Saturday, February 24th, 2007
Quirks and Quarks
12 pm (12:30 pm NT)
This week on Quirks & Quarks we'll look
at the growing concern over censorship in
science - especially in the United States.
Host Bob McDonald will speak with Dr. Susan
Wood who has gone to bat for dramatic reform
of the Federal Drug Administration. In 2005
she resigned as director of the FDA's Women's
Health Office in protest over the agency's
disregard of scientific data that supported
making the so-called Morning After Pill -
or Plan B - available over the counter.
And we'll hear from Jay Dyckman from National
Coalition Against Censorship in New York.
He and other political watchdogs have documented
countless cases of political interference
with science in recent years. All of them,
Dyckman says, amount to nothing short of
censorship and jeopardize the integrity of
the science that we rely on to make informed
policy decisions. Decisions that affect our
health, our environment and our future.
Definitely Not The Opera
1 pm (1:30 pm NT)
Don't cover your ears! This week DNTO explores censorship in popular culture. Host Sook-Yin Lee chats with filmmaker Kirby Dick, of This Film Is Not Yet Rated. Greg Macpherson, Amy Millan and Ndidi Onukwulu perform songs you'll be surprised to discover were once on the banned list. Contributor Tammy Everts finds out why passing gas fails to pass muster with censors. And comedian Trish Cooper considers the merits of self-censorship.
Global Village
Radio Two: 5 pm (7:30 pm AT; 8 pm NT)
A fresh Global Village show on the subject of censorship will highlight stories of current music censorship sent in from correspondents around the world. From Zambia, a radio station limits the languages spoken, in Afghanistan women learn music but still find censorship from their communities, in Italy, the government attempts to stop Camorra music, and Zimbabwe's most famous censored musician, Thomas Mapfumo, speaks of his lack of musical freedom.
