First Person (Specialty)
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- First Person is a serialised reading of a published autobiography, broadcast every weekday. We aim to broadcast the best of current and classic personal narratives - including memoirs, travel writing, diaries and letters. We choose books for fine writing that communicates the author's individual life experience, and for their personal voice - the "I" or first person pronoun. Presented as part of Life Matters, First Person provides another dimension to Radio National's daily coverage of issues that affect life and society.
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2008-10-24 First Person - Throwim' Way Leg Ep: 10
Fri, Oct 24
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In 1994 Tim Flannery returned to Irian Jaya to further his researches in an area that is one of the least explored regions in Irian Jaya, as far as mammals are concerned. And in exploring a nearby valley he and his team discover two young children, lost and struggling to survive in one of the nearby caves.
2008-10-23 First Person - Throwim' Way Leg Ep: 9
Thu, Oct 23
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Unsuccessful in his first attempt to gain entry into the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya in the early '80s, Tim Flannery finally succeeds and in 1990 he leave Australia for the settlement of Kwiyawagi. Once there he sets out for some nearby caves to discover, as he tells us, a "treasure trove" of ancient remains.
2008-10-22 First Person - Throwim' Way Leg Ep: 8
Wed, Oct 22
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While the time spent at Mt.Boobiari brought some new and exciting scientific discoveries to Tim Flannery and his team, no-one was more pleased to be back at base camp than the author himself.
2008-10-21 First Person - Throwim' Way Leg Ep: 7
Tue, Oct 21
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Tim tells of some of the wonderful findings he is making as part of his field research in Papua New Guineau.
2008-10-20 First Person - Throwim' Way Leg Ep: 6
Mon, Oct 20
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Moving on through the mountainous west of Papua New Guinea, Tim comes across a tribe still governed by a village headman who are, by their own reckoning, the last people in Papua New Guinea to live a lifestyle largely unaffected by the European influence.
2008-10-17 First Person - Throwim' Way Leg Ep: 5
Fri, Oct 17
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After spending two years back in Australia, studying for his doctorate in zoology, Tim returns to Papua New Guinea -this time though to work in the rugged far west of the country.
2008-10-16 First Person - Throwim' Way Leg Ep: 4
Thu, Oct 16
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As Tim and his party continue to explore the Neon Basin, they discover that it abounds with wallabies and giant rats almost a metre long.
2008-10-15 First Person - Throwim' Way Leg Ep: 3
Wed, Oct 15
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Tim went to Papua New Guineau as a young zoologist with an interest in tree kangaroos. He gives us an insight into his first day on the job doing field research.
2008-10-14 First Person - Throwim' Way Leg Ep: 2
Tue, Oct 14
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Tim meets the missionary priest Father Alexandre Michaellod, and hears about some of his work among the local tribespeople.
2008-10-13 First Person - Throwim' Way Leg Ep: 1
Mon, Oct 13
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As a young zoologist, Tim Flannery spent a period of time in Papua New Guinea doing field research. "In New Guinea Pidgin," he explains?, `throwim way leg? means to go on a journey. It describes the action of thrusting out your leg to take the first step of what can be a long march..." Tim?s journey in his book Throwim Way Leg took him into the jungles of Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya where he met skilled hunters, climbed mountains never before scaled by Europeans, and discovered new...
2008-10-10 First Person - Plenty: Digressions on Food Ep: 5
Fri, Oct 10
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With the sale of Berowra Waters Inn behind her, Gay Bilson decides on a move to the countryside of South Australia, to lead a far different life to that of those many years living and working as a famous chef in Sydney.
2008-10-09 First Person - Plenty: Digressions on Food Ep: 4
Thu, Oct 9
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Gay talks about the numerous Berowra Waters Inn recipe cards, and the history and some of the memorable people connected to those cards.
2008-10-08 First Person - Plenty: Digressions on Food Ep: 3
Wed, Oct 8
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Janni, a former electrician from Greece now turned cook was, according to Gay, much valued for his "problem-solving".
2008-10-07 First Person - Plenty: Digressions on Food Ep: 2
Tue, Oct 7
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Having achieved success in the restaurant world in Sydney, Gay and Tony Bilson decide to sell their Bon Gout Restaurant in 1977 and invest in Berowra Waters Inn - "a utopian landscape of water and cliff" on the Hawkesbury River.
2008-10-06 First Person - Plenty: Digressions on Food Ep: 1
Mon, Oct 6
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Gay Bilson?s name is synonymous with the revolution in Australian cooking and restaurant life that began in the 1970s. Her food is legendary, as are her informed and passionate observations about food and culture. She tells us what it was like growing up as a child in a working-class Melbourne suburb in the fifties, and her early experiences with food.
2008-09-26 First Person - Dirt Cheap Ep: 10
Fri, Sep 26
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Elizabeth is working at "Starholme" and "Excelsior", nursing homes in Northwest Hills, a notch on Sydney?s Bible Belt . Please note that this episode contains strong language.
2008-09-25 First Person - Dirt Cheap Ep: 9
Thu, Sep 25
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Having experienced the unexpected stresses and injustices of work as a sales assistant in a chain store, Elizabeth is about to learn more about being underpaid and under valued, this time as a casual in two nursing homes in Sydney?s genteel north western suburbs.
2008-09-24 First Person - Dirt Cheap Ep: 8
Wed, Sep 24
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Having already experienced some pretty harsh employment conditions among low wage workers, Elizabeth is about to discover more about the stresses and injustices of life on the wrong side of the serving counter.
2008-09-23 First Person - Dirt Cheap Ep: 7
Tue, Sep 23
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Elizabeth she faces a new challenge in another so-called "unskilled" job when she signs on to work as a sales assistant for "The Store", one of a nation-wide chain that is employing an increasing number of casual staff.
2008-09-22 First Person - Dirt Cheap Ep: 6
Mon, Sep 22
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Elizabeth is working at two Melbourne hotels, the "The Princess" and "The Duchess". Please note that this episode contains strong language.
2008-09-19 First Person - Dirt Cheap Ep: 5
Fri, Sep 19
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Elizabeth went undercover to experience the grinding hardships of life on minimum wages. She began with a job in the cafeteria of an exclusive club and then moved to a rural factory. We rejoin her today on the job at "Chicken and Egg Enterprises" in "Greendale".
2008-09-18 First Person - Dirt Cheap Ep: 4
Thu, Sep 18
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Elizabeth is on the job at "Chicken and Egg Enterprises" in "Greendale".
2008-09-17 First Person - Dirt Cheap Ep: 3
Wed, Sep 17
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Having taken leave from her job as a senior journalist with The Australian, Elizabeth began her experience of life on the other side of the serving counter working in the cafeteria of an exclusive Sydney club. She could handle the work but the repressive atmosphere was another matter. Having determined to explore a number of so-called "unskilled" employments she quit her job at the club after just over a month to seek work further afield. Please note that this episode contains strong language.
2008-09-16 First Person - Dirt Cheap Ep: 2
Tue, Sep 16
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Elizabeth began her ten month "self-funded sabbatical on the breadline" working in the cafeteria of an exclusive Sydney club.
2008-09-15 First Person - Dirt Cheap Ep: 1
Mon, Sep 15
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Elizabeth Wynhausen is a senior journalist with The Australian. In her distinguished career she?s often written about the lives of the working poor and this is her inside story of the year she joined them, going under cover to work long shifts on a factory production line, in a hotel kitchen, as a checkout chick and a kitchen hand in nursing homes. Elizabeth discovers that many so-called "unskilled" jobs actually require an incredible amount of skill and that exposing the conditions of...
2008-09-12 First Person - Life, Death, and the Family Ep: 1
Fri, Sep 12
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Joanna Mendelssohn is a writer and art historian who teaches at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales . She reflects upon the life of her mother, and the change in their family dynamics brought about by a traumatic event.
2008-09-11 First Person - The Hemingway Lectures Ep: 1
Thu, Sep 11
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Ian Klaus was born in 1978, and studied at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He currently lives in New York City, and is completing a doctorate in history at Harvard. Back in 2005, he travelled from Turkey to Arbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, to take up a position teaching at the Univeristy of Salahaddinin, in the thick of the war for hearts and minds. In the classroom there he finds the line between enlightening and enlightened begins to blur as he and his students, with mutual good will, attempt to cut...
2008-09-10 First Person - Travelling and Reading Ep: 1
Wed, Sep 10
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Western Australian academic and writer Gail Jones' books included the novels Black Mirror and Sixty Lights. She?s also published short story collections, and has won a number of significant literary awards. In this reading, Gail ponders the link between travelling and books.
Tue, Sep 9
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Elizabeth ponders the love - bordering on obsession - that many young girls like her develop for horses during their childhood and adolescence.
Mon, Sep 8
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A Hills Hoist is cause for reflection for Stephen.
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