Breakfast Club
One Lives Dangerously, The Other Lives To Change The World
16 May 2008
They're both (almost) Australian treasures. American Will Chaffey searched out pythons and narrowly escaped becoming crocodile lunch in his adventure across the Aussie landscape while Viv Benjamin is organising a national party for thousands of youth to end child slavery.
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Australia's First Astronaut Lands in the Club
15 May 2008
Dr Andy Thomas says science-learning in Australia needs to really take off or the country will be compromising its future. Plus, how to eat in space.
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Tin Winton - Australia's Most Loved Author
14 May 2008
Tim Winton is the author of the beloved novel Cloudstreet. He's taken 7 years to write his latest work, a novel of youth and risk, called Breath, which has already gone to the top of the bestseller lists in Australia. He spoke to the Breakfast Club from our Brisbane studio.
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Solving the World Food Crisis. Maybe.
13 May 2008
Dr Saleh Bader is from the Iraq Agriculture Ministry. He's been using a new Australian method of zero tillage to plant crops in Iraq's war zones. It appears to be working so well that he thinks it could solve the world food crisis.
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Break Dancing Against Youth Depression and Suicide
12 May 2008
Melbourne Breaks is a scheme to help children fight loneliness, depression and suicidal tendencies through break dancing. In the studio we had Gerard, Minerva and Joel, who told the Breakfast Club that break dancing was his redemption.
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Arsenic in Cambodian Waters
9 May 2008
Paget Sayers is a Sydney man who decided to help out children in Cambodia. One of his projects is to provide rainwater tanks for schools. These are needed because, as he says here, there is arsenic in some of Cambodia's water supplies.
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Geoff Sewell - Amici Forever Opera star
8 May 2008
Geoff Sewell starrted the world's first Opera band ("Amici Forever"), and has now moved on to a solo career with his album "Believe". The inspiration for leaving the band and the album is not what you might expect. Have a listen to this man with the magic voice.
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Fear - the Epidemic of the 21st Century
7 May 2008
Dan Gardner has investigated fear.. the fear of death, the fear of terrorism, the fear of anything, and found that mostly it's in our heads. He also says that having a fear can cause the very thing that we fear. Dan Gardner told the Breakfast Club how to get over these fears and start living again.
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Damien Leith - Australian Idol
6 May 2008
Damien Leith is another of those great performers to come out of Australian Idol. Following on from our talk with Guy Sebastian last week, we spoke to Damien live and the program, and he even played a number from his new album of old hits.
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Bob Carr - Politician and Bookworm
5 May 2008
Bob Carr was the premier of Australia's most powerful state for 10 years before surprising everyone and quitting politics. He now writes about books and gives his two-cents-worth on just about every topic. Meeting Bob Carr was also a blast from the past for Phil.
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