Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Thursday, 10pm and Saturday, 7pm.
Access News — Melbourne community TV, Channel 31, has excellent coverage of industrial, environmental and community actions throughout Victoria. Access News broadcasts every Monday at 8pm. Phone (03) 9525 3551 to contact the producers or make a donation.
CATv — Subverting the one-way media via CATv's regular Sydney program. CTS Sydney, every Thursday, 10.30pm, CTS UHF 31. Ph Karina at 9557 3223 or John at 9569 4963. Visit the web page at Life's Fine in the Labyrinth — German artist George Grosz (1893-1959) brought new intensities to caricature and painting to provide some of the most vitriolic social criticism of his time. So expressive and famous were his depictions of war and depravity that the Nazis called him "Cultural Bolshevist Number One". SBS, Saturday, October 25, 2pm.
Music in the Line of Fire — This program looks at the musical life of the Palestinian people. ABC-TV, Sunday, October 26, 2.30pm.
The Century of Cinema: The Russian Idea — Soviet film began with a wide depiction of social reality in the 1920s. In the 1930s the degeneration caused by Stalinism was reflected in film. In the 1960s, official constraints began to loosen. Features the film making of Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov up to the work of this program's narrator, Sergei Selyanov. ABC-TV, Sunday, October 26, 9.20pm.