WRITE NOW
Write Now -TONIGHT – I’m talking with Pauline Luke about her latest young adult novel: Knowing Joey Field and then I’ll talk with Tracy Vo about her book: Small Bamboo. Please join me, Gaytana
Read morePodcast of Handels Messiah
Listen again to Chris Whiting’s broadcast of Handels Messiah. Broadcast 20 April 2014 on Southern FM 88.3. This is the ABC Classics edition of Messiah. Soprano in Sarah Macliver and counter tenor Christopher Field. Click the play button for the audio or download. Play time is 85 minutes Songs of Hope website: http://songsofhope883.com
Read moreFilm review: LIKE FATHER LIKE SON, from Built For Speed
Like last year’s The Other Son, Japanese film Like Father Like Son explores the heartbreaking situation in which two sets of parents discover that that there children were switched at birth and in this case that the son they have raised for six years is not theirs. While this film is about two families it focuses on Ryota (Masaharu Fukuyama)
Read moreFilm review: IN A WORLD, from Built For Speed
How many times have we heard the deep mellifluous burr of a movie trailer voice-over artist exclaiming “This year” or “In a world”? The owner of that voice was more likely than not American vocal legend Don La Fontaine who recorded thousands of voice-overs for film trailers and TV commercials before his death in 2008. The vacuum he left in
Read moreFilm review: NOAH, from Built For Speed
Noah begins with a potted history of the Old Testament that is strikingly reminiscent of the opening scenes in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. That sequence sets the tone for the film, as this interpretation of the story of Noah, the Ark and the flood that wiped out humanity, plays like a Tolkien action-fantasy.
Read moreFilm review: I FRANKENSTEIN, from Built For Speed
Mary Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein introduced the notion of the modern Prometheus and of man attempting to play God by fashioning a living being from the remnants of the dead. It explored themes such as the power and danger of science posed when combined with man’s hubris. Some scholars have also theorised that Dr. Frankenstein’s unnamed monster represents the anonymous
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