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a radio feature produced by Michael Shirrefs Artworks Feature—ABC RN—Sunday 30th October 2011 This week on the Artworks Feature, we're taking you inside the pictorial world of the Bande Dessinée—the Graphic Novel. It's an art-form that Belgians claim as their own—with Brussels as its spiritual home. Now if you grew up with the stories [...] 
a radio feature produced by Michael Shirrefs Artworks Feature—ABC RN—Sunday 30th October 2011 On this week's Artworks Feature, a trip to Denmark, the spiritual home of Children's Theatre. This country of only 5 million people supports almost 150 theatre companies devoted to children. It has the World's largest Children's Theatre Festival. And in this [...] 
One of the most familiar names in the story of Australian colonisation is that of the Tasmanian Aboriginal woman ‘Truganini’. But for most people the story begins and ends with a single, very famous photo, along with a label describing her simply as the last of the full-blood Tasmanian Aborigines. This is a story that changes our whole understanding of this remarkable woman.
In Gregory’s latest novel, Ron McCoy’s Sea of Diamonds, the town of Mangowak has become a canvas on which he paints a large tale of small-town characters and all the undercurrents of their passions and fears. It’s a world where the threads of the past stitch together the lives of the present. And in this story, it’s through the characters of Ron McCoy and his mother Min that the community finds its social glue.
