This morning Christine Heart Savage is speaking to Barbara Gabogrecan, author of “Thank God I had a Stroke” a stroke and brain tumour survivor’s journey of recovery. Barbara will share her story, her shock and her sudden change of life, and her subsequent recovery. Join us at 11.ooam this morning…
Read moreDennis & Mark at 88.3 Southern FM (13/3/2014) In this podcast, 88.3 Southern FM ‘Purple Haze’ presenter Mark Copolov interviewed top Australian music entrepreneur Dennis Smith ‘live in the studio’, on Thursday March 13th 2014. Some of the topics Dennis & Mark talked about included : Dennis’s work on the 60’s music show ‘The Go Show’ which gave
Read moreBased on the non-fiction book The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History, Monuments Men dramatises the time during World War Two when art critics invaded Germany. Throughout the war, the Nazis had stolen copious art treasures including Michelangelo’s Madonna and Child, from galleries and private collections across Europe. For what are purported in
Read moreYoung adult literature has recently become the scourge of film critics with horrendous adaptations of Stephanie Myers’ Twilight series and The Host as well as the lamentable big screen versions of Cassandra Clare’s first Mortal Instruments fable. Despite fleeting moments of genuine entertainment and deliberate amusement, Vampire Academy maintains the dismal standard. Vampire Academy revolves around Rose Hathaway (Zoey Deutch)
Read moreExistential drama All Is Lost sees sole cast member Robert Redford play an unnamed yachtsman battling the elements and the threat of starvation and dehydration on a sinking yacht in the Indian Ocean. As the story of a marooned person struggling for survival, the film evokes comparisons with Gravity and Life of Pi but this is a far more restrained,
Read moreGore Vidal, who died in 2012, was an acclaimed and highly provocative playwright, novelist, essayist occasional political candidate and famed social and political commentator. The documentary Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia traces Vidal’s life from privileged boyhood as a US Senator’s son, to his emergence as a prominent student intellectual, his military service during the Second World War,
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