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The following email has come through from ABC Radio National. You are invited to reply directly to Georgia if you are interested in her proposal.<BR>
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Kind regards<BR>
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Debbie<BR>
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Debbie de Laps<BR>
Executive Officer<BR>
The Victorian Association for the Teaching of English <BR>
Office 1, 134-136 Cambridge St<BR>
Collingwood 3066<BR>
Tel: 9411 8500 Fax: 9411 8511<BR>
www.vate.org.au<BR>
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My name is Georgia Symons, and I am writing to you from the Radio Arts department within ABC Radio National. At the moment, our department is looking closely at ways in which we can better service the needs of educational institutions throughout Australia through our program output. We would like to inform you of one idea in particular, and hear any thoughts your members have on the proposal.<BR>
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Currently, ABC Radio National has a daily book reading and a weekly play. The book readings are 13 minutes long and topped and tailed with music. They are a straight reading of a pre-existing book, without any sound effects or other auditory additions. Due to the nature of the format, we often have to abridge the books, but we always do this with the utmost care, ensuring that the main plot and essence of the book are preserved. <BR>
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The plays are of 50 minutes duration and repeated once during the week – so two broadcasts.<BR>
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Recently, we have been thinking about making the book readings and plays that are syllabus texts available online, and we are placing the focus on books and plays that are on one or more senior English syllabus in states around Australia. The episodes would be made available free of charge and with no special access requirements, other than access to the internet.<BR>
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We would love to hear whether or not you would find this helpful. If so, how would you use it in your teaching? And if not, then why? And do you have any requests or ideas for similar resources? If you have a newsletter, we would be very thankful if you included this letter in full or edited form in the newsletter, or you may find it easier to circulate the letter to your members via email. If you would like us to write a shorter blurb to put in a newsletter, on a website or anywhere else, please don’t hesitate to contact me.<BR>
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Please direct all responses to this letter to <a href="symons.georgia@abc.net.au">symons.georgia@abc.net.au</a> or <a href="messariti.anna@abc.net.au">messariti.anna@abc.net.au</a>. Many thanks for your time.<BR>
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Yours truly,<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><IMG src="cid:3372750779_461986" ></FONT> <<a href="http://">http://</a>www.abc.net.au/> </SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><FONT COLOR="#323232"><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">Georgia Symons<BR>
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