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The Bachelor: London Calling

New vision of magical classic

THE WIZARD OF OZ L. Frank Baum, illustrated by Charles Santore Sterling Andrew Stephens Reviewer

Beyond the khaki, colour stirs the heart

Embedded with our troops in Afghanistan, Jo Chandler finds fleeting beauty amid the bleak landscape.

Whips aren't in the race when it comes to hurting horses

The reality is that speed and hard tracks hurt horses, not whips.

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Dwarf race a cheap laugh at a high price

MY NAME is Sam. Because of a condition called pseudoachondroplasia, I stand 134 centimetres above the ground. I am a dwarf. But this is not how I would introduce myself to you. I would say "Hi, I'm Sam".

Burma and the bomb

An investigation by academic Desmond Ball and journalist Phil Thornton has produced dramatic evidence that Burma may be building a nuclear bomb. Daniel Flitton reports.

Food porn: don't adjust your set

SUNDAY-NIGHT dinner usually comes out of a tin. Last Sunday it came out of the box. About 4 million Australians tuned in to the biggest TV dinner in our history, a real potboiler starring the girls next door: the grand finale of MasterChef.

Followed by a moon shadow

Michael Idato meets a docudrama producer who always tackles the big subjects. Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11

Journey to space brings men down to Earth

TUCKED away in an attic office, buried deep inside a narrow London terrace, television producer Richard Dale seems at first glance to be an unlikely salesman for the infinite majesty of outer space. But Dale's latest docu-drama, the visually stunning Moonshot, is just that.

Crush hour, caged chooks and cruelty to commuters

To get to work I can walk two kilometres, wait for a packed bus and stand for 50 minutes to reach the city ("Crush and load: life on a peak-hour train", June 1). Or I catch a bus to wait 25 minutes at a station that a train might stop at, then stand for 55 minutes to get to the city. Or I can ride my motorbike for 30 minutes.

Move Over Gloomy, Hello Bad-boy Broody

IN BRITAIN they have a Christmas Day tradition of watching The Wizard of Oz. Someone at the Seven Network has decided this is just what we need here in Australia, too, but rather than give us Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale, they've got Zooey Deschanel as DG, and rather than a sweet, 90-minute musical, we get the dark and bewildering six-hour miniseries Tin Man.