Swimmer and psychologist Dr Edel Langan on Crossing the Line, Tuesday 9 October

Mental Health Awareness Month EastsideFM

October is Mental Health Awareness month, so for the next few weeks Crossing the Line is meeting athletes and mental health professionals to share stories and ideas about mental health in sport. First up is Dr Edel Langan. A former competitive swimmer, Edel has a PhD in sports psychology and has worked as a psychologist […]

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The New Thing Interview with Allysha Joy (30/70) – jazz, radio edits and being socially conscious on her debut

Click here to listen Allysha Joy has been making a name for herself over the last few years. Alongside Horatio Luna, Ziggy Zeitgeist and the rest of her incredibly talented 30/70 family, their music has taken them around Australia, through Europe and even further through the waves of the internet, emphasised further by the backing […]

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The New Thing Interview with Mojo Juju: “I Think I’ve Arrived”

Click play: Mojo Juju is a Melbourne-based artist who has been present within the Australian music scene for well over a decade. She created music that harked to more bluesy, jazz-influenced traditions; which gained her a respectable fan base and an highly coveted record deal with ABC Music. But with the release of Mojo’s riveting third […]

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Modern Pentathlete Marina Carrier on Crossing the Line, Tuesday 25 September

Marina Carrier Eastside

Training for the Olympics is arduous at the best of times. Imagine, then, competing in five sports! That’s the task that modern pentathlete Marina Carrier has taken on. The modern pentathlon comprises  running, swimming, show jumping, shooting and fencing. Athletes must run 3200m cross country, interspersed with four legs of laser pistol shooting, swim 200m, ride […]

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Queen of the Dessert and Boom and Bust – Arts Monday

Bestselling Australian author, Royce Kurmelovs, tells a story about greed, irresponsibility and failing to learn from the past. Boom and Bust is a revealing look at the rise and fall of the mining industry – at the winners and the losers and the impact of the boom that wasn’t meant to end. In Boom and Bust, […]

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Offerings to the underworld | Discovering Gamelan

Gamelan musician and teacher Gary Watson speaks to Thursday Drive about the mysterious and sacred world of Gamelan music. See Gary with the Sydney Conservatorium Balinese Gamelan Ensemble perform at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music at 1pm Saturday 15th September. More information here. Listen to the interview below. Listen to more interviews from Thursday Drive. […]

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ARCHITECTURAL ETHICS, TEXTILE ARTS – 20th September 2018

WHAT’S ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: Join Maisy Stapleton for stories acrosss the arts . The third Arts Thursday segment on the Sydney Architecture Festival focuses on Ethics in an Age of Excess. This will be a preview of a panel discussion querying if architecture has lost its social purpose, and its focus on the public good […]

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