ABC presents the Australian AIDS Benefit Concert, from the Concert Hall of the Queensland Performing Arts Center, your host Gene Kitson presents the cream of Australian performing talent in a night of musical magic.
Stars from the Australian Opera and Ballet, the Queensland Ballet, and the Sydney Dance Company help make this a memorable event.
Join the people of Brisbane, maestro Tommy Tico, and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra for a very special evening, introduced by Ida Butrose.
The Australian AIDS Benefit Concert, 8.30 next Wednesday on ABC.
ABC Music proudly presents Midnight Blues, an album of beautiful ballads for late night listening, with Kate Sobrano, Wendy Matthews, Grace Knight, Vince Jones, Mark Hunter, Anne Kirkpatrick, and Tanya Bauer.
Midnight Blues is available on compact disc and cassette, from ABC shops, ABC centres, and all good retailers.
We hope you've enjoyed one hour.
Thank you.
Welcome once again to our ABC Quiz.
Firstly, the answer to last week's question, Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar, are better known as, of course, The Three Wise Men.
Congratulations to the ABC Quiz winner, Dave Colson of Darwin.
You'll receive the Australian Opera's Mozart Bicentennial Celebration CD from ABC Classics.
The question for this week is, what has eight wheels and can carry only one person?
Remember, you have until 10 o'clock Friday morning to answer.
Simply phone 00 55 22 897 at any time, or, of course, if you know right now, you can ring right now.
From all correct answers we receive, we'll select one ABC Quiz winner for this week.
The prize for this week is another great new CD from ABC Records.
A big country, a huge compilation of Australia's finest country writers and singers.
Bringing together traditional favourites like Slim Dusty and Smokey Dawson, with contemporary heroes from James Blundell to Paul Kelly.
A big country is unique in Australian music.
A big country, available now on CD and cassette from ABC Shops, ABC Centres, and all good record retailers.
Best of luck with the quiz, and join us again tomorrow night at eight o'clock there's Wild Screen,
in which David Attenborough presents a fascinating look at the way animals are affected by the weather.
At eight thirty we commence our dramatic series, The Magistrate.
The Calabrian Magistrate returns to Australia after an absence of 22 years,
following the murder of his wife to hunt for her killers and to search for his missing son.
At nine thirty the First Australians presents a thought provoking look at the conflict between police authority and young Aboriginal defiance.
As ABC News, late edition at ten twenty five, Ben Jack Egan presents The Cricket Archives, best in cricket this century at ten thirty five.
A crazy comedy with Rita Rudner at eleven oh five, and Eli Wallach and Anthony Shaw star in A Tale of the Unexpected at eleven thirty five.
Do join us tomorrow night. Until then on behalf of all of us at ABC, Tony Featherstone wishing you a very good night.
Thank you very much.
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Let us rejoice for we are young and free.
With golden soil, wealth of toil, our home is girt by sea.
Our land belongs in picturesque goods of beauty, rich and rare.
This is praetal at every stage, at once Australian fair.
In joyful strains, then let us sing, at once Australian fair.
The Cricket Archives