At 10:40 am Anna Kamaralli returns with Part 4 of Shakespeare’s Women and this week the topic is The Lower Classes. At 11:00 I am joined live in the studio by Marcela Balart, Information Office with NBN. My house has just been switched over and it’s an understatement to say it is a joy. It […]
Category: ARTS WEDNESDAY
Arts Wednesday 27 September 2017
Anna Kamaralli joins me at 10:40 am with Part 3 of Shakespeare’s Women and this week the topic is queens. My special guest at 11:00 am is Elise Edmunds, Senior Curator at the State Library of NSW.The library has just been given the archive of William T Cooper. Not a household name you might say, […]
Arts Wednesday 6 September 2017
Today at 10:40 we hear the final part of Our Universe with Professor Geraint Lewis, entitled The Long Dark Tea-time of the Universe. At 11:00, I am joined by poetry devotee, Eleanor Smagarinsky, who talks about ModPo, her online poetry community. We do a close reading of a poem by Lorine Niedecker called You are […]
Arts Wednesday 30 August 2017
Today at 10:40 am we hear Part 5 of Our Universe with Professor Geraint Lewis and the topic is Death From the Skies – pretty dramatic stuff! My special guest at 11:00 am is artist Marion Borgelt, making a welcome return to Arts Wednesday, to talk about her new exhibition at Dominik Mersch Gallery. Marion […]
Arts Wednesday 23 August 2017
At about 10:40 am Professor Geraint Lewis continues the story of our universe with Part 4, entitled “New Eyes on the Cosmos.” My special guest at 11:00 am is Jane Caro, talking about Unbreakable: Woman share stories of resilience and hope, her latest book, which she has edited. With Jane’s usual passion and compassion, we tackle […]
Volcanoes, geysers and earthquakes.
This is Science Week and Arts Wednesday today celebrates our universe. First up at 10:40 am is Part 3 of Our Universe and this week Professor Geraint Lewis talks about our evolving universe – yes, it is still a work in progress! At 11:00 am I’l be pleased to introduce you to Dietmar Muller, Professor […]
Arts Wednesday 9 August 2017
At about 10:40 am we’ll hear Professor Geraint Lewis talk about New Planets and Life in the Universe, Part 3 of the series Our Universe. At 11:00 am it’s back to our annual review of the Archibald Prize with art consultant Anna Groden. Can you believe another year has rolled by? We found this year’s […]
Arts Wednesday 2 August 2017
This morning we start a new series entitled “Our Universe” with astrophysicist, Professor Geraint Lewis and Part 1 is The Depths of the Solar System at 10:40 am. At 11:00 am, my special guest is historian, Laila Ellmoos – no stranger to Arts Wednesday. Laila is one of the curators of an exhibition at Carriageworks […]
Arts Wednesday 26 July 2017
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 […]
Arts Wednesday 12 July 2017
Mark Robinson returns with Part 5 of our series on Percussion and this week we look at Timpani, a session we also recorded on the stage of the Concert Hall at the Sydney Opera House. My special guest at 11:00 am is celebrity GP, Dr Ginni Mansberg, making a welcome return to Arts Wednesday, this […]
Arts Wednesday 14 June 2017
Mark Robinson joins us again for Part 4 of our Percussion series and this week we talk about drums and cymbals. The exciting part is that we recorded on the stage of the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House. It was quite an experience for me! My special guest at 11:00 am is playwright […]
Arts Wednesday 7 June 2017
Mark Robinson continues with Part 2 of pitched percussion at 10:40 am and this week we talk about bells. At 11:00 am I am replaying the second of 2 legal history conversations. This week I’ll be playing the conversation I recorded with Arlie Loughnan in 2015 on criminal law. As with equity last week, it is […]