on BB To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk For those affixed to their computers on Sunday morning, tune into Background Briefing live via audio netcast. Visit What's On at: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing --------------------------------------------------------- THIS WEEK On ABC Radio National's Background Briefing Program: --------------------------- Sunday, July 18, 9.10am Repeated Tuesday, July 20, 7.10pm --------------------------------------------------------- TEOTWAWKI=85or (How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Y2K) Produced by Ian Walker --------------------------------------------------------- ON-AIR PROMO: "The time is now. The choice is yours." (sfx excerpt) The choice is how to handle the end of the millenium and that bug. Drink, dance and be merry? Or will you hug a sack of brown rice in your survival retreat. Maybe THE RAPTURE? Maybe PANIC. "Oh Brad, I'm so frightened." (sfx excerpt) Background Briefing, this Sunday morning after the news at 9. (Godzilla sfx excerpt) --------------------------- PRODUCER's SUPPLEMENT: Speeding on towards the new millenium with the "x factor' of the Y2K computer bug thrown in, there's never been a better time for the doomsayers. And perhaps biggest problem with the Y2K bug is that it's never happened before and no-one knows for sure how things might pan out. Amongst all of the programmers and soothsayers who have a theory about the consequences, none of them is saying that NOTHING will happen. In the crazy world of 'millenial madness' the only sure things is that nothing's certain=85 --------------------------------------------------------- LAST WEEK: Transcripts now available on-line: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing ARE ASIANS RACIST? Produced by Kirsten Garrett BB 11/7/99 --------------------------------------------------------- .......................................................... Background Briefing on ABC Radio National GPO Box 9994 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia Fax: +61-2-9333-1400 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .......................................................... Subscribe weekly program announcements: SUBSCRIBE BBANNOUNCE (in body of message) email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .......................................................... Transcripts: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing Tuning: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/freq/map.htm -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
