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 […]
Category: ARTS WEDNESDAY
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 […]
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 […]