Radio Award: On the Raft, All at Sea, The Listening Room, ABC Classic FM
On the Raft, All at Sea, The Listening Room, ABC Classic FM - Robyn Ravlich and Russell Stapleton (reporters)
About this winner
- Year: 2002
- Level: Winner
- Award category: Media award
About the 2002 nomination
On the Raft, All at Sea, The Listening Room, ABC Classic FM - Robyn Ravlich and Russell Stapleton (reporters)
On the Raft, All at Sea is a powerful radio documentary about the experience of three generations of asylum seekers. It uses the metaphor of a famous early 19th century painting, 'The Raft of the Medusa', depicting shipwrecked survivors clinging to a flimsy raft adrift at sea as a reference point for a contemporary exploration of why three asylum seekers risked hazardous journeys across different seas at different times.
The judges described the program as "radio at its best, using imagery to evoke human rights issues common to three generations of asylum seekers, drawing on intergenerational commonalities across time to show how lessons from these issues have not been taken by those who represent us".
About the Human Rights Awards
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