At 10:40 Dr Jacqueline Nguyen continues with Part 5 of Birds and Bones, this week entitled Mihirungs or the Demon Ducks of Doom – really! At 11:00 am, I am joined by Dr Matthew Stephens, Curator of Songs of Home, the new exhibition at the Museum of Sydney. It traces music from the commencement of […]
At 10:40 am, Dr Jacqueline Nguyen joins us for Part 4 of Birds and Bones and this week we talk about what fossils can tell us. At 11:00 am, I am joined by Dr Stephen Gapps from the Australian National Maritime Museum, talking about the latest exhibition Bligh: Hero or Villain. Via our primary school […]
At 10:40 am, Dr Jacqueline Nguyen, ornithologist at the Australian museum, joins us for Part 3 of Birds and Bones and this week the topic is Bristlebirds. Following the interest in last week’s conversation with Elise Edmonds about Dead Central at the State Library of NSW, I will continue the theme of cemeteries in a […]
At 10:40 am, it’s time for Part 2 of Birds and Bones with Dr Jacqueline Nguyen, ornithologist at the Australian Museum and this week the topic is songbirds and where they came from. At 11:00 am, I’m pleased to welcome back to Arts Wednesday, Elise Edmunds, Senior Curator at the State Library of NSW, talking […]
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 […]