Breakfast Club
Hillary Clinton Does it For Barack Obama.
28 August 2008
It was an extraordinary day in American politics today, with Barack Obama becoming the first African-American to win nomination for the US presidency. It was also extraordinary in the way he was nominated this morning. The Breakfast Club speaks to correspondent John Barron soon after the event.
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Andrew Davies: The Man who Wrote the Bridget Jones films
27 August 2008
Andrew Davies is a British screenwriting legend. His credits include the original Pride & Prejudice with Colin Firth, the House of Cards trilogy and both Bridget Jones films. We started by asking him if the recent Pride & Prejudice remake with Keira Knightley lived up to his original.
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John Pilger: A Journalist Who Means Business
26 August 2008
Australian-born John Pilger has made more than 100 films about the injustices of the world. And they have an effect. For example, his documentary about global companies exploiting Indonesian workers changed the way some companies operate. John Pilger speaks here to the Breakfast Club during his visit to the Melbourne Writers Festival.
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Inside the Australian Criminal Mind
25 August 2008
From backpacker killer Ivan Milat to a woman who murdered her own children. Journalist Rochelle Jackson has gone through each of these cases with a forensic psychologist, and really does come out with a clue to what makes the criminal mind tick. She tells the Breakfast Club what she found.
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Conquering Cancer. It can be done.
22 August 2008
Dr David Servan-Schreiber was a doctor who got the shock of his life when he was diagnosed with cancer. From that moment 16 years ago, he was determined to find out how to beat it. In this interview with the Breakfast Club, he tells us what he's found. It's a real wake-up call.
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An Olympics Controversy. Black Power in Mexico 1968
21 August 2008
Australian Peter Norman ended his athletics career when he showed solidarity with American runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos when they made their infamous Black Power salute on the podium at the Mexico Olympics. Forty years on, author Damian Johnstone tells Radio Australia's Breakfast Club why that moment of solidarity was so important.
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American Social Commentator David Rakoff
20 August 2008
David Rakoff bemoans the culture of excess in the United States, and uses humour to get his point across that people should just lighten up. Yet he's become a U.S. citizen. Here he tells the Breakfast Club that there's no contradiction in that.
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What Do You Get When You Combine Economics & Parenting?
19 August 2008
...Parentonomics, of course. Joshua Gans is an economist and a father of three. He applies principles from his workplace to sleeping and toileting at home and lives to tell all about the experiment.
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Vietnam Veterans Day
18 August 2008
Barry Heard has been through a lot. Conscripted to the Vietnam War when he was 22, he suffered post traumatic stress disorder several years after coming home. He has since recovered and written the highly praised book 'Well Done Those Men'.
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The New Globality: It's Coming, Ready or Not
15 August 2008
Hal Sirkin from the Boston Consulting Group has drawn a sketch of the future of international business.. and it's a future full of global companies with no home base, where people can work anywhere, and where today's super companies could be overtaken by smaller more savvy enterprises. Hal Sirkin talks the Breakfast Club through this future.
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