At 10:40 am, Ed Lippmann returns with Part 2 of Loved and Unloved, our new series of Sydney By Design, this time discussing heritage issues. The topic for this week is The Rocks and Green Bans in the 1970s. At 11:00 am I will play an interview I recorded in Adelaide a couple of weeks […]
This week sees the start of a new series of Sydney By Design with Ed Lippmann and he has called this series Loved and Unloved, where we will address heritage issues. Part 1 at 10:40 is an introduction to the series, defining what the heritage issues are: do we pull down, do we keep, what […]
This week at 10:40 am, we hear the last episode of Historic Events and How We Mark Them with Laila Ellmoos and the series finishes with 8 Hour Day. My special guest at 11:00 am is Dr Sonya Lifschitz, virtuoso pianist, broadcaster and academic who stars in Stalin’s Piano, an almost 1-woman show at the […]
At 10:40 am, Laila Ellmoos continues with Part 4 of Historic Events and How We Mark Them and this week she tells us about the Waratah Festival, forerunner of the Festival of Sydney. At 11:00 am, my special guest is Christopher Lawrence, one of Australia’s favourite radio personalities. His latest book is Symphony of Seduction: […]
At 10:40 am, Laila Ellmoos continues with Part 3 of Historic Events and How We Mark Them and this week we look at NAIDOC Week. At 11:00 am, my special guest is Jackie Dunn, curator at AGNSW, to talk about the impossibly beautiful Lady and the Unicorn tapestries, just opened at the gallery. Learn about […]
Laila Ellmoos continues with Part 2 of Historic Events and How We Mark Them at 10:40 am and this week it is ANZAC Day. At 11:00 am, my guest is Michael Cooney, National Director and CEO of the Australian Republic Movement and it is a lively conversation about monarchy and an Australian Republic. Music is […]
Laila Ellmoos, historian with the City of Sydney, joins us this morning at 10:40 am with a new series and this time Laila looks at historic events and how we mark them. Part 1 today kicks off with Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, this year marking 40 years since the first march in Sydney. […]
On Arts Wednesday 24 January 2018, Sylvia’s guest was Jenny Eriksson, founder of The Marais Project and Director of My Heart So Grieves, a forthcoming concert, featuring music of the 16th century. We listened to music by The Marais Project, featuring Jenny on acoustic viola da gamba and Elysian Fields, Jenny’s electric viola da gamba […]
At 10:40, Richard Major concludes the series on Australian birds with the Common Myna. At 11:00 am, I will play a conversation I recorded with viola da gamba player, Jenny Eriksson. Jenny is the founder of The Marais Project, dedicated to 16th century music, where she plays her acoustic viola da gamba. She is also […]
On Arts Wednesday 17 January 2018, Sylvia’s guest was Lisa Havilah, Director of Carriageworks, host to the amazing installation by German artist, Katharina Grosse, with the more amazing title you see above. The conversation mainly focussed on the technical logistics of installing such an enormous work in a sensitive heritage building. Listen tot he 2 […]
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At 10:45, Richard Major continues with Part 4 of Australian Birds and this week he talks about the Noisy Miner. At 11:00 am I talk to Director of Carriageworks, Lisa Havilah, about the installation by German artist, Katharina Grosse, entitled, somewhat enigmatically, The Horse Trottted Another Couple of Metres, Then it Stopped. Hear about the logistics […]
On Arts Wednesday 10 January 2018, Sylvia’s guest was musician and music researcher, Joanna Butler. Joanna was responsible for selecting the music for Rembrandt Live, a concert series to accompany the blockbuster exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW, Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age. Listen to the music and the conversation below: We […]