTINOV (repeat)
Entertainer.
Monday
11 December 2000
BILL
BRYSON (repeat)
Travel writer.
Tuesday
12 December 2000
REV. BILL LAWTON
Newly appointed Chaplin to Mission Australia.
He was the Parish Priest of East Sydney (King's Cross and Darlinghurst).
Friday
22 December 2000
CHARLES BIRCH
Emeritus Professor of Biology, University of Sydney.
Monday
4 December 2000
IMELDA
ROCHE
Businesswoman.
Co-chair of Nutri-Metics International.
Tuesday
5 December 2000
PROFESSOR MARY KALANTZIS
Dean of the Faculty of Education, Language and Community Services
at RMIT University, Melbourne.
Thursday 7 December
Friday
8 December 2000
SIGRID THORNTON (repeat)
aka Laura Gibson of Seachange.
A repeat of the broadcast done in front of an audience at the Iwaki
Auditorium, Melbourne, in August.
Monday
27 November 2000
DR
PETER READ
Senior Fellow at the Centre for Cross Cultural Research at Australian
National University.
He wrote the biography of the late Charles Perkins.
Tuesday
28 November 2000
JOHN BIRMINGHAM
Author.
His latest book is Leviathan.
Wednesday
29 November 2000
SARA MACLIVER
Soprano.
Thursday
30 November 2000
PROFESSOR EDWARD COWAN (repeat)
Director of the School of Scottish Studies at the University of
Glasgow.
Friday
1 December 2000
GRETEL KILLEEN
She has been making people laugh for years - in print, on radio
and TV.
Monday
20 November 2000
MICHAEL
SEXTON
Solicitor General of New South Wales.
Tuesday
21 November 2000
ELAINE THOMPSON
Associate Professor of Politics at the University of New South Wales.
Wednesday
22 November 2000
NANCY-BIRD WALTON
Pioneer aviator.
Thursday
23 November 2000
FAY WELDON (repeat)
Author.
Friday
24 November 2000
MICHAEL RAPER
President of the Australian Council of Social Service.
Monday
13 November 2000
RUSSELL
BOULTER
Actor.
DS Boulton of The Bill.
Currently appearing in a play called Lone Star which is playing
in Canberra until Saturday 11th; Sydney until mid-December and Melbourne
in the new year.
Tuesday
14 November 2000
PATRICE NEWELL
Author and farmer.
She has been a model, newsreader and presenter of public affairs
programs on both SBS and the 9 Network.
She now edits and writes books. Her latest is called The Olive
Grove, an account of leaving the city for a life on the land.
Wednesday
15 November 2000
DAVID TRACEY
Professor of Anatomy at University of NSW.
He has been one of the main consultants on a new publication called
Anatomica - a complete Australian medical encyclopedia.
Thursday
16 November 2000
BARRY DICKENS
Journalist, playright and artist.
A selection of his newspaper columns over 20 years has just been published:
Articles of Light.
Friday
17 November 2000
PHILIPPA SMITH (repeat)
Chief Executive of the association of Superannuation Funds of Australia.
Monday
6 November 2000
FRANK
MOORHOUSE
Author.
His latest book is called Dark Palace which is a companion
volume to his earlier Grand Days.
Tuesday
7 November 2000
GAI WATERHOUSE (repeat)
Horse trainer and business woman.
Wednesday
8 November 2000
MINETTE WATERS
Writer of crime fiction: The Icehouse, The Sculptress, The Scold's
Bridle, The Dark Room.
Her latest is called The Shape of Snakes.
Thursday
9 November 2000
MARTIN CHARNIN
Director, lyricist, composer and producer.
His production of Annie is about to tour Australia.
Friday 10 November 2000
MICHAEL DAUTH
Co-concertmaster of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
Monday
30 October 2000
PETER
TIMMS
Tuesday
31 October 2000
BOBBY BAKER
Wednesday
1 November 2000
FREDDY
COLE
Thursday
2 November 2000
MARIN
ALSOP (repeat)
Friday
3 November 2000
ANITA RODDICK
Monday
23 October 2000
ALISTAIR
MANT
Leadership Consultant, Columnist and Author.
His book Intelligent Leadership has recently been published
by Allen & Unwin.
Tuesday
24 October 2000
PETER CAREY
Australian Writer.
His latest book is titled The True History of the Kelly Gang.
Wednesday
25 October 2000
MICHAEL
KING
New Zealand
Biographer and Historian,
He has written extensively on white (Pakeha) and Maori relations in
New Zealand. His latest book is a biography of Janet Fram called Wrestling
with the Angel.
Thursday
26 October 2000
PATRICK GALE
British Author.
His latest novel is called Rough Music.
Friday
27 October 2000
SUSAN GREENFIELD (repeat)
Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain
Monday
16 October 2000
SIR
CHRISTOPHER BONINGTON
Mountaineer.
Tuesday
17 October 2000
ANNE WILLIAN
Food writer and historian.
Wednesday
18 October 2000
PATRICIA
ROUTLEDGE (repeat)
Actor.
Thursday
19 October 2000
MAURICE MURPHY
Film Producer.
Friday
20 October 2000
MARK BAGSHAW
International Marketing Manager for IBM Australia.
Monday
9 October 2000
EMERITUS
PROFESSOR LYNETTE RUSSELL
She was Foundation Dean of Nursing at the University of Sydney and
has written a number of books related to the nursing profession,
particularly the history of nursing.
Most recently she has edited (with Judith Cornell) Letters from
Belsen 1945 - an Australian nurse's experiences with survivors
of war...the letters of Muriel Knox Doherty.
Tuesday
10 October 2000
SIMON PHILLIPS
Artistic Director of Melbourne Theatre Company.
He has directed plays and operas all over the country. His production
of Yasima Reza's The Unexpected Man is running at Belvoir
Street, Sydney and moves to the Melbourne Festival from 31 October.
Wednesday
11 October 2000
LYGIA
O'RIORDAN
Conductor
of Ensemble 21, Moscow.
Ensemble 21 is a diverse group of musicians, all of whom have been
students at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow.
You may have seen a story on Foreign Correspondent where Ensemble
21 toured depressed mining towns and reindeer encampments in Russia's
arctic North.
Thursday
12 October2000
GIL APPLETON (repeat)
Writer and consultant, specialising in broadcasting and cultural
policy.
She has just published Diamond Cuts - a memoir of Jim McClelland.
Friday
13 October 2000
PHILIPA SMITH
Chief Executive of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia.
Tuesday
3 October 2000
CARL VINE(repeat)
Composer
His latest work is the score for the Sydney Dance Company's Mythologica
which is being performed at the Brisbane Festival.
Wednesday
4 October 2000
Rt.
Hon. MALCOLM FRASER (repeat)
Former
Prime Minister and Chair of CARE Australia
Thursday
5 October2000
IAN HEMPHILL
Specialist in Herbs and Spices.
His book Spice Notes: A Cook's Compendium of Herbs and Spices
has recently been published by Macmillan.
Friday
6 October 2000
PHILIP BACON
Art Dealer and Director.
Monday
28 August 2000
BILL
T JONES
Choreographer.
His company is premiering a new work You Walk? at the Olympic
Arts Festival.
Tuesday
29 August 2000
RT HON MALCOLM FRASER
Former Prime Minister.
Chair of CARE Australia.
The full text of the Vincent
Lingiari Lecture given by Mr Fraser on 24 August is available.
Wednesday
30 August 2000
SUSAN
ORLEAN
Author.
Thursday
31 August 2000
PINCHAS ZUKERMAN
Violinist.
In Australia for the Olympic Arts Festival; giving concerts with
the Australian Youth Orchestra and recitals for Musica Viva in Sydney
and Melbourne.
Friday
1 September 2000
J0HN AMIS (repeat)
Veteran broadcaster and writer about music.
Monday
21 August 2000
JIRI
KYLIAN (repeat)
Choreographer.
He was in Australia earlier this year with his Nederlands Dans Theater
for the Sydney and Perth Festivals.
The Australian Ballet is now adding one of his pieces, Bella
Figura, to its repertoire. It will be part of the Triple Bill
opening in Melbourne on Thursday night (24th) and also in Sydney
at the Olympic Arts Festival next month.
Tuesday
22 August 2000
DON WATSON
Writer
...of history, essays, speeches and satire.
Wednesday
23 August 2000
SIGRID
THORNTON
Actor.
Laura Gibson of Seachange and cover of this month's 24hours.
Thursday
24 August 2000
MIKE GAYLE
Author.
His first novel, My Legendary Girlfriend, was a best-seller.
He's in Australia for the Melbourne Writers' Festival.
Friday
25 August 2000
ALAIN DE BOTTON
A Director of the Graduate Philosophy Programme at London University,
he is the author of four books including the How Proust Can Change
Your Life and Philosophy: A Guide to Life.
He is also in Australia for the Melbourne Writers' Festival.
Monday
14 August 2000
SEAN
DORNEY
ABC's Melanesian and Pacific Affairs Editor.
For many years he was our correspondent in Papua New Guinea.
Tuesday
15 August 2000
JOHN COX
Opera Director.
He's an expert on the works of Richard Strauss and is directing
Capriccio for Opera Australia.
This is part of the Olympic Arts Festival and ABC Classic FM will
be presenting a Direct Broadcast of this production on Saturday
9 September.
Wednesday
16 August 2000
PROFESSOR
BEN ELTON
Comedian.
He is best known to Australian audiences for his scripts for Black
Adder and The Young Ones.
He's in Australia to promote his first film as a director called
Maybe Baby.
Thursday
17 August 2000
LIN HWAI-MIN
Artistic Director of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre.
Cloud Gate will be performing two works at the Olympic Arts Festival:
Nine Songs and Moon Water which uses the six Cello
Suites of Bach.
Friday
18 August 2000
PETER GARRETT (repeat)
Environmentalist (President of the Australian Conservation Foundation)
and rock star (lead singer with Midnight Oil.
ABC Classic FM is broadcasting a concert with Peter Garrett and
the Australian Chamber Orchestra on Saturday afternoon.
Monday
7 August 2000
MICHAEL
BOGDANOV
One of the world's leading directors of Shakespeare.
He's in Australia to direct Troilus and Cressida for the
Bell Shakespeare Company.
Tuesday
8 August 2000
MARGARET SCOTT
One of Australia's best loved poets (not to mention World Series
debater and panelist on Good News Week).
Wednesday
9 August 2000
PROFESSOR
EDWARD COWAN
Director of the School of Scottish Studies at the University of
Glasgow.
Thursday
10 August 2000
DOROTHY DUNNETT (repeat)
Writer of historical novels.
Friday
11 August 2000
DANIEL SUMEGI
Bass.
He is singing Fiesco in Opera Australia's new production of Simon
Boccanegra, Scarpia in Tosca for the State Opera of South
Australia and is the bass soloist for the Sydney Symphony's performance
of Mahler's Symphony No.8 'Symphony of a Thousand' for the
Olympic Arts Festival.
Monday
31 July 2000
PHILLIP
TOYNE
Environmentalist.
Tuesday
1 August 2000
CARL VINE
Composer.
Wednesday
2 August 2000
LLOYD
NEWSON
Artistic Director of DV8 Physical Theatre.
Thursday
3 August 2000
BARRY CREYTON
Playwright.
Friday
4 August 2000
ROBERT LEVIN (repeat)
Pianist.
Monday
24 July 2000
DR
LES CLELAND
Director of Rheumatology at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
Tuesday
25 July 2000
CLEMENT SALAMAN
Philosophy scholar.
Wednesday
26 July 2000
TBA
(repeat)
Thursday
27 July 2000
LEONARD SLATKIN
Conductor.
Making his Australian debut with the Sydney Symphony.
Friday
28 July 2000
TESSA DE LOO
Dutch author.
Her most recent book is called The Twins .
Monday
17 July 2000
PROFESSOR
PAUL ZIMMETT
Professor of Diabetes, Monash University.
Director of the International Diabetes Institute, Melbourne.
Tuesday
18 July 2000
JOHN WILLIAMS
Guitarist.
Currently touring Australia.
Wednesday
19 July 2000
GEOFFREY
ATHERTON
Creator of Mother and Son. His new series is Grass Roots.
Thursday
20 July 2000
TBA (repeat)
Friday
21 July 2000
GAI WATERHOUSE
Horse trainer.
NSW Telstra Business Woman of the Year.
Monday
10 July 2000
LORIN
MAAZEL (repeat)
Maestro.
Returning to Australia for concerts with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra,
20, 21 and 22 July.
There will be a simulcast on ABC Classic FM and ABC TV on 23 July.
There is also an article about him in this month's 24hours
and he will be profiled as a performer by Jo Mason in Music Overnight
Thursday/Friday.
Tuesday
11 July 2000
ROSEMARY STANTON
Author on food and nutrition.
Wednesday
12 July 2000
PATRICIA
ROUTLEDGE
Actor.
She's playing Lady Bracknell in a production of The Importance
of Being Earnest to be seen in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney.
Thursday
13 July 2000
BILL BRYSON
Travel writer.
His latest book is about Australia...Bill Bryson Down Under.
Friday
14 July 2000
DONALD WOODS
He was once the editor of the Daily Dispatch in South Africa
until he was banned and forced into exile for challenging apartheid.
Monday
3 July 2000
SIPCA
Tuesday
4 July 2000
SIPCA
MARTIN HIBBLE PRESENTING WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
Please note: no evening repeats this week.
Wednesday
5 July 2000
JACK
BEETSON (repeat)
Executive Director of tranby Aboriginal Co-operative College.
Thursday
6 July 2000
Louis
Sylvan (repeat)
CEO of Australian Consumers' Association.
Friday
7 July 2000
LAWRENCE SCHIFFMAN (repeat)
Edelman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and the Chair of
the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York
University.
An expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Tuesday
27 June 2000
JANE WALTON
From Ethica Management Group.
Wednesday
28 June 2000
DAVINA
JACKSON
Editor of Architecture Australia.
Thursday
29 June 2000
[Sydney
International Piano Competition.]
Friday
30 June 2000
[Sydney International Piano Competition.]
Monday
19 June 2000
DR
DR JOHN TIDMARSH
Endocrinologist and archaeologist.
Tuesday
20 June 2000
GILLIAN JONES
Actor.
Wednesday
21 June 2000
PROF
WARWICK BRITTON
Immunologist in the Departments of Medicine and Experimental Medicine
at the University of Sydney.
Thursday
22 June 2000
MICHAEL
IGNATIEFF (repeat)
Author, commentator and journalist.
Friday
23 June 2000
MATTHEW BLACKMORE
Executive Director of Consumers' Health Forum.
Monday
12 June 2000
PAUL
KEATING (repeat)
Former Prime Minister.
Author of Engagement: Australia Faces the Asia-Pacific.
Tuesday
13 June 2000
JOSÉ RAMOS HORTA
East Timor's freedom fighter and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Wednesday
14 June 2000
JIMMY
LITTLE
The first Aboriginal artist to top the charts.
Thursday
15 June 2000
ERINA
REDDAN
A Walkley Award-winning journalist who covered the riots in French
Polynesia during the French Nuclear Tests.
Friday
16 June 2000
MICHAEL DAUTH
Co-concertmaster with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
Monday
5 June 2000
ALAN
PEASE (repeat)
Lecturer on human communications.
Tuesday
6 June 2000
GERALD STONE
Journalist
Wednesday
7 June 2000
LOUISE
SYLVAN
CEO of Australian Consumers' Association.
Thursday
8 June 2000
JARED
DIAMOND
Professor of Physiology at University of California Medical School.
Friday
9 June 2000
PAUL KELLY
International Editor for The Australian.
Monday
29 May 2000
PETER
PHILIPS (repeat)
Director of the Tallis Scholars.
Tuesday
30 May 2000
DR SUSAN THOMPSON
Senior Lecturer in Planning and Urban Development at the Universtiry
of New South Wales.
Wednesday
31 May 2000
Dr.
KEVIN FEWSTER
Director of the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
Thursday
1 June 2000
JEFF
WATSON
Documentary Maker.
His documentary Last Plane out of Berlin will be screened
on ABC TV on 14th June, 2000.
Friday
2 June 2000
PETREA KING
Founder of Quest for Life. Further information at
www.questforlife.com.au
Monday
15 May 2000
GRAEME
MURPHY (repeat)
Artistic Director of the Sydney Dance Company.
Body of Work, a retrospective of Graeme Murphy's work over
26 years is currently running at the Sydney Opera House and will
also be seen in Adelaide. Launceston, Hobart, Melbourne and Canberra.
Tuesday
16 May 2000
ELIZABETH MILLS
Director of Research Into Ageing.
It is an organisation committed to ensuring that research on ageing
is kept high on the national agenda in Britain.
SYDNEY WRITERS' FESTIVAL
Wednesday
17 May 2000
JACK
ARNOTT
Author.
His first novel, called The Long Firm, is currently a best
seller and is set in the swinging 60's of London.
Thursday
18 May 2000
MARTIN
CRUZ SMITH
Author.
Havana Bay is his latest novel. Earlier books include Gorky
Park, Polar Star and Red Square.
Friday
19 May 2000
WILLIAM SHAWCROSS
Acclaimed writer and broadcaster.
His latest book is Deliver us from Evil which examines international
peacekeeping over the past ten years and explores the moral and
political questions raised by humanitarian intervention throughout
the world.
Monday
8 May 2000
Ben
Selinger
Professor emeritus of Chemistry, ANU
Consumer activist, government chemical regulator and setter of Australian
standards for consumer products
Tuesday
9 May 2000
Professor Pamela Russell
Director of the Oncology Centre at Prince of Wales Hospital
Specialist research into prostate & bladder cancer
Wednesday
10 May 2000
Judi
Connelli
(repeat)
Singer -
touring nationally with Suzanne Johnston and Jennifer McGregor
Thursday
11 May 2000
Richard
Fletcher
Academic at the University of Newcastle
Friday
12 May 2000
Dr. Gary Egger
Health and fitness expert
Monday
1 May 2000
JANE
FLEMING
Marketing and sponsorship consultant and former athlete
Tuesday
2 May 2000
SIR
PETER USTINOV
Entertainer
Currently
touring Australia with appearances in Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne
and Brisbane
WE
BEGIN OUR COVERAGE OF NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK
Wednesday 3 May 2000
PROFESSOR
SUSAN GREENFIELD
Pharmacologist.
Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain
Thursday
4 May 2000
RACHEL
NOWAK
Australian co-editor of New Scientist
Friday
5 May 2000
CHARLES
BIRCH
Emeritus Professor of Biology, University of Sydney
Monday
24 April 2000
GERALDINE COX (repeat)
From the Australia Cambodia Foundation.
She is running an orphanage for 60 children in Phnom Penh.
Tuesday
25 April 2000
RUTH CRACKNELL (repeat)
Wednesday
26 April 2000
STANLEY SADIE
Musicologist and former editor of the Grove Dictionary.
Thursday
27 April 2000
PETER GARRETT
Conservationist.
Friday
28 April 2000
PAUL KEATING
Former Prime Minister of Australia. Mr Keating has recently published
"Engagement - Australia Faces the Asia Pacific".
Monday
17 April 2000
DR BRENT WATERS (repeat)
Child psychiatrist.
Tuesday
18 April 2000
CARLO RIZZI (repeat)
Musical Director oF the Welsh National Opera.
Wednesday
19 April 2000
MAX WALSH (repeat)
Editor-in-Chief of The Bulletin.
Thursday
20 April 2000
CHRIS MOON (repeat)
Ant-landmine campaigner.
Friday
21 April 2000
PROF KEITH CRITCHLOW (repeat)
Director of Visual Islamic and Traditional Arts, Prince of Wales
Institute of Architecture, London.
Monday
10 April 2000
PROFESSOR BRUCE MILLER (repeat)
Neurologist at University of Southern California. A pioneer in the
links between dementia and artistic prowess.
Tuesday
11 April 2000
HOLLY COLE (repeat)
Jazz singer.
Wednesday
12 April 2000
JACK DUSSELDORP (repeat)
Chair of the Dusseldorp Skills forum.
Thursday
13 April 2000
DAVID SUZUKI (repeat)
Environmentalist.
Friday
14April 2000
HAROLD "DICKIE" BIRD (repeat)
Cricket umpire.
Monday
3 April 2000
PROFESSOR HENRY BRODATY (repeat)
from the Academic Department of Psychogeriatrics at Prince Henry
Hospital, Sydney.
Tuesday
4 April 2000
KEVIN HUNT (repeat)
Jazz pianist.
Wednesday
5 April 2000
JOHN MENUDUE (repeat)
Former Head of the Department of the Prime Minister for Gough Whitlam
and Malcom Fraser; former Australian Ambassador in Japan; former
CEO of Qantas.
Thursday
6 April 2000
DEBORAH MOGGACH (repeat)
One of the UK's foremost contemporary authors.
Friday
7 April 2000
DR GEORGE MILLER (repeat)
Film-maker.
Monday
27 March 2000
MICHAEL COUSINS (repeat)
Professor of Anaesthesia and Pain Management.
Tuesday
28 March 2000
SEETA INDRANI (repeat)
Actor.
Played WPC Norika Datta in The Bill.
Wednesday
29 March 2000
CHARLES HANDY (repeat)
Writer, broadcaster and philosopher.
Thursday
30 March 2000
TIM FISCHER (repeat)
Former Deputy Prime Minister; former Minister for Trade and former
Leader of the National Party in the Federal Parliament.
Friday
31 March 2000
ROBERT INGPEN (repeat)
Book illustrator.
Monday
20 March 2000
DAME MARGARET SCOTT
Former prima ballerina.
Founder and director (for 26 years) of the Australian Ballet School.
Currently appearing in the Australian Ballet's production of Nutcracker
in Sydney.
Tuesday
21 March 2000
RICHARD STERLING
Food writer.
Wednesday
22 March 2000
FRED CRESS
Former Archibald Winner (1988).
Thursday
23 March 2000
CEES NOOTEBOOM
Dutch poet, travel writer, playwright and novelist.
Friday
24 March 2000
LISA McCUNE (repeat)
One of Australia's most popular TV personalities, currently appearing
in The Sound of Music (it is now being seen in Melbourne).
Monday
13 March 2000
VIKRAM SETH
Novelist and poet.
Tuesday
14 March 2000
ROBERT DREW
Author, film critic and journalist.
Wednesday
15 March 2000
DOROTHY DUNNETT
One of the world's best-loved writers of historical novels.
Thursday
16 March 2000
FAY WELDON
Acclaimed and controversial writer.
Friday
17 March 2000
CHARLES "BUD" TINGWELL (repeat)
Actor.
Monday
6 March 2000
PETER GREENAWAY
Film Director.
Co-director, with Saskia Boddeke, of Writing to Vermeer,
the Louis Andriessen opera currently running at the Adelaide Festival.
Tuesday
7 March 2000
MICHAEL BILLINGTON
Theatre Critic for The Guardian.
He has written many biographies, the latest of which is The Life
and Work of Harold Pinter, 1996.
Wednesday
8 March 2000
A SCOTT BERG
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer.
His latest biography is of Charles Lindberg.
He has also written biographies of the Hollywood tycoon Samuel Goldwyn
and the editor and critic Max Perkins.
Thursday
9 March 2000
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF
Author, commentator and distinguished journalist.
Friday
10 March 2000
INGA CLENDINNEN (repeat)
Historian.
Emeritus Scholar at La Trobe University.
She's an authority on Aztec and Mayan culture. Her book Reading
the Holocaust won the NSW Premier's History Prize last year.
She also presented last year's ABC Boyer Lectures.
Monday
28 February
MOFFAT OXENBOULD
Was Artistic Director of Opera Australia for over a decade.
Tuesday
29 February
SIR ROY STRONG
Director of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Wednesday
1 March
DEREK "TAFFY" REES (repeat)
Thursday
2 March
JOHN ADAMS
American composer and conductor.
Friday
3 March
JORDI SAVALL (repeat)
Viola da gamba player and Director of Hespèrion XX.
Monday
21 February
DAVID SUZUKI
Environmentist.
Tuesday
22 February
JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET (repeat)
Pianist.
Wednesday
23 February
JACK DUSSELDORP
Chair of Dusseldorp Skills Forum.
Thursday
24 February
TIM FISHER MP
Former Deputy Prime Minister; former Minister for Trade; former
leader of the National Party in the Federal Parliament.
Friday
25 February
DR BRENT WATERS
Child psychiatrist.
Monday
14 February
COLM TOIBIN
Author
Tuesday
15 February
ELIZABETH WHITEHOUSE
Soprano
Wednesday
16 February
DR GEORGE MILLER
Film-maker
Thursday
17 February
DAVID CHRISTIAN (repeat)
Associate Professor of History at Macquarie University.
Special interest in Russian and Central Asian history.
Friday
18 February
GERALDINE COX
from the Australia Cambodia Foundation
Monday
7 February
SARAH KEY (repeat)
Physiotherapist.
Tuesday
8 February
MAX WALSH
Editor-in-Chief of The Bulletin.
Wednesday
9 February
DEBORAH MOGGACH
Author.
One of the UK's foremost contemporary writers and a guest at the
Perth Writers' Festival.
Thursday
10 February
[HAROLD] "DICKIE" BIRD
Cricket umpire.
Friday
11 February
MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN
Canadian pianist.
Touring with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
Monday
31 January
MICHAEL BERKELEY
Composer, broadcaster and Artistic Director of the Cheltenham International
Festival of Music.
Tuesday
1 February
GARRY HYNES (repeat)
Theatre Director.
She was a founder of the Druid Theatre Company.
Wednesday
2 February
ROBERT FITZGERALD
Community Services Commissioner in NSW.
Thursday
3 February
PETER HARTCHER
Asia-Pacific Editor for the Australian Financial Review.
Friday
4 February
ANNA BOOTH
Business consultant, SOCOG Board Member and former trade union secretary.
Monday
24 January
BRIAN O'DOHERTY (repeat)
Author, artist, film-maker and former art critic.
Tuesday
25 January
JOHN DERUM
Actor.
Wednesday
26 January
HUGH MACKAY
Social researcher.
His latest book is a stocktake of Australia at the end of the last
century called Turning Point: Australians Choosing Their Future.
Thursday
27 January
SIR GUSTAV NOSSAL (repeat)
Australian of the Year.
Friday
28 January
ELIZABETH ANN MACGREGOR
Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Monday
17 January
PETER VALDER
Botanist and horticulturalist.
Tuesday
18 January
GRAEME KOEHNE (repeat)
Composer.
He has two new works being premiered in the next little while.
An "opera" for children called Grandma's Shoes in Sydney
on 18 January and a new Oboe Concerto being given its first performances
by Diana Doherty in March.
Wednesday
19 January
JIRI KYLIAN
Artistic director of Netherlands Dance Theatre.
NDT are in Australia for performances at the Sydney and Perth Festivals.
Thursday
20 January
IAN BERTSEN
An expert on coffee.
His first book was called Coffee Floats, Tea Sinks. His latest
is called Coffee, Sex and Health: A History of Anti-Coffee Crusaders
and Sexual Hysteria.
Friday
21 January
GRAEME GILL
Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Sydney.
Monday
10 January
DEBORAH POLASKI
Soprano.
Currently in Australia to sing the title role in Elektra
at the Sydney Festival.
Tuesday
11 January
TREVOR GREEN
Managing Director of the Melbourne Symphony.
The Melbourne Symphony give their farewell concerts in the Melbourne
Concert Hall on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings featuring Michael
Kieran Harvey (piano) and Miki Tsunoda (violin).
The Wednesday concert will be simulcast on ABC Classic FM and TV
on Sunday 23 January.
Wednesday
12 January
PASCAL ROGÉ (repeat)
French pianist.
Thursday
13 January
PHILIP GLASS
Composer.
Philip
Glass and his ensemble will be performing the film score to Koyaanisqatsi
live in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House and at the Freemantle
Arts Centre.
There will be a number of other performances at the Perth Festival
as well, including the companion piece Powaqqatsi, also performed
live to the film and the Australian premiere of Philip Glass's score
to the 1931 classic film of Dracula.
The Philip Glass Ensemble will be also be taking part in the Watershed
Opening Concert on Thursday, 27 January.
Philip Glass will also be appearing outside of Perth: on Wednesday
19 January at the Mundaring Weir Hotel Ampitheatre and on Friday
28 January at Goldfields Performing Arts Centre, Kalgoolie. He will
be one of the Artists-in-Residence at New Norcia.
Friday
14 January
NIALL BUGGY
Actor.
Currently appearing in The Weir for the Sydney Festival.
Mornings with Margaret Throsby
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