In this podcast Ruth Hessey talks with filmmaker Janet Merewether about her upcoming documentary ‘Reindeer in my Saami [pronounced ss-ah-me] Heart’ which she wrote, directed and produced. Janet Merewether tells Ruth about what motivated her to make this documentary. To listen to the podcast click here: To watch the ‘Reindeer in my Saami Heart’ trailer […]
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Interview with Peter Stevens
In this podcast Ruth Hessey talks to Peter Stevens from the Wolli Creek Preservation Society about the tragic demolition of the Bexley North – Tempe ecosystem. They also discuss the effects of the Baird government’s NSW Bio-banking and what the offsets would be, to the community, the environment and most importantly, the wildlife. To listen […]
The C Word – from Clover to Schumer to Alphamama
A pretty ballsy show this week! as we decided NOT to dodge the C word. It just kept raising its pretty head. First up – apparently the Sydney business community decided to put its money on the big C over the weekend. Clover Moore’s detractors must have been cursing to find themselves in the minority. […]
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Aquatic Sonarscapes – noise replaces music under the sea
Ever thought about the music under the waves? According to our featured guest this week, Associate Professor Ivan Nagelkerken, from Adelaide University, human’s are changing the aquatic soundscape in ways almost unfathomable. Not just the industrial clanking around of merchant ships and the military, underwater explosions, and leisure vehicles, but now even our agricultural run […]
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Interview with Anne-Maree Huxley
In this podcast Ruth Hessey interviews Anne-Maree Huxley who is the founder of MOSS (Models of Success and Sustainability). In the interview Anne-Maree talks about her new project for future sustainability called ‘Blue Economy‘ and how this institute is working to use biomimetic principles and apply them to new economic models. To listen to the […]
Interview with Emily Wurramara
In this interview Ruth Hessey talks with Emily Wurramara about her new album Black Smoke as well as her upcoming appearances at Bigsound and at the 89.7fm Global Rhythms Music Festival. The songs featured in this podcast are Black Smoke (beginning song) and Blue Moon Black Sea (ending song) both are songs on Emily’s Debut […]
Interview with Associate Professor Ivan Nagelkerken
In this interview Ruth Hessey talks to Associate Professor Ivan Nagelkerken about Nutrient pollution and Aquatic Sonic Pollution. We find out from our guest expert exactly what Nutrient pollution and Aquatic Sonic Pollution is, why they’re occurring and how they’re changing sounds in the sea and how this change is affecting sea creatures and ocean […]
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You heard it here first!
In recent week’s some of Monday Drive’s spectacular guests – intelligent, learned, street savvy, amusing and musical – have been hitting goals we’re proud to have seen coming. Professor Clive Hamilton (pictured above), who was with us last week, made the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald today with his learned colleague Professor David Karoly […]
Wot’s On this Week? Can green technology save the planet? Can quantum physics get any sexier?
Tonight, Tuesday 16th August, you can choose from a fabulous mix of the latest bright green thinking at the Greenhouse smart talks with organic snacks, Save the Planet? There’s an app for that, Junction Cafe, the Powerhouse Museum, or OzDox’s evening of storytelling mayhem, How to Make a Great Science Documentary: Spin Coherence and Decoherence […]
World’s Collide! Stingray Sisters, Ghost Girls, Meat Free Messiah
Next Monday’s show is a combustible blend of multicultural surprises from Richard Cornish talking up his memoir of the year he gave up meat, to quick chats with the geniuses behind Stingray Sisters, an innovative indigenous doco series, and Ghost Girls, a new contemporary novel set in the Sydney we never see on TV, amidst […]
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A haunting soundtrack to a movie not yet made…on Monday Drive
Enjoy some extraordinary melodicism and dazzling technique in-studio with me next week, when Monday afternoon gets hot and high octane with a visit from Wolfgang Muthspiel, one of the world’s greatest jazz musicians. In town with his trio for one gig at the Sydney Recital Hall, Muthspiel’s last recording, Bright Side, was described as “gorgeous, […]
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plastic vibrations, orange overalls, superfood reverberations
You probably didn’t know your synthetic polar fleece is shedding over 200,000 micro-fibres every time you wash it? You can listen to this week’s Monday Drive on the program page to find out why the fast fashion industry is not only the second most wasteful industry after oil – its ecological footprint is starting to […]
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