David Barr talks to Luphindo Ngxanga the human beatbox from south African acappella group The Soil. They will be appearing at WOMAdelaide. […]
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Category: Program Blogs
Arts Wednesday 8 February 2017
I am really looking forward to being back at the console this week for a new start for the new year. Ed Lippmann begins a new series of Sydney By Design, once again looking at Sydney and the new proposal by the Greater Sydney Commission. Will this one get off the ground? At 11:00 am […]
Trumpeter Ellen Kirkwood in her own words and music
Composer and trumpeter Ellen Kirkwood is this week’s focus in Changing the Face of Jazz . This is the regular feature in the hour long program devoted entirely to Australian musicians Jazz Made in Australia. Ellen draws on a rich variety of musical styles and genres for her compositions, and finds her inspiration from sources […]
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Art and Activism and Civil Rights
Join me, Jane Raffan, on Monday 6 February for a program devoted to civil rights. I’ll be interviewing Matt Poll, Sydney University’s Indigenous Heritage curator about the Freedom Rides of 1965, and the work of a group of artists produced in response for an exhibition titled, ‘Freedom Riders: Art and activism 1960s to now’. Inspired […]
Boarding Pass – Ethiopia
I’ve just returned from a fabulous trip to northern Ethiopia and I loved every minute of it. With a population of nearly 100 million, the people are somewhat healthier and better cared for than they were in the 1980s and food is more readily available to all. That’s not to say there’s no poverty but […]
deadly animals, “alternative” facts, social harmony
John Hurt died last week, but that only made 1984 seem all the closer as the first 7 days of the tumultuous Trump Presidency ended with thousands protesting at airports around the United States, American scientists planning to March en masse on Washington DC, and calls for the President to be impeached or something, gathering […]
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Michelle Bell on The Dialogue Wednesday 1 February
Have you seen the giant Lunar Lantern zodiac animals around Sydney Harbour? Heard the firecrackers in Chinatown? Want to find out what goes on behind the scenes of the Sydney Chinese New Year Festival? Claudia Chan Shaw chats with Michelle Bell, human firecracker and Program Manager of the Chinese New Year Festival and Events at the City […]
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Through A Glass Onion – David Barr talks to John Waters and Stewart D’arrietta
David Barr talks to John Waters and Stewart D’arrietta about Through A Glass Onion, the two man show on John Lennon at the Opera House. […]
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My Leonard Cohen – David Barr talks to Stewart D’arrietta
David Barr from Drive Tuesday talks to Stewart D’arrietta about his Leonard Cohen show at the Opera House, My Leonard Cohen. […]
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Bassist Jess Dunn Makes Jazz in Australia
Bass player Jess Dunn (pictured) is the featured musician in Changing the Face of Jazz broadcast as part of Jazz Made in Australia on January 30th. Jess says of herself that she came to playing music fairly late, by which she means her late teens. She progressed from a hand-me-down electric base to a stand-up […]
Arts Thursday Australia Day 2017
Join me on Australia Day at 10:30 for Arts Thursday. To begin, meet Emily Valentine whose extraordinary work, made by ‘painting in feathers’, can be seen at the exhibition Preen at the Janet Clayton Gallery in Oxford Street until 29th January. Emily’s lively and inventive art […]
Boiling Point 24 Jan 2017 + bonus point
Dinosaurs, fairy circles, 22 degree halos and Lake Wakatipu’s seiche Alex dug back into the Jurassic to see if dinosaurs may one day walk among us:… Chantelle checked out what’s causing fairy rings in the Namibian desert And Tim shared stories of two phenomena he encountered in Queenstown, New Zealand. Look it up, what are 22 degree […]