HEPBURN Community Radio will be organising The Great Debate as part of the 2015 Words in Winter festival.
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Members of the public are being encouraged to join the group at The Grande in Hepburn on Saturday, August 8 at 5.30pm to listen to local luminaries such as Toby Sime and Nick Hudson debate whether ‘The English language is dying – LOL’.
The debate will be recorded and will be the first program broadcast by Hepburn Community Radio later that week.
Hepburn Community Radio will be launching in August with The Great Debate as its first recording of local events and will be broadcasting over the internet via the website www.hepburnradio.net.au.
The panel will include Toby Sime, a local writer who has just had a short story published in Inkerman and Blunt's Anthology of Australian Love Stories and Nick Hudson, editor of the Heinemann Australian Dictionary and Peter Wright's novel Spycatcher (1987).
Mr Hudson, who now runs Hudson Publishing Services in Newstead, is launching a revised edition of his book ‘Modern Australian Usage’ for the Newstead Words in Winter program.
Words in Winter organising committee member Jen Bray said to have the author of Spycatcher, an international best seller, involved was a great coup.
“That will be a fun debate because it is involving a lot of big personalities,” she said.
"It will be a robust discussion and is sure to have plenty of laughs along the way.
“As well as the Great Debate, Toby will also be doing a talk about his new book about modern Australian language and how it is changing.
“Now we have texting and a lot of different formats for how we communicate and Toby is exploring that.”
President of The Hepburn Community Radio Steering Committee, Pat Harrison said the group was very excited to be launching the new Hepburn Community Radio at this year’s festival.
“The Great Debate on August 8 at The Grand is a natural fit for the station’s first program,” he said.
“We are a community based station producing content by locals for locals.”
Hepburn Community Radio is solely run by volunteers from Hepburn Shire and will be providing content from locals across the shire, connecting community.
“Their plan is to record things that are happening in the community,” Ms Bray said.
“At the moment it will be an online presence, once they have established viability they will be able to get a license to actually broadcast.”
Anyone interested in volunteering with Hepburn Community Radio can contact Pat Harrison on 0458 630 533.
