‘Not Everything But Enough’ from Alister Spence Trio is Eastside Radio’s Album Of The Week. The Alister Spence Trio is: Lloyd Swanton on double bass, Toby Hall on drums and glockenspiel, and Alister Spence himself on piano, samples and music box. The Sydney trio draw on more than 20 years performing together, ‘Not Everything But […]
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Arts Thursday 9 August – star performers
Arts Thursday with Maisy Stapleton on 10 August is a colourful and diverse as the Pilipino desert Halo-halo, an eye-popping medley of shaved ice, milk, jellies, fruit, sweet beans and whatever takes your fancy. Arts Thursday continues to explore the Phillipines Art Project Bayanihan at Mosman Art Gallery and welcomes star performer, Geraldine Turner who, as […]
Arts Wednesday 9 August 2017
At about 10:40 am we’ll hear Professor Geraint Lewis talk about New Planets and Life in the Universe, Part 3 of the series Our Universe. At 11:00 am it’s back to our annual review of the Archibald Prize with art consultant Anna Groden. Can you believe another year has rolled by? We found this year’s […]
‘Songs Of The Latin Skies’ – Katie Noonan & Karen Schaupp – Eastside Radio Album Of The Week (3 Aug – 9 Aug)
‘Songs Of The Latin Skies’ from Katie Noonan & Karin Schaupp is Eastside Radio’s Album Of The Week. This record is the follow up to their ‘Songs Of The Southern Skies’ collaboration from 2012. The album is a journey through the great South American songbook of bossa nova, samba, salsa and tango, interpreting work by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Luis Bonfa, […]
Boiling Point 1st Augst 2017 Bettongs, ravens and upside-down fish
What do bettongs, ravens, and upside-down fish have in common? They were all on Boiling Point tonight! Alex explored some fishy concepts, finding apparently both humans and fish have problems recognising upside-down faces And Charlotte found ravens (a corvid) are capable of planning for the future as well as a 4-yr old child! News from […]
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Arts Wednesday 2 August 2017
This morning we start a new series entitled “Our Universe” with astrophysicist, Professor Geraint Lewis and Part 1 is The Depths of the Solar System at 10:40 am. At 11:00 am, my special guest is historian, Laila Ellmoos – no stranger to Arts Wednesday. Laila is one of the curators of an exhibition at Carriageworks […]
‘Curao’ from Quantic & Nidia Gongora – Eastside Radio Album Of The Week (27 Jul – 2 Aug)
‘Curao’ from Quantic & Nidia Gongora is Eastside Radio’s Album Of The Week. The album is a collaboration between Quantic (prolific producer and multi-instrumentalist Will Holland) and Colombian vocalist Nidia Gongora, who is considered one of the foremost artists of marimba music in the South Pacific region. A fusion of modern and traditional ideas, ‘Curao’ […]
Arts Thursday 27th July – New Realms
Arts Thursday 27 July will focus on the first in a series exploring exhibitions and events around the Bayanihan Philippine Art Project presented through the collaboration of several Sydney galleries and cultural centres, then in counterpoint, poet Jakob Ziguras will introduce his newly published works in The Sepia Carousel. VISUAL ART […]
Forever French with a Queen Kafé Touch + win movie tickets + dogs + call out for Artists. 26/07/2017
Forever French QK Show 003 || Wednesday 26 July 2017 || (8-9:30pm) On today’s show, radio producer and host Stéphanie Denizard from Queen Kafé will be hosting forever french. Tune in to Forever French from 8-9:30pm for your chance to win a pair of tickets to see the movie Paris Can Wait by Director/Writer Eleanor […]
Arts Wednesday 26 July 2017
At 10:40 am we hear the final part of the series on percussion with Mark Robinson and this week Mark calls it “All the Rest” – instruments percussionists play that we haven’t heard already. The whole series of 6 episodes will be podcast after today’s show. Last week saw the 200th anniversary of the death […]
Simon Marnie on The Dialogue Wednesday 26 July
Simon Marnie is a man of many talents – he knows how to do card tricks and clever things with pieces of rope, but he’s best known as a broadcaster on ABC Radio. He has interviewed the talented and fabulous and reported on triumph and tragedy. This time he’s on the other side of the […]
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Boiling Point 18th Juluy 2017 Brown fat, caterpillar cannibalism and gon(e)-orrhea
Brown fat, caterpillar cannibalism and gon(e)-orrhea Chantelle took us through the differences between WAT (white adipose tissue, white fat or bad fat), BAT (brown adipose tissue , brown fat or good fat) and PHAT fats (which aren’t anything really except our phat tunes) Alex explored the curious case of cannibalistic caterpillars which are tricked into eating […]
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