Missed tonight’s show? Plug into the podcast! What more reading? Check out the relevant publications! Chantelle Doyle discussed the similarities between dogs and their owners, hint it’s all in the eyes Chantelle also discussed developments on the growth of vegies in Martian soil and issues with heavy metal and limiting nutrients. Also tonight, Luke McPhan came into […]
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Arts Wednesday 29 June 2016
This week at 10:40 am Anna Kamaralli continues with Part 4 of our series on Margaret of Anjou, this episode about Margaret as warrior and prophetess. At 11:00 am my special guest is Agnes Walder, who translated her late father’s poetry from Hungarian to English. The book, entitled Become A Message, recently won the Independent […]
shimmering live reads of eco classics
If you missed the shimmering live reads of eco classics performed by Elaine Hudson for Green Velvet in the past couple of months, don’t forget you can still find them on the program page. The most recent and possibly most compelling was an excerpt from Rachel Carson’s first book The Edge Of the Sea, which Elaine […]
Arts Wednesday 15 June 2016
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 […]
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 […]