Katherine Thomson
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Ten award winning Australian playwrights talk candidly about their best known plays. Each writer reveals their writing process and discusses the themes and characters within their work. The dynamic presenter, Dr Tess Brady, provides a critical commentary for each play. Alice Pung discusses memoir, loosing her mother tongue in s, searching for her father's secrets in the Killing Fields of Cambodia in Her Father's Daughter and working on the project...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Ten award winning Australian playwrights talk candidly about their best known plays. Each writer reveals their writing process and discusses the themes and characters within their work. The dynamic presenter, Dr. Tess Brady, provides a critical commentary for each play. Jack Hibberd talks about bringing down the forth wall in Dimboola and the existential clown in A Stretch of the Imagination. Debra Oswald explores the ugly ducking story underlying...
3) Rogue nation
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Historian Michael Cathcart tells the epic story of how the colourful characters of early colonial Australia transformed a penal settlement into a land with rights and opportunity in a mere 40 years. This sweeping two-part dramatised documentary covers formative events in Australia's history, including the Rum Rebellion and early court cases, which established independence and civil rights for all settlers. Rogue Nation explores how a fledgling colony...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Darwin's Brave New World is the story of how four young voyagers to the Southern Hemisphere, Charles Darwin, Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Russel Wallace, revolutionized science and gave birth to an extraordinary theory about the evolution of life on earth. Darwin's voyage to the Southern Hemisphere in the 1830s changed him from a directionless rich kid bound for a career in the Church, into one of the most incendiary thinkers of our age....
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Place to Call Home volume 7
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Carolyn and Jack continue to be apprehensive about Sir Richard's threats against them, even as their wedding day approaches. Harry and Roy notice Milly's fiancé, Gordon Walsh, following Sarah and warn her that she may be in danger.
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Place to Call Home volume 10
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Elizabeth calls Anna and Gino back from Italy to set her plan against Regina in motion, but Gino disapproves of her using Rose. George and Regina return to Inverness from Canberra, unaware of the trap Elizabeth has laid.
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Place to Call Home volume 2
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Sarah confronts Regina about what really happened to Milly, but she fails to anticipate Regina's sway over Sergeant Taylor. Olivia comes clean to James about Georgie, and Anna meets with Sir Richard behind Carolyn's back.
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Place to Call Home volume 9
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After a long and difficult labor, Sarah gives birth, but the baby's future remains uncertain. Carolyn tries to follow Sarah's wishes and prevent Elizabeth from telling George the news.
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Place to Call Home volume 8
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Jack and Carolyn's honeymoon is interrupted by the revelation that Sir Richard is targeting Douglas's refuge for needy veterans. As George prepares to leave for Canberra, Sarah asks the Bligh family to keep away from the birth to avoid scandal.
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Place to Call Home volume 5
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After restoring law and order to his house, George meets with Sarah and expresses his intentions. Regina moves back into the cottage, but the family worries that she may still be dangerous, and so Elizabeth meets with Sarah.
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Place to Call Home volume 12
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With Regina on the run, George and Jack press Rose for information on her whereabouts. As tensions come to a head, Regina and Sarah face a desperate confrontation.
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Place to Call Home volume 4
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As Inverness prepares for the prime minister's visit, George discovers what Regina has been up to with Sergeant Taylor. Elizabeth and Anna plan to sabotage Regina's dinner, while Sarah moves Harry into the hospital.
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Place to Call Home volume 1
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Sarah steps in to help at the local school after one of the teachers dies in an apparent suicide. Carolyn and George act as mediators between James and Olivia, who are living separately and barely speaking.
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Place to Call Home volume 3
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After Sarah's dismissal from the school, Jack offers his support for Sarah, putting himself in Sergeant Taylor's crosshairs. Elizabeth is released from the hospital as Olivia returns to Ash Park.
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Place to Call Home volume 6
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Sarah tells George that she invited Harry to stay with her and Roy, a decision that angers Elizabeth, who can't help but interfere. Elizabeth and Sarah become adversaries again over whether or not Harry should remain in Inverness.
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Place to Call Home volume 11
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The Bligh family lets Regina think she's won, while George carries out his own plans. James and Harry attend the party in Sydney with Henry's friends, but Harry feels left out. Gordon resumes his stakeout on Sarah.