Arts Wednesday 15 August 2018

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 […]

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Dancer Jean Paul Jr on Crossing the Line, Tuesday 14 August

Jean Paul Jr on Crossing the Line

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 […]

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Arts Wednesday 8 August 2018

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. […]

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Former Olympian Gearoid Towey on Crossing the Line, Tuesday 7 August

Gearoid Towey Eastside

  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 […]

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Andrew ‘Fuzz’ Purchas on Crossing the Line, Tuesday 31 July

Andrew Purchas Eastside

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 […]

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 The 60s and Marion Hall Best

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 […]

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Olympian Sally Kehoe on Crossing the Line, Tuesday 24 July

Sally Kehoe Eastside

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 […]

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Ryoji Ikeda: micro | macro

The internationally acclaimed artist Ryoji Ikeda returns to Carriageworks with micro | macro. Curator Kelly McDonald joined Nick Terry on Thursday Drive to speak about the immersive installation. Developed during a residency at CERN, European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Switzerland, Ikeda contrasts our human scale to the microscopic and unobservable elements of the universe. Listen to […]

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