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Category: Program Blogs
Adventure rower Martin Fletcher on Crossing the Line, Tuesday 4 September
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 […]
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Arts Wednesday 29 August 2018
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 […]
Runner Ed Goddard on Crossing the Line, Tuesday 28 August
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 […]
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Review of Mum, Me and the IED
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 […]
A Tear in the Glass and other stories – 23 August with Maisy Stapleton
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 […]
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Arts Wednesday 22 August 2018
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 […]
Benefit to Support Mike Nock’s recovery
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 […]
Rupert Guinness on Crossing the Line, Tuesday 21 August
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, […]
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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 […]
Dancer Jean Paul Jr on Crossing the Line, Tuesday 14 August
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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Impressionism to Impresario
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 […]