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Really Rare Updated: 2012-02-04 15:27:19 Description: Extinct, disappearing or just highly elusive, we’re on the trail of the antique and the apocryphal but also an almost mythological beast like the Tasmanian tiger – has it gone or is it just hiding....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Identities Updated: 2012-01-29 09:05:00 Description: The Night Air explores Identities - Indigenous and otherwise....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Vectors Updated: 2012-01-22 09:30:00 Description: Following lines in the sand, puzzling about crop circles and looking for the geographical and psychological markers that keep us right on track with magnitude and direction....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Vocal Chords Updated: 2012-01-15 09:30:00 Description: In this Night Air we open the voice box to strum the many chords of the voice....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Paranoid Parade Updated: 2012-01-08 09:30:00 Description: In the first part of this evening's show we take a nervous shuffle down a Cold War cul de sac....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Unforgettable Updated: 2012-01-01 09:30:00 Description: We try to remember what it was like to forget: deja vu and nostalgia, amnesia and mnemonics, implanted memories and oral testimony, we tie a knot in our handkerchief, take a sprig of rosemary and dive deep in the river of oblivion, exploring the twin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Soul and Body Updated: 2011-12-25 09:30:00 Description: Your soul is singing and that tingling, harmonic minor-scale sensation down your spine, the boom-boody-boom as your heart beats and the clanging in your head all add up to a great symphony made on, around and within the body....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Revolving Updated: 2011-12-18 09:30:00 Description: In a cyclic mood this evening as we consider reflections and reverberations across a range of media - from the CT scanner, to the sound therapist, to the carousel. We explore the sonic therapeutic potential of Tibetan bowls, we get inside the head of...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Birthday wishes Updated: 2011-12-11 09:30:00 Description: It's time to celebrate! Whether it's your birthday or a remarkable day in history, in this party edition we're celebrating famous birthdays, speeches, people, places and historical moments in times. So put your glad rags on, turn it up and make a toa...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-12-04 Unforgettable Updated: 2011-12-03 14:00:00 Description: We try to remember what it was like to forget: deja vu and nostalgia, amnesia and mnemonics, implanted memories and oral testimony, we tie a knot in our handkerchief, take a sprig of rosemary and dive deep in the river of oblivion, exploring the twin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Apology for duplicate podcasts Updated: 2011-11-29 23:32:22 Description: We have just upgraded to a new website, and the move has caused some podcast subscribers to download duplicate mp3s. We apologise for this issue and hope you continue to listen to Radio National podcasts in the future....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-11-27 Graffix Updated: 2011-11-26 14:00:00 Description: It´s about having a quick doodle, chatting with the inventor of Bugs Bunny and the inventor of Ren and Stimpy. There´s also a chat with people who scrutinise handwriting to see if someone can be trusted, and there´s a bit of manga, a bit of graff...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-11-20 Lost Australia+Ship Ahoy! Updated: 2011-11-19 14:00:00 Description: Musician and producer, Kevin Purdy trawls the dusty archives to find ways of reanimating nagging memories of Australian social rituals now consigned to history. And The Night Air´s information consultant and librettist, Wayne Funnell inaugurates R...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-11-13 Sombra Verde and Taman Negara Updated: 2011-11-12 14:00:00 Description: Brisbane-based field recordist and sound artist Lawrence English takes us deep into the jungles of the Amazon for a poetic account of the environment. We also visit Malaysia´s Taman Nagara national park in the company of some rowdy tourists, insect...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-11-06 Time Updated: 2011-11-05 14:00:00 Description: Time ... perforated perceptions of the past? The inconceivable potential of the future? The impossibility of grasping the moment? Sure, all of the above but what is time to us? It shapes us - by turning up ripe, rotten or premature. We will time to t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-10-30 Birth and Age Updated: 2011-10-29 14:00:00 Description: Part 1: Birth Birth is about the new: bellies, babies and beginnings - and it's about re-shaping the old: nations, belief systems, spiritual wellbeing. Either way it's a process - sometimes joyous and uplifting - and at other times painful, bloody, t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-10-23 Jargon Updated: 2011-10-22 14:00:00 Description: Attempting to come to terms with some of the memes, schemes, tongues and jive of everyday language - we get an ear across the patois of science, CB radio, traffic control and rock and roll. LOL. Ten Four....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-10-16 Worn in Updated: 2011-10-15 14:00:00 Description: These days it's like products, and even humans have their own 'refresh' buttons. The latest model is always on offer. Happy, shiny people everywhere. But permanent 'nowness' can't last - the cracks start to show, eventually nature subsumes culture an...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-10-09 Family Updated: 2011-10-08 14:00:00 Description: In this edition of The Night Air, we're keeping it all in the Family. We'll look at the individuals within the family, including Grandma and her memories; we'll listen to the way families communicate, the language and the rules; and we'll hear the ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-10-02 Clean Updated: 2011-10-01 14:00:00 Description: This evening we clean up. We recall what and who was swept under the carpet before the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. We take advice from the Queen of Clean, learn about the politics of 'home help' in South Africa and with Lady MacBeth in tow, vi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-09-25 Night Air Live: Radio Stories+Freak Pride - UPDATED Updated: 2011-09-24 14:00:00 Description: The Night Air team respond to the bubbling flux of Now with a live mix of conversation, comment, found sound and music. This evening producer Jesse Cox from Sydney's FBi Radio talks about All the Best, the show devoted to the Australian story tellin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-09-18 Curvaceous Updated: 2011-09-17 14:00:00 Description: The problematic issue of where we are and when - it's perhaps a great continuum ... relatively ... sometimes. Anyhow, we´ll attempt to squeeze everything in, including the body clocks, pineal fluctuations, bundies and soft watches. For music detai...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-09-11 Last Night in New York + 50 Years of Humans in Space Updated: 2011-09-10 14:00:00 Description: We return to New York City in the hours immediately after the devastation of the Twin Towers attack and trace the emotions of New Yorkers over the following days in ´Last Night in New York´ by Wednesday Kennedy. We also commemorate 50 years of hum...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-09-04 In the field Updated: 2011-09-03 14:00:00 Description: We travel to some wild and sonically rich environments for a programme of immersive listening. Poetica presenter Mike Ladd takes us into the realm of Found Sound - the haunting and evanescent music of streets, rivers and backyards. And we journey w...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-08-28 Night Air Live: the internet + bespoke music - UPDATED Updated: 2011-08-27 14:00:00 Description: The Night Air team respond to the bubbling flux of Now with a live mix of conversation, comment, found sound and music. This evening there´s Dutch theorist on the internet, Geert Lovink, the revolutionary sound of young Adelaide in the Shaolin Afr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-08-21 Can we just be friends? Updated: 2011-08-20 14:00:00 Description: As we discover ourselves in the era of Facebook-style `friendness´ some of us begin to wonder just what friends are for. This evening we try to consider those relationships which bind us together ... or otherwise. We recall departed friends, best fr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-08-14 Elevational Updated: 2011-08-13 14:00:00 Description: Tonight we're going up ... getting into the elevator alongside the Muzak, having an uplifting experience in a Manhattan bra shop, delivering services within a building, and in the feature Tall Girls, we wonder if you can be too tall. for music detai...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-08-07 Trips Updated: 2011-08-06 14:00:00 Description: Travelling ... sometimes on foot and sometimes by rail, float tank, balloon and armchair. We sit in the jump seat of a Marauder aeroplane as it executes a mission over Germany, we take a walking trip on the outskirts of London, we review the history...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-07-31 Night Air Live - housing the Situation Updated: 2011-07-30 14:00:00 Description: In this edition of the show an interactive sonic city, Bloomsday shenanigans, Mexican-American Kraut/Psych rockers The Mars Volta in conversation and an extended chat with the McLuhan Project thinker-in-residence, McKenzie Wark who´s talking about t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-07-24 Transit wave Updated: 2011-07-23 14:00:00 Description: International and inspirational - we present a `rough guide´ to Phonography - the art of recording sounds from the environment that surrounds us. We also present the work of artists exploring sounds intrinsic to broadcast on radio. From the semina...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD 2011-07-17 Media Mess Age Updated: 2011-07-16 14:00:00 Description: As Radio National acknowledges the centenary of the birth of the Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan, the Night Air listens to the great thinker speak (and sing) as he massages our minds into new shapes. And media manipulator extraordinaire, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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