ARTS ALIVE	PGM 48 -2007.  TX: 4:04 Eastern Time 3 December 2007
THIS PROGRAM IS 55' 50" WITH A NATURAL BREAK AT 30' 00¡¨

Hi I¡¦m VINCENT O¡¦DONNELL¡K And welcome to of Arts Alive¡K This week...  Five point five million dollars to invigorated the verges of a new freeway with works of public art¡K the Australian Writers Guild comes out in solidarity with its US cousin and the writers who are on strike¡K and a short preview of an exhibition, Modern Britain, 1900 to 1960, Masterworks from Australian and New Zealand collections, and the tragic story of one artist represented, Glyn Philpot, who dared change style. 
Our guest is Carrillo Gantner, an eminent figure in Australian theatre for more than thirty years who has just been nominated for Senior Australian of the Year.  But first the week¡¦s news¡K

Sting 1¡KNews (approx 5 min) Sting 2.

Item 1: Elizabeth Grierson (28 sec)
First words:  Life without art is a desert¡K
Last words: ¡Kand that is the role of public art¡¨.

Professor Elizabeth Grierson, Head of the School of Art at RMIT in Melbourne responding to the unveiling of four major and ten minor public arts works along the new EastLink, a 39 km long tollway linking Donvale to Frankston in Melbourne¡¦s east and south-east¡K

Item 2: Elizabeth Grierson (5.30)
First words: Public art is also
Last words: ¡K.

Professor Elizabeth Grierson, Head of the School of Art at RMIT in Melbourne.  $5.5m in art works out of a budget of $2.5 billion for EastLink, one percent for art would have been $25 million dollars¡K That¡¦s 50% more than the whole of the visual arts received in 2006-2007 from the Australia Council.

The Australian Writers Guild held rallies last week in support of members of the Writers Guild of America who have downed pens over the failure of negotiations for a new industry wide base contract.  I asked Alistair McKinnon, the Industry and Policy manager with the Australian Writers Guild what was behind the dispute¡K

Item 3: AWG Alistair McKinnon (3.03)
First words: The writers guild of America¡K
Last words: ¡K.very much dependent on it.¡¨

Alistair McKinnon, the Industry and Policy manager with the Australian Writers Guild.  And the strike continues at the time of recording.

Track 1:   ends 16.00

Item 4  Carrillo Gantner (10.56)
First words: ¡KYou¡¦re listening 
Last words: ¡K.more with Carrillo Gantner.

Track 2:  U-Touch /Kerrianne Cox

END VOICE	27 min 25 sec		END OF PART ONE	30 min 00 sec

Item 5  Carrillo Gantner (12.13)
First words: 
Last words: ¡K.Thanks Vince.

Track 3:  The Sultan¡¦s Throne /Doch.

The invigorating sounds of Brisbane band Doch, with The Sultan¡¦s Throne.

Australian public art galleries hold extensive collection of British art acquired over the past century and more.  Now an exhibition featuring the best and most interesting of that vast collection has been drawn together.  I went along to a preview of the show conducted by the ever enthusiastic director of the National Gallery of Victoria, Gerard Vaughn¡K and heard too from Ted Gott, the senior curator of the exhibition, the tragic story of English artist, Glyn Philpot¡K

Item 5: Gerard Vaughn (8.05)
First words:  ¡§Come through everyone¡K
Last words: ....you could possibly imagine¡¨

Sophie Matthiesson, who with Laurie Benson and Ted Gott curated the exhibition Modern Britain, 1900 to 1960, Masterworks from Australian and New Zealand collections.  It is on at the NGV until 24 February next year.

And that¡¦s the program for this week¡K and we¡¦re right out of time¡K hope you¡¦ll join us next week.

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The spoken word content from the past four programs is available as audio on demand at www.artsaliveradio.com . Thanks Vincent Fok for his work on the website

I¡¦m Vincent O¡¦Donnell and here is more from Doch¡K here¡¦s Biba¡¦s Sorrow

END VOICE	53 min 41 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: News sting;  Circus Oz #1
Track 1:  ¡§Circus Oz sting #2
Track 2:  U-Touch/Kerrianne Cox/ ditto/ CP/KC333/ 2.35
Track 3: ¡§The Sultan¡¦s Throne/Doch/ Doch/CP/QPAC promo CD/ 2.38 Track 4:  ¡§Biba¡¦s Sorrow/Doch/Doch/CP/QPAC promo CD/2.10