A special edition of the 2XX current affairs show Behind the Lines for May Day 1994 – a tribute to the well-known communist author Frank Hardy who died in January 1994.

 

1. Working Week/ Marvin Gaye – Inner City Blues 

2. A talk on the life and political legacy of Frank Hardy, given by Michael Thompson at the Marxism 1994 conference. Focus on both right wing and “left” critics of Hardy, and Hardy’s most famous book, Power Without Glory

3. Red Shadow – Gone, Gone, Gone

4. Michael Thomson talk continued, focusing on Frank Hardy’s book on the Gurindji strike, The Unlucky Australians

5. Roaring Jack – October Wind

6. Tanya reads “The greatest compo doctor in the southern hemisphere” from Frank Hardy’s book The Yarns of Billy Borker 

7. Peter Hicks – One More Day Than Them

8. Vincent Lingiari and Ted Egan – Gurindji Blues

9. Tanya reads the end of The Unlucky Australians

10. Tanya interview with Frank Hardy from the Fightback Show, May 1986: a critical discussion on the Labor government, the Communist Party and politics after the Broad Left conference, held in Sydney at Easter 1986

11. Tanya reads a short extract from The Hard Way, Frank Hardy’s book about the legal furore around Power Without Glory

12. Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody – From Little Things, Bigger Things Grow