I (John August), convener of the Sydney Shove and President of the NSW Humanists, will be joined by Steve Maxwell former President of the NSW Rationalists and a speaker in the Sydney Domain, between midnight and 2am on the evening of Friday the 14th of December (well, technically that's Saturday morning, but let's not go there ...) for an early morning sampling of politics, philosophy, history, and science.

We're broadcasting on radio 2SER, 107.3 FM, but outside of Sydney (and inside too, if you want to) you can hear the program via a webstream on www.2ser.com

we'll start with Adrian Tan, convener of the Russoc Philosophy Discussion group, and with a long time interest in philosophy. Adrian will outline moral intuitions and sentiments - how we feel about what people do - and the words we use in description and judgement - awe, delight, appreciation, puzzlement, discomfort, shame, indignation, disgust, horror and so on.

We'll hear from our sponsor - the Softwell Plan for enhancing life performance with a range of tools to provide for maintenance and development of personal wealth over the whole living cycle.

Rev. Dr. Ian Ellis-Jones, Senior Minister of the Sydney Unitarian Church and Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology is our second guest.

Ian will look at the Greco-Roman historical corruption of the teachings of Jesus - to what we have today. Ian has debated Anglican bishops on the reality of God and whether Jesus rose from the dead - being against both !

Yaeli Ohana, a visual artist who teaches at the Art Gallery of NSW and the University of Technology, will give us a recital of "Thunder : Perfect Mind", a gospel from the suppressed Gnostic tradition, with Ian's thoughts on Gnosticism.

We'll hear an historical letter from an appreciative employee to Albert Wright, manager of a vehicle assembly business in Alexandria, Sydney. Albert was struggling to keep the business open as the Great Depression started to bite.

Changing tack, we'll review Nixon's speech in response to the tragic Lunar landing attempt of 1969, and hear the words from Cosmonaut Alexi Leonov during his successful 1977 landing.

We've a dramatic reading parts of the CSS Descramble source code - from someone who is passionate about their computer programming !

We'll visit the Newgrange passage tomb in Ireland - built 5,000 years ago, older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian Pyramids - and aligned so light reaches down the passage for 17 minutes on just one day of the year - the Winter Solstice. It shows an understanding of the sun's motion through the sky that we harness in sundials.

We'll be opening up the telephone lines for comment from listeners.

Music includes Jigzag, the Australian Folk Band; My Friend the Chocolate Cake; the Sydney band Tramtracks; the Canadian band Darkest of the Hillside Thickets; Canberra artist Loom and also : Tangerine Dream. City Rail announcements by dTrog.

The world around us is full of fascinating and amazing stuff - you just have to know where to look ! Join us late Friday night as we pick up a few stones and see what's underneath.