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Episodes
- 2008-09-21 Telling Barry's Story
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Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +1000
Alzheimer's is a disease that generally strikes the elderly -- but not always. Barry Cook was just 49 when he started to experience classic symptoms -- memory loss, disorientation, behavioural changes, and difficulty with familiar tasks. His diagnosis confirmed Barry and his wife Dianne's worst fears; he had Alzheimer's. Today is World Alzheimer's Day, and Alzheimer's organisations around the world are working hard to raise awareness about a condition that most of us hope we never have to deal with. Worldwide, there are extimated to be 18 million people with the disease, with the number expected to double in 25 years as populations age in developed countries. Barry Cook's diagnosis was four years ago, and his life now is a world away from his life prior to diagnosis. No longer able to continue working as an explosives operator on the mines, Barry now does some voluntary work, looks after the chooks and the dog at home, and does the best he can to be active and participating. Some days are better than others, and he admits that on a bad day he struggles to remember how to tie his shoe laces. On a good day, Dianne encourages him to talk about the old days -- their life together, the various jobs they've done, and she keeps a journal of 'Barry's stories' because she says 'if anything happened to me, those stories are gone, because Barry can't remember them any more'. For Dianne, who's the sole and full-time breadwinner in the household, there's the constant worry that while she's at work, Barry may get lost walking the dog, or worse. And she acknowledges that the day may come when she can no longer care for her husband of 30 years. In the meantime, they take each day as it comes, and try not to think about what the future holds. - 2008-09-14 Kevin Wirri - Artist (14mb)
Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +1000
This is the story of a great artist who lives with his family in one of the town camps that dot the dusty bed of the Todd River in Alice Springs. The producer, Kate Finlayson, is an old friend of Kevin's who returns after living away from Alice Springs for ten years to find her friend's young son, Elton Wirri, has become a famous Aboriginal artist. Planning Map of Abbots Camp, Alice Springs Rejected: Application for Declaration of a Restricted Area, Northern Territory Liquor Commission - 1999 Rejected: Application for a Restricted Area, Northern Territory Licensing Commission - 2000 Accepted: Application for a Restricted Area, Northern Territory Licensing Commission - 2005 - 2008-09-07 God Knows Why Part 2 (15mb)
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +1000
When the Pope came to Sydney recently for World Youth Day, Sister Johanna of the Cross came out of her 45 years of seclusion in a Carmelite convent to recruit new postulants for the order and to visit her family. Aunty Janny, as she is affectionately known by the Lawson family, has spent most of her life inside the enclosed order of the Catholic Carmelite Nuns in Lismore, northern NSW. Once a popular and beautiful young Sydney woman, she now spends her days praying for the salvation of all souls. Whenever family or friends pay her a visit there is a set of steel bars dividing them. She had never been allowed to visit the homes of her brothers and sister before and had not met many of her extended family. So when she came out of seclusion for the ten days, she did a lot of catching up. She also found that technology had advanced since she had gone into the convent; she was amazed by automatic hand dryers and doors that opened by themselves. The shape of Sydney was completely unrecognisable to her also. In God Knows Why Part 2 Julie Kimberley, Janny's niece, accompanies her as she meets, greets, visits and explores the outside world for the first time in 45 years. - 2008-08-31 God Knows Why Part 1 (14mb)
Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +1000
Julie Kimberley takes us inside the cloisters of one of the few remaining Catholic Carmelite Convents to meet her Aunty Janny, or Sister Johanna of the Cross, as she is formally known.
