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Going up! First floor – menswear, haberdashery and manchester. Second floor – space!

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

 

Want to go into space? Why bother with rockets and space shuttles when you can simply take the lift…

 

AUDIO PREVIEW 

 

This week on Future Tense – the Space Elevator 

 

 

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Religion, ethics and crowd behaviour!

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

 

A quick follow up on a few things we’ve mentioned on the show recently.

As part of our recent program about ‘dark tourism’ we interviewed Scott Stephens, the Editor of the ABC’s new online religion and ethics portal. Since we spoke to Scott that portal has launched. You can find a range of opinion pieces, features and highlights from recent ABC programs.

In March we did an interview with Dan Hill, part of an international team of designers involved with a futuristic project called The Cloud. Our sister program The Night Air recently used some of that interview as part of a feature called ‘What the Flock?‘, which looked at group dynamics, crowd behaviour and herding.

That’s all the links for now!

 

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Dark Tourism preview…

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

 

It’s called ‘dark’ or ‘thanatourism’ and it’s one of the impressive growth areas of  the international holiday trade.

Sites of death and horror are being packaged-up and commercialised in order to meet the tourist demand - from Auchwitz to the S21-Prison used by the Khmer Rouge.

Future Tense report on why an increasing number of people are actively seeking out a thanatourism experience.

One of our guests is the ABC Online’s new Religion and Ethics Editor, Scott Stephens. Here’s a taste of what he has to say…

 

AUDIO PREVIEW – Scott Stephens

 

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SPECIAL FEATURE on podcasting…

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

 

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Nathan Cera examines the growth of podcasting and what it means for traditional radio. This piece was originally produced as an assignment in the postgraduate broadcasting course at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).

 

Special feature from Nathan Cera

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Program postponed

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

 

Due to extraordinary political developments in Canberra our program this morning (24/06/2010)  had to be postponed. The Canberra drama necessitated an extended version of RN Breakfast. Apologies. We will play the program featuring paleofuturist, Matt Novak, a discussion about the idea of the paperless office, and an interview with Assoc Prof Ashley Buckle, from the MyTARDIS program at Monash Uni, on Thursday 15th July.

 

 

 

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Greetings from China!

Monday, May 31st, 2010

This postcard has just arrived from Mitch van Grieken who’s currently living in Chuxiong, Yunnan province…

Day in the Life photos (more…)

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Behind the scenes…

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Behind the scenes at Future Tense. Some photos for your enjoyment/amazement/puzzlement…

 

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Welcome to our humble abode

 

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We value your input

 

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Co-producer Andrew Davies hard at work

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Wall of masks - choose your mood!

 

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Technical operator Jim Ussher eating on the run

 

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Antony's desk

 

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Our modest mini-studio

 

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Editing on desktop

 

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Cramming for an interview

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Heating up in the Arctic…

Monday, May 17th, 2010

 

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Charles Emmerson is the author of a new book called ‘The Future History of the Arctic’. He joins us as a guest on Future Tense to speak about the new geopolitical interest in a region which many think of as a barren wasteland.

 

 

                                                         AUDIO PREVIEW – Charles Emmerson

 

NOTE: full audio now available here.

 

 

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No yawns, so I must have been good

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

 

Antony here… I gave a lecture to students at La Trobe this week re our Generation F project. Hard to judge these things, but the fact that no one yawned has to be good.

Lawrie Zion (ex JJJ and The Australian) is my co-conspirator. He’s in charge of the journalism programme at La Trobe.

Will give more details on Generation F when things move along a bit.

If you want to listen to the audio of my presentation it’s here.

 

 

 

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New initiative with La Trobe

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

 

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We’re launching a new initiative with La Trobe University.

We’re calling it Generation F (Future).

It’s about getting the future visions of young people to air. It’s also about audience participation.

Here’s a flyer from La Trobe’s online magazine called ’Upstart’.

 

 

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