The Coming Out Show — The Life of Gloria Lee, an 85 year-old whose mother was an Aboriginal woman of the Western Arrente people; her father was Chinese. This programs follows Gloria through her childhood in Alice Springs, her adolescence in China and finally her return to the Northern Territory. ABC Radio National, Thursday, January 27, 7.15 p.m.
The Daily Bread of Betrayal — In the former East Germany, writers and intellectuals often became a substitute for a free press and opposition parties. After 1989, the newly opened files of the secret police revealed that many of the "dissidents" had, in fact, informed for the regime. East Germany's most famous writer, Christa Wolf, admitted that she had been an informer. Tom Morton talks to a range of writers about the moral difficulties of judging those who collaborated. ABC Radio National, Saturday, January 29, 3.30 p.m.
Round Midnight — Australia's first national black music program, with a variety of music including soul, blues, calypso, ska, juju, reggae, Afrobeat, Aboriginal music, rap, salsa and dub poets.
ABC Radio National, Saturday, January 29, 9.05 p.m.
The Search For Meaning — The story of Wadjularbinna, a woman coming to terms with a life in which she was taken from her family as an infant, institutionalised and forced into an arranged marriage. She tells her story to Caroline Jones. ABC Radio National, Sunday, January 30, 6.05 p.m.
Ghetto Life 101 — Two young blacks armed with microphones record the wit and street knowledge of their poor neighbourhood in Chicago. They reveal a rampant drug and alcohol dependency in a neighbourhood where few will ever achieve the American Dream. ABC Radio National, Sunday, January 30, 8.30 p.m.
Owning Our history, Reconciliation Project — Behind Closed Doors — A series of one-hour programs on areas of critical concern to both indigenous Australians and society as a whole. In Behind Closed Doors families of people who have died whilst in custody speak out about the circumstances which allow this situation to occur, and present a thought-provoking and moving account of the need for the situation to be redressed. 2SER-FM, Sydney, Tuesday, February 1, 7 p.m.