Steve Langham is the winemaker for Piggs Peake winery in Pokolbin in the Hunter Valley. He’s been known to strut around in a shiny cape, rescue damsels from wine barrels and he also makes a damn fine wine. They’re the wines with the Piggy names – Sows Ear Semillon, Pino Piggio, House of Straw Shiraz. […]
At 10:40, we hear Part 4 of Atonalism, Alienation and Appeasement with Andy Bromberger and this week the topic is music of World War 2. At 11:00 am, my special guest is Anne Ryan, curator of this year’s exhibition of the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes. I’m interested in what’s different this year and what’s […]
Mianne Bagger has had a varied career. She spent 11 years as a touring professional golfer and a total of 31 years working in various technical fields. As a golfer, she competed on the Ladies European Tour (LET) and the Australian Ladies Professional Golf Tour (ALPG Tour), as well as various smaller tours throughout Europe. […]
Read More… from Pro-golfer Mianne Bagger on Crossing the Line, Tuesday 29 May
It’s Archibald time again! Join me, Jane Raffan, Monday 28 May, for a program that takes an in-depth look at the nexus between portraiture and identity in the work of two very different Australian artists: Jenny Sages and TextaQueen. Since 1989, Jenny Sages has been an Archibald finalist twenty times (People’s Choice in 2012), and […]
Australia’s most renown film critic David Stratton spoke to Nick Terry on Thursday Drive ahead of his retrospective of the Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki at this year’s Sydney Film Festival. Kaurismäki’s films celebrate everyday people in the darkest moments of their lives. His characters are broke, injured and sometimes refugees, but Kaurismäki always imbues his stories with […]
Nardean possesses a natural gift for words. It’s not often that you can genuinely say that, but as someone who has only been exercising her pen in the poetry realm for the last 4 years; this Sydney rapper has created explorative and thought-provoking poetry and music. Look no further than her debut EP Creatress – […]
Read More… from Nardean talks identity, poetry and taking control of her future on The New Thing
On May 20th, 2018 the Midnight Special departed from Rangers Road in Neutral Bay on the North shore of Sydney just about 10 km north of the studio here in Paddington. The now defunct Albert’s music studios that used to stand there have now been demolished in the never ending eruption of luxury units. [1] […]
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At 10:40 am, Andy Bromberger joins us for Part 3 of Atonalism, Alienation and Appeasement. This week, Andy looks at politics in the twentieth century and its impact on music and musicians. Stalin, Hitler and McCarthy all had very well-defined and strong views on what sort of music was acceptable and which musicians. At 11:00 […]
There aren’t many athletes that rise through the ranks to compete at international level in two different sports. Olympian Sarah Cook is one of them. Sarah competed as a dual international in rowing and sailing from 2004 to 2015. She rowed for Australia in the 2008 and 2012 Olympics and competed at numerous National and […]
Read More… from Olympian Sarah Cook on Crossing the Line, Tuesday 22 May
What is ‘Lucid Dreaming’ and how can I tell if I’m in a dream or awake? Dr. Denholm Aspy is a lucid dream researcher and Visiting Research Fellow in the School Of Psychology, at the University of Adelaide. His most recent experiment made waves around the world after discovering that a vitamin B6 may help […]
Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton on 17 May. WHAT’S ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: Ged Gillmore writes crime fiction. His hero is an ex-drug dealer and Ged’s third book in the Bill Murdoch series has just been published. English-born Ged has found a way to successfully incorporate experiences from his […]
Read More… from ARTS THURSDAY – the Writer and the Gallerist
On May 13, 2018 The Midnight Special departed the Budokan Theatre in Tokyo, Japan at 22:14 after a minor delay due to the children on board sharing a extraordinarily long embrace with their mothers, who will be staying at the station. The light of the Midnight Special first shone on the stage of the Budokan […]
Read More… from The Midnight Special – Early in the Morning to After Midnight