Olympian Taekwondo athlete Hayder Shkara, on Crossing the Line Tuesday 12 June 3pm

Hayder Shka

Hayder Shkara fell in love with martial arts in 1998, as a 7-year-old child in the suburbs of Sydney. He made his first national team in 2006 and by 2011 was competing to represent Australia at the London 2012 Olympic Games.  A loss to a New Zealand competitor in the Oceania qualifiers saw him miss out on […]

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NEW ALBUM REVIEWS: JUNE 2018

NEW ALBUM REVIEWS  To listen or purchase a release click the ? or the album’s artwork VARIOUS ARTISTS Eccentric Soul: The Saru Label [Numero Group/Rocket] ? Review by: James Tsai  The consistently brilliant archival specialist and all-genre encompassing Chicago based label, Numero Group has done it again. For volume 20 of the label’s flagship series Eccentric Soul, we are transported back […]

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Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week: Jun 7 – Jun 14

Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week is LOVEPLAYDANCE by Toshio Matsuura on Brownswood Recordings. On ‘LOVEPLAYDANCE’, legendary Tokyo DJ and producer Toshio Matsuura charts a new direction. Casting musical cornerstones in a fresh light, the TOSHIO MATSUURA GROUP features Tom Skinner (drummer for Sons of Kemet and Owiny Sigoma Band amongst others) as its musical director, as […]

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Influential sports administrator John Boultbee on Crossing the Line, Tuesday 5 June

Having started his sporting career as a rowing coxswain aged 13, John Boultbee’s passion for sport has lead him to become one of Australia’s leading sports administrators. He was Secretary General of the International Rowing Federation (1989-95) and is currently Steward of the Henley Royal Regatta. As Director of the Australian Institute of Sport during the […]

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What the World Needs Now and The Forever Kid – Arts Monday

What the World Needs Now or How the Inner West Connects is a new musical theatre show about the ups and downs of living in Sydney’s inner west. Written by Choir Director, Gary Smith and members of the St Peter’s based community choir, The Bridge on the River Choir, the musical portrays the story of […]

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Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week: May 31 – June 7

Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week is So Calypso! by Calypso Rose on the Because Music label. There’s no doubt about it, as the self-proclaimed ‘Queen of Calypso’, calypso is her thing and no one has ever come close to dethroning her. She remains the voice of this musical style originating from Trinidad and Tobago […]

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ARTS THURSDAY – What Lies behind?

                ARTS THURSDAY with Maisy Stapleton  on 31 May. WHAT’S ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: Join Maisy Stapleton in conversation with two very different groups of artists to probe what ‘lies behind’ an artwork. Firstly we’ll meet two artists who are showing at the Janet Clayton Gallery in Paddington. In what will […]

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Steve Langham on The Dialogue 30 May at 6pm

Claudia Chan Shaw and Steve Langham, winemaker Piggs Peake Winery

Steve Langham is the winemaker for Piggs Peake winery in Pokolbin in the Hunter Valley. He’s been known to strut around in a shiny cape, rescue damsels from wine barrels and he also makes a damn fine wine. They’re the wines with the Piggy names – Sows Ear Semillon, Pino Piggio, House of Straw Shiraz. […]

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