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13 Episodes 1997 - 1998
Episode 1
Three friends - Robert, Zelda and Granger - are inspired to start a community youth radio station when Jayse, a feral acquaintance of Zelda's, is killed riding Granger's motorbike. Their good intentions and their friendship are put to endless tests by the motley group of kids who turn up to be DJ's but avoid work, their parents, boredom and unemployment.
Episode 2
The new station hits its target in the person of Curtis, who loves the dance music and uses Zelda's talk-back segment to try to find the girl of his dreams he saw across a crowded train. As a way of coming to grips with her own sexual and romantic entanglement with Granger, Zelda mounts the big search on behalf of Curtis.
Episode 3
Mark wants to be anything - other than the preppy private school kid on his way to a legal career that his father has planned for him. He cuts himself off from his school friends, neglects his VCE studies and joins Raw FM, aiming to become a DJ. He is not deterred, even though he's unwelcome for coming from the "right side of the tracks".
Episode 4
Raw FM is the last place Cara would go - until she turns up to drag her sister Sarah back to the family pub for her shift behind the bar. Sarah's insults combined with Cara's powerful need to be useful result in Cara becoming Granger's assistant. She has to overcome both a revolt by younger kids against her and a betrayal by Mark, in order to hold on to the unlikely place she makes for herself at the station.
Episode 5
Sarah launches an anti-censorship campaign making merciless fun of the naive view of kids held by adults and the authorities. She flushes out people who sympathise with her views - including Frank, a neo-Nazi with a winning smile and deadly opinions. Her campaign divided the kids at the station against her and against each other.
Episode 6
Gerry copes better in cyber-space relationships than in real ones. When money is stolen from the Raw FM bank accounts Robert turns to Gerry with her computer skills to retrieve the money. The dark corners of the Net Gerry explores are being manipulated by her own cyber pal - Red Ruthie -who has created a complex diversion to lure Gerry out of her isolation into a horrifying real encounter.
Episode 7
On a trip back to the country town he comes from, Curtis big-notes his new life in the city and the glories of Raw FM to his old mate Wayne. Wayne's so impressed he comes down to check out the action. No one at Raw FM, Curtis included is impressed with Wayne and Curtis betrays Wayne when he crashes Robert's van.
Episode 8
Sam's on a roll, albeit one of her own making. She's cut a single and manages to get herself the top spot at the first Raw FM outside broadcast from a nightclub. Her voice isn't half as good as her PR. When she comes completely unstuck it is Gerry who picks her up.
Episode 9
Sex is in the air, between the sheets and on the airwaves at Raw FM. Sarah runs a safe sex campaign for the Community Welfare services who have tapped into Raw FM's huge success with the youth demographic. Sarah's interest turns out to be very personal. She's facing a termination of her pregnancy to Granger. It's a shocking development for everyone concerned.
Episode 10
Created by 3 young people, an Australian radio station, Raw FM, provides a voice for a large and incredibly diverse group of teenagers often ignored by mainstream media. Raw FM not only offers them something totally different from anything they've ever heard on the airwaves before, but also the chance to participate. And Raw FM lives up to its name. It's loud, anarchic, energetic, spontaneous. It's totally raw. Or it is in the beginning Raw takes off so much that it starts to take over. It gets BIG. Can raw be the hottest thing on the radio dial while still being the coolest.
Episode 11
Robert has been on a bender for weeks. His despair at the direction Raw FM's been taking finally lifts and he starts a push for Raw FM to end the temporary broadcast on a positive note. His plans put him into direct opposition with Granger and Mark. The confrontation results in a move to depose Robert from the position of Vice President. Robert fights Granger at first, then decides for his own reasons to leave Raw FM altogether.
Episode 12
Granger is looking for an event to re-vitalise Raw FM and draw the troops together after the demoralising departure of Robert. Everything about the event he choses - a fashion parade - is unlikely: from the person in charge, blind Zelda, to the MC Mark. In her attempt to come to terms with the identity crisis the parade provokes, Zelda turns to Robert and after a very acrimonious start, they become lovers.
Episode 13
The end of Raw FM is nigh. Granger, Mark and Cara are waging a valiant battle to get a permanent license for the station. Zelda and Granger cross swords over ideologies, time-slots and tactics. The battle turns very nasty when Granger finds out about Zelda and Robert's new relationship. Mark takes over the reins and steers the station to a triumphant, but essentially hollow, victory - based on rejecting anyone over 25 from the station. Zelda and Granger are both casualties and their mutual dilemma brings the three friends who started the station back together.