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  1. Opening The Book

    The book has stayed pretty much the same for over 500 years: a bunch of paper pages between covers. It’s been both finite and easily grasped. But our digitally-connected world is forcing us to re-imagine what books could be.

    Participants in the program: Bob Stein, founder and co-director of The Institute For the Future of the Book, New York.

    James Bridle, writer, publisher, editor, technologist, London.

    Hugh McGuire, founder of pressbooks and libravox, co-editor of Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto, Montreal.

    Kylie Mirmohamadi, professor of English, La Trobe University, Melbourne.

    Sue Martin, professor of English, La Trobe University, Melbourne.

    http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2013/02/25/opening-the-book/

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  2. Depression-Era Evil: Gothic Horror In A Haunted Land : NPR

    The Night of the Hunter is a much-loved film, but author Julia Keller says the book it is based on is even better —€” a forgotten masterpiece. Do you have a favorite book that became a movie? Tell us in the comments.

    http://www.npr.org/2013/01/01/161408688/depression-era-evil-gothic-horror-in-a-haunted-land

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  3. Corporate tales - Hindsight - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    If you’re looking for a good gripping and compelling read you probably don’t head to the business section of the bookshop for a hefty corporate history. Yet often the stories behind companies—and the research that goes into them—tell us fascinating tales of intrigue, politics and history, and much about our economic and social world.

    Guests:
    Trevor Sykes, Author of ‘Six Months of Panic’ Allen and Unwin, 2010

    Gideon Haigh, Author, "Asbestos house: the secret history of James Hardie Industries"

    Professor Geoffrey Blainey

    Publications:
    Title: The Concept of the Corporation
    Author: Peter F. Drucker Publisher: Mentor Executive Library Books , New York 1946

    Title: Asbestos House
    Author: Gideon Haigh
    Publisher: 2006

    Title: This is the ABC
    Author: Ken Inglis
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press, 1983

    Title: The Rush That Never Ended
    Author: Geoffrey Blainey
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press, 1963

    Title: One of a kind: the story of Bankers Trust Australia 1969-1999
    Author: Gideon Haigh
    Publisher: 1999

    Title: A Company of Heralds
    Author: Gavin Souter
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press, 1981

    Title: Jumping over the Wheel
    Author: Geoffrey Blainey
    Publisher: Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1993

    Title: The Reckoning
    Author: David Halberstam
    Publisher: William Morrow, 1986

    Title: The Golden Mile
    Author: Geoffrey Blainey
    Publisher: Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1993

    Title: The Deutsche Bank
    Author: Lothar Gall
    Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1995

    Title: Six Months of Panic
    Author: Trevor Sykes
    Publisher: Allen and Unwin, 2010

    Title: Mines in the Spinifex
    Author: Geoffrey Blainey
    Publisher: Angus and Robertson, Sydney 1960

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/corporate-tales/3764372

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  4. Doctor Who writer, Rob Shearman - Books and Arts Daily - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Multi-award winning fantasy writer Robert Shearman famously returned the Dalek to Doctor Who in an episode The Times newspaper labelled an ‘unqualified triumph’. Shearman’s episode was nominated for a Hugo Award. He has also written many popular audio dramas and print stories for the series.

    Robert Shearman is also a playwright and short story writer. His first collection of stories, Tiny Deaths, won the World Fantasy Award for best collection and was nominated for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize. His second collection, Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical, won the British Fantasy Award for best collection.

    His association with Doctor Who began in 2003. He’s also a playwright and short-story writer and joins us from Adelaide Writers’ Week.

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandartsdaily/dr-who-writer2c-rob-shearman/3870852

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  5. Richard Adams, 1985

    Listen to the Richard Adams interview with Don Swaim in RealAudio on Wired for Books Richard Adams, author of Watership Down, The Plague Dogs, Maia, and Shardik, talks with Don Swaim in this 1985 interview. Adams credits his entire writing career to fellow author, Joseph Campbell and Campbell’s book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which synthesizes the common themes a hero faces throughout world mythology.

    Adams did not start writing until he was in his forties, but he had always been a storyteller, which he explains is one of the oldest professions in the world. His father told stories to him and eventually he began telling stories to his children. After years of private storytelling, Adams’ children prompted him to write down his stories and Watership Down was born.

    http://www.wiredforbooks.org/richardadams/

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  6. Hindsight - 21 August 2011 - The Imaginarium of EW Cole

    Cole’s Book Arcade was a massive three-storey bookstore in the heart of Melbourne that opened on Cup day in 1883. But this was a bookshop with a difference. It had a fernery, a wonderland with funny mirrors, a music department, a lolly shop, a lending library…there were secondhand books for sale, a Chinese tea salon, even a live monkey display! The arcade was the embodiment of one man’s vision and humanitarian ideals: Edward William Cole.

    For visitors to the city in the 1880s, the journey was not complete without a tour of Cole’s Book Arcade, where one could pick up a copy of the much loved and rightly famous Cole’s Funny Picture Book. Such was its renown, that the arcade was visited by writers Rudyard Kipling and Mark Twain during their travels in Australia.

    Edward William Cole was an eccentric, humble man who came to Australia in 1852, aged 20, with the Victorian Goldfields in his sights. But it did not take him long to discover that his own pot of gold was not to be found in the ground. While Cole called the arcade his ‘hobby’, he was a savvy and astute businessman who died, in 1918, a very rich man.

    While Edward Cole’s life has been re-imagined by author Lisa Lang in her novel Utopian Man, today all that’s left of his grand arcade is a glass ceiling in one of Melbourne’s busy CBD laneways.

    Readings from Utopian Man are by Richard Piper.

    http://www.abc.net.au/rn/hindsight/stories/2011/3289272.htm

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  7. Sci-fi: the return - RN Future Tense - 3 March 2011

    Science fiction has long been a popular genre - from print to television to film. But how does the Australian science fiction scene compare internationally? And why is it that there’ve been so few Australian scifi films?

    http://www.abc.net.au/rn/futuretense/stories/2011/3147516.htm

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  8. LibriVox » The Communist Manifesto » Section 1: Bourgeois and Proletarians

    The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) Translated by Samuel Moore. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote their Manifesto in December 1847, as a guide to the fundamental principles and practices of Communists. The Manifesto also predicted the ultimate downfall of the capitalist system. Section 1: Bourgeois and Proletarians – 00:39:48 Read by: Jon Ingram http://librivox.org/the-communist-manifesto-by-karl-marx-and-friendrich-engels/

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  9. LibriVox » The Communist Manifesto » Section 2: Proletarians and Communist

    The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) Translated by Samuel Moore. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote their Manifesto in December 1847, as a guide to the fundamental principles and practices of Communists. The Manifesto also predicted the ultimate downfall of the capitalist system. Section 2: Proletarians and Communists – 00:27:24 Read by: Jon Ingram http://librivox.org/the-communist-manifesto-by-karl-marx-and-friendrich-engels/

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  10. LibriVox » The Communist Manifesto » Section 3: Socialist and Communist Literature

    The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) Translated by Samuel Moore. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote their Manifesto in December 1847, as a guide to the fundamental principles and practices of Communists. The Manifesto also predicted the ultimate downfall of the capitalist system. Section 3: Socialist and Communist Literature – 00:29:41 http://librivox.org/the-communist-manifesto-by-karl-marx-and-friendrich-engels/

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