Cirrus@Austlit

'The idea of home is bigger than the floorplan of any given four walls or the mass of any roof line. It cannot be compassed by rote recitations of suburb or postcode, nation or state. In last week's lecture, I mentioned the various definitions that dictionaries give for that small, heavily laden word, home. Tonight I would like to explore some of them: home as "a place of origin, a native habitat", home as "an environment offering security and happiness" and home as "the place where something is discovered, founded, developed or promoted. A source."'

Source: ABC Radio National website, http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/
Sighted: 29/11/2011

Geraldine Brooks imagines 'the possibility of a future when we won't require national flags at all. I glimpsed it for a moment, that night at the [opening of the] Sydney Olympics: That moment when we only needed one flag, bedecked with doves of light.'

'The fourth and final of the 2011 Boyer Lectures with prize-winning Australian journalist and novelist Geraldine Brooks. In today's lecture we'll hear about the exact moment she thinks she became a novelist, and about the significance of literature in answering the large questions of who we are and how we should live.'

Source: ABC Radio National website, http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/
Sighted: 12/12/2011