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Ninety-four-year-old Studs Terkel, America's most eminent oral historian and author of numerous books including Working and the Pullitzer Prize-winning The Good War, graciously allowed award-winning English independent doco maker Alan Hall to visit him in Chicago in August 2004, despite having only three weeks earlier undergone heart surgery.
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An exploration of modern India told through the story of the Dabawallahs, the people working in the highly efficient meal delivery system of Mumbai.
Each morning 5,000 Dabbawallahs collect approximately 200,000 meal containers in the suburbs and deliver them to offices in the city centre. Four hours later the empty containers are collected and returned. It's a delivery system that started in the 1890s to accommodate people from different ethnic backgrounds with strict rules about how food should be prepared. It functions without managers or supervision; most of the workers are illiterate and all receive the same wages.
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A program that explores the language of a father and daughter through their music, poetry and a shared journey back to Czechoslovakia.
Saturday 2pm
repeated Wednesday 1pm
Presented by
Brent Clough
Saturday 06 December 2008
The Coorong is one of Australia's most fragile wetlands - a narrow lagoon that runs parallel to the South Australian coast a couple of hours' drive south of Adelaide. The setting for Colin Thiele's famous story Storm Boy, it's been home to vast numbers of water birds. But now, the Coorong is choking to death. The Cry of the Coorong is a meditation on the meaning of landscapes and how they call to us.
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6pm AEDT
Australia Talks
with Paul Barclay
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