Titles sourced from: Special Broadcasting Service
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The Book Show – David Malouf (1988)
A magazine-style program with presenter and interviewer Dinny O’Hearn talking to David Malouf, who has just won the Haskell award for his body of work. He also interviews ...
The Book Show – Germaine Greer (1992)
Andrea Stretton, co-host of The Bookshow with Dinny O’Hearn, interviews one of the world’s most famous feminists for this special edition of the show. She is talking to ...
The Book Show – Jim McClelland (1991)
Dinny O’Hearn and Andrea Stretton begin this weekly magazine program on Australia Day at Bondi Beach, where they discuss the different meanings of this special day for different ...
The Book Show – Peter Carey (1992)
In this week’s edition of The Book Show, Dinny O’Hearn and Andrea Stretton introduce the show from the Reading Room of the State Library of Victoria. The program ...
Bookmark – Tim Winton (1995)
Andrea Stretton introduces the wonderful children’s books of Jeannie Baker whose then newest work is The Story of Rosie Dock (1995), a magical journey into central Australia. There’s ...
The Colony (2005)
A six part ‘living history’ series, in which four families and several single people – chosen to match the social fabric of the 1800s as convicts, political exiles, ...
Eco House Challenge – Episode 1, Stop Your Gassing (2007)
Two Australian families have accepted the eco challenge to turn their lives around by changing their daily usage of water, transport, energy and waste removal. One family is ...
Eco House Challenge – Episode 3, Emission Impossible (2007)
The families from the first two programs who had to survive for 24 hours with no water, electricity, cars or waste disposal, have now had one of those ...
Fashionista – Alex Perry (2003)
There’s quite a psychology to designing a wedding gown and Alex Perry has been doing it since 1984 with huge success. His passion is for every bride to ...
Fashionista – Donna-May Bolinger (2004)
Donna-May Bolinger has attempted to move beyond designing shoes, to incorporate a feminist history in her work – in this case, the biography of an early 20th century ...
Fashionista – John Macarthur (2003)
John Macarthur is from the Macarthur dynasty, the pioneers of Australia’s wool industry. He says he’s descended from the poor relations. This John Macarthur grew up in Bombala ...
Fashionista – Mambo (2003)
Robert Moore loves his job and he’s been at it since 1989. He designs for Mambo and creates what he likes. Mambo may or may not pick up ...
Fashionista – Naomi Goodsir (2003)
Naomi Goodsir is a milliner, but not just any milliner. Her creations are like sculptures. Luckily there’s always a race day somewhere, otherwise she’d be out of a ...
Fashionista – Nicolas Jurnjack (2004)
Nicholas Jurnjack is a hair stylist who insists that fashion photography is all about lighting. He hails from Marseilles and was offered a choice of a plumbing or ...
Fashionista – Vivienne Westwood (2005)
This film records an exhibition of Vivienne Westwood’s fashion designs from over 30 years, which was held at the National Gallery in Canberra in 2005. The exhibition was ...
The Food Lovers’ Guide to Australia – Series 5 Episode 1 (2004)
Another episode of the ever popular and very different cooking show that explores Australia for its inspiration. In this program, it’s mum’s cooking with a difference in Broome; ...
The Food Lovers’ Guide to Australia – Series 5 Episode 2 (2004)
Whether it’s diving for trepang or sea cucumber in the northernmost tip of Australia, or putting together a feast from local produce at the southernmost point in the ...
The Food Lovers’ Guide to Australia – Series 5 Episode 3 (2004)
While Maeve O’Mara has crossed the desert to eat at a terrific Greek taverna in Coober Pedy, Joanna Savill is in the Torres Straits to take part in ...
The Food Lovers’ Guide to Australia – Series 5 Episode 5 (2004)
Maeve O’Mara travels to north-east Tasmania to discover the secrets behind creating a terrific cheddar. We then meet the chef of Sydney’s great restaurant, Claude’s, while Joanna Savill ...
The Food Lovers’ Guide to Australia – Series 5 Episode 6 (2004)
From the adventure of bush tucker in Kakadu to a huge Greek family feast at Easter, then Italian pastries followed by the seductively creamy custard apple and how ...
If Only – Series 1 Episode 10 (2003)
Three individuals tell their ‘if only’ stories of missed opportunities. There’s a troubled girl who went to jail instead of being around her child as she was growing ...
If Only – Series 1 Episode 3 (2003)
A series of ‘if only’ stories from a range of lives: a young single mother who found and then lost her birth mother, a woman who recalls the ...
If Only – Series 1 Episode 5 (2003)
Three moving vignettes make up this program of lost opportunities. There’s one about a man who thought his problems of cloudy vision were an irreversible factor of old ...
Masterpiece Special – Judy Davis (1996)
A wide-ranging interview with Australian actress Judy Davis, who has starred in over 20 movies since she came into our lives with My Brilliant Career (1979), her debut ...
Masterpiece Special – Melvyn Bragg (1996)
Andrea Stretton interviews the British writer and television presenter, Melvyn Bragg. His arts magazine program the South Bank Show (2008) is the longest running arts television show in ...
Masterpiece Special – Robert Hughes (1997)
The Australian expatriate art critic and author Robert Hughes ranges widely in a conversation with arts journalist Andrea Stretton about a career that’s taken him from Australia to ...
Masterpiece Special – Robyn Davidson (1996)
Andrea Stretton interviews the expatriate Australian writer Robyn Davidson, who has just written a book about her experience of living with one of the last great nomadic tribes ...
Masterpiece Special – Salman Rushdie (1996)
Andrea Stretton interviews Salman Rushdie, whose then latest book The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995) was written under the threat of a fatwa, or death sentence. The fatwa was ...
Masterpiece Special – Wole Soyinka (1997)
The Nobel Laureate for literature in 1986, Wole Soyinka is in Australia for the 1997 Melbourne Writers’ Festival. He’s talking to Andrea Stretton about his early life in ...
The Movie Show – Episode 12 (2004)
A review of the new Irish-British co-production directed by Bruce Beresford, called Evelyn followed by an interview with Bruce Beresford and a tribute to John Dingwall, the writer, ...
The Movie Show – Episode 13 (2004)
Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton review the latest cinema releases interspersed with clips from the shows. This week, they review The Cooler with William H Macey and Alec ...
The Movie Show – Episode 4 (2004)
A half-hour magazine program for television with Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton, the doyens of Australian television movie reviewers. This week they talk about Girl With A Pearl ...
Mum’s the Word – Episode 16 (2003)
A group of high achieving mothers, led by presenter Rebecca le Tourneau, discuss how they feel pressured by their children to buy, buy, buy. Included in this otherwise ...
Mum’s the Word – Episode 9 (2003)
A group of women, including actress Zoe Carides and broadcaster Amanda Keller, discuss body image before and after pregnancy with presenter Rebecca le Tourneau.
