Bestselling Australian author, Royce Kurmelovs, tells a story about greed, irresponsibility and failing to learn from the past. Boom and Bust is a revealing look at the rise and fall of the mining industry – at the winners and the losers and the impact of the boom that wasn’t meant to end. In Boom and Bust, […]
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Gamelan musician and teacher Gary Watson speaks to Thursday Drive about the mysterious and sacred world of Gamelan music. See Gary with the Sydney Conservatorium Balinese Gamelan Ensemble perform at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music at 1pm Saturday 15th September. More information here. Listen to the interview below. Listen to more interviews from Thursday Drive. […]
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WHAT’S ON TODAY’S PROGRAM: Join Maisy Stapleton for stories acrosss the arts . The third Arts Thursday segment on the Sydney Architecture Festival focuses on Ethics in an Age of Excess. This will be a preview of a panel discussion querying if architecture has lost its social purpose, and its focus on the public good […]
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After a nation-wide search for the Australia’s best young classical musicians aged 30 and under, the three finalists – violinist Courtenay Cleary, percussionist Thea Rossen and clarinettist Oliver Shermacher – will compete live in concert for the title of 2018 Freedman Classical Fellow, and the career-changing $20,000 cash prize to undertake a proposed creative project. […]
In a bit of a twist to our usual format, GT and sports journalist Rupert Guinness discuss the latest stories hitting the sports headlines this week, including Grand Final season, the Aussie and Irish wins at the World Rowing Championships, the blistering new marathon world record, and updates from the endurance cycling event ‘Race to […]
Presented by Bronwyn Rennex On today’s show I chat to Mark O’Toole who is one of the producers (along with Kath Shelper – Scarlett Pictures) of Black Comedy Series 3, which is about to screen on ABC TV. Because Mark is such a fan of garage music from the 60s to 80s, I also take […]
Read More… from Arts Thursday – 13 September 2018 – Talking Black Comedy with Mark O’Toole
Eastside Radio’s Album of The Week is Jon Cleary’ ‘Dyna-Mite’, releasesd via FHQ Records. Jon Cleary is an English pianist, guitarist and vocalist, based in New Orleans. Cleary’s thirty-five years of intensive hands-on work on the Crescent City scene has made him a respected peer of such New Orleans R&B icons as Dr. John and […]
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Professor Geraint Lewis continues with The Science of Science Fiction at 10:40 am and this week the topic is The Science of Aliens. My special guests this week are Catherine and Michael Atherton. Michael is the editor and adaptor of In Exile From St Petersburg, about the life of Catherine’s grandfather, Abram Saulevitch Kagan. Abram’s […]
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Conservatorium Open Academy – Find the Music in You! Music is an extraordinary thing, it brings us joy, engages the ‘little grey cells’ just as well as any crossword and does no end of wonderous things for mental health and wellbeing. It is for everyone, young and old, experienced or novice; there is a musical […]
Concert pianist, composer and international keynote speaker Ambre Hammond launches her second album of exquisite original compositions. Night Flowers is a collaboration of music and photography between pianist/composer Ambre Hammond and photographer James O’Toole. James captured 24 night-images of flowers in gardens around Sydney. Ambre immortalised these images in music with the composition of 24 pieces for […]