Ed Lippmann joins me at 10:40 am for Part 4 of Sydney By Design, this week talking about Barangaroo – yet again! At 11:00 am I am joined by Alexandra Joel, talking about her book Rosetta: A Scandalous True Story. It is the story of her great grandmother Rosetta and it is indeed scandalous! Music […]
Category: Program Blogs
Alpha & Omega – Tales of Transformation
Join me, Jane Raffan on Arts Monday 4 April for a program that looks at tales from Greek and Roman mythology in an intriguing new exhibition, “Alpha & Omega: Tales of Transformation“. My guest interviews today are with Michael Turner, Snr Curator at Sydney University’s Nicholson Museum, whose collections of antiquities are the largest in […]
Arts Thursday 31 March 2016
This week on Arts Thursday join me, Maisy Stapleton, with a focus on visual arts exhibitions in Sydney. Firstly, join Maisy in conversation with Gene Sherman from the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), which is launching its 2016 exhibition program with an ambitious moving image project by Mikhael Subotzky, entitled WYE, standing for the letter “Y”. […]
Arts Wednesday 30 March 2016
Ed Lippmann joins us at about 10:40 am for Part 3 of Sydney By Design 2016 and this week Ed talks about the redevelopment of the AMP quarter. At 11:00 am I will be pleased to introduce you to astro physicist, Professor Geraint Lewis, who explains gravitational waves to us. These were recently observed and […]
Arts Wednesday 23 March 2016
This morning Ed Lippmann joins me at about 10:40 am for Part 2 of Sydney By Design 2016 and this week the extension to the Art Gallery of NSW is the subject. My special guest at 11:00 am is Nicki Hutley, Director and Chief Economist with Urbis and the topic is social return on investment. It […]
Ian “Herbie” Hemphill on The Dialogue Wednesday 23 March
Ian Hemphill asks the question “Can you imagine a world without spices? What if there was no such thing as vanilla ice cream, cinnamon buns or the aromatic flavour of juniper in gin? Imagine life without Worcestershire sauce, mustard pickles, chilli sauce……” Affectionately known as “Herbie”, Ian is Australia’s leading authority on spice. He’s travelled […]
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Album of the Week – ‘Né So’ by Rokia Traoré
‘Né So’ by Rokia Traoré (Nonesuch Records/Warner Music) is Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week. Produced by John Parish (PJ Harvey, Tracy Chapman), ‘Né So’ (Home) is a raw and powerful sixth addition to the multi-instrumentalists recording career. The album travers seven years of inspiration starting from her travels back home in 2009 to Mali. Her […]
Arts Wednesday 16 March 2016
This week Ed Lippmann makes a welcome return to Arts Wednesday with a new series of Sydney By Design for 2016. Ed kicks off the series at about 10:40 am talking about the Light Rail. At 11:00 am I will be joined in the studio by Australian soprano, Greta Bradman on the eve of her Australian […]
Italy’s Luca Gemma and ‘PLAYTHING’- Arts Monday
Italian Musician, Luca Gemma, Writer, Simon Dodd, and Actor, Cherrie Whalen-David are my guests today. Simon Dodd is the writer of PLAYTHING – an absurdist one- act comedy that is a subtle mix of deep philosophical musings and toilet humour. Cherrie Whalen-David plays the female lead. The cast features some of Sydney’s most seasoned and […]
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Arts Thursday Leaves Town.
If you’re travelling north to Brisbane or heading north west towards Armidale, it’s well worth noting two fabulous exhibitions which are presently on show at the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) in Brisbane and at the New England Regional Art Museum in Armidale. First stop on Arts Thursday is Armidale, to […]
Arts Wednesday 9 March 2016
Laila Ellmoos joins me at about 10:40 am for Part 6, the final part of our series on Sydney and Water and this week we talk about toilets. At 11:00 am I am joined by Dr Charles Pickett, curator of Imagine a City, an exhibition at the State Library of NSW marking 200 years of […]
Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling
Join me, Jane Raffan on Arts Monday 7 March for a program that looks at folklore, and the role stereotypes play in cementing narrative in national histories and broader popular culture. My guest interviews today are with Larissa Behrendt, lawyer, and professor of Indigenous Research at the University of Technology Sydney, and author of a […]
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