Jacqui Newling joins us again at 10:40 am with Part 4 of Eat Your History and this week’s topic is oysters. My special guest at 11:00 am is Heather Rossiter, scientist, author and traveller whose latest book is Sweet Boy, Dear Wife about cross-dressing archaeologist, Jane Dieulafoys. Jane travelled across Persia of 1880’s and dug […]
Category: ARTS WEDNESDAY
Arts Wednesday 16 November 2016
You get to meet Jacqui Newling again at 10:40 am with Part 3 of Eat your History and this week’s episode is about tea. At 11:00 am Anna Lise de Lorenzo joins us to talk about Maker Space & Co, a wonderful creative space in Marrickville, where craftspeople and artisans come together under one roof, […]
Arts Wednesday 9 November 2016
Jacqui Newling returns with Part 2 of Eat Your History at 10:40 am and this week the topic is sugar. At 11:00 am you’ll meet celebrity GP Ginni Mansberg, making a welcome return to the show. Recent statistics show that accidental overdose of prescription pain killers now accounts for the same death toll as road […]
Arts Wednesday 2 November 2016
Food historian, Jacqui Newling, joins me today at about 10:40 am for e new 7 – Part series entitled Eat Your History and Part 1 is about bread. This week Nude: Art From the Tate Collection opens at the Art Gallery of NSW so, by way of background, at 11:00am I am repeating an interview […]
Arts Wednesday 26 October 2016
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 […]
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 […]