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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My first taste of the world of advertising was watching Bewitched, with Samantha’s mortal husband Darrin Stevens as an ad man. Then came Mad Men with its 60s chain smoking, hard drinking ad execs. Tune in to the Dialogue on Wednesday 29 June at 6pm for my chat with ad man Ray Heckendorf and his take […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]