At 10:40 am Ed Lippmann continues with Part 5 of Loved and Unloved and this week our topic is Sirius, the building that started this entire conversation. At 11:00 am, my most special guest is mandolin virtuoso, Avi Avital, currently touring Australia with the Giocoso String Quartet for Music Viva. Our conversation takes in the […]
This week at 10:40 am, Ed Lippmann returns with Part 4 of Loved and Unloved, the series where we look at heritage issues and this week the topic is modern buildings which have been demolished. At 11:00 am my special guest is Dr Ginni Mansberg, making a welcome return to Arts Wednesday and tis week […]
At 10:40 am we hear Part 3 of Loved and Unloved with Ed Lippmann, the series where we discuss heritage issues and, this week we talk about the Chahill Expressway. My special guest at 11:00 am is Mami Kataoke, Artistic Director of Sydney Biennale 2018. We talked about her, about the philosophic underpinnings of the […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]