Sylvia Rosenblum presented an Arts program every Wednesday from July 2000 until her retirement in December 2022. Her interview-based shows were broad ranging, from art to design, from writing to performing, from thinking to history, with a good dose of science along the way. She was always an admirer of creativity and the creative people who give so much to our society.
Here at Eastside, we started podcasting in 2011 and Words on Wednesday
features the most popular of her interviews since that time.
In this final episode of From the Quantum to the Cosmos, Geraint talks about facing cosmic mysteries: what don’t we understand? Well basically a lot – like 70% of the stuff of our universe: dark matter and dark energy, for a start! Once some great scientist discovers the Theory of Everything, that chasm between quantum […]
Anna Groden from ANG Art and I made our annual pilgrimage to the Archibald finalists at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and recorded our impressions in this conversation. As always, I tend to be the cynic while Anna brings the measured approach, tempered as always, with her great knowledge. Were we blown away? […]
When Dr Ruth Wilson turned 70, she kept dreaming that she had lost her voice. In a determined effort to find it – and indeed herself – she left her Sydney life for a cottage in the Southern Highlands. To heal her ailing soul, she decided to reread the 6 novels of Jane Austen Her […]