ARTS ALIVE	PGM 37 - 2007.  TX: 4:04 Eastern Time 17 September 2007
THIS PROGRAM IS 55' 50" WITH A NATURAL BREAK AT 30' 00"

This week* When the Canadian Prime minister came to Canberra, he brought more than greeting * he presented Australia with the oldest know document printed here* In Melbourne the Fringe Festival seems to have grown a fringe of its own with a new suburban venue setting out a program of its own* and we meet two poets who under took a road trip from Melbourne to Sydney to celebrate National Poetry week, reading and greeting as they went.  Our guest this week is New Zealand film producer and academic, Roger Horrocks.  You may recall that we heard from his wife Shirley Horrocks, an eminent documentary film maker on an earlier program.  Roger will be discussing the state of the New Zealand cinema and television industries.  But first a round up of the week・s news*

STING		NEWS:  	(Ends. 6.10)

As I said earlier, when Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, came to Canberra, he presented Australia with the oldest know document printed in here*  It was found in a scrap book that was given to the Canadian Archive in 1973 is now in the National Library of Australia.  I asked Richard Stone, the Performing Arts Researcher at the library what had the Canadian PM given the nation*

Item 1: NLA
First words: 
Last words: *.；

Richard Stone, the Performing Arts Researcher at the National Library of Australia* and the playbill will be displayed in the Exhibition Gallery, at the library until Tuesday 25 September.  You can also find it on line at www.nla.gov.au   The northern Melbourne suburb of Northcote was strongly Irish working class in character, now amply salted with migrants from a hundred countries.  The Town Hall stands high on the skyline and has been extensively renovated.  Its become the newest suburban venue for Melbourne・s Fringe Festival.  The programming is so diverse its almost a fringe on a fringe festival.  Here is Janet Goedemoed whose job was to programme the venue*

Item 2:Northcote Town Hall/ The Fringe (3.46)
First words: 
Last words: *.；

A true cliche indeed.  Janet Goedemoed from Melbourne・s Northcote Town Hall* and we・ll have more on the Melbourne Fringe next week*

Track 1:  Circus Oz Sting

A couple of weeks ago our guest was Shirley Horrocks, a prominent New Zealand documentary film maker.  While visiting Auckland, I also took the opportunity to talk with her husband, Roger Horrocks.  Roger was the founding head of the Dept. of Film Television and Media Studies at the Univ. of Auckland and served as deputy head of New Zealand-on-Air, the country・s public broadcaster.  I first asked him whether there were now two film industries in New Zealand, one culturally located, the other based on the success of Peter Jackson・s international productions such as The Lord of the Ring and King Kong*

Item 4A: Roger Horrocks  (8.41)
First words:  ：I Think you・re right* *
Last words: *more conversation with Roger Horrocks..；

Track 2: Comfort Zone / Emma Donovan

END VOICE	26 min 18 sec		END OF PART ONE	30 min 00 sec

Item 4B: Roger Horrocks (10.43)
First words: You・re listening to*
Last words: *Thank you for your time today..

Track 3: A little Bunyip music from a performance of the Snuff Puppets* 
As mentioned in the news, first week of September was national Poetry week and to celebrate, the Poets Union, with assistance from the Australia Council, send two poets on a road tour from Melbourne to Sydney doing readings and meeting poets along the way.  I caught up with the poets, Petra White and Angela Stretch in Sydney. I first asked Melbourne based Petra how she became involved in the project*

Item 5: Poets・ Union road tour (8.15)
First words:  ：I first*
Last words: ...thanks Vincent.

The Poets Union・s two intrepid travelling poets, Petra White and Angela Stretch.  Petra White's debut poetry collection, The Incoming Tide was published earlier this year by John Leonard Press.  And I caught up with them in the Friend in Hand Hotel in Glebe which hosts regular poetry readings.  And that is the show for this week** thanks for listening* ARTS ALIVE is a production of the INDEPENDENT MEDIA FOUNDATION INC.  We receive financial support from the COMMUNITY BROADCASTING FOUNDATION ... and the assistance of VICNET and the SCHOOL OF APPLIED COMMUNICATION at RMIT University.  The program is heard on the COMMUNITY RADIO NETWORK, on the SBS DIGITAL RADIO SERVICE, and is distributed by THE ABORIGINAL PROGRAM EXCHANGE.

And the spoken word content from the past four programs is available as audio on demand at www.artsaliveradio.com  Thanks to our website manager, Vincent Fok.  I・m Vincent O・Donnell and here is a track from the latest release from Radical Son* it・s called Train*

END VOICE	52 min 02 sec 		PROGRAM ENDS	55 min 50 sec

APRA Details:
Opening Theme: "Same like B3" / d.i.g. / d.i.g. / CP / 5285392 / 20 sec.
Stings: Circus Oz Sting #1, Track 1: Circus Oz Sting  # 2, 10-20 secs Track 2:  ：Comfort Zone / Boston & Donovan/Emma Donovan/CP/ Whichway CD /3.40 Track 3:  ：Bunyip Music/ James Wilkinson/ditto/CP/ Snuff Puppets CD/1.33 Track 4:  ：Train；/Balbi, Hartley Radical Son/ Radical Son/ CP/14392/