We were happy to have Dr. Arthur White from the Frog and Tadpole Society on the phone during Monday Drive on the 13th of March! Dr. White gave some great insight on the conservation efforts for frogs and tadpoles in the greater Sydney region. Listen to the interview with Ruth Hessey and Dr. Arthur White […]
Composer, Cyrus Meurant, was Sylvia’s guest on Arts Wednesday 14 March 2017, talking about his latest compositions and CD, created for patients with dementia. He talks about the commission, how the music relates to the moods of patients and how the music comes about. Listen to the conversation below along with his compositions, for Wednesday. […]
Red at night, sailors delight? New Tesla battery array for SA?! Dr Luke Hedge jumped back into the BP chair to discuss the South Australian energy supply and competition to solve storage problems, sparked by the offer of a Tesla battery back up for the state, storing 100 megawatt hours ! And Chantelle was up […]
Read More… from Boiling Point 14 February 2017 SA energy and red at night
We were lucky enough to have Five Coffees at Studio A on Drive Studio! Three members of the band, Dean, Asahi and James all came by to talk about their newest single ‘Heist’, which they play for the first time on the air! Five Coffees grew out of the Conservatorium, when a group of […]
Following the release of his album ‘Skeleton Blues’ (available here) Luke Escombe had a chat with David Barr on Tuesday Drive. Have a listen to the podcast below, in which two of Luke’s newest songs ‘The Man In The Long Black coat’ and ‘John The Revelator’ are played. They discuss the old-school way that […]
Lisa was Sylvia’s guest on Arts Wednesday 8 March 2017 and shared with us all her prodigious knowledge of cemeteries in Sydney: old ones and new, ornate and simple, ones with great view and ones that have great people buried there. Listen to the 3 parts of the conversation here: That was the […]
Austrian-born London-based musician Manu Delago is a multi-instrumentalist by design. Yet it came to be that in a career spanning over 10 years, the Tru-Thoughts signee is most known for playing the Hang, a percussive instrument that creates sounds so unable to be pigeonholed. It’s this flexibility that has led him to poignant collaborations with prominent […]
On Friday March 3rd Clancy Newman the cellist currently touring with Selby & Friends came in to chat with Gemma in the studio. Happily he also brought his cello with him and delighted Gemma and her audience with a live performance of an original composition called Uptown Funk. Listen to the whole interview and performance […]
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Arts Monday’s Jane Raffan in conversation with Matt Poll, Sydney University’s Indigenous Heritage curator, about the Freedom Rides of 1965, and the work of a group of artists produced in response for an exhibition titled, ‘Freedom Riders: Art and activism 1960s to now’. Inspired by the ‘freedom rides’ into the segregated southern states of the […]
Arts Monday’s Jane Raffan interviews Claire Monneraye, curator at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, about the exhibition Under the Sun, which explores questions about cultural norms, nationhood and identity, through the work of 15 artists from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds in response to max Dupain’s iconic Sunbaker image. The artists: Peta Clancy, Christopher […]
Read More… from Is there Anything New Under the Sun? Artists respond to Dupain’s Sunbaker
Multiple Grammy nominee Bebel Gilberto, the torchbearer of Bossa Nova, is coming to Sydney. The world-renowned singer-songwriter has forged her own distinctive, laidback style of bossa nova, positioning her among the best-selling Brazilian artists performing today. Thomas Adams from Jazz Impressions recently caught up with Bebel on the phone from New York ahead of her […]
On Wednesday 22 February 2017, Sylvia’s guest was Dr Patricia Azarias, founder and trustee of the The Lysicrates Foundation, with a story that spans nearly 2,500 years, from the Great Dionysia in ancient Greece to a newly restored Lysicrates monument in the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney today and the creation of a new drama […]