Colour concludes this week with Part 6: The Right Hand of Creation with guest, Professor Geraint Lewis. This will go to air at 10:40 am My special guest at 11:00 am is Jane Cafarella, author of e baby, a new play at the Ensemble Theatre, about surrogacy. It is a wonderful night’s entertainment – you […]
Category: ARTS WEDNESDAY
Arts Wednesday 19 October 2016
At 10:40am, Professor Geraint Lewis joins me for Part 5 of our series on colour and this week Geraint talks about colours of life. At 11:00 am I am joined by Personal Trainer, Rachel Livingstone, from the Health Hub in Darlinghurst, talking about exercise: why, what and how much? Music is all about exercise! I […]
Arts Wednesday 14 September 2016
Professor Geraint Lewis, Professor of Astrophysics at the Sydney Institute for Astronomy, makes a welcome return to Arts Wednesday at 10:40 am in Part 1 of a 6-part series entitled Colour and Geraint starts the discussion by asking what is light? My guest at 11:00 am is garden historian and author, Richard Aitken, who has […]
Arts Wednesday 7 September 2016
Ed Lippmann joins me at 10:40 am for the finale of the current series of Sydney By Design, looking at Sydney. My special guest at 11:00 am is Maria Katsonis, co-editor of Rebellious Daughters, a book recently published featuring essays by some of Australia’s most prominent female authors, talking about their rebellious youth. Music is […]
Arts Wednesday 31 August 2016
Ed Lippmann joins us at 10:40 am for Part 5 of Sydney By Design and this week he continues the discussion on Parramatta. At 11:00 am I will play an interview I recorded with Fred Smith, musician, singer and songwriter who is also a diplomat. He served two terms of duty in Afghanistan and has […]
Arts Wednesday 24 August 2016
At 10:40 am Ed Lippmann continues our SBD series on Sydney and this week Ed talks about Parramatta. At 11:00 am my special guest is Inspector Shantel Cogno, Manager of the Missing Persons Unit of the NSW Police. I asked Shantel who is a missing person, why do people go missing and which groups in our community […]
Arts Wednesday 17 August 2017
Ed Lippmann returns at 10:40 am with Part 3 of Sydney By Design and this week talks about Sydney’s topography in this series about Sydney. My special guest at 11:00 am is Dr Andrew Jacob, Curator at the Powerhouse Museum, talking about the Large Hadron Collider, the subject of a new exhibition from the Science […]
Arts Wednesday 10 August 2016
Ed Lippmann joins me at 10:40 am with Part 2 of our current season of Sydney By Design about Sydney and this week Ed talks about Sydney’s history. At 11:00 am, art consultant Anna Groden joins me to talk about our annual visit to the Archibald Prize. It’s one of those exhibitions where we all […]
Arts Wednesday 3 August 2016
This week at 10:40 am, we start a new series of Sydney By Design – our second for 2016 and this series Ed devotes to the city of Sydney and the challenges we face. At 11:00 am, I will play an interview I recorded some weeks ago when I was in Philadelphia visiting the Barnes […]
Arts Wednesday 6 July 2016
Anna Kamaralli joins me at 10:40 am for the fifth and final part of Margaret of Anjou. The entire series will be podcast on Wednesday afternoon so you can still hear any episodes you missed or listen again! My special guest at 11:00 am is Anne McCloud in an interview I recorded earlier. Anne’s recent […]
Arts Wednesday 29 June 2016
This week at 10:40 am Anna Kamaralli continues with Part 4 of our series on Margaret of Anjou, this episode about Margaret as warrior and prophetess. At 11:00 am my special guest is Agnes Walder, who translated her late father’s poetry from Hungarian to English. The book, entitled Become A Message, recently won the Independent […]
Arts Wednesday 15 June 2016
Anna Kamaralli joins me at 10:40 am for Part 2 of our new series on the fabulous Margaret of Anjou. At 11:00 am, I am joined by Dr Ida Lichter, making a welcome return to Arts Wednesday, talking about her new book The Secret Magic of Music in which she asks a variety of musicians what […]