ARTS ALIVE	PGM 40 - 2004	TX: 4:04 Eastern Time, 4 Oct. 2004
THIS PROGRAM IS 55' 50" WITH A NATURAL BREAK AT 30' 01"

Hi and welcome to Arts Alive, your weekly arts and culture current affairs radio...I'm VINCENT O'DONNELL *I'm JESS MYLES* and I'M SEAN KENNEDY This week* We had planned to bring you the fourth and concluding interview on arts and cultural policy, this one with Senator, the Hon. Rod Kemp, Minister for Arts and Sport.  However, the Minister cannot make time for the interview.  We are disappointed that we have not been able to provide further balance to our coverage, but we are more disappointed that the Minister for the Arts did not feel that you, voters with a particular interest in arts and cultural affairs, were worth addressing.  We understand from Senator Helen Coonan's office that the Coalition Arts policy will be released this week, in time for the election but not in time for much examination or debate.  Our Election Special coverage is at www.artsaliveradio.com This week then* A musician* an actor and a writer head the senate ticket for the Your Voice Party*  Thirty years of volunteer labour rewarded by the publication of a searchable index of pub records* and the once great gold rush town of Cue* in Western Australia's Murchison district* gears up for the annual QFest* complete with the specially commissioned drag act* the Queens of Murchison. And our guest is theatre director Kate Cherry.  Her most recent production is Take Me Out* by US playwright RICHARD GREENBERG.  Some people read it as a theatrical response to 9/11* but with all the spunky-trunks on stage* that message was lost on me. And Nina-Marie will review Letters To Ali.

NEWS:  	(approx. 4.00)					Ends approx. 5.20

This election is notable for the number of minority parties putting up their hand* one such party* Your Voice* brings together a writer* a director and a musician to head up their senate ticket. And leading the ticket is musician and sometimes actor RICHARD FRANKLAND. Rehearsing for his new performance THE CHARCOAL CLUB he took a break to tell us what's coming up on October 9* 

Item 1: Your Voice (3.25)
Starts with: We've got an election*
Ends with: *shout me a glass of red.

RICHARD FRANKLAND* number one candidate on the Your Voice senate ticket.  And RICHARD will be onstage in The Charcoal Club* in the Melbourne Festival this month. Check out www.yourvoice.org.au for more details. The unsung heroes and heroines of the arts and cultural activities are often the volunteers*  And a story that illustrates this well was revealed recently when the State Library of Victoria unveiled two new indexes of historical records in its possession. One was the Darragh Index to the Melbourne German Sick & Relief Society Membership* 1861 to 1924* an early mutual aid society.  The other was the Tetlow Index to the Robert K. Cole Collection of Hotel Records: City and Suburban Hotels.  The publication of the index in computer-searchable form is the combined result of thirty years of volunteer labour by two people*

Item 2: Tetlow Index (4.56)
Starts with: Indexes to me*
Ends with: *

ERIC TETLOW a volunteer with the State Library of Victoria* and it seems ERIC has quite a few years of diligent indexing ahead of him.

TRACK 1: "Septic" from the soundtrack to the film Stone	(ends) 17 min 40 sec

Item 4A: Kate Cherry (8.36)
First words: 
Last words: *

Track 2: "Don't Know Why" by the Ain't Misbehavin Trio

END VOICE	26 min 55 sec		END OF PART ONE	30 min 01 sec

Item 4B: Kate Cherry ((8.12)
First words: 
Last words: * 

Track 3: "Rage" from the soundtrack to Stone

If you head North-northeast from Perth* on the Great Northern Highway* towards Meekathara* in about seven hours you will reach the historic town of CUE,* on the Murchison goldfields.  If you make the journey between the 7th and 10th October* you'll probably stay there as the annual QFest will be on.  Here's BARRY STRICKLAND of QFest*

Item 5: Qfest (8.30)
First words: Q FEST is
Last words: ... '

BARRY STRICKLAND of QFest.  And this year the festival acknowledges the contribution the Afghan community and their camels made to Australian history and the survival of towns like CUE* especially before motor transport be came common. Now it's over to Nina-Marie for the film review*this week? Letters To Ali

Item 6: Film Review :Letters to Ali
Starts with:  Thanks Vincent
Ends with: ... four stars

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And if you want more information on the film go to www.letterstoali.com .And that's the show for this week. The ARTS ALIVE team this week has been Nina-Marie Petrik, Vincent O'Donnell, Sean Kennedy, Nicole Findlay, Anna Brain, Kate Stowell and Jess Myles.
ARTS ALIVE is a production of the INDEPENDENT MEDIA FOUNDATION INC.  We receive the financial support of the COMMUNITY BROADCASTING FOUNDATION ... the assistance of VICNET and the SCHOOL OF APPLIED COMMUNICATION at RMIT University.  The program is available on the satellite service of the COMMUNITY BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA and on audiocassette and CD from THE ABORIGINAL PROGRAM EXCHANGE. And the spoken word content from the past four programs is available as audio on demand at www.artsaliveradio.com 

Track 4: "Back In Black" by AC/DC

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

APRA Details:
Opening Theme: "Same like B3" / d.i.g. / d.i.g. / CP / 5285392 / 20 sec.
Sting 1:      "Discone"/ Pinau / Pinau /OS/ 857 383 1942/ 10 secs
Sting 2:      "Ou!* Ou!"/ Teo Teo / Teo Teo / OS / FJC8 904 / 10 secs
Track 1:  "Septic"/Billy Green/Stone/CP/V8-006/ 3 mins
Track 2    "Don't Know Why"/ Traditional/Ain't Misbehavin Trio/ CP/ independent/ 3 mins 11 secs
Track 3:  "Rage"/Billy Green/ Stone/ CP/ V8-006/ 30 secs
Track 4:  "Back In Black"/ AC/DC/ AC/DC/ CP/ 724382396628/ 3 mins