RadioDoc Review

Selected Documentaries

1. AUDIO WORKS nominated by RDR Editorial Board or reviewed for RadioDoc Review,
   with links to podcasts:
   • Poetry, Tx.
     (UK, Pejk Malinovski, 2012, 30mins)
   • The letter S (whispers in the air)
     (Canada, Chris Brookes, 2001, 50mins )
   • Harper high school, part one
     (US, This American Life, 2013, c. 60mins)
   • Little War on the Prairie
     (US, This American Life, John Biewen, 2012, 60mins)
   • Jack and Ellen
     (US, Love and Radio, Nick van der Kolk, 2013, 21mins)
   • The Children of Sodom and Gomorrah
     (Germany/Australia, Jens Jarisch feature reversioned by Sharon Davis, ABC, 2011 c.55mins)
   • The Hospital Always Wins
     (US, State of the Re:Union, Laura Starecheski, 2013, 53 mins)
   • Witness to an Execution
     (US, Stacy Abramson and David Isay, National Public Radio, 2000, 22 mins)
   • The Boy with the Violin
     (UK, BBC World Service, 2011, 25 mins).
   • The late Macbeth
     (Ireland, RTE, Lorelei Harris, 1992, 43 mins)
   • Blame
     (US Radiolab, 2013, 65mins)
   • Affairs of the Mind
     (Australia, ABC, Kyla Brettle, 2002, 48 mins)
   • South American diary
     (Australia, ABC, Mike Ladd, 2013, c. 48mins)
   • Tim Key and Gogol’s overcoat
     (UK, BBC, Tim Key and Steven Rajam, 2013, 28mins)
   • In the land of the 419s
     (Australia, ABC, Susan Murphy, 2009/2012, 50mins)
   • 1984: the year not the book
     (US, The Theory of Everything (podcast), B. Walken, 2013, 60mins)
   • Bird interrupted
     (Australia, ABC, Hollis Taylor, Jane Ulman and Russell Stapleton, 2014, 60mins)
   • The Super
     (US, This American Life # 323, 2007, 60mins)
   • My Share of the Sky
     (Norway, NRK, Sheida Jahanbin and Rikke Houd, 2012, 41mins)
   • A Different Kind of Justice
     (UK, BBC, Russell Finch, 2013, 28mins)
   • The Left-to-Die Boat
     (Australia, ABC, Sharon Davis and Geoff Parish, 2012, 52mins)
   • Mighty Beast
     (UK, BBC, Sean Borodale and Sara Davies, 2013, 21:30 mins)
   • This is Jimmy Barker
     (Australia, Martin Thomas, ABC Radio Eye, 2003, 50mins)
     To hear audio, contact Martin Thomas: http://history.cass.anu.edu.au/people/martin%20thomas
   • Will Kate Survive Kate
     (Aust, Masako Fukui, 2013, 50mins)
   • Not Quite Cricket
     (UK, Jon Rose, 2012), 29.07mins)
   • The Change in Farming
     (Canada, Adam Goddard and Steve Wadhams, 1998, 11.35mins)
   • Little War on the Prairie
     (US, John Biewen, 2012, 60mins)
   • Everything, Nothing, Harvey Keitel
     (UK, Pejk Malinowski, 2013, 18.19mins)
   • ZŁoty ChŁopak (Golden Boy)
     Katarzyna Michalak (Poland 2013), 42mins)
   • Rien que les os (Nothing But Bones)
     (France, Floy Krouchi, Nathalie Battus, Bruno Mourlan, 2015, 56.40mins)
   • Qui a connu Lolita (Who Killed Lolita)
     (France, Anouk Batard, Mehdi Ahoudig, Olivier Apprill, 2009, 50.47mins)
   English transcript: http://download.arteradio.com/temp/SCRIPTquiaconnulolita.pdf
   • Efter Festen (After the Celebration)
     (Denmark, Lisbeth Jessen, 2002, 47.06mins)
     English transcript: http://bit.ly/1GaFFiE
2. HISTORICAL SPOTLIGHT (pre-2000)
   • The Long Long Trail
     (UK, BBC, Charles Chilton, 1961, 58mins)
   • Father Cares: the last of Jonestown
     by James Reston and Noah Adams, produced by Deborah Amos, US, NPR, 1981
     

     On November 18, 1978, 913 men, women, and children - followers of cult leader Jim Jones -- died during a mass suicide and murder in Jonestown, Guyana. Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown recaptures the final months for the People’s Temple cult. It is based on hundreds of hours of tapes Reston acquired under the Freedom of Information Act. It won major awards including the Dupont Columbia Award, the National Headliner Award and the Prix Italia.

     See also: http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/jonestown.html
   • Tokyo’s Burning
     by Tony Barrell, Australia, ABC 1995, c. 50mins
     

     Commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the mass firebombing of Tokyo in March 1945 in which 100,000 people died and several million were 'de-housed'. Winner, Prix Italia.

     Audio link broken: TBC
   • Mei Mei: A Daughter’s Song
     by Dmae Roberts, US, NPR, 1989, 26'34"
     

     Dmae Roberts tell two interwoven stories in this personal documentary: the frustration she feels not living up to her mother's ideal of a perfect Taiwanese daughter and the compassion she has for a mother who as a child suffered abuse, starvation, and the horrors of World War Two.

   • Glocken in Europa/The Bells in Europe
     by Peter Leonhard Braun, Germany, 1973, 50’56”
     

     Classic feature by renowned founder of International Features Conference in Europe.

   • The Lonesome Train
     (US, CBS 1944, dir Norman Corwin, 27.40mins)
     

     A ‘folk cantata’ about the repatriation of the body of Abraham Lincoln to his home town for burial.

   • The Lemon Tree
     by Sandy Tolan, US, Fresh Air, 1998 (38’.43”)
     

     A documentary, told in first-person by an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man, exploring the roots of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

     See also: http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/library/644-the-lemon-tree