Personhood Is A Thing For Frogs Too.

  Anyone who expects the media to tell the whole story isn’t living in the post-fact universe.  Just ask the thousands of American scientists who hit the streets in Boston last weekend protesting the Trump Administration’s rejection and active repression of fact based scientific analysis. In Australia we are blessed with a vocal, hard working, […]

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Arts Thursday 9 March 2017 – Two Perspectives!

          This Arts Thursday – two distinct perspectives on the visual arts in Sydney! Firstly, an interview with John Firth-Smith, long established as a painter, much awarded and widely collected, the artist generously shares his anecdotes and gives us an insight into his new works, now on view at the King Street […]

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Cuban-born piano virtuoso Alfredo Rodriguez in town during International Women’s Day

    If you are in town during the week of International Women’s Day, don’t miss out Cuban-born piano virtuoso Alfredo Rodriguez who will be performing at The Basement on Sunday 12th of March 2017. Stéphanie Denizard, radio producer and presenter of Queen Kafé had a chat with Alfredo and talked about the women who […]

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The New Thing: Interview with Manu Delago

Austrian-born London-based musician Manu Delago is a multi-instrumentalist by design. Yet it came to be that in a career spanning over 10 years, the Tru-Thoughts signee is most known for playing the Hang, a percussive instrument that creates sounds so unable to be pigeonholed. It’s this flexibility that has led him to poignant collaborations with prominent […]

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Boiling Point 7 February 2017

Catalysts and Black humour Missed tonight’s show? Plug into the podcast here: https://eastsidefm.org/boilingpoint/ Tim speed visited the three new catalysts processes replacing platinum and speeding our progress towards renewable energy generation; Carbon derived enzymes, new carbon forms and rationing what we already have! (Novel hu?)… https://www.sciencenews.org/…/new-greener-catalysts-are-bui… And Chantelle checked in with Freud’s 1905 theory that […]

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Is there anything new Under The Sun?

Join me, Jane Raffan, on Monday 6 March for a program devoted to questions about cultural norms, nationhood and identity. I’ll be interviewing Claire Monneraye, curator at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, about the exhibition Under the Sun, in which 15 artists from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds respond to max Dupain’s iconic Sunbaker […]

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Arts Thursday 2 March 2017

Presenter – Bronwyn Rennex Today I’ll be talking about Art Month Sydney, which runs from the 1-20 March. Art Month Sydney is a city wide festival that celebrates contemporary art and artists through a rich and diverse program of exhibitions, workshops, panel discussions, artists studio visits, tours, precinct nights and more. I’ll be interviewing Artistic Director Barry […]

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Energy – What Energy?

We are living in the physical world (not the hair-conditioned Tower of Babble), as Canadian band Austra warbles angelically in Gaia, from their terrific album, Future Politics, which kicked off the show this week. Relevant, because whether it’s coming from burning lumps of coal, spinning wheels or solar panels, the question of how we harness, […]

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Arts Wednesday 22 February 2017

Ed Lippmann continues with Part 3 of our discussion on the vision for Sydney by the Greater Sydney Commission at about 10:40 am. At 11:00 am I’ll play an interview I recorded with Patricia Azarias, who, with husband, John, has ben responsible for the restoration of the Lysicrates Monument  and the Lysicrates Prize. Now, what’s […]

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