Listen again to historian Graham McLennan as he talks about two big droughts in Australia in the 1830s and 1890s. The governor called Austalians to prayer. What was the result? Listen to find out. Broadcast on “Songs of Hope” on 88.3 on Sunday 2013 01 13 at 8:45am. Songs of Hope website: http://songsofhope883.com
Read moreHere is the podcast of todays Songs of Hope. An hour of Christian praise and worship music. At about 3/4 of the way through, listen again to the story of how droughts struck Australia in the 1830s and 1890s and the nation prayed. Songs of Hope website: http://songsofhope883.com
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 11th JANUARY 2013 1. JERRY LEE LEWIS & JIMI PAGE – Rock’n’roll. 2. DAVID BOWIE – Let’s spend the night together. 3. THE NERVES – Hanging on the telephone. 4. ZEKE – Rhiannon. 5. JELLYFISH – No matter what. 6. THE SAINTS – Lipstick on your collar. (Aus) 7. ROB CRAW – Am I ever gonna
Read moreShifting awkwardly from solid crime-busting drama to cartoonish, ultra-violent action film, Gangster Squad doesn’t know if it wants to be The Untouchables or Dick Tracy. Allegedly based on fact, the film depicts the nefarious empire of gangster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) a vicious New York hood and former boxer who, in the late 40’s, set up his own chapter of
Read moreAs a 3d animated film about a bullied kid combating creatures rising from the grave, Paranorman is like a less gothic cousin to Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie. Norman (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee) is an introverted kid who, like Hayley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense, sees dead people. His abilities make him an outcast at home and at school but also
Read moreHitchcock, is a prosaic but still engrossing biopic of the legendary director Alfred Hitchcock (played here by Anthony Hopkins). Based on the critically acclaimed Stephen Rebello book “Alfred Hitchcock and the making of Psycho”, the film doesn’t provide an overview of Hitchcock’s life but instead focuses on a pivotal segment of it, in this case the making of what is
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