At 10:40 am, it’s time for Part 1 of a new series: Birds and Bones, with Dr Jacqueline Nguyen from the Australian Museum. Jacqui is an ornithologist who specialises in palaeontology and in the first episode, we talk about who an ornithologist is and what she does. With the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 […]
At 10:40 am, we hear Part 6, the final part of Shakespeare and Company with Dr Anna Kamaralli and Anna finishes with Tricks he hath in him, which gentlemen have, examining what happened next! My special guest at 11:00 am is philosopher Dr Simon Longstaff, Director of the Ethics Centre, in conversation about free speech. […]
At 10:40 this morning Dr Anna Kamaralli continues with Part 5 of Shakespeare and Company and this week, in Hooted at Like an Old Tale, she looks at Shakespeare’s sources for his plays. My special guest this week at 11:00 am is Dr Sarah Reeves, curator at the Powerhouse Museum, talking about the new exhibition Apollo […]
At 10:40 am, Dr Anna Kamaralli returns with Part 3 of Shakespeare and Company, with this week’s episode entitles It Is a Pretty Youth. This is, of course, the young boys who played the female parts in the company. My special guest this week is Nicholas Chapman, curator at the Art Gallery of New South […]
We start today’s program with Lights (Finale), the last track on Leonie Cohen’s Pages Suite album and the last in our series of music and conversation with Leonie. What a wonderful series this has been. At about 10:40 am, Dr Anna Kamaralli returns with Part 2 of Shakespeare and Company and she has called this […]
We commence with music and conversation with Leonie Cohen and this week we play Pages from her latest CD, Pages Suite. At 10:40 am, I am delighted to welcome Shakespeare expert, Dr Anna Kamaralli,, back to Arts Wednesday, with a new 6-part series called Shakespeare and Company, commencing with Two Houses:Both Alike in Dignity. Queen […]
We start the program with music and conversation with Leonie Cohen, listening to and talking about Baruch, from her latest CD, Pages Suite. At 10:40 am, we hear Part 6, the final part of Compositions, Court Life and Composers with music historian Andy Bromberger and she finishes with Verdi and Wagner. My special guest at […]
First up this week, we hear Looking Out, Looking in by Leonie Cohen from her latest CD Pages Suite and we follow up with conversation about the music. At 10:40 am, Andy Bromberger returns with Part 5 of Compositions, Court Life and Composers and this week we talk about Tchaikovsky. My special guest at 11:00 […]
At 10:30 am, I continue conversation and music with Leonie Cohen and this week we play Spring Kiss, from her latest album, Pages Suite. Andy Bromberger returns at about 10:40 am, with Part 3 of Compositions, Court Life and Composers and this week the subject is Brahms. My special guest at 11:00 am is author Irris […]
We start the program with another conversation with Leonie Cohenand and track, Capture, from her Pages Suite. At 10:40 am, Andy Bromberger returns with Part 2 of Compositions, Court Life and Composers and this week Beethoven is the composer we talk about. At 11:00 am, I will repeat an interview I recorded with historian, Sean Bawley, for […]
At 10:40 am we hear is Part 1 of a new series from music historian, Andy Bromberger, and it’s called Compositions, Court Life and Composers. Andy looks at the social milieu in which the great composers lived and composed and we start of with J S. Bach. My special guests this week at 11:00 am […]
At 10:40 am, Laila Ellmoos brings us the final part of Events that Shaped Sydney and we conclude with the Thalium Enthusiasms. My special guest at 11:00 am is Michael Atherton, musician, academic, author and all round musical genius, reputed to be able to play just about every musical instrument known to mankind. This week, […]