Boiling Point 29 November 2016

Missed tonight’s show? Listen in here WHAT!?! ANU scientists succeed in stopping light?! Danny explains how this is possible using super cooled rubidium atoms   Plus Chantelle visits the Southern Hemispheres largest Orchid  propagation program at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. First steps; identify pollinator. Second step; identify fungal host. Third step; keep alive   Boiling Point […]

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Surface Snorkel Insanity

Senator Pauline Hanson’s in depth analysis of the Great Barrier Reef gleaned during a strenuous “surface snorkel” during her first ever outing in a wetsuit, has brought the spectacular peculiarities of our times into stark relief  this week.   Senator Hanson was able to fall back on years of ignorance when she announced that the […]

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#SaveOzStories

Some might say that the writing industry is dying. That nowadays people don’t care about books and are too busy with screens of every sorts. But as a French person living in Sydney, enjoying to spend most of my time in libraries digging for new discoveries, it occurs to me that the idea of a dying […]

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Rebecca Ritchie on The Dialogue Wednesday 30 November

The world of Rebecca Ritchie is full of glamour, drama and beauty; with equal doses of murder, tragedy and ambition. It is the wonderful world of Opera Australia. Rebecca Ritchie, Wardrobe Production Manager for Opera Australia, takes us behind the scenes of the  workroom. We step into the domain of the costume designers, cutters, seamstresses, wig makers, milliners and […]

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Album of the Week – ‘New Balloon’ by Matilda Abraham

‘New Balloon’ by Matilda Abraham is Eastside Radio’s Album of the Week. With her brand new album released this October, Abraham invites us to follow her into a warm, honest and unique universe created amidst a mix of  the synthetic sounds and the sweet voice of a folk singer. The Sydney based singer began developing […]

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Boiling Point 22nd November 2016

Missed tonight’s show? Never fear you can listen to it here! Chantelle interviewed Australian National University researcher Henry Cook, on the team’s efforts to save the last 14 Orange Bellied Parrots Check out the Save the Orange-bellied Parrot campaign here https://pozible.com/project/operation-obp And Tim looked into research that’s pimping photosynthesis in crop plants to meet our […]

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Jazz Made In Australia Monday 28 2016 ‘Julien, Dan, & Idea of North’

I’m focusing on only 3 CDs this week,  one released early in 2016, one released late in 2016 and one released somewhere in the middle. And, they are Julien Wilson‘s ‘This Narrow Isthmus‘, Dan Barnett‘s ‘Walkin’ Shoes‘ and the Idea of North‘s ‘Ballads‘. Most of us I’m sure are familiar with Julien’s work, he is […]

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Asian Intersections

On Arts Thursday, Maisy Stapleton commenced a special series, Asian Intersections, examining how we intersect with Asia through culture and art. In a two-program interview, Jackie Menzies OAM, Emeritus Curator of Asian Art at the Art Gallery of NSW and President of The Asian Art Society of Australia joined the us to set the background […]

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