Wednesday Feb 07, 2024

Episode 2: "First People."

Neil Scott talks about a Australian song from 1987 that helped radicalise him in Troubles torn Northern Ireland.

If you want to know more about this song and the oils - please watch Peter Garrett: Midnight Oil frontman on Music & Politics - on youtube

https://youtu.be/THWApLlF8yI?si=1HUU4ltOYO7lGnWM

And if its available where you are, look out for the superb, though harrowing documentary The Australian Wars , that goes into the history of what First Peoples call the invasion and resulting war and subsequent attempted cultural and physical genocide - it is on the BBC iplayer.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gjffbz

The Professor of Rock on this very song:

https://youtu.be/n2NtEdr7d_o?si=PHKnqmHdDGelWvih

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