Following our broad introduction last week, Andy Bromberger continues with Music’s Mechanical Make-Up at 10:40 am, this week talking about melody. My special guest in the studio at 11:00 am is Dr Ray Kearney, president of the Sydney Fungus Group, talking about mushrooms. We buy them in the vegetable section of the supermarket, but thy aren’t vegetables. […]
Category: Program Blogs
Virginia Ferris on The Dialogue Wednesday 29 March at 6pm
Let me entertain you! Virginia Ferris is a respected choreographer who has worked with the best in the business – Frank Sinatra, Peter Allen, K.D.Laing, Kath and Kim and Kylie. Tune in to The Dialogue on Wednesday 29 March at 6pm when Claudia Chan Shaw chats to Virginia about her fascinating career. From her days as […]
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Jazz Made In Australia Monday 27th January ‘Paula’s First Program in 2017’
Hello everyone, how good it is to be back to share this great music with you again after my annual summer break. And, I must thank my colleague Mick Paddon for doing such a great job on the program while I was away. I really did enjoy his series on the Changing Face of Jazz […]
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Frog Jazz Garden
The wealth at our feet – the critters keeping soil, seeds and ear drums thrumming. As regular Monday Drive listeners now know, all sorts of frogs often travel to Sydney in hands of bananas, lettuce and cut flowers, from all over Australia. They include charming little rainforest, laughing, and dwarf frogs whose role in the […]
Arts Thursday 23 March 2017 – German Romantics to An Australian Story
From German Romantics to a very distinctive Australian Story. Join me, Maisy Stapleton, on Arts Thursday at 10:30am for a conversation with conductor Sam Allchurch about the upcoming concert with the Sydney Chamber Choir on 8 April at the Great Hall, University of Sydney. The concert will feature the uplifting and emotionally charged music of […]
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Community Billboard March 27 – April 3
This weekly community billboard is proudly sponsored by the City of Sydney’s Plan for the future – Sydney 2030 – making our city more green, global and connected. […]
Arts Wednesday 22 March 2017
Andy Bromberger is back for the 2017 edition of her courses on music and this year’s is entitled Music’s Mechanical Make-Up. Andy starts off at about 10:40 am with an overview what’s coming in the next few weeks. At 11:00 am I’ll play an interview I recorded with political scientist Dr Mark Rolfe about the American […]
Hysteria and The Russian Nude – Arts Monday
THE RUSSIAN NUDE is a study of the female form by the late Russian photographer, Arkadiy Kozlovskiy (1964-2014). The images in an exhibition presented as a Salon Show at Black Eye Gallery, were selected from a vast archive and is the first time the work of renowned photographer Arkadiy Kozlovskiy has been displayed in a […]
Community Billboard March 20 – March 27
This weekly community billboard is proudly sponsored by the City of Sydney’s Plan for the future – Sydney 2030 – making our city more green, global and connected. […]
Boiling Point 14 February 2017 SA energy and red at night
Red at night, sailors delight? New Tesla battery array for SA?! Dr Luke Hedge jumped back into the BP chair to discuss the South Australian energy supply and competition to solve storage problems, sparked by the offer of a Tesla battery back up for the state, storing 100 megawatt hours ! And Chantelle was up […]
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Arts Wednesday 15 March 2017
Ed Lippmann joins us at 10:30 am for Part 5, the final part in this series of Sydney By Design, examining the latest vision for Sydney by the Greater Sydney Commission. At 11:00 am, I am joined by composer Cyrus Meurant, who has composed music on a CD entitled Monday to Friday. It is music […]
Roy Ayers
“This neat, feel good gig showed exactly why the New York-based vibraphonist, composer and bandleader is a longstanding crowd favourite in the UK.”– The Evening Standard Award-winning Jazz vibraphonist Roy Ayers is one of the most sampled artists in R&B and Hip Hop and comes to show off his dynamic musical library in Sydney before joining […]