The program featured interviews with
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross,
Ram Dass, columnist Jory Graham and
Karl Kruszelnicki. Two Australians, Allan Lewis and Paul Swain, were also interviewed about their
near-death experiences. Lewis had experienced three heart attacks in one day at the age of 14 as the result of a rare condition, and Swain had been electrocuted by a spotlight shortly before the opening of the
Sydney Opera House. Both separately reported leaving their bodies, seeing a long, dark tunnel and meeting a presence they named "
The Light". The program was unconventional in that it ran for close to two hours and featured 40 straight minutes of Lewis speaking, including elaborate details of the afterlife as he perceived it. After an eight-week production process and two weekends of mixing, and a last-minute argument about whether it should be broadcast at all, After an overwhelmingly positive audience response, The program also won a National Hi-Fi Award for Morgan and Tyson-Hall. In 1987, a book adaptation written by
Bruce Elder was published by
ABC Books. ==References==