At 10:40 am we hear the final part of the series on percussion with Mark Robinson and this week Mark calls it “All the Rest” – instruments percussionists play that we haven’t heard already. The whole series of 6 episodes will be podcast after today’s show. Last week saw the 200th anniversary of the death […]
Simon Marnie is a man of many talents – he knows how to do card tricks and clever things with pieces of rope, but he’s best known as a broadcaster on ABC Radio. He has interviewed the talented and fabulous and reported on triumph and tragedy. This time he’s on the other side of the […]
Read More… from Simon Marnie on The Dialogue Wednesday 26 July
Riley Lavelle Long reviews Christopher Nolan’s war epic, Dunkirk. […]
Art Monday’s Jane Raffan delves into the fascinating and fragile world of coral in interviews with the Macleay Museum’s Dr Jude Philp, centred on an exhibition called Coral: Art, Science, Life. In Coral: art, four artists exhibit works that explore our relationship with this fragile waterscape. In Coral: science, the work of four University scientists […]
2017 is the 100th anniversary of the Great Strike. Are you looking forward to the next public holiday coming up? Do you know why we celebrate a Labour Day public holiday? Arts Monday’s Jane Raffan takes us on a potted history of Australia’s union movement 1850-1950 with Neale Towart, Heritage Officer for Sydney Trades Hall […]
Read More… from 100th Anniversary of the 1917 Great Strike: Civil Disobedience and Unity
Arts Monday’s Jane Raffan interviews Warren Fahely, AM, about his new social history of Sydney’s vibrant 2011 postcode encompassing Potts Point, Woolloomooloo, Kings Cross, Rushcutters Bay and Elizabeth Bay. Warren Fahey, AM, is a cultural historian, collector and performer of historic songs and stories, founder of Larrikin Records and Paddington’s beloved Folkways Music, and author […]
Read More… from Life in Sydney’s 2011 Postcode: Warren Fahey’s ‘The Good Old Bad Old Days’
Brown fat, caterpillar cannibalism and gon(e)-orrhea Chantelle took us through the differences between WAT (white adipose tissue, white fat or bad fat), BAT (brown adipose tissue , brown fat or good fat) and PHAT fats (which aren’t anything really except our phat tunes) Alex explored the curious case of cannibalistic caterpillars which are tricked into eating […]
Read More… from Boiling Point 18th Juluy 2017 Brown fat, caterpillar cannibalism and gon(e)-orrhea
Join me, Jane Raffan, on Monday 24 July for a program devoted to the social history of Sydney’s vibrant 2011: Potts Point, Woolloomooloo, Kings Cross, Rushcutters Bay and Elizabeth Bay. I’ll be interviewing author Warren Fahey, AM, cultural historian, collector and performer of historic songs and stories, founder of Larrikin Records and Paddington’s beloved Folkways […]
On Monday we were lucky enough to have the very chill AJ and Liam in the studio talking about their groovy Sydney band King Colour. They discuss their many, many upcoming projects, have a chat about music and travelling, and even let me play some songs from their upcoming album! I had great fun talking to […]
Just Being Me” is the third album release by Myles Sanko and Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week. “Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul” – C.G. Jung “Everybody wants to be somebody but nobody wants to be themselves! I have gone […]
Read More… from Album of the Week – Myles Sanko Just Being Me
Find out how to start and progress your career in the screen and broadcast industries with the Australian Film Television and Radio School. This is a great opportunity to learn about 2018 courses, meet our professional tutors, check out AFTRS state-of-the-art facilities in action and see for yourself why AFTRS is the premier screen and […]
FILMMAKER JONATHAN SEQUIRA INTERVIEW BY PARIS POMPOR Just 12 days before Christmas 1977, in the same building as this very radio station – Paddington Town Hall – tenaciously independent Australian band Radio Birdman played a show that would go down in history books. Not only was it to be their final Sydney show before they broke-up […]