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Start the Week - Australian culture with Thomas Keneally, Kate Grenville and Deborah Cheetham

Andrew Marr discusses Australia's cultural heritage with the prize-winning authors Thomas Keneally and Kate Grenville, and the opera singer and composer Deborah Cheetham. Keneally has embarked on a history of Australia through its people: from convicts and Aborigines, settlers and bushrangers, patriots and reformers, and he builds up a picture of the country's unique national character. For her latest trilogy Kate Grenville delves back into Australia's history and the first three generations of white settlement, to explore the complex relationship contemporary Australians have with the past. Deborah Cheetham is one of the country's "Stolen Generation", taken from her Aboriginal family when she was months old and fostered in a white community. She discusses how she has mined her lost heritage for her latest composition. Produced by Katy Hickman.

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World Book Club - David Grossman – To the End of the Land

Harriett Gilbert talks to acclaimed Israeli writer David Grossman about his award-winning novel, To the End of the Land.

Winner of - amongst others - the Wingate Jewish Book Prize for 2012, To the End of the Land is a novel of extraordinary power and lyrical intensity about the power of love and the devastating cost of war.

Instead of celebrating her son Ofer’s discharge from the Israeli Army, Ora is appalled when he reenlists and is sent back to the front for a major offensive. Unable to bear the thought of sitting alone waiting for the ‘notifiers’ to bring her bad news, she sets off on a hike across Israel with Ofer’s biological father who has never met his son and has has lived in near-seclusion since being tortured as a prisoner in the Yom Kippur war three decades before.

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Motley Fool Money - Motley Fool Money: 11.04.2011

The European financial crisis escalates. The U.S. jobless rate falls to a six-month low. Groupon goes public. Starbucks reports big earnings. And Bank of America cancels plans to charge debit card users. Our analysts talk about those stories and share some stocks on their radar. Plus, financial radio host and best-selling author Dave Ramsey talks about his new book, EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches.

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