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Listened to #PhillipAdams and #RogerPulvers presenting a brief history of #AustralianJapanese relations on #ABCRadioNational #LateNightLive.
There was some emphasis on the #WhiteAustraliaPolicy, little to none on the atrocities committed against Australian POWs and much on shared values and a current strong relationship.

Thing is (in my understanding) the earliest trade interactions between #Australia and #Japan weren't mentioned.

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/roger-pulvers-kohei-saito/103743394

I think a #writer survives by being misunderstood. I never know why writers want to be understood. When #writing really succeeds, people discover not the writer but themselves in it. ~ #RichardFlanagan with #PhillipAdams on #ABCRN #LateNightLive ✍️

Link to episode on #ABCAustralia website: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/richard-flanagan-question-seven-hiroshima-wells/103112562

British politics is basically a broken toilet. You think that you've flushed these people away, and they just come back. ~ #IanDunt on ABC RN's Late Night Live with #PhillipAdams 🚽

#Britain #UKPolitics #DavidCameron #RishiSunak

Link to episode on #ABCAustralia website: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/ian-dunt-s-uk-goodbye-braverman-hello-cameron/103105616

I think it's getting closer & closer to the day that i simply must abandon #ABC #RadioNational. I mean, i'm acutely aware that the universe has only a finite number of screams, eyerolls & facepalms left in her. Yet, #RN increasingly places excess demands upon me for an apparently unending number of 🙄 , 🤦‍♀️ & 😱 , not to mention 🤢 & 🤮 . I fear that i shall single-handedly / facedly consume most of the universe's remaining, ever-dwindling, reserve of these essential resources, & *then* where would we all be? 🤷‍♀️ 🤯

It just seems like at any hour of the day or night i'm at great risk of rollie palmie screamie danger by chancing across Yet Another Fscken Religious RN Programme, or another #RWNJ ex-pollie's pgm, or another #RWNJ commentariat arsehole's pgm. I mean, there's only so many #PhillipAdams to go around, as antidote to these rapacious bastards, & he's not a young man anymore!

What's more, in the current depressing #TheVoice climate, RN keeps vigorously #bothsidesing every other nanosecond, such that if those preceding aural turds were not bad enough, i also have to expend said vital universe resources to stave off all the frequent #RWNJ #racist lies & drivel.

It's just so appalling, & galling. T'other week, i ran a dry-run test of #ABC #NewsRadio as a possible replacement, but aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrgghhh, there's only so many times one can hear the identical news reports over & over & over each fifteen minutes before one's ears bleed & skull explodes. Or, maybe better expressed, before one "died of internal haemorrhaging" or "gnaws one of one's own legs off" or one's "major intestine leapt up one's neck and throttled one's brain in a desperate bid to save life and civilisation" 🐳 🌻 ... 😉

Returning to ABC #LocalRadio, eg, #702, is out of the question, due to the combination of ridiculously faux-cheerful hosts, constant traffic reports, intermingled with compassionate stories on navel fluff knitting & lamington origami.

Sadly, i aged-out of #TripleJay #2JJJ, three hundred years ago, whilst #DoubleJay #2JJ is only a tolerable replacement for short periods given its 702-esque-cheery JJJ-aged-out hosts, & great music from the 70s & 80s that i loved & danced with friends to, whilst my inner turmoil was still a couple of decades from bursting out & decimating my existence, hence the evocative memories are just ongoing torment, to be avoided as much as possible.

It ofc bears no explanation whatsoever that all commercial AM & FM options are ... NOT options [she sneers euphemistically & with great understatement].

Prolly this leaves little logical alternative to poking out my eardrums with a rusty skewer. 🤷‍♀️

#whimsy #satire #OldWomanYellsAtClouds #FsckSkyfairyDelusionists #FsckRWNJs #fsckALLreligion #AusPol #TheVoice #VoteYes #Racism #Misanthropy

Enjoyed listening to #PhillipAdams learning from #JenniferAckerman about the wisdom and wonder of #owls on #LateNightLive on #ABC #RadioNational. 🦉

Episode Tite: From Aztecs to wizards: the enduring enchantment of owls

Link to episode on the #ABCAustralia website: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/the-enchantment-of-owls/102599558

As a #MartinAmis fan, I enjoyed last week's tribute repeat episode of ABC Radio National's #LateNightLive from 2020, with #PhillipAdams in conversation with the recently departed English author about the last book he wrote, Inside Story, on the death of his closest friend, #ChristopherHitchens.

Phillip and Martin also explore other questions on how to live, grieve and die. And my favourite part of their conversation is a philosophical discussion about 36 minutes into the episode, where Phillip admits to Martin that he shares the English poet and author Philip Larkin's fear of "being dead" rather than "dying" itself. That is, "the notion of billions of years of nothingness". To which Martin responds, "Did you mind all those millenia when you were yet to born?"

Please note: Phillip issues a "health warning" that the episode contains some "adult themes" and "if that's not you cup of tea, perhaps switch off". Or, in our case, scroll on.

#writers #books #philosophy #life #death

Link to episode on #ABCAustralia website: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/late-night-live-martin-amis/102356210

Good to hear and learn from #Indigenous voices discussing the situation in the NT, the #VoiceToParliament and January 26 on #LateNightLive with #PhillipAdams. 👇

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/indigenous-update-brazil-lula-indian-art-dealer/14135328