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 […]
Arts Wednesday 12 July 2017
Mark Robinson returns with Part 5 of our series on Percussion and this week we look at Timpani, a session we also recorded on the stage of the Concert Hall at the Sydney Opera House. My special guest at 11:00 am is celebrity GP, Dr Ginni Mansberg, making a welcome return to Arts Wednesday, this […]
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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Geri Allen Tribute on Freedom Jazz Dance
Geri Allen, pianist has passed away. Ex-wife of trumpeter; Wallace Roney, mother of 3 children, died of cancer in her Pittsburgh home a few days ago. Vale Geri Allen. I interviewed her when she came to Sydney in the early 1980s. Even then, she was totally confident and assured. She was on her way to […]
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 […]
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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Arts Wednesday 14 June 2017
Mark Robinson joins us again for Part 4 of our Percussion series and this week we talk about drums and cymbals. The exciting part is that we recorded on the stage of the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House. It was quite an experience for me! My special guest at 11:00 am is playwright […]
Arts Wednesday 7 June 2017
Mark Robinson continues with Part 2 of pitched percussion at 10:40 am and this week we talk about bells. At 11:00 am I am replaying the second of 2 legal history conversations. This week I’ll be playing the conversation I recorded with Arlie Loughnan in 2015 on criminal law. As with equity last week, it is […]