‘The Good Old Bad Old Days’ – a new social history of 2011: Potts Point, The Cross, The ‘Loo, and the Bays

Join me, Jane Raffan, on Monday 24 July for a program devoted to the social history of Sydney’s vibrant 2011: Potts Point, Woolloomooloo, Kings Cross, Rushcutters Bay and Elizabeth Bay. I’ll be interviewing author Warren Fahey, AM, cultural historian, collector and performer of historic songs and stories, founder of Larrikin Records and Paddington’s beloved Folkways […]

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Arts Thursday 13th July 2017.

A poet, two artists, and a conductor. This Arts Thursday, Maisy Stapleton spoke with conductor Brett Weymark who is leading a host of teenage singers and musicians in a massed choral concert featuring Benjamin Britten’s St Nicolas – whose miracles and good deeds were the original model for Santa Claus. The concert will be presented by the […]

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Boiling Point 11th June 2017 Cane toad sausage and the world’s biggest battery for SA

Tesla battery for SA and cane toad sausages Luke updated us on world’s biggest lithium ion battery to provide base load power in SA and helped explain how a battery actually works. Check out this YouTube video for a quick rundown And Chantelle chatted with Chris Jackson about training quolls and other wildlife with #canetoadsausages […]

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Forever French with a Queen Kafé Touch! 05/07/2017

  FF Show 002 || Wednesday 5 July 2017 || (8-9:30pm) This Wednesday 5 July 2017,  I will be hosting forever french from 8pm to 9:30pm. Discover music from French speaking countries and if you have children or enjoy children books, I will have a short interview with French children book author Quentin Lambert the […]

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Stories from Australian writers – Arts Monday

The Ones That Disappeared by Zana Fraillon, tells the story of three children who are victims of human trafficking, searching for freedom and hope. Esra, Miran and Isa work for the Snakeskin gang, tending to plants in the dark and airless basement of a house they are not allowed to leave. Although they’ve been told […]

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Forever French Radiothon winners + high tea & songs 21/06/2017

  Forever French Radiothon Show || Wednesday 21 June 2017 || (8-9:30pm) Sandrine and Vincent Hernandez were hosting Forever French Radiothon show and Stéphanie Denizard came with few surprises for listeners who would become supporters during the show such as guitarist Michael Coggins who played an impromptu song live during the show. We would like […]

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Rex Dupain on The Dialogue Wednesday 28 June

Introduced to photography as a child, Rex Dupain put his photography on hold and studied painting, becoming a successful artist. In the mid 1990s he rediscovered his love and talent for photography and is one of Australia’s finest photographers. Tune in to The Dialogue on Wednesday 28 June at 6pm as Claudia Chan Shaw chats […]

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it’s a pearler

A fun session for our radiothon – Rebel with a Cause Fellow broadcaster and author, journalist and music guru Toby Creswell joins me, Maisy Stapleton, to play the music of the ultimate rebel Janis Joplin – Pearl – whose music rocked the late 60s, including Woodstock and the Monterey Pop Festival.   TUNE IN TOMORROW for […]

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Arts Thursday 15th June 2017. First time in a century!

  This Arts Thursday, join Maisy Stapleton at the exhibition Victorian Watercolours recently opened in the Grand Courts at the Art Gallery of NSW. Peter Raissis, Curator of European Prints and Drawings at the Gallery joins the program to tell about these extraordinary works, many on view for the first time in a century. Watercolour […]

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