Best of the Festivals
by ABC Radio
January 14, 2022 6:05 pm
From feisty debates and discussion from major writers festivals, to folk and hip hop from some of the past year’s great musical events. An RN summer season program. What does the Australian country town of Gundagai make you think of? The statue of the “dog on the tuckerbox”? The old folksong, Along the road to Gundagai? Or do you think of the great flood of 1852 – the deadliest in our history – and the remarkable heroism of two Aboriginal men who saved over 60 people, using their bark canoes. Writer, Anita Heiss, a Wiradjuri woman, talks to Paul Barclay about her new book, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray, which celebrates unsung Aboriginal heroes, and the Wiradjuri language.
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