Cirrus@Austlit

'Are crows smarter than chimpanzees? Can they solve riddles? And why exactly is a raven like a writing desk? This dark comedy profiles Bella Radcliffe, a curator assembling an exhibition entitled ‘True Crow’, alongside Charles and Grace Brenner, a young couple whose house is being overrun by a flock of crows. Their stories are linked not just by the presence of these birds, but by that of Derek Castenada, Bella’s keynote speaker. A self-styled crow-chaser, Derek offers to augur a solution to the Brenners’ problem, but he’s soon gone missing, on the trail of the mythical crow-child, Reagan Ayres. The drama culminates in the opening night of ‘True Crow’, as we await Derek’s triumphal – or tragic – return.'

Source: ABC website (http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/radiotonic/like-a-writing-desk/5481664). (Sighted: 14/9/2015)

'A quirky and unblinking look at anthropologist, activist, botanist and eccentric Olive Pink in the Red Centre. She sustained a 40-year, one-woman campaign on behalf of Aboriginal peoples until her death in Alice Springs in 1975.

'Music for string quartet plus the (now enchantingly distressed) first piano in Alice, brought up on the back of a camel. Underpinning the work are Miss Pink's increasingly acerbic and disheartened letters to her doctoral professor at the University of Sydney.'

Source: ABC Radio National's Airplay website, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/airplay/
Sighted: 21/07/2010