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ABC Radio National
Books and Drama newsletter
2-10 October 2008


POETICA
4/10/2008 15:00
9/10/2008 15:45
Robert Lowell
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/poetica/stories/2008/2358003.htm
Robert Lowell was one of America’s most famous poets of the 20th century. This program features a range of poems taken from his collection, Selected Poems, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

LINGUA FRANCA
4/10/2008 15:45
9/10/2008 15:45
The naming of roses
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/linguafranca/stories/2008/2379477.htm
The rose is an ancient bloom of which there are now thousands of varieties, with hundreds more new types introduced each year. Gardening writer, Roger Mann, tells of the history of their naming.


SHORT STORY

5/10/2008 08:30
The Bathe - A Grotesque by Henry Handel Richardson, read by Sarah Aubrey.
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/shortstory/stories/2008/2374416.htm
When two women decide to ignore convention at a lonely beach, a small girl has her first sight of naked adults and is not impressed.