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
Astrophysicist, Professor Geraint Lewis, is back for another series, this one entitled:”The Science of Science Fiction”. Episode 1 this week at 10:40 am, looks at the Science of Fiction. My special guest at 11:00 am is education expert Chris Bonner, who joined me in conversation about equity and education. At a time when there is […]
Dance is not often thought of as a sport, but there is no doubt that a professional dancer is an athlete, mirroring the commitment, dedication, focus and training required to perform at peak physical fitness. Ballet and contemporary dancer Jean Paul Jr. has performed with dance and theatre companies across the US and Australia, including […]
Read More… from Dancer Jean Paul Jr on Crossing the Line, Tuesday 14 August
Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton on 9 August 2018. WHAT’S ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: Join Maisy Stapleton for a program that takes you from the paintings of John Russell, Australia’s French Impressionist to an ingenious new interpretation of Keating! the Musical. John Russell, left Sydney in the 1880s to […]
At 10:40 am, Anna Kamaralli presents the 6th and final part of Shakespeare’s Heroes and Villains and this episode is entitled The Famous and the Forgotten. My special guest at 11:00 am is Andrew Banks, harmonica player and teacher, taking about, explaining and demonstrating this intriguing little instrument. Music, as you might expect, features harmonica. […]
Something a little different for the show this week: we’ve flipped the format and put usual host GT in the hot seat! Gearoid Towey needs no real introduction. A three-time Olympian, he rowed for Ireland at the Sydney, Athens and Beijing Games. He’s also a rowing World Champion, winning golds at the 1996 U23 […]
Read More… from Former Olympian Gearoid Towey on Crossing the Line, Tuesday 7 August
At 10:40 am, Dr Anna Kamaralli continues with Part 5 of Shakespeare’s Heroes and Villains, this week entitled Those Who Serve Are Also Heroes. Arts Wednesday this week pays tribute to Australian living treasure, composer Ross Edwards, who turns 75 this year. My guest is Nicholas Routley, founder of the Sydney Chamber Choir and one […]
Andrew ‘Fuzz’ Purchas has a decorated background in sport, representing NSW in both rugby and rowing. He was awarded a University Blue for rowing as a representative of Sydney University, and also played first grade rugby. Andrew has been instrumental in equality for sport. In 2004, he founded Australia’s first gay rugby club, the Sydney […]
Read More… from Andrew ‘Fuzz’ Purchas on Crossing the Line, Tuesday 31 July
Bestselling Australian author, Pamela Hart, tells the story of two deeply determined people who find the resilience of their love tested to its limits amid the Australian Army hospitals of World War 1 in Egypt. Her latest book, The Desert Nurse, shows just how much a young nurse, Evelyn Northey, will sacrifice to pursue her […]
Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton on 26 July. WHAT’S ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: Join Maisy Stapleton in conversation about 60s Interior Decorator/Designer Marion Hall Best and the exhibition honouring her work at Hazlehurst Art Centre. Firstly Michael Lech, Curator of the exhibition, gives us an insight into this period in design, when modernism was gaining in […]
At 10:40 am, Dr Anna Kamaralli continues with Part 4 of Shakespeare’s Heroes and Villains and in this week’s episode, the topic is romantic heroes. My special guest at 11:00 am is Adam Courtenay, talking about his latest book: The Ship That Never Was. It is an extraordinary tale of a daring convict escape by […]
Sally Kehoe was introduced to rowing at the age of 14 while at a boarding school in Brisbane. Seven years later she made her Olympics debut at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She would go on to represent Australia in another two Olympics, at London 2012 and Rio 2016. Sally has also achieved a silver and […]
Read More… from Olympian Sally Kehoe on Crossing the Line, Tuesday 24 July