the blather #4

The Venezuelan Revolution

• a special blather edition on the Venezuelan revolution featuring an interview with Paul Benedek who has recently returned from Venezuela which he visited as part of the solidarity brigade.
• Benedek is the author of a new booklet: Venezuela: Diary of A Revolution.
  Click book cover for further details
  

• Music for the broadcast:
• --Quirpa de Santa Inés (I)
  --Vota NO (Grupo Madera)
• These Venezuelan songs can be downloaded here.
  

Further information about Venezuela is available from the following web sites:

• Green Left Weekly
• Venezuela Solidarity
• Venezuela Analysis
  

The blather # 4 : Ratbag Radio 8pm Sunday, October 30, 2005
Podcast/Mp3 download and streaming -- also broadcast over Pirate Radio Network overnight Sunday and overnight Monday from 10pm. Length: 45:42 mins. 41.8 Mb.

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the blather # 3

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• Another mix and match experimental edition of the blather
• Lead in tune/identifier > chat (on the big issues of the day) > selected music > more chat > end song example: The Red Flag interpreted by the New World Order Kazoo Orchestra
• Selected Music: Uh ah Chavez no se va (Grupa Madera) from http://216.72.128.20/mribas/
• Starting next Sunday the blather will be broadcast and uploaded every Sunday night. Program schedule: the blather on Sunday nights (RRT)
• Dave Riley is slowly cranking up broadcast-speak. Not quite DJ material but we’re going places here on Ratbag Radio. Stick with us on this journey.
• 14 minutes/12.8Mb
  
  

the blather

• PROGRAM NOTES:
  The new anti-terrorist legislation is due to wash over the great southern land and flush out the nasties. Will you be among them? Will the blather?
• Arab Hip Hop. My Land by Dam: http://www.dam3rap.com. Check them out and the wide world of Arab hip hop through the Dam rap portal.
• And finally, The Internationale rendered into sweetness by the New World Order Kazoo Orchestra.
• program: 15.03 mins/ 13.79MB
• Check out the blather's new theme. (Is it too loud for you? Is it blather-y enough?)
  the blather will also be broadcast over Ratbag Radio, Monday and Tuesday nights from 11pm on repeat cycle, every 15 minutes (or thereabouts) until 10 am the following morning --RRT -- Ratbag Radio Time.
• Contact the blather with suggestions, feedback, audio and other stuff

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the blather [Wed Oct 5]

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The blather: today's test & experimental broadcast is more of the same 'ol same 'ol with more vocal confidence than last time you missed it. Dave Riley offers a couple of readings and a few improvisational thoughts -- none of which are particularly interesting --beginning and ending with a musical medly on the kazoo.
Broadcast: 30 mins in length(REPEATS 0n the half hour) 8pm -11pm Ratbag Radio Time Wednesday, October 5. So tune in on the half hour to catch the broadcast.[RRT runs 30 minutes later in the centre of Australia and two hours later over there in the west]
Feedback: dhell@optusnet.com.au