You probably didn’t know your synthetic polar fleece is shedding over 200,000 micro-fibres every time you wash it? You can listen to this week’s Monday Drive on the program page to find out why the fast fashion industry is not only the second most wasteful industry after oil – its ecological footprint is starting to […]
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‘La Despedida’ by San Lazaro is Eastside Radio’s Album of the week. This week we are bringing you an album that showcases real truthful Latin music that is full of originality, as the band San Lazaro from Melbourne have brought us an album with almost-live production that gives for a real sense of connection. You almost […]
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Remember the guy who rode his horse across the harbour bridge a few weeks back? It was great to have an intrepid farmer like Glenn Morris on the show this week – smart, learned, progressive, committed and all round top bloke, Glenn explained why he is committed to improving the biodiversity of the land on […]
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Three local Sydney writers have specially recorded works for this storytelling episode of Arts Thursday 21st July with Maren on Eastside Radio. We’ll be hearing a short story titled ‘Wine and Cheese Appreciation’ by journalist and writer Amelia Marshall, on a sharehouse and an ant farm. Next, we’ll hear three poems by queer Arab Australian […]
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Selected & Presented by DJ Taline Aired 19th July 2016 on Eastside Radio 89.7FM 8.00-9.30pm Tonight’s Moodswing is a latin, exotica, jazzy selection! DJ Taline’s mixes, radio shows and news are found on MIXCLOUD and FACEBOOK Playlist Dr Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band – Sunshower The Alan Tew Orchestra – Pink Panther Frank Pleyer Big Band – Sally Keith Mansfield – Morning Broadway […]
On tonight’s show Dr Thomas Wernberg from the University of Western Australia delved into Australia’s disappearing kelp forests. He has shared some fantastic resources on YouTube plus you can read all the details in this great The Conversation article https://theconversation.com/a-marine-heatwave-has-wiped-out… Plus we chatted with Colin Morrison from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute about how insect […]
That’s right! The infamous 80s rock/pop diva who gave us ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’ has jumped genres and released an album of her favourite country songs. Featuring country legends like Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris and Alison Krauss, it is a very fun, often tongue-in-cheek glimpse into another side of Cyndi Lauper’s wonderful personality. It is light […]
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‘Shout Until Our Lungs Turn Blue’ by Mother Jack is Eastside Radio’s album of the week. Last week our featured album here at the station was an artist’s debut record and this week we bring you yet another debut album from an emerging duo act. Being a debut album some may expect it to […]
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Sadly, Monday Drive was forced to report on the demise of Randwick’s revered Tree Of Knowledge, located at the intersection of Wansey Road and High Street, this week. Local tree lover and fresh-minted activist John Bellamy phoned in to tell us about the horror of watching it come down. Clearly resident action to stop any more […]
‘Tis a season of political madness. No matter where you stand or where you come from, there is plenty of action to debate. If there’s one thing folk musicians are great at it’s writing a passionate protest song, particularly in the days before internet trolling made everyone a little fearful. Canadian musician, Loudon Wainwright III […]
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Anna Kamaralli joins me at 10:40 am for the fifth and final part of Margaret of Anjou. The entire series will be podcast on Wednesday afternoon so you can still hear any episodes you missed or listen again! My special guest at 11:00 am is Anne McCloud in an interview I recorded earlier. Anne’s recent […]
Renowned artist, Ann Thomson and teacher, Anna McPherson are my guests today. Ann Thomson’s exhibition at the National Art School: ‘Ann Thomson & Contemporaries’ celebrates the heady times at East Sydney Tech in the late 1950s and early 1960s, a period which produced a significant group of Australian artists including Godfrey Miller, John Passmore, John Olsen, […]
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