Anna Kamaralli joins me at 10:40 am for Part 2 of our new series on the fabulous Margaret of Anjou. At 11:00 am, I am joined by Dr Ida Lichter, making a welcome return to Arts Wednesday, talking about her new book The Secret Magic of Music in which she asks a variety of musicians what […]
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Gracious Green Elders – Going, Gone?
Many 89.7fm listeners have been following our coverage of the loss of our magnificent heritage trees in the Eastern Suburbs as a result of the NSW State Government’s unlovely (and it would seem poorly planned) light rail infrastructure. This week Professor Peter Fisher, Adjunct Professor Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University joined […]
Album of the week – Ballad’s by The Idea of North
‘Ballad’s’ by The Idea of North is Eastside Radio’s album of the week. This week’s featured album comes straight from the lungs of the deep south as the ensemble hail from Adelaide and use nothing but their voices. If you haven’t already heard of The Idea of North well you are in for quite a […]
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Arts Wednesday 8 June 2016
Dr Anna Kamaralli returns to Arts Wednesday at 10:40 am with another series on Shakespeare and, this year our topic is Margaret of Anjou. Anna is directing a new play about this wonderful woman and leading up to the performance, we learn about her, both in real life but also as Shakespeare portrayed her. At […]
Album of the week – Everything’s Beautiful by Robert Glasper
‘Everything’s Beautiful’ by Robert Glasper is Eastside Radio’s album of the week. Like each ‘Album of the Week’ we feature for you here at Eastside it is very special, however this week’s chosen album brings us the sounds of one of the hallmark legends of the genre of Jazz. Grammy award winner Robert Glasper has […]
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Arts & Culture Festival – Arts Monday
Musicians Mythra Ensemble and Yasmin & Fanous perform live on Arts Monday 6th June 2016. These talented performers are participating in the New Beginnings: Refugee Arts & Culture Festival, which celebrates the talents, skills and cultural diversity of people from refugee backgrounds. Mythra Ensemble’s unique sound is a blend of traditional music of Iran, Armenia, […]
Arts Wednesday 1 June 2016
This week sees the final part of Revolution, Reaction and Romanticism with Andy Bromberger at 10:40 am and Andy concludes with opera in the Romantic era. My special guest at 11:00 am is Tom Godfrey, who heads up the media team at Choice. This consumer advocacy group has a sterling reputation, grounded in its pursuit […]
Dark Archive: Forensic Photography, Visual Evidence and the Museum
Join me, Jane Raffan, on Arts Monday 30 May for a program that takes an in-depth look at the cultural afterlife of criminal evidence. This week, Sydney University is hosting a photography symposium that will explore the relationship between photography’s ontology (philosophical study of the nature of being), the camera as a human perceptual apparatus […]
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Nelson Lau on The Dialogue Wednesday 25 May
Nelson Lau is a little like Clark Kent. He’s a successful doctor, but is also supremely creative and has a whole other identity as a photographer and film maker. He has hung out with the King of Swaziland, treated survivors of crocodile attacks in Darwin and lived to tell the tale of the toughest […]
Moodswing – Nudisco, electro & house vibes!
Selected & Presented by DJ Taline Aired 24th May 2016 on Eastside Radio 89.7FM 8.00-9.30pm Tonight’s Moodswing is jam packed full of nu-disco, electro & house with the likes of Munk, Fred Falke, Tiga, Royksopp, Azari & III, Chromeo, Todd Terje, Lindstrom & more. DJ Taline’s mixes, radio shows and news are found on MIXCLOUD and FACEBOOK Playlist Chromeo – You’re So Gangsta […]
Arts Wednesday 25 May 2016
Andy Bromberger joins us in the first half hour for Part 5 of Revolution, Reaction and Romanticism and this week she talks about the role of music in the establishment of nationalism in the nineteenth century. My special guest at 11:;00 am is Steve Durbach, whose exhibition, Schrodinger’s Bird, opens this week at the Bondi […]
Album of the week – World Music by Joseph Tawadros with James Tawadros
‘World Music’ by Joseph Tawadros is Eastside Radio’s album of the week. An album that pushes the boundaries and includes an endless amount of different instruments is Joseph Tawadros thirteenth album ‘World Music’ and what a fitting title he has given his latest album as it is exactly world music. Incorporating instruments from the Middle […]
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