Alan James | Corporate & interpretive writer

Launceston, Tasmania

Tag: Radio National

  • Hermannsburg Life

      Hermannsburg Life Artworks ABC Radio National Executive Producer: Debra McCoy The former Aboriginal mission town of Hermannsburg, 130 kilometres south-west of Alice Springs, has a long history of contemporary art practice—from the evocative watercolours of Albert Namatjira in the 1930s, to the quirky, colourful ceramics of the Aranda women’s pottery group today. Brisbane’s Artisan…

  • Making “Lotte’s Gift”

      Making “Lotte’s Gift” Exhibit A ABC Radio National Executive Producer: Julie Copeland Commissioned by ABC Regional Production Fund Lotte’s Gift is a new work by Australian playwright David Williamson. It is the product of a collaboration with German-Australian classical guitarist Karin Schaupp. This “drama with music” tells the story of Karin’s little-known but extraordinary…

  • Mary River Sans Frontières

    Mary River Sans Frontières The Deep End ABC Radio National Executive Producer: Debra McCoy In 2005, French-Australian environmental artist Francois Davin—a resident of the Mary Valley’s Kandanga—lured a number of like-minded artists from a symposium in Noosa to something of an artist-in-residence/farmstay on his home turf. In the process, he inspired local farmers to look…

  • Dig, dig, dig! Yowah 4490 ½

      Dig, dig, dig! Yowah 4490 ½ Street Stories, ABC Radio National Executive Producer: Claudia Taranto ABC Regional Production Fund   Man needs space to feel free. You can be desperately lonesome in a crowd, but in the outback you can be alone without ever feeling lonely. Johnny Kovac in “White Man in a Hole” by…

  • Rohan you bastard: the life and times of an outback cop

      Rohan you bastard: the life and times of an outback cop Street Stories, ABC Radio National Executive Producer: Claudia Taranto ABC Regional Production Fund   The role of the police officer in the small and remote rural community is both official and social, formal and informal. The position and mere presence of a cop are…