1. What´s the pilots job in this situation?

a) To transport people to emergency shelters

b) Save old people and children from drowning
c) Survey the area and drop aid where needed
d) Transport journalists to report the situation

2. According to the interview, where is the art funding going?

a) To organizations that have low budgets

b) To wealthy communities in the US
c) To artistic non-profit organizations
d) To large organizations with a high budget

3. What is the issue about?

a) Employees’ salaries will be lowered

b) The joint venture may cause job cuts
c) The airline has gone bankrupt
d) Subsidies to national airlines are decreasing

4. What do we learn about the little girl ghost?

a) She only appeared in the morning

b) She was mischievous but not malicious
c) She had suffered from an illness
d) She appeared with her brother

5. How long has the cartoonist been working for this magazine?

a) 3 years
b) 30 years
c) 20 years
d) 10 years
1. Floods in Thailand

The government is saying that it reckons it´s got the situation under control now, that
Bangkok will be safe, but all of this area it´s gonna be under water for many many
weeks, so people here who have lost their houses or had to evacuate, they´re gonna need
help for a good long time to come, I´ve been looking down and I´ve seen a couple of
people signaling up as our helicopters gone over head, waving clubs and umbrellas at
us, and trying to get the attention of these pilots, now part of their job is to survey this
area, to see where aid is needed and then they´re dropping aid where they can, where
they think they can get it to people safely, but looking around at all of this, even if the
rain stops, this water is gonna take a long time to recede, even is Bangkok is safe for
now, there´s still huge humanitarian needs and a big impact on the economy in
Thailand, and as I look out ahead, storm clouds are gathering again.

2. Funding

Aaron Dorfman: funding for arts and culture is primarily flowing to the larger arts´
organizations.

Interviewer: Aaron Dorfman directs the national committee for the responsive
philanthropy a watchdog group that monitors giving by foundations, Dorfman says the
majority of foundation giving to the arts goes to organizations with budgets of 5 million
dollars a year or more.

Most of your museums, symphonies, opera houses, large established cultural institutions
that are promoting the European canon, the audiences for those institutions continue to
be predominantly upper income and white, so what it means is that this funding is not
really benefiting everyone in our society.

3. Australian airline

The issues at the center of this dispute remain as live as ever, do they namely the fact
that there will be probably some job cuts and also jobs will be relocated out of Australia
to the east.

Yeah that´s still the issue with job´s security, there´s a dispute over whether or not jobs
will be lost as a result of Qantas´s move to set up a joint venture in either Singapore
probably or Kuala Lumpur. The airline says that not one Australian job will be lost as a
result of this joint venture and the union say no it´s going to eat Qanta´s lunch and
services will be reduced and jobs will be lost, so there´s a dispute between the parties
even over that, but those remain the central issues, but if they can´t come to some sort of
an agreement within the 21 days then they work Australia will rule on that.
4. Ghosts

My friend said that he had a psychic friend who was a clairvoyant I guess, someone
who reads spaces; who didn´t really even need to know much about the house, I told
him nothing, this is all a stranger who knew nothing, and he told me crazy things, he
said there was three ghosts in my house, he said there was a little girl who was lonely
and who probably had been ill in her life, he´s like I see her needing space and air,
everything that I´d seen in the Ouija board, and he´s like the other thing I see is a little
boy who is sort of more mischievous but not malicious, and he´s like now the last ghost
that I see is more malicious, and he was like ¨that´s not great¨ I was like just tell me I
need to know it´s my house, he said there is a man in his younger adult years, this guy
should be wearing an old-fashioned man´s suit and a hat, who is sort of a pervert ghost
who would watch women sleep, but he is like particularly attracted to women.

5. Cartoon magazine

Presenter: So, what about private eye, cartoonist and writer Nick Newman has working
for the publication for three of the five decades it´s been in print, Dan David has asked
him how much satire has changed over the past 50 years, and can satirists get away with
saying more now than they could in the past

Cartoonist: I wasn´t around in the 60´s when I think the really exciting boom happened
and that I think was the c change in Britain, people had to earn your respect rather than
be given it automatically, and I think that´s when the ground breaking was done by
Private Eye, since I´ve been working at the magazine I think it´s been more sort of the
gloves are off, what has changed is the facts checking is much more industrious now
than it used to be.

ANSWERS

1. B
2. D
3. B
4. C
5. B