We are all too aware human activity negatively impacts the environment. Most of our negative interaction and impact is irreversible. However, in the fight to save the biodiversity of Sydney waters, scientists successfully reversed the effects of human activity on Crayweed and Sydney’s ocean life. Last year we were introduced to the Crayweed […]
Category: Program Blogs
Arts Wednesday 13 December 2017
Part 2 of Australian Birds with ornithologist Richard Major at 10:40 am, this week looks at the White Fronted Chat, a little bird whose Homebush Bay colony of 2 males was thought to be extinct. Hear what Richard had to say back in 2014 and the latest update. The picture below, sent to Richard by […]
Boiling Point 28th of November 2017; Immortal Mammoths and a New form of Resistance
Missed the show? Listen to the podcast Image: Chantelle Doyle; Lyuba the 42,000-year-old mammoth Have you met Lyuba? Lyuba is quite an intriguing and mysterious mammoth. Mammoth’s are extinct, but Lyuba seems to be almost immortal as she still captures our hearts 42,000 years later. Lyuba is a preserved mammoth who has had a […]
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Arts Wednesday 6 December 2017
This week we start a repeat series on Australian birds with Richard Major, ornithologist at the Australian Museum. We start the series at 10:40 am with the Australian Ibis. At 11:00 am, my special guest in the studio is Dr Jodie Lowinger, clinical psychologist and Director of the Sydney Anxiety Clinic talking about anxiety and […]
THE INSIDE STORY – Dutch Masters; Sydney Festival
Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton covers some major events in Sydney on Thursday 28 November from 10:30am till noon, as well as a special local performance. We meet again this year with Wesley Enoch the Director of the Sydney Festival who gives us the inside story on this year’s program of over 150 events, […]
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Meredith O’Reilly on The Dialogue Wednesday 29 November 6pm
Meredith O’Reilly is a musical theatre star, cabaret performer, jazz singer, lyricist, and actor who has recently added the role of producer to her repertoire. An Australian musical that was originally produced in 1958 has caught her eye. That show is Lola Montez. It’s a story of deception, intrigue and glamour and a mysterious woman […]
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Arts Wednesday 29 November 2017
Sydney By Design for 2017 wraps up this week at 10:40 am. Ed Lippmann introduces architect, Philip Drew, who takes the opposing view to everything we have heard in this series. He believes Sydney has reached its tipping point and can not pursue further growth. My special guest at 11:00 am is photographic artist, Alina […]
Boiling Point 21st November 2017; Gloomy Octopuses the New Tradie? Cloned Dogs and 80-million-Year-Old Sharks.
Image: Octopus Tetricus, Flickr Image, 2016 (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Watch out Australia, octopuses are moving in! Not quite, in fact octopuses are making small communities. Specifically, Gloomy Octopuses or Octopus Tetricus. Surprisingly, this behaviour is not thought to be a new phenomenon. It is thought Gloomy Octopuses have been creating communities for some time. […]
‘Underworld: Mugshots from the Roaring Twenties’ Exhibition Preview – The Forensic Photographic Archive
Join me, Jane Raffan, Monday 27 November, for a program that revisits Sydney’s Forensic Photography Archive (FPA) – the world’s largest collection of police photographs, created by the NSW Police from 1910-1964. Sydney Living Museums is presenting a new exhibition of photographs drawn from the archive called “Underworld: Mugshots from the Roaring Twenties”, opening at […]
Block Printing Workshop – Ages 16 to 25
Here at Pine Street Block Printing Workshop you can learn how to block print design suiting ages 16 to 25 years old in a 3 hour hands-on lesson to demonstrate the basics of block print designs. You will be taught by professionals working in the industry to master your skill; ready for Christmas and be able […]
Forever French with a Queen Kafé Touch + French Christmas, Perfume & Drinks 23/11/2017
Bonjour, Bonsoir, Good Day, Good Evening Eastside Listerners, It’s Stéphanie Denizard from Queen Kafé. I will be hosting and producing Forever French today, Wednesday 22th of November 2017 from 8pm to 9h30pm. On the menu: Music from la Francophonie, Lancôme Perfume Masterclass at Alliance Française Sydney, Parisian Christmas gifts at L’Ingénue, Thursday drinks with the French-Australian […]
Arts Wednesday 22 November 2017
At 10:40 am, we hear Part 5 of Sydney By Design for this series and Ed talks about infrastructure. At 11:00 am, I look at a great new exhibition and website at the State Library of New South Wales, called Botanical Inspirations. It examines the work of natural history illustrator Ferdinand Bauer, who was […]