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The Night Air (Eclectic)

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  • Host: Brent Clough
  • The program is a seductive mix of forms ranging through short monologues, songs, dialogues, essays, poems, short stories, cut-ups, columns, speeches, recipes, sound art, rants, environmental recordings, weather reports and instrumental music.
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Cowboy/Mississippi Records

Sun, Nov 16
Part 1: Cowboy Out on the open range as well as hanging around the saloon, those trail-riders are everywhere - just waiting for the opportunity to ride 'em ride, 'em and rope and brand 'em

Gardens/Ghost Box

Sun, Nov 9
Part 1: Gardens Peering through parted leaves in dream gardens and gardens of dreams

Outer Jazz

Sun, Nov 2
Making it up, breaking it down

Limbo/Don Letts

Sun, Oct 26
'Sitting here in limbo, waiting for my time to come,' so sang Jimmy Cliff in the film, The Harder They Come

Not Art

Sun, Oct 19
This is Not Art is the alterna-tentacled experimental arts festival, run annually over the October long weekend in Newcastle NSW

Borders and Crossroads

Sun, Oct 12
Arriving at a point of departure and having to turn left or right or north, south, east or west

Target Practice

Sun, Oct 5
Dodging the fusillades of gunshot big and small, including that of the world's most-used weapon of mass destructionthe Russian-made AK47the Kalashnikov, the weapon of choice for armies, guerrillas, criminals and international arms dealers

Reverb

Sun, Sep 28
Sounds that linger longer open up spaces for reflection, remembering and rhythm

Visual

Sun, Sep 21
Open your eyes and it feels as if our experience of vision and consciousness are continuous, complex, rich and colourful - thanks to some hard work put in by the brain

Greek Feast

Sun, Sep 14
The Night Air team visits Perama, a Greek restaurant in Sydney's Petersham, and is regaled with Greek poetry, wine and song by owner Harry Tanvakeras

Rights/Nigeria 70

Sun, Sep 7
'Get up, Stand up', the 1973 reggae song made famous by The Wailers is a nagging provocation to continue struggling for personal or group rights in an unjust world

Ear

Sun, Aug 31
In tonight's Night Ear we're taking an audio adventure into the very nature of listening itself

Travelling Texas

Sun, Aug 24
'Two cowboys team up somewhere in west Texas to make some easy money

Satanic Olympics

Sun, Aug 17
After rigorous training and an unholy regimen of special diets and injections, old Lucifer has made it into the national squad

Landscape

Sun, Aug 10
In this edition of the show you'll be lured away from your comfort zone and travel into unfamiliar territory

Coffee Break

Sun, Aug 3
Time for a cuppa! In your daily coffee cup there are stories: about people, the environment, liberation struggles, friendship and art

Airborne

Sun, Jul 27
It's chocks away and engage propeller, until we're up up and away in a jolly spiffing show, old chap

Shock Horror!

Sun, Jul 20
The door creaks open a fraction, a blood curdling scream is heard and then

Bubble Wrap

Sun, Jul 13
Everything is relative this evening in The Night Air as we pop the bubble wrap protecting that precious artwork formerly known as 'The Truth'

Angels

Sun, Jul 6
Are there really angels? Some people definitely see them in all their glory and other people just know they exist in some kind of spirit world

Sleuth

Sun, Jun 29
Sifting through bagloads of forensic data, matching up fingerprints, clues and motives, deducing whatever they can, those sleuths are on our case

Robot Love

Sun, Jun 22
After the abject treatment of robots as slaves for so many years, it's time to find some compassion and realise robots can be our friends (and in some instances, yes, even our lovers)

Adulterated

Sun, Jun 15
The Night Air conducts down-low interviews with the patrons of a down-town swingers club; we discover the tricks lonely housewives use to get their husbands home at lunchtime and later in the evening there's a visit to a B&D club - just to perk us up

Salt

Sun, Jun 8
Adding a bit of seasoning to your radio - we visit the salt mines of Timbuktu, talk to Captain Salty who's fishing for mullet off the Florida coast, taste a few local Sydney Rock oysters in the Hawkesbury river, trawl for squid in Broken Bay, pray at the feet of the weeping Madonna and search for Lot's wife's real name

Up North

Sun, Jun 1
This evening we're huddling around the igloo's hearth, sharing a few epic sagas and gnawing on the odd red herring

The Other Worlds of Sun Ra

Sun, May 25
We shine astro black atcha as we celebrate Sun Ra 'Arrival Day'

Museum

Sun, May 18
Sound artist, musician and composer Robert Iolini is the guest curator for a sonic exhibition exploring the changing roles in that storehouse of knowledge and halfway-house for art: the museum

Jungle

Sun, May 11
Is it just us or is it getting hot in here? And where are all those snake vines coming from? In a trip deep into the jungle, trekking along some partly-worn paths whilst creating a few inroads of our own, we push aside the creepers and carnivorous plants to look what might be lurking in the undergrowth and swinging overhead

Not Stopping

Sun, May 4
Time waits for no man and certainly not for marathon runner-to-be Andy Clarke as he puts in the hours and the miles for his Not Stopping challenge of a lifetime

The Hong Kong Agent

Sun, Apr 27
A mysterious agent has arrived in Hong Kong on an unspecified mission

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