Australia (4)
Playlist: texts read & music played
1. Quiz on Ned Kelly
2. Ballad on the Kelly Gang
3. Ballad, ‘The Kellys’
4. Douglas Stewart, ‘Australia’s the violent country…’
5. Peter Carey, from ‘The True History of the Kelly Gang’
6. Shakespeare, the Crispian speech from Henry V
7. Film music for Henry V by William Walton
8. Bill Bryson on Ned Kelly at Glenrowan, from ‘Down Under’
9. Judith Wright, ‘The Old Prison’
10. ‘Voices in the Wind’, from Spirit Alive, Kristian Benton
11. David Malouf speaking on BBC Radio 4 Kaleidoscope (Aug 1996)
12. Will Lawsom, ‘Echuca Way’
13. Hyllus Noel Mareis, ‘Spiritual Song of the Aborigine’
14. Joan Lindsay, from ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’
15. Beethoven, Adagio from 5th. Piano Concerto
16. Peter Weir, filmscript for 1975 film
17. Pan Pipes, film music by G. Zamfi
18. Suzanne Howard, ‘The 12 Apostles’
19. Jules Verne, from ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’
20. Tennyson, ‘the Kraken’
21. Clive James, ‘Unreliable Memoirs’
22. Clive James, ‘The River in the Sky’ (2018)
23. Clive James, from ‘Injury Time’ (2017)
24. Barry Humphries on Germaine Greer
25. Bill Bryson, on the Austrian couple lost in the Outback, from ‘Down Under’
26. Men at Work, ‘Down Under’