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Item Open Access 1940 Britain: from phoney war, to finest hour, to where?(Radio Adelaide, 2007) Wilson, Trevor Gordon; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; Radio Adelaide; University of AdelaideIn collaboration with Robin Prior, Trevor Wilson is focusing his current research on the Second World War and shares his always stimulating thinking with a fresh examination of the situation in 1940.Item Open Access Adelaide remember when(2015-09-07) Byrne, BobItem Open Access Adelaide to Amsterdam and back(Radio Adelaide, 2012) Colmer, David, 1960-; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; Radio Adelaide; University of AdelaideItem Open Access The aftermath of publishing, ’The politics of suffering' : reaction and interaction(Radio Adelaide, 2011) Sutton, Peter; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; Radio Adelaide; University of AdelaideItem Open Access Alastair Sarre : Ecstacy Lake(Radio Adelaide 101.5 fm, 2017-04-20) Sarre, AlastairAlastair Sarre talks about his Steve West novels.Item Open Access An amazing bunch of women(2015-05-07) Hale, MegItem Open Access American journeys with Don Watson(Radio Adelaide, 2008) Watson, Don; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; Radio Adelaide; University of AdelaideItem Open Access Anthony Steel : Painful in daily doses(Radio Adelaide, 2010) Steel, Anthony; Shaw, Ewart; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; Radio Adelaide; University of AdelaideIn this 50th anniversary year of the Adelaide Festival, Anthony Steel talks about his life and career in the Arts and his new book Painful in daily doses, in conversation with Ewart Shaw.Item Open Access Arrested motion and future mourning(Radio Adelaide, 2008) Castro, Brian; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; Radio Adelaide; University of AdelaideRecently-appointed Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide, Brian Castro discusses hybrid writing as it covers skin and ideology, authenticity and tradition, form and receptionItem Open Access The art of science : Nicholas Baudin's voyagers 1800-1804(Radio Adelaide 101.5 fm, 2017-06-15) Fornasiero, Jean; Lawton, Lindl; West-Sooby, JohnIt was one of the most lavishly equipped scientific expeditions ever to leave Europe. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, French navigator Nicolas Baudin led two ships carrying 22 scientists and more than 230 officers and crew on a three-and-a-half-year voyage to the 'Southern Lands', charting coasts, studying the natural environment and recording encounters with indigenous peoples.Item Open Access Artist & engravers : the Vandenberg-Quick family(2015-09-11) Green, JudithItem Open Access At the end of the river : the Coorong and lower lakes / David Paton(Radio Adelaide, 2010) Paton, David Cleland; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; Radio Adelaide; University of AdelaideDavid Paton provides a brief overview of the importance of maintaining environmental flows to the Murray Mouth for the maintenance of the Coorong and its biota. Concerned that the general public may be poorly informed through media reports that the Coorong is dying, Paton wrote a natural history of the region, At the End of the River: The Coorong and Lower Lakes, to inform the community about how the Coorong operates. Even in its current altered state, the Coorong still easily meets criteria for listing as a Wetland of International Importance, and importantly is recoverable and warrants an allocation of water.Item Open Access “Bandaids in a Battlefield”: The Anthropology of Refugee and Asylum Seeker Support in Australia(2023) Reid, Alison KimItem Open Access The biggest estate on earth(Radio Adelaide, 2013) Gammage, Bill; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; Radio Adelaide; University of AdelaideItem Open Access Blood, sweat and fears(Radio Adelaide 101.5 fm, 2016-07-21) Verco, ChristopherBlood, Sweat and Fears describes those medical practitioners and medical students connected to South Australia who served in the armed forces, at home or abroad, during what we now know as World War 1.Item Open Access A body of work : the making of it(Radio Adelaide, 2009) Malouf, David; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; Radio Adelaide; University of AdelaideDavid Malouf’s new novel ’Ransom’ engages with enduring questions posed by the ancient Greeks, in particular with Homer’s ’Iliad’ and the relationships of King Priam and Achilles and of Hector and Patroclus. Malouf considers ’Ransom’ with reference to the development of his work as a whole, including the now classic titles ’An Imaginary Life’, ’Johnno’ and ’Remembering Babylon’, as well as the autobiographical ’12 Edmonstone Street’ and his short story collection ’Every Move you Make’.Item Open Access Book launch : Australia dances / by Alan Brissenden and Keith Glennon ; launched by David McAllister(Radio Adelaide, 2010) Brissenden, Alan; Glennon, Keith, 1923-1983; Barr Smith Library. Rare Book and Special; Collections Division; Radio Adelaide; University of AdelaideItem Open Access The boys from St Francis(2018) Mallett, Ashley; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; University of AdelaideThis remarkable true story pays tribute to a band of Aboriginal boys who grew up together in one group home - many succeeding spectacularly in later life. In 1945, Anglican priest Father Percy Smith brought six boys from their Northern Territory home to an Adelaide beach suburb. There, they became the first boys of St Francis, a place that would house 50 such boys over 11 years. Some were sent, with the blessing of their mothers, to gain an education. Others were members of the Stolen Generations. In their interviews with Ashley Mallett, many of these men recall Father Smith's kindness and care. His successors, however, were often brutal, and the boys faced prejudice in a wider world largely built to exclude Indigenous Australians...Item Open Access Brain drain not brain gain(2012-10-16) Harcourt, Tim; Friends of the University of Adelaide Library; Radio Adelaide; University of AdelaideItem Open Access Bruce Munday: Those wild rabbits(Radio Adelaide 101.5 fm, 2017-08-17) Munday, BruceStoryteller Bruce Munday finds the rabbit saga irresistible - the naive hopes of the early settlers, the frustration, environmental damage, cost to agriculture, dreams shattered, and the lessons learned and ignored.