In a bit of a twist to our usual format, GT and sports journalist Rupert Guinness discuss the latest stories hitting the sports headlines this week, including Grand Final season, the Aussie and Irish wins at the World Rowing Championships, the blistering new marathon world record, and updates from the endurance cycling event ‘Race to […]
Professor Geraint Lewis continues with The Science of Science Fiction at 10:40 am and this week the topic is The Science of Aliens. My special guests this week are Catherine and Michael Atherton. Michael is the editor and adaptor of In Exile From St Petersburg, about the life of Catherine’s grandfather, Abram Saulevitch Kagan. Abram’s […]
WHAT’S ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: Join Maisy Stapleton for stories in the arts. This year’s Sydney Architecture Festival focuses on Great Architecture – What makes a building great? Architect Angelo Candalepas joins to talk about The Architecture Symposium, featuring 21 of Australia’s leading architects who will discuss their buildings and demonstrate the maturity and complexity of […]
Read More… from Cultural Spectrum Arts Thursday 6th September 2018
This weekly community billboard is proudly sponsored by the City of Sydney’s Plan for the future – Sydney 2030 – making our city more green, global and connected. […]
Martin ‘Fletch’ Fletcher is one of four men who will attempt the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge as part of Team Rowed Less Travelled. This event is the world’s toughest rowing challenge, with teams embarking on 5000km of unaided rowing across the Atlantic Ocean. To put this into perspective, more people have been in space than have […]
Read More… from Adventure rower Martin Fletcher on Crossing the Line, Tuesday 4 September
Professor Geraint Lewis returns at 10:40 am with Part 3 of the Science of Science Fiction and this week’s episode is the Science of Planetary Colonisation. This series just gets better every week! At 11:00 am, I’ll replay an interview from 2014 with bagpipe player, Adam Wishart. It was my first time up close and […]
UTS student Ed Goddard is making a name for himself across numerous distances in the athletics scene. He has impressive PB’s ranging from 800m to half marathons. Hailing from Mosman on Sydney’s north shore, Ed chats to Lorna about the psychology of running and having the mindset to put in the hard yards needed for […]
Read More… from Runner Ed Goddard on Crossing the Line, Tuesday 28 August
Mum, Me and the IED , Depot Theatre, Marrickville, Aug.15-Sept. 1 The play is about a traumatised medic, Rob Harrison, returning from service in Afghanistan. He is suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, as a result of what he witnessed, patching up his colleagues and the local village victims including children. The horrors of […]
WHAT’S ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: This year’s Sydney Architecture Festival focuses on Great Architecture – What makes a building great? Can great places bring us together and why do we need ‘great?’ Tim Horton from the Architects’ Registration Board joins the program to give us the key to the Festival and its value for the community. A […]
Read More… from A Tear in the Glass and other stories – 23 August with Maisy Stapleton
At 10:40 am, Geraint Lewis joins us for Part 2 of the Science of Science Fiction and this week’s episode is the Science of Space Travel. My special guest at 11:00 am is Dr Karen Sommerville, who heads up a research team at the Herbarium at our Royal Botanic Gardens, trying to establish a seed […]
Mike Nock has been central to Australian jazz for decades. As a pianist, composer, band leader, educator he is responsible for bringing dozens if not hundreds of young musicians into the Australian scene. His recordings go back to the 70s, performing with jazz greats such as Bennie Maupin and Cecil McBee as well as the […]
Few people decide to cycle across a continent. Sports journalist and endurance athlete Rupert Guinness has made that decision twice. His first attempt, as part of the IndiPac Wheel Race in 2017, was tragically cut short after the death of fellow cyclist and competitor Mike Hall. His second attempt, along with 50 other intrepid cyclists, […]
Read More… from Rupert Guinness on Crossing the Line, Tuesday 21 August