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 […]
Category: ARTS WEDNESDAY
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 […]
Arts Wednesday 8 June 2016
Dr Anna Kamaralli returns to Arts Wednesday at 10:40 am with another series on Shakespeare and, this year our topic is Margaret of Anjou. Anna is directing a new play about this wonderful woman and leading up to the performance, we learn about her, both in real life but also as Shakespeare portrayed her. At […]
Arts Wednesday 1 June 2016
This week sees the final part of Revolution, Reaction and Romanticism with Andy Bromberger at 10:40 am and Andy concludes with opera in the Romantic era. My special guest at 11:00 am is Tom Godfrey, who heads up the media team at Choice. This consumer advocacy group has a sterling reputation, grounded in its pursuit […]
Arts Wednesday 25 May 2016
Andy Bromberger joins us in the first half hour for Part 5 of Revolution, Reaction and Romanticism and this week she talks about the role of music in the establishment of nationalism in the nineteenth century. My special guest at 11:;00 am is Steve Durbach, whose exhibition, Schrodinger’s Bird, opens this week at the Bondi […]
Arts Wednesday 18 May 2016
Andy Bromberger joins us at about 10:40 am for Part 4 of Revolution, Reaction and Romanticism, this week talking about Concert and Performance Practises. The topic of this week’s 11:00 am interview is the pipe organ and to tell us all about it is Philip Meyer, organist at the historic St Philip’s Church on Church Hill […]
Arts Wednesday 11 May 2016
Andy Bromberger brings us Part 3 of Revolution, Reaction and Romanticism at about 10:40 am and this week she talks about the rise of the virtuoso. At 11:00 am, I will play an interview I recorded with Peter Manning, journalist, author and academic, former head of Current Affairs at Seven Television Network, head of the ABC […]
Arts Wednesday 4 May 2016
Andy Bromberger joins us for Part 2 of Revolution, Reaction and Romanticism at 10:40 am and this week she talks about Beethoven. At 11:00 am I’ll be playing an interview I recorded with Maggie Patton, rare books expert at the State Library of NSW about the acquisition of a 1564 book of novellas by Italian […]
Arts Wednesday 27 April 2016
Music historian, Andy Bromberger, makes a welcome return to the program at about 10:40 am with a new series entitled Revolution, Reaction and Romanticism and she starts the season with a general introduction. My special guest at the 11:00 am spot is Dr Leroy Gonsalves, Biodiversity Research Officer with the Department of Primary Industry, talking […]
Arts Wednesday 20 April 2016
Ed Lippmann presents Part 6, the final part of the current series of Sydney By Design at about 10:40 am and this week Ed discusses Venice Biennale of Architecture, opening this May. My special guests at 11:00 am are Rodger Watson and Lucy Klippan from the Designing Out Crime unit at UTS. We hear about […]
Arts Wednesday 13 April 2016
Ed Lippmann joins me at 10:40 am in Part 5 of Sydney By Design, this week looking at the other major urban development project, Greens Square. At 11:00 am I am joined by Lynette Riley, Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney within NCCC (National Centre for Cultural Competence). During our conversation, Lynette helps to unravel […]