Canadian Faye Blais is spreading her new material around the globe, on a series of International Tours. Detailed as “continuing the thread started by Joni, picked up by Ani and fashioned by Feist”, Faye’s songwriting, presence and personality are showcased beautifully through her impressive jazzy-bluesy folk style, on acoustic and electric guitars, and keys, with stunning, dynamic vocals. As a
Read moreDespite its minimalist plot and setting within the crucible of Arab-Israeli tension on the West Bank, French film The Other Son manages to deliver a sensitive and moving family drama that lingers in the memory. When Israeli teenager Joseph (Jules Sitruk) applies for military service he discovers that his blood type does not match his parents. A hospital reveals that
Read moreAfter his foray into mindless rom-coms Gerard Butler leaps back into mindless action films as former secret service agent and Special Forces killing machine Mike Banning who battles terrorists in the ludicrous thriller Olympus Has Fallen. This film is basically Die Hard goes to the White House as Butler’s Mike Banning takes on a small army of rogue North Koreans
Read moreRGG is a program which utilises a different theme each week to develop a special “different” show with music from all eras each Saturday morning between 10am and noon. This week Radio Ga Ga does it’s little thing by finding music with a tenuous (dictionary definition: thin in consistency; rare or rarefied) link to the great man, Elvis. The music featured will be either specifically about
Read moreOur hymns podcast includes: Abide with me – Sara Macliver You’ll never walk alone – Sara Macliver Holy city These are from the Queensland pops orchestra and brought to us by Chris Whiting. Program is Songs of Hope, Sunday 21 April 2013 Songs of Hope website: http://songsofhope883.com
Read moreWrite Now – TONIGHT – Ashley Ekins, editor of and contributor to Gallipoli A ridge too far, a superb, new book from the Australian War Memorial; then later Lilian Wissink talking about her book The Creative SEED. Please join me, Gaytana
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