Under Cover
Monday 16 January 8.30pm
UNDER COVER shines a light on a devastating reality – women over 50 being the fastest growing cohort experiencing homelessness in Australia.
Narrated by Margot Robbie and sharing the lives of an eclectic group of women throughout Australia, Under Cover shines a light on a devastating reality - women over 50 being the fastest growing cohort experiencing homelessness in Australia. These moving but optimistic portraits reveal the struggles these women face, and lay bare the flaws in our society, as well as our economic fragility in the modern world.
Under Cover follows ten vulnerable women, as well as three people working to keep older women like them from becoming homeless. For these women, life hasn’t panned out the way they expected. They’ve lived in nice houses, worked good jobs, some educated their children and then suddenly… life unravelled and through no fault of their own they found themselves unable to pay their rent or mortgage.
The women featured in Under Cover, are all over 50, and are a diverse group from varied backgrounds - wealthy, poor, middle class, working, unemployed, migrant and Indigenous. Faced with the hardships of housing stress and ageing, these women are seeking to find a home to call their own, for the next chapter of their lives.
They are complex and compelling stories that reflect the years of living ordinary lives, until a catastrophe or a series of circumstances knocked them off their feet. No matter how bad life gets, the stories these women share are balanced with resolute determination, a dry sense of humour and the eternal optimism that there is hope for them yet.
Production Credit: b00mdone PRODUCTIONS
Monty Don’s Adriatic Gardens
From Friday 20 January 7.30pm
Monty explores Venice by barge, stepping out to visit green spaces large and small, including gardens along the Grand Canal and in a disused rubbish dump.
In this three-part series Monty travels to Europe and explores the influence of the Venetians from their home city down the Adriatic coast, through Croatia and on to Greece. From visiting a range of public and private gardens Monty learns about the impact that history, climate change and culture have had on the people who live there.
In the first episode, Monty adopts a special form of transport exploring Venice by barge, stepping out to visit green spaces large and small often hidden from view behind high walls.
He is invited in to see wonderful gardens along the Grand Canal as well as meeting those who have managed to create a productive garden on a disused rubbish dump behind one of the city’s famous churches; he samples wine grown in vineyards inside the city limits as well as visiting a restored public garden with a secret passageway leading to one of the world’s most famous squares, St Mark’s.
Production credit: An AHA Production.
Our Dementia Choir Sings Again
Monday 2 January 8:30 PM
It’s been four years since Vicky formed her choir of people living with dementia and proved the undeniable power of music to change the lives of those living with the condition. But as she discovers when she catches up with old members Mick and Julie and new members Kev and Leslie, nothing has really changed, there is a lack of support and help to help people being diagnosed. There are growing care issues and music therapy is not available for most people living with the condition.