Extras & Special Broadcasts
Special Broadcasts
Throughout the year CRN brings stations a variety of live broadcasts including the Tamworth and Mildura Country Music Festivals, the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, International Women's Day content, Federal Budget coverage and much more.
About Extras
Extras 1 and Extras 2 are two program slots in the regular CRN Program Guide.
Extras 1 broadcasts between 13:04 - 14:00 EST/EDT; Extras 2 between 14:04 - 15:00 EST/EDT Wednesdays. Extras feature a variety of programs that change week to week. See below for details on the latest Extras programming.
If you missed this content in its broadcast week, contact [email protected] for a file download.
Upcoming Extras
Wednesday 6 June
Suddenly Senior: Mark Trevorrow - Being young is highly overrated
Bob Downe has been an “old show-biz clack” for more than two decades, forever in denial of ageing. His creator, comedian Mark Trevorrow however, wouldn’t be younger for quids.
Despite being invisible in gay bars and at Mardi Gras, he now loves the anonymity of being old and no longer gives a shit about much at all.
Heart of the Storm - Good People of Nerriga 
Phil and Sarah, the publicans of the Nerriga Hotel, sheltered their community from a firestorm as fire fighters battled the blaze on the 21st of December, 2019.
Wednesday 31 May
Suddenly Senior: Kirstie Clements - #CoastalGrandmaChic
After being at the helm of Vogue Australia for more than a decade Kirstie Clements knows a thing or two about style. She’s a senior now too, so she’s well placed to offer sartorial tips to those of us who can’t find our older style groove. Her advice? Buy fewer and buy better.... and wear whatever the hell you like.
Heart of the Storm - The March to Town
On the 29th of November 2019, the Black Range Fire escaped the national park and threatened the rural township of Braidwood, NSW, Australia. Local residents, friends and family risked their lives on the frontline to protect the community. This is their story.
Wednesday 24 May
Suddenly Senior: Jean Kittson - I’d like wine with my meds please! 
Jean Kittson has been making Australians laugh for decades. Once the Queen of the comedy circuit these days she’s more likely to perform at a senior’s festival, (and boy do those mosh pits go off). She loves growing old but just wishes the chin-hair and ears would stop growing.
Water Watch Ep 10 : Kevin Dunque and Ray Woods 
This week we speak to community members about the floods that ravaged South-East Australia in late 2022.
This program was first published in November.
Wednesday 17 May
Suddenly Senior: Greig Pickhaver - Your attitude in the moment
As his alter-ego H.G. Nelson he's been making Australians laugh at their sporting obsessions for decades. But there's more to Greig Pickhaver than comedy and acting. In his later years he's been exploring more the relationship between mind and body, and is now a firm believer in the bliss of the moment. Is he becoming a Zen master?
Water Watch Ep 9 : Prof Grafton and Tuesday Browel
This week we talk post-truth water politics and surviving floods.
This program was first published in November.
Wednesday 10 May
Suddenly Senior: Debbie Spillane - I don't have to wear a bra anymore!
A true trail blazer in sports journalism Debbie Spillane was the first woman to commentate cricket on ABC Radio. She went on to co-host Hard Coffee on triple j, and then claim the Australian Sports Commission Media Award for Lifetime Achievement. Now happily retired and bra-less on the NSW mid-North Coast she doesn’t want to do anything other than play guitar, wear overalls, and solve Wordle.
Water Watch Ep 8 : The Orbweavers
This week we talk about our unique connections with waterways and how it inspires music and arts to explore the world through the story of water.
This program was first published in October.
Wednesday 3 May
Gimme Gimme Gimme - World Tour
Including the songs of ABBA, Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Frida have a music catalogue of over 1,500 recordings – from pure pop to traditional Swedish folk. So join us and be delighted with 60 years of music from these amazing Swedes. There’s more to ABBA than you think!
Time to travel the world and head to all those wonderful holiday destinations you’ve always wanted to go to.
Water Watch Ep 7: Ecologist Bill Johnson
This week on Water Watch, we talk history and ecology in the Basin. There are a few rebuttals to an earlier conversation you can catch in our podcast feed.
This program was first published in October.
Wednesday 26 April
Gimme Gimme Gimme - Siblings
Including the songs of ABBA, Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Frida have a music catalogue of over 1,500 recordings – from pure pop to traditional Swedish folk. So join us and be delighted with 60 years of music from these amazing Swedes. There’s more to ABBA than you think!
This week's show features songs from brothers and sisters who have had songs written and produced for them by Benny and Björn, a song each from Agnetha and Björn’s children (Linda Ulveaus and Christian Ulveaus), and songs that mention brothers and/or sisters.
Water Watch Ep 6: River Peoples Forum 
This week on Water Watch, we listen back to a public forum held in Swan Hill which brough together river people, academic and agency representatives to discuss the future of the Murray-Darling Basin
This program was first published in September.
Wednesday 19 April
Gimme Gimme Gimme - Questions
Including the songs of ABBA, Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Frida have a music catalogue of over 1,500 recordings – from pure pop to traditional Swedish folk. So join us and be delighted with 60 years of music from these amazing Swedes. There’s more to ABBA than you think!
We ask all kinds of questions from Is there life on Mars? to Does Your Mother Know?
Water Watch: Menindee Fish Kill Part 2
In this episode, we continue our special broadcast on the Menindee Fish Kills with Part 2 - "We meet the guidelines"
In this episode we take a deep dive into drinking water quality and access to fresh water while thousands of tonnes of dead fish continue to decompose in Menindee's town water supply.
The new NSW Premier, Chris Minns was out on the ground in Menindee less than 48 hours after being sworn in, and we speak to community members about the issues facing access to water for domestic use and for stock, as well as a geographer and environmental scientist about the risks involved in a health crisis such as this.
Wednesday 12 April
Gimme Gimme Gimme - Country
Including the songs of ABBA, Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Frida have a music catalogue of over 1,500 recordings – from pure pop to traditional Swedish folk. So join us and be delighted with 60 years of music from these amazing Swedes. There’s more to ABBA than you think!
We listen to the country influence in some ABBA songs, the country style songs from Benny, Björn’s, Agnetha and Frida solo careers and listen to how well some ABBA songs lend themselves to be covered by country musicians.
WOMADelaide Day Two
Held on the traditional lands of the Kaurna People, WOMADelaide – World Of Music Arts & Dance - is an iconic open-air festival celebrating cultural discovery in the heart of Adelaide’s stunning Botanic Park / Tainmuntilla.
The Worlds Festival, since 1992, is a truly unique part of the Australian festival landscape, showcasing the best, the essential – and the surprising – in music, arts, dance and ideas from around the world.
Wednesday 5 April
Gimme Gimme Gimme - Colours 
Including the songs of ABBA, Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Frida have a music catalogue of over 1,500 recordings – from pure pop to traditional Swedish folk. So join us and be delighted with 60 years of music from these amazing Swedes. There’s more to ABBA than you think!
This a bright happy show where we’ve included all the colours of the rainbows…. and we explore how colours are used in lyrics to express emotion.
Presented by Allison Pyke and Tony Ladds.
WOMADelaide Day One
Held on the traditional lands of the Kaurna People, WOMADelaide – World Of Music Arts & Dance - is an iconic open-air festival celebrating cultural discovery in the heart of Adelaide’s stunning Botanic Park / Tainmuntilla. The Worlds Festival, since 1992, is a truly unique part of the Australian festival landscape, showcasing the best, the essential – and the surprising – in music, arts, dance and ideas from around the world.
Wednesday 29 March
Gimme Gimme Gimme - Adventure 
Including the songs of ABBA, Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Frida have a music catalogue of over 1,500 recordings – from pure pop to traditional Swedish folk. So join us and be delighted with 60 years of music from these amazing Swedes. There’s more to ABBA than you think!
We get adventurous in this show and play songs about explorers like Robinson Crusoe and Dr Livingstone as well as go flying to the moon.
Presented by Allison Pyke and Tony Ladds.
Water Watch: Menindee Fish Kill Part 1 
Locals are disgusted as millions of fish have again suffocated in the Darling-Baaka River at Menindee.
Today on Water Watch we hear the response from a number of Menindee locals, original audio from a Town Hall Meeting held by representatives from multiple Government agencies and from an ecologist with 30 years experience.
This episode was created by Dan Schulz with production support from Megan Williams.
Wednesday 22 March
Outlook : Learning about life by studying bones 
Outlook looks at the true stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives. When Alexa Hagerty was a teenager she had a brush with death, but it was only after her father died that she began to study end of life practices and care. Her research took her into funeral rites and rituals, and then into forensic exhumations and finally into the mass graves of 'disappeared' people in Guatemala and Argentina.
Water Watch Ep 5 : Anne Poelina and Erin O'Donnell 
This is 2DRY FM’s water watch summer series broadcast nationally on the community radio network.
Over summer, we’re taking a second bite of our favourite episodes from 2022.
This week we feature inspiring presentations on giving rights to rivers as ancestral beings.
Wednesday 15 March
Culinary Food Archive - Soybeans
In 1770, naturalists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander reportedly saw wild soybeans in Botany Bay. The following century, the Japanese government sent soybeans to Australia as a gift. Thanks to Chinese miners in the 1800s, tofu was most probably part of gold rush diets, but it wasn’t until just a few decades ago – with the growing vegetarian movement, waves of migration and people asking for soy in their coffee – that the soybean became part of everyday lives.
Water Watch Ep 4
Water Watch is a weekly deep dive into news and current events from policy, ecology, art and climate. With a diversity of voices from our river communities as well as experts in the field,
This week we shift focus to how national water policy translates to local issues. This program was first published in August.
Wednesday 8 March
Culinary Food Archive - Tomatoes
The tomato was dismissed as poison for 200 years in Italy, though it’s now celebrated as a staple of its cuisine. Italian migration to Australia helped make the tomato a mainstream ingredient here. Learn about the people who grow it, preserve it or cook it — whether it’s Italian Australians bottling passata in their ‘second kitchen’ (garage) in Sydney, the Cambodian refugee family growing heirloom tomatoes on a former zoo, or the Indigenous café owner serving bush tomatoes on her menu.
Water Watch Ep 3 : Leroy Johnson and the Waterbag Band
This week on part 3 of Water Watch we’re talking life, culture and the big issues with a musician that needs no introduction in far west NSW. This conversation was first published in August
Wednesday 1 March
Culinary Food Archive - Coffee
Australia is famous for its coffee culture, but it didn’t begin with Italian post-war migration. There was the rise of coffee palaces during the 19th century temperance movement and the influential Depression-era coffee shops run by Russian migrant Ivan Repin (who offered fresh-roasted beans when stale, day-old coffee was standard). The impact of Italian-Australian migration on our espresso obsession can’t be denied though: it's paved the way for an inclusive coffee culture that includes Ethiopian coffee ceremonies and Indigenous business owners presenting native ingredients and reconciliation in a cup.
Water Watch Ep 2 : Roy Butler and Maryanne Slattery
This is 2DRY FM’s water watch summer series broadcast nationally on the community radio network.
Over summer, we’re taking a second bite of our favourite episodes from 2022.
This week we are going in deep on the politics of Floodplain Havesting Regulations in NSW.
These conversations were first published in August.
Regulations have since been knocked back by the upper house of NSW and Roy Butler has resigned from the Shooter, Fishers, Farmers Party
Wednesday 22 February
Culinary Food Archive - Beer & Vegemite
Australian colonial history begins with beer: the Endeavour left England with 250 barrels on board. The drink reflects the changing fortunes of women, from Australia’s first female licensee to the 1960s feminist fight to allow women into public bars. Beer has always bubbled over into politics, with Reschs’ owner, Edmund Resch, thrown into a local internment camp when WWI broke — punished for his German roots, despite living here since age 16. Politicians love to be associated with beer: Prime Minister Bob Hawke set an ale-drinking world record in 1954 and has a craft beer named after him. Beer has given us a national icon – Vegemite. Now, brewers like Wildflower in Sydney are doing fascinating experiments with beer using native grains, wild yeasts and local flowers — showing how far the drink has evolved since its initial arrival into Sydney.
Water Watch Ep 1 : Tom Kennedy and Ruby Davies
This is 2DRY FM’s water watch summer series broadcast nationally on the community radio network.
Over summer, we’re taking a second bite of our favourite episodes from 2022.
In this week we talk about NSW water policy and the role of Art in representing environmental catastrophe with a photo from Wilcannia’s dry river bed.
These conversations were first published in June & July.
Wednesday 15 February
Culinary Food Archive - Grains
Long before local authorities tried to ban sliced bread, Australia was home to the world’s first bakers. Grindstones, some 65,000 years old, suggest Indigenous communities have been baking for millennia and there’s an amazing effort to bring back this cultural knowledge and revive Indigenous grains. While Australia has had a fraught relationship with locally grown wheat, there’s a growing movement to embrace Australian heritage grains, backed by open-minded chefs who want to knead such enduring flour into ultra-local pasta, pizza and bread.
Homeless in Hotels - 10,000 beds 
Episode Two of Homeless in Hotels is all about services. What opportunities and struggles did peers have accessing services in hotel lockdown? How did support workers adapt? We meet some new peers and support workers Sarah and Andy.
Wednesday 18 January
Summer Festival Live Music Features - Woodford Live (Part 6) 
The summer festival season is fast approaching! To help celebrate the festivals’ return the CRN in conjunction with Recorded Live have produced 8 x 55.50 to broadcast over December and January. All of the shows will feature unique live material only available from the CRN. These shows are produced from ten years of live recording from Woodford.
Summer festivals to happen this season include, Woodford, Illawarra, Cygnet, Gulgong, Tamar Valley, Threadbo Blues, and more.
Oscillations - Mutual Obligation 
In Mutual Obligation Sally Olds looks into unemployment activism in 1970s Australia, when Malcolm Fraser was Prime Minister and Milton Friedman toured the continent. The piece tracks the links between unemployed worker unions, the origin of the ‘dole bludger’, and the rise of the unemployment policies we live under and struggle against today.
Sally Olds is a writer whose work has been published by Sydney Review of Books, un Magazine, the Institute of Modern Art, and AQNB, among other publications. In September 2022 she released her first book, People who Lunch: Essays on Work, Leisure, and Loose Living (Upswell).
Oscillations is presented by Jon Tjhia and sound design is by Erin Hyde (Sig Nu Gris).
Wednesday 11 January
Summer Festival Live Music Features - Woodford Live (Part 5) 
The summer festival season is fast approaching! To help celebrate the festivals’ return the CRN in conjunction with Recorded Live have produced 8 x 55.50 to broadcast over December and January. All of the shows will feature unique live material only available from the CRN. These shows are produced from ten years of live recording from Woodford.
Summer festivals to happen this season include, Woodford, Illawarra, Cygnet, Gulgong, Tamar Valley, Threadbo Blues, and more.
Oscillations - Radiesthesia 
Omar Musa responds to the Radiesthesia pendulum in a piece about divination and love. ‘I was drawn to this object because it seemed evocative of the type of spirit that poets (and yearning lovers) often invoke, a summoning or divination process, where the lines between art and pseudoscience blur.’
Omar Musa is a Bornean-Australian author, visual artist and poet from Queanbeyan, Australia. He has released four poetry books (including Killernova) and four hip-hop records. His one-man play, Since Ali Died, won Best Cabaret Show at the Sydney Theatre Awards in 2018. His debut novel, Here Come the Dogs, was long listed for the Miles Franklin Award and he was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Young Novelists of the Year in 2015.
Omar would like to thank Cara Stewart and Jon Tjhia for the attentive feedback and care.
Oscillations is presented by Jon Tjhia and sound design is by Erin Hyde (Sig Nu Gris).
Wednesday 4 January
Summer Festival Live Music Features - Woodford Live (Part 4) 
The summer festival season is fast approaching! To help celebrate the festivals’ return the CRN in conjunction with Recorded Live have produced 8 x 55.50 to broadcast over December and January. All of the shows will feature unique live material only available from the CRN. These shows are produced from ten years of live recording from Woodford.
Summer festivals to happen this season include, Woodford, Illawarra, Cygnet, Gulgong, Tamar Valley, Threadbo Blues, and more.
Oscillations - A Radiating Body 
A Radiating Body turns to the not-so-distant past, when the body still held mystery and medicine still had a touch of magic about it. This replica of a multi-wave oscillator machine, built by Angas Vivian Jones in 1970s Sydney, is at once a homemade therapeutic device, and a container for desire, faith and an irrepressible spirit of invention.
Miyuki Jokiranta presents and produces ABC Radio National’s documentary program, Earshot. Her work has aired on the BBC, NPR and the European Broadcasting Union. Miyuki fell in love with radio arts while curating Soundproof and has created expanded documentaries for MONA FOMA, Radio Revolten and BLEED festivals.
With thanks to Neil Wilson, laboratory manager at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne and amateur radio enthusiast, Eloise Oxer, Bruno Sacco and Tony Kerselaers at Multiwave Research for the use of their recordings.
Oscillations is presented by Jon Tjhia and sound design is by Erin Hyde (Sig Nu Gris).
Wednesday 28 December
Summer Festival Live Music Features - Woodford Live (Part 3) 
The summer festival season is fast approaching! To help celebrate the festivals’ return the CRN in conjunction with Recorded Live have produced 8 x 55.50 to broadcast over December and January. All of the shows will feature unique live material only available from the CRN. These shows are produced from ten years of live recording from Woodford.
Summer festivals to happen this season include, Woodford, Illawarra, Cygnet, Gulgong, Tamar Valley, Threadbo Blues, and more.
Oscillations - Push to Walk 
The PB/5 pedestrian crossing button is a celebrated icon of Australian design. Its renowned sound became part of an independent movement for social change, and the audio tactile pedestrian button became an irreplaceable feature in our neighbourhoods. In Push to Walk: A People’s History of the Pedestrian Button find out how the PB/5 pedestrian button came to be a fixture on Australian streets from the people who helped make it happen: engineers, Vision Australia advocates and the blind and vision impaired communities.
Producer Jane Curtis is an award-winning producer of podcasts and radio documentaries. Her podcast Inner West Icons is a sound-rich, playful tour of Sydney’s inner west.
Sound engineer John Jacobs is an international award-winning ABC sound engineer. He brings sounds and voices together to tell engaging stories with warmth, humour and surprise.
Oscillations is presented by Jon Tjhia and sound design is by Erin Hyde (Sig Nu Gris).
Wednesday 21 December
Summer Festival Live Music Features - Woodford Live (Part 2) 
The summer festival season is fast approaching! To help celebrate the festivals’ return the CRN in conjunction with Recorded Live have produced 8 x 55.50 to broadcast over December and January. All of the shows will feature unique live material only available from the CRN. These shows are produced from ten years of live recording from Woodford.
Summer festivals to happen this season include, Woodford, Illawarra, Cygnet, Gulgong, Tamar Valley, Threadbo Blues, and more.
Oscillations - Stellar Nullius 
Alexandra Spence’s work explores earth’s material relationship with space via satellite disposal and debris, and the uncanny historic connections between electronic music and space exploration. Travelling through orbits, life cycles and transmissions, Stellar Nullius reconsiders the earth’s atmosphere, not as a liminal zone, but as a provisioning body whose wellbeing is deeply intertwined with our own.
Alexandra Spence is a sound artist/musician based in Eora (Sydney). Through her practice Alexandra reimagines the intricate relationships between the listener, the object, and the surrounding environment as a kind of communion or conversation. She has presented her work worldwide and released music with Room40, Longform Editions, MoreMars (with MP Hopkins), Canti Magnetici, and Mappa.
Oscillations is presented by Jon Tjhia and sound design is by Erin Hyde.
Wednesday 2 November
On The Road Again - Special
(Part 1 - AMRAP) 
The CBAA's AMRAP partnered with Creative Victoria as part of the On The Road Again initiative to bring live music back to Victoria. With community radio a vital cultural hub for so many regional areas across Australia, this project saw five Victorian community radio stations curate and produce a live music event – these two 55'50 specials showcase the great music captured at these live events! Part 1 of this 2 part special series played in Extras 1.
On The Road Again - Special
(Part 2 - AMRAP) 
Wednesday 26 October
Get Psyched - Do I need to do something about my mental health?
(City Park Radio x Headspace Launceston) 
We don’t often hear what that time is like when you’re starting to suspect that something’s not quite right with your mental health.In this episode of Get Psyched Sharna, Ella, Luke and Lis describe that time in their lives, how they felt, what they did, and importantly what they learned. Which is what the clinicians focus on too; the learning. Learning about yourself and the signs you might notice when things aren’t great; learning what sorts of tools we can put in our tool box of life to help us through those tough times; and learning some strategies and early intervention techniques that might be helpful in supporting someone else.
Get Psyched - How to get or give help
(City Park Radio x Headspace Launceston) 
Wednesday 19 October
Get Psyched - When day to day things get hard
(City Park Radio x Headspace Launceston) 
How can something seemingly so simple, like brushing your teeth, become too hard? It can be difficult to understand, unless you’ve lived it. In this episode of Get Psyched Lis, Ella, Sharna and Luke talk about those daily tasks that felt impossible for them when their mental health wasn’t at its best. As they do, we perhaps start to think about it in a different way? Then we welcome in the clinicians who tell us what our brains are doing in those moments. You'll finish this episode with heaps of different ways to think about and approach this stuff, with ourselves or others.
Get Psyched - When judgement feels everywhere
(City Park Radio x Headspace Launceston) 
Wednesday 12 October
Get Psyched - Got a busy mind?
(City Park Radio x Headspace Launceston) 
Ever feel like you can’t turn your brain off?Or maybe you want to understand why someone in your life seems to ‘over-think’? In this episode of Get Psyched you’ll be introduced to four young people who talk about what it felt like when they couldn’t turn their brains off and what sorts of thoughts were running around in there! You’ll then find out why our brains do this as three different clinicians help us understand why all of us can sometimes get stuck on that mental ‘round-a-bout’. Plus, you'll get some useful thing things to do and say to support yourself and others.
Get Psyched - When sleep doesn't come
(City Park Radio x Headspace Launceston) 
Sleep can be the best, but also the worst.There’s plenty of reasons why people don’t sleep and there’s a wide range of ways that can seriously affect your life. In this episode of Get Psyched you’ll hear Lis, Luke, Ella and Sharna talk about why sleep was tough for them. You’ll also hear what they did to get their sleep routines back in whack. Then the professionals will chip in with some really really practical strategies to fix your sleep routine, or help someone else get their sleep back on track, quickly.
Wednesday 5 October
Art Addict - Episode 5
(Eastside Radio) 
Art Addict is a magazine style arts and culture program that explores our creative potential of art through conversations with artists and industry specialists. Conceived by John Feitelson, the series host, an avid art collector, and a passionate supporter of artists.
In this episode John indexes meanings of what constitutes performance art with the contemporary reality and open-ended curatorial practices of Jeff Khan. John continues the discourse with Kon Gouriotis OAM on performance art in the visual arts. PIP and John contemplate the role of art criticism.
Art Addict - Episode 6
(Eastside Radio) 
Art Addict is a magazine style arts and culture program that explores our creative potential of art through conversations with artists and industry specialists. Conceived by John Feitelson, the series host, an avid art collector, and a passionate supporter of artists.
In this episode John speaks with Michael Snape on the living continuum of change, the source of energy that informs art practice and the tensions with arts industry. Kon Gouriotis OAM, picks up on the passion for movement of pushing art expressions through different media. PIP touches on art inspirations introduced by personal experiences generated from the screen.
Upcoming Extras
Wednesday 28 September
Art Addict - Episode 3
(Eastside Radio) 
Art Addict is a magazine style arts and culture program that explores our creative potential of art through conversations with artists and industry specialists. Conceived by John Feitelson, the series host, an avid art collector and a passionate supporter of artists.
In this episode we discover the art of Judith Nangala Crispin as she talks through her explorations of connections with culture and country. Kon Gouriotis OAM, explores the deeper meanings for artists in cultural relationships in response to Judith’s thoughts. PIP talks with John on art and education. The program includes a commissioned poem about Fred Williams, Winterreise by Judith Nanagala Crispin.
Art Addict - Episode 4
(Eastside Radio) 
Art Addict is a magazine style arts and culture program that explores our creative potential of art through conversations with artists and industry specialists. Conceived by John Feitelson, the series host, an avid art collector and a passionate supporter of artists.
In this episode you will be drawn in close to the mind of Simon Fieldhouse as he talks with John on form, space and vision. Kon Gouriotis OAM and John continue to expand on the impress of Simon. Pip and John comprehend the subjective response to the art experience.
On the Artist Onion: Simon Fieldhouse is a Sydney based artist who works in pen and watercolour. His intricate drawings depict historical architecture from around the world.
Wednesday 21 September
Art Addict - Episode 1
(Eastside Radio) 
Art Addict is a magazine style arts and culture program that explores our creative potential of art through conversations with artists and industry specialists. Conceived by John Feitelson, the series host, an avid art collector and a passionate supporter of artists.
In this episode sculptor, curator and the Director of Defiance Gallery, Campbell Robertson Swann, talks candidly to John on material objects that have an ideality of their own. Chris Borton provides musical insights and we hear specialist philosophical commentary from PIP on critiquing art.
On the Artist Onion: Campbell Robertson Swann is a sculptor, curator and the director of Defiance Gallery Sydney.
Art Addict - Episode 2
(Eastside Radio) 
Art Addict is a magazine style arts and culture program that explores our creative potential of art through conversations with artists and industry specialists. Conceived by John Feitelson, the series host, an avid art collector and a passionate supporter of artists.
In this episode painter and gallerist Aaron Fell-Fracasso, of Egg & Dart, shares his thoughts on what it takes to run a contemporary Gallery in regional NSW. Kon Gouriotis OAM, extends on fundamental considerations of the business side of what it takes to run a successful practice in Australia. PIP and John discuss the economics of art.
On the Artist Onion: Aaron Fell-Fracasso has extensive experience as a painter and an independent curator, and is also the founder/director of The Egg & Dart.
Wednesday 14 September
National Indigenous Music Awards 2022 Highlights
(NIMAs x TEABBA x CRN) 
Saturday 6 August saw the Darwin Amphitheatre come alive again for the 2022 National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMAs), with the crew of TEABBA presenting a live national broadcast!
BARKAA, Thelma Plum and Baker Boy lead the nominations while Thelma, King Stingray, Emma Donovan and the Putbacks, Birdz and Fred Leone will lead a killer Darwin awards show. After two years of live performances canceled, this massive celebration of Indigenous music is back to celebrate in person with the community. Including live performances from the likes of Thelma Plum, King Stingray, Emma Donovan & the Putbacks, Birdz & Fred Leone, Yirrmal, and J-MILLA. As well as tributes to the late, great, Archie Roach.
National Indigenous Music Awards 2022 Highlights
(NIMAs x TEABBA x CRN) 
Saturday 6 August saw the Darwin Amphitheatre come alive again for the 2022 National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMAs), with the crew of TEABBA presenting a live national broadcast!
BARKAA, Thelma Plum and Baker Boy lead the nominations while Thelma, King Stingray, Emma Donovan and the Putbacks, Birdz and Fred Leone will lead a killer Darwin awards show. After two years of live performances canceled, this massive celebration of Indigenous music is back to celebrate in person with the community. Including live performances from the likes of Thelma Plum, King Stingray, Emma Donovan & the Putbacks, Birdz & Fred Leone, Yirrmal, and J-MILLA. As well as tributes to the late, great, Archie Roach.
Wednesday 7 September
Do Go On Presents: Arty-Facts – Shearing the Rams
(Do Go On x Stupid Old Studios x C31) 
When art transcends its frame winding up on placemats, parodied in ads and as the talk of the town, you know it's iconic. But few paintings have a rich history that starts at a shearing shed and ends up in a national gallery. Matt Stewart tells the story of Tom Roberts' Shearing the Rams in the finale of Arty Facts!
Each week Arty Facts explores the fascinating history behind some of Melbourne's most famous artworks and their artists. An accessible and fun look at art history.
Do Go On Presents: Arty Facts is a joint production between Do GO On and Stupid Old Studios. It is broadcast on C31 Sundays at 8.30pm, simulcast on the Stupid Old Studios YouTube Channel and is available via the Do Go On podcast feed and the Community Radio Network. This program is made with the support of the Community Broadcast Foundation
Rule of Thumb Season 2: Beyond A Bystander - Listening for threats and looking for damage to property
(City Park Radio) 
There are all sorts of ways to create fear. In this episode we’ll hear about some of the common ways people are controlled by fear in abusive relationships; those that have physical signs, such as damaging someone’s property, and those that don’t like threats. You’ll hear women, lawyers and counsellors describe some of those thing that we perhaps already think of when we think of family violence, but it’s the descriptions of those things we don’t think about enough that really help us understand how complex and powerful fear can be. Plus, we start to tune-in our eyes and ears so we don’t walk past a broken window or dismiss a threat without defusing, checking in, calling out or reporting the behaviour.
Wednesday 31 August
Do Go On Presents: Arty-Facts – Vault
(Do Go On x Stupid Old Studios x C31) 
There are many abstract pieces of steel public art but there are few that have physically gone on a sightseeing tour of their own city. Ron Robertson-Swann's 'Vault' has been part of Melbourne since 1980 and continues to cause conversation. Jess Perkins tells Vault's story in this episode of Arty Facts.
Each week Arty Facts explores the fascinating history behind some of Melbourne's most famous artworks and their artists. An accessible and fun look at art history.
Do Go On Presents: Arty Facts is a joint production between Do GO On and Stupid Old Studios. It is broadcast on C31 Sundays at 8.30pm, simulcast on the Stupid Old Studios YouTube Channel and is available via the Do Go On podcast feed and the Community Radio Network. This program is made with the support of the Community Broadcast Foundation.
Rule of Thumb Season 2: Beyond A Bystander - Is cultural or spiritual abuse family violence?
(City Park Radio) 
Could someone control what you believe? In this episode you’ll hear that degrading or trying to control a person’s cultural practices and spiritual beliefs is not uncommon in family violence situations. We start to realise how many different ways this type of abuse can happen daily, the impact it can have on the lives of others and why it might be easy to miss or tricky to ask questions about as a bystander.
Wednesday 24 August
Do Go On Presents: Arty-Facts – Keith Harring
(Do Go On x Stupid Old Studios x C31) 
One day back in 1984, American artist Keith Haring went to work painting a mural at a Melbourne school. And decades later, the mural still stands today. Dave Warneke tells the story of Keith Haring's Melbourne mural in this episode of 'Do Go On Presents: Arty Facts'.
Each week Arty Facts explores the fascinating history behind some of Melbourne's most famous artworks and their artists. An accessible and fun look at art history.
Do Go On Presents: Arty Facts is ajoint production between Do GO On and Stupid Old Studios. It is broadcast on C31 Sundays at 8.30pm, simulcast on the Stupid Old Studios YouTube Channel and is available via the Do Go On podcast feed and the Community Radio Network. This program is made with the support of the Community Broadcast Foundation.
Rule of Thumb Season 2: Beyond A Bystander - What is sexual abuse?
(City Park Radio) 
This episode is especially tough to listen to. At the beginning you might start to think about ‘consent’ in a different way and reflect on the types of conversations you have about sex with different people in your life, from partners to friends. You’ll then hear what it’s like to experience a long-term sexually abusive relationship. It’s hard to listen to. You’ll hear how sex can be used as a form on control in many abusive relationships which can be both deeply confusing and deeply traumatic for those being controlled.
Wednesday 17 August
Do Go On Presents: Arty-Facts – Chloé
(Do Go On x Stupid Old Studios x C31) 
From being shown at the Paris Salon to finding its permanent home in a Melbourne pub, Chloé is a painting intrinsically linked with the lives of poets, soldiers and punters hungry for a parma. Matt Stewart reveals the story of Chloé in this episode of Do Go On Presents: Arty Facts.
Each week Arty Facts explores the fascinating history behind some of Melbourne's most famous artworks and their artists. An accessible and fun look at art history.
Do Go On Presents: Arty Facts is ajoint production between Do GO On and Stupid Old Studios. It is broadcast on C31 Sundays at 8.30pm, simulcast on the Stupid Old Studios YouTube Channel and is available via the Do Go On podcast feed and the Community Radio Network. This program is made with the support of the Community Broadcast Foundation.
Rule of Thumb Season 2: Beyond A Bystander - How do we 'call out' financial abuse?
(City Park Radio) 
It might feel like there is a fine line between the way many couples split the financial responsibilities in relationships and financial abuse. In this episode, we’ll come to understand that financial abuse is about intent and it is illegal. In episode three we’ll learn how to recognise if someone is being taken advantage of, or controlled financially and what being financially vulnerable looks like. It’ll be hard to not consider your own financial set up as you listen to this episode, and you’ll get some good things to have conversations about with your own partner, a lawyer, or your friends and family.
Wednesday 10 August
Do Go On Presents: Arty-Facts – Joy Hester's 'Love I'
(Do Go On x Stupid Old Studios x C31) 
Joy Hester's 'Love I' is a fascinating piece with an equally fascinating story behind its creation. Affairs, angst and an art gallery built on an ancient cow burial ground all play an important role in the life of Joy Hester. Jess Perkins tells Joy Hester's story in this episode of Do Go On Presents: Arty Facts.
Each week Arty-Facts explores the fascinating history behind some of Melbourne's most famous artworks and their artists. An accessible and fun look at art history.
Do Go On Presents: Arty-Facts is a joint production between Do GO On and Stupid Old Studios. It is broadcast on C31 Sundays at 8.30pm, simulcast on the Stupid Old Studios YouTube Channel as is available via the Do Go On podcast feed and the Community Radio Network. This program is made with the support of the Community Broadcast Foundation.
Rule of Thumb Season 2: Beyond A Bystander - Have you witnessed controlling or emotionally abusive behaviour?
(City Park Radio) 
Most abusive relationships don’t start out that way but are a product of subtle changes over time that can leave women isolated, controlled, confused and frightened. In episode two you’ll come understand and recognise those subtle changes as women, men and experts relay their own experiences of coercive control and emotional abuse. You’ll get some words you can use to take bystander action and you’ll also get some things to think about when it comes to the ‘systems’ that also struggle to take effective action.
Wednesday 3 August
Do Go On Presents: Arty-Facts – Portrait of a Lady
(Do Go On x Stupid Old Studios x C31) 
Mary Beale was a 17th-century trailblazing painter and her piece 'Portrait of a Lady' currently hangs at the National Gallery of Victoria. But who is the Lady? What the heck is a cartouche? And what's Mary Beale's whole deal? Dave Warneke explains in this episode of 'Do Go On Presents: Arty Facts'.
Each week Arty-Facts explores the fascinating history behind some of Melbourne's most famous artworks and their artists. An accessible and fun look at art history.
Do Go On Presents: Arty-Facts is a joint production between Do GO On and Stupid Old Studios. It is broadcast on C31 Sundays at 8.30pm, simulcast on the Stupid Old Studios YouTube Channel as is available via the Do Go On podcast feed and the Community Radio Network. This program is made with the support of the Community Broadcast Foundation.
Rule of Thumb Season 2: Beyond A Bystander - Am I a bystander to family violence?
(City Park Radio) 
Most of us would hate to think that we allow family violence to happen, but most of us do. There are well documented reasons why we become bystanders and in our first episode of Season Two you’ll get the opportunity to hear how it happens and what you can do to go beyond a bystander and take real practical action that will help. In this episode Penny Terry speaks with women who have experienced family violence, along family violence experts and also men who reflect on the changes they’ve made in their own behaviours.
Wednesday 27 July
Two Smiley Faces - Part 4
(BBC) 
The emoji, invented in Japan in the 1990s, and now standardised on every device and platform we have, has become a new type of global communication. Whether you love them or hate them, they stir up surprisingly strong feelings and the fight for representation on the emoji keyboard can get very heated.Our journey into the emoji universe takes some surprising directions. We reveal some of the human stories behind those tiny pictures on our screens. From the early days of reggae in Kingston, Jamaica to San Francisco’s Chinatown, we meet some of the people responsible for the emojis we have today.
Wild Girls For Hire - A Story of The Vamps, Australia's First All-Female Rock Band.
(Holly Alexander) 
The Vamps were most notably, the first female rock group in Australia, formed in April 1965 by Margaret Britt on guitar. They were around at least a decade before the most famous of female rock groups - The Runaways from the United States - made their mark around the world. Groups such as the Vamps were pioneers in an area of entertainment that was dominated by male musicians and remains very much so to this day.
Wednesday 20 July
Two Smiley Faces - Part 2
(BBC) 
The emoji, invented in Japan in the 1990s, and now standardised on every device and platform we have, has become a new type of global communication. Whether you love them or hate them, they stir up surprisingly strong feelings and the fight for representation on the emoji keyboard can get very heated. In episode two, we explore how sometimes, emoji are more than they seem. In fact, for some dating app users, criminal gangs and even human traffickers, emoji take on secret meanings.
Two Smiley Faces - Part 3
(BBC) 
The emoji, invented in Japan in the 1990s, and now standardised on every device and platform we have, has become a new type of global communication. Whether you love them or hate them, they stir up surprisingly strong feelings and the fight for representation on the emoji keyboard can get very heated. So how do you get an emoji added to the list? We hear from the women who have had hundreds of emoji approved between them, from the sari, to the mirror, to the one-piece bathing suit. How did they do it? And will Amy and Rachel finally get their drone emoji?
Wednesday 13 July
Beyond The Bars 2022 - Part 1
(3CR)
Beyond the Bars is a unique series of live prison radio broadcasts that give voice to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inmates in Victorian prisons. The broadcasts are presented by 3CR's First Nations broadcasters during NAIDOC* Week (July). Beyond the Bars began in 2002 and each year it features songs, stories, opinions and poems from the men and women inside, while also connecting them with culture and community.
Beyond The Bars 2022 - Part 2
(3CR)
Beyond the Bars is a unique series of live prison radio broadcasts that give voice to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inmates in Victorian prisons. The broadcasts are presented by 3CR's First Nations broadcasters during NAIDOC* Week (July). Beyond the Bars began in 2002 and each year it features songs, stories, opinions and poems from the men and women inside, while also connecting them with culture and community.
Wednesday 6 July
From The Embers 2: The Stage Goes Dark
(CBAA) 
Melbourne became a ghost town during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pubs and venues closed their doors, leaving many of the city’s artists and creatives without a stage to perform on or an audience to perform for.
Yet over successive lockdowns, it was the creative industries that kept communities strong, as we all adapted to unprecedented circumstances.
In The Stage Goes Dark, four creatives share their struggles and victories during the pandemic and cry out for an overlooked community, calling for a lifeline.
Content warning this feature contains stories from the Melbourne lockdowns.
Two Smiley Faces - Part 1
(BBC) 
The emoji, invented in Japan in the 1990s, and now standardised on every device and platform we have, has become a new type of global communication. Whether you love them or hate them, they stir up surprisingly strong feelings and the fight for representation on the emoji keyboard can get very heated. In this first episode, we explore how for many of us, these cute symbols have become a natural part of our daily digital lives. We also meet two emoji lovers as they prepare to take on Silicon Valley and try to have their longed-for emoji approved. The BBC's Vivienne Nunis and Sarah Treanor will be your global emoji guides through this four-part series, and explain why the tiny pictures can lead to big emotions.
Wednesday 29 June
From The Embers 2: Rising Rivers
(CBAA) 
Day after day of intense rainfall fell across south east Queensland In February 2022, breaking riverbanks, swamping roads and flooding homes.
The city of Brisbane experienced one of the worst floods on record. In three days alone, Brisbane received 80 per cent of its annual rainfall as people scrambled to find higher ground to shelter.
As people recover and start to rebuild, questions are being raised over where to live and how to prepare for the future.
Content warning this feature contains stories from the 2022 Floods.
From The Embers 2: A Change in the Landscape
(CBAA) 
Four Emergency level bushfires burned over one weekend in Western Australia in February 2022. With roughly 30% of WA agricultural land, most farmers are prepared for fire at any time. But when one comes, they rely heavily on volunteer farmers and locals who form the Bush Fire Brigade.
On February 6, 2022 near the small farming town of Narrogin, extreme wind and heat, coupled with a powerline spark in a dry pasture paddock, resulted in a massive fire. Only one house was lost but the impact on livestock and farmland will affect farmers years into the future.
Content warning this feature contains stories of animals in distress.
Wednesday 22 June
From The Embers 2: Phoenix - Right Fire, Wrong Fire
(CBAA) 
One and a half million hectares of Yuin Country was destroyed by the 2019/2020 mega fires in the South Coast of New South Wales. These fires killed countless animals, plants and insect species - some of which are now on the brink of extinction.
Many members of the South Coast Yuin Community call these mega fires, ‘Wrong Fire,’ fires that can’t be controlled and have the capacity to injure and kill. This type of fire is vastly different to Right Fire, often called Cultural Burning. Right Fire has been practised for thousands of years and has the capacity to heal and care for all.
Content warning this feature contains stories from the 2019/2020 Fires.
From The Embers 2: Phoenix - Roofs Above Water
(CBAA) 
Ever increasing record high flood levels are marked on the side of Lismore’s flood levee.
Lismore, a town in Northern New South Wales is dissected by two major rivers. When there’s heavy rainfall, water flows down from the surrounding hills, slowing at the bottom and spreading across the floodplain.
The town’s residents know floods, their houses are built high, some four metres off the ground in the canopies of trees. Many have flood plans, keeping kayaks and dinghies tethered to their homes in case of emergency.
On February 27 2022, water inundated the town, sweeping away cars, stranding residents on rooftops and filling houses with inches of mud.
In the weeks that followed volunteer hubs sprang up to feed and clothe locals forced to shelter in tents and cars as they struggle to recover with minimal support and start to clean out and rebuild their homes in the trees.
Content warning this feature contains stories from the 2022 Floods.
Wednesday 15 June
From The Embers 2: Phoenix - Framing Disaster
(CBAA) 
Two years on from the massive fire that tore through Mallacoota, a tiny coastal town in Victoria, the camping grounds are full again, koalas can be spotted in the crowns of eucalypts and the landscape is green with epicormic growth.
But the town is dotted with empty lots where houses once stood and the new green growth only hides the blackened trunks.
Photojournalist Rachel Mounsey documented the approach of the bushfire and the aftermath, focusing her camera on the people who lost their homes amidst the devastation.
Content warning this feature contains stories from the 2019/2020 Fires.
From The Embers 2: Phoenix - Disappearing Swiftly
(CBAA) 
The fires that tore through the South Coast of New South Wales in 2019/2020 hit towns on the coast and in the bush.
Within the community, homes were lost, some experienced events that left them traumatised and all inhabited a devastated landscape.
Animal habitats were also affected, and when both logging companies and urban developers began to encroach on the habitat of the critically endangered Swift Parrot, locals from the South Coast began to stand up and take action to save the home that this small bird needs in order to survive.
Content warning this feature contains stories from the 2019/2020 Fires.
Wednesday 8 June
From The Embers 2: Phoenix - When Lightning Strikes Twice
(CBAA) 
Severe storms and fire are a part of life on Kangaroo Island. But the firestorms that blasted across the Island’s landscape in January 2022 were unlike anything ever seen before, and forbode of a changing climate.
Two years on, birds and mammals are only just starting to return to fire-ravaged habitats, and a question looms over the community - what will come when the fire siren rings again?
Content warning this feature contains stories from the 2019/2020 Fires.
From The Embers 2: Phoenix - The House On The Hill
(CBAA) 
Residents in Lobethal fled their properties for safety in December 2019, not knowing if they’d return and find their houses still standing.
Adelaide’s Cudlee Creek fire filled the air with black smoke and destroyed 85 homes over 10 days. As the recovery rolled out, the pandemic crept in - isolating people and leaving those who’d lost their homes feeling isolated and forgotten.
Content warning this feature contains stories from the 2019/2020 Fires.
Wednesday 1 June
The Royal Diplomat
(BBC)
Queen Elizabeth II is the world’s most high-profile global figure and a unique exemplar of diplomacy and soft power. Much of her role takes place behind the scenes. The BBC’s Emma Barnett speaks to those who have worked with her on the thorniest global issues. From her first state visit to the US in 1957 to repair the transatlantic relationship after the Suez crisis, to the historic 2011 visit to Ireland, we show how reconciliation has been a major theme of the Queen’s reign.
People Are Alike All Over
(BBC)
Roberta from Zambia is tending to her chickens when she encounters Alan (pictured). She shares stories of her father's commitment to education that has shaped a generation and the pain of loss. Steve, in Kenya, has parked up his taxi with a rooster nearby. He unravels his life story of a boy from the ghetto who found love. In Uganda, Marion the midwife has been picking up the pieces of community life still ravaged by Covid-19. All three stories connect in unusual ways but show that people are alike all over.
Wednesday 25 May
Advertising Trap
(BBC)
Digital advertising has taken over the world. But is it all based on smoke and mirrors? Ed Butler investigates what some claim is a massive collective deception – a trillion-dollar marketing pitch that simply does not deliver value to any of those paying for it. Do online ads actually work, or could it be that some of the biggest names in global tech – from Google to Facebook - be founded on a false prospectus?
Surviving the siege of Mariupol
(BBC)
Mariupol has been mostly destroyed. The southern Ukrainian city has endured weeks of relentless bombardment and now many of the city’s 400,000 inhabitants are in mourning. Mariupol emerged as a cultural heartland in the past few years, buoyed by investment and community energy. Now, much of it is in ruins. Vitaliy Shevchenko from BBC Monitoring explores the city, before the war, and during the war, as they make difficult decisions about how to endure the destruction of their lives.
Wednesday 18 May
Rule of Thumb - Season One
(City Park Radio - Part 5)
Do you expect the law to apply equitably to men and women? Yeah, so did I.
In this podcast we hear women, their lawyers and their counsellors describe the way the legal process plays out, and how common it is for women to find themselves at a legal disadvantage even before the process begins.
This podcast will get uncomfortable, because it seems the more we understand the application of the law and how it impacts women, the more uncomfortable the law becomes. But there’s something about these very real, uncomfortable stories that will prepare us to get the best from the legal system we've got.
This Women's Legal Service Tasmania Domestic Violence Unit project has been funded through the Australian Government's Women's Safety Package in response to rising family violence in our communities.
Rule of Thumb was a 2021 CBAA Award Winning program, and also won Bronze at the Australian Podcast Awards.
Rule of Thumb - Season One
(City Park Radio - Part 6)
Do you expect the law to apply equitably to men and women? Yeah, so did I.
In this podcast we hear women, their lawyers and their counsellors describe the way the legal process plays out, and how common it is for women to find themselves at a legal disadvantage even before the process begins.
This podcast will get uncomfortable, because it seems the more we understand the application of the law and how it impacts women, the more uncomfortable the law becomes. But there’s something about these very real, uncomfortable stories that will prepare us to get the best from the legal system we've got.
This Women's Legal Service Tasmania Domestic Violence Unit project has been funded through the Australian Government's Women's Safety Package in response to rising family violence in our communities.
Rule of Thumb was a 2021 CBAA Award Winning program, and also won Bronze at the Australian Podcast Awards.
Wednesday 11 May
Rule of Thumb - Season One
(City Park Radio - Part 3)
Do you expect the law to apply equitably to men and women? Yeah, so did I.
In this podcast we hear women, their lawyers and their counsellors describe the way the legal process plays out, and how common it is for women to find themselves at a legal disadvantage even before the process begins.
This podcast will get uncomfortable, because it seems the more we understand the application of the law and how it impacts women, the more uncomfortable the law becomes. But there’s something about these very real, uncomfortable stories that will prepare us to get the best from the legal system we've got.
This Women's Legal Service Tasmania Domestic Violence Unit project has been funded through the Australian Government's Women's Safety Package in response to rising family violence in our communities.
Rule of Thumb was a 2021 CBAA Award Winning program, and also won Bronze at the Australian Podcast Awards.
Rule of Thumb - Season One
(City Park Radio - Part 4)
Do you expect the law to apply equitably to men and women? Yeah, so did I.
In this podcast we hear women, their lawyers and their counsellors describe the way the legal process plays out, and how common it is for women to find themselves at a legal disadvantage even before the process begins.
This podcast will get uncomfortable, because it seems the more we understand the application of the law and how it impacts women, the more uncomfortable the law becomes. But there’s something about these very real, uncomfortable stories that will prepare us to get the best from the legal system we've got.
This Women's Legal Service Tasmania Domestic Violence Unit project has been funded through the Australian Government's Women's Safety Package in response to rising family violence in our communities.
Rule of Thumb was a 2021 CBAA Award Winning program, and also won Bronze at the Australian Podcast Awards.
Wednesday 04 May
Rule of Thumb - Season One
(City Park Radio - Part 1)
Do you expect the law to apply equitably to men and women? Yeah, so did I.
In this podcast we hear women, their lawyers and their counsellors describe the way the legal process plays out, and how common it is for women to find themselves at a legal disadvantage even before the process begins.
This podcast will get uncomfortable, because it seems the more we understand the application of the law and how it impacts women, the more uncomfortable the law becomes. But there’s something about these very real, uncomfortable stories that will prepare us to get the best from the legal system we've got.
This Women's Legal Service Tasmania Domestic Violence Unit project has been funded through the Australian Government's Women's Safety Package in response to rising family violence in our communities.
Rule of Thumb was a 2021 CBAA Award Winning program, and also won Bronze at the Australian Podcast Awards.
Rule of Thumb - Season One
(City Park Radio - Part 2)
Do you expect the law to apply equitably to men and women? Yeah, so did I.
In this podcast we hear women, their lawyers and their counsellors describe the way the legal process plays out, and how common it is for women to find themselves at a legal disadvantage even before the process begins.
This podcast will get uncomfortable, because it seems the more we understand the application of the law and how it impacts women, the more uncomfortable the law becomes. But there’s something about these very real, uncomfortable stories that will prepare us to get the best from the legal system we've got.
This Women's Legal Service Tasmania Domestic Violence Unit project has been funded through the Australian Government's Women's Safety Package in response to rising family violence in our communities.
Rule of Thumb was a 2021 CBAA Award Winning program, and also won Bronze at the Australian Podcast Awards.
Wednesday 27 April
From 6TTU to Vietnam
(Service Voices Parts 5-6)
‘From 6TTU to Vietnam - An Armoured Personnel Carrier for Australia’ a seven-part audio documentary series, unveiling and documenting the untold story of Australia’s Armoured Personnel Carrier, the M113A1 APC, and the men who trialled them.
Comprising in-depth interviews, ‘From 6TTU to Vietnam’ provides a wholistic story around the M1131A, incorporating not only the stories of the Armoured Corps personnel who used and tested them, but those associated with the APCs in some way or other during that era. Building on the principles of wartime storytelling that have long been recognised as powerful tools in community engagement, ‘From 6TTU to Vietnam’ offers a unique and often humorous insight into Australia’s understanding of its wartime heritage, providing a picture as to not only Australia’s contribution in Vietnam, but how the M113A1 APC contributed to our success, both then and in future army endeavours.
The story behind Australia's 6 Tropical Trials Unit (6TTU) and our M113A1 Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) is of profound National historical significance for Australia. The M113A1 epitomises both the history of Australian troop movement in Vietnam, and in later conflicts. It remained in service in the Australian Army for almost 50 years.
From 6TTU to Vietnam
(Service Voices Parts 7-8) 
‘From 6TTU to Vietnam - An Armoured Personnel Carrier for Australia’ a seven-part audio documentary series, unveiling and documenting the untold story of Australia’s Armoured Personnel Carrier, the M113A1 APC, and the men who trialled them.
Comprising in-depth interviews, ‘From 6TTU to Vietnam’ provides a wholistic story around the M1131A, incorporating not only the stories of the Armoured Corps personnel who used and tested them, but those associated with the APCs in some way or other during that era. Building on the principles of wartime storytelling that have long been recognised as powerful tools in community engagement, ‘From 6TTU to Vietnam’ offers a unique and often humorous insight into Australia’s understanding of its wartime heritage, providing a picture as to not only Australia’s contribution in Vietnam, but how the M113A1 APC contributed to our success, both then and in future army endeavours.
The story behind Australia's 6 Tropical Trials Unit (6TTU) and our M113A1 Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) is of profound National historical significance for Australia. The M113A1 epitomises both the history of Australian troop movement in Vietnam, and in later conflicts. It remained in service in the Australian Army for almost 50 years.
Wednesday 20 April
From 6TTU to Vietnam
(Service Voices Parts 1-2)
‘From 6TTU to Vietnam - An Armoured Personnel Carrier for Australia’ a seven-part audio documentary series, unveiling and documenting the untold story of Australia’s Armoured Personnel Carrier, the M113A1 APC, and the men who trialled them.
Comprising in-depth interviews, ‘From 6TTU to Vietnam’ provides a wholistic story around the M1131A, incorporating not only the stories of the Armoured Corps personnel who used and tested them, but those associated with the APCs in some way or other during that era. Building on the principles of wartime storytelling that have long been recognised as powerful tools in community engagement, ‘From 6TTU to Vietnam’ offers a unique and often humorous insight into Australia’s understanding of its wartime heritage, providing a picture as to not only Australia’s contribution in Vietnam, but how the M113A1 APC contributed to our success, both then and in future army endeavours.
The story behind Australia's 6 Tropical Trials Unit (6TTU) and our M113A1 Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) is of profound National historical significance for Australia. The M113A1 epitomises both the history of Australian troop movement in Vietnam, and in later conflicts. It remained in service in the Australian Army for almost 50 years.
From 6TTU to Vietnam
(Service Voices Parts 3-4) 
‘From 6TTU to Vietnam - An Armoured Personnel Carrier for Australia’ a seven-part audio documentary series, unveiling and documenting the untold story of Australia’s Armoured Personnel Carrier, the M113A1 APC, and the men who trialled them.
Comprising in-depth interviews, ‘From 6TTU to Vietnam’ provides a wholistic story around the M1131A, incorporating not only the stories of the Armoured Corps personnel who used and tested them, but those associated with the APCs in some way or other during that era. Building on the principles of wartime storytelling that have long been recognised as powerful tools in community engagement, ‘From 6TTU to Vietnam’ offers a unique and often humorous insight into Australia’s understanding of its wartime heritage, providing a picture as to not only Australia’s contribution in Vietnam, but how the M113A1 APC contributed to our success, both then and in future army endeavours.
The story behind Australia's 6 Tropical Trials Unit (6TTU) and our M113A1 Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) is of profound National historical significance for Australia. The M113A1 epitomises both the history of Australian troop movement in Vietnam, and in later conflicts. It remained in service in the Australian Army for almost 50 years.
Wednesday 13 April
How Can I Help?
(Pro Bono Australia)
With so many huge problems in the world, it can be hard to know how you can help.
To better empower individuals to make a difference to those around them, Pro Bono News has launched How Can I Help?
Hosted by Pro Bono News editor Wendy Williams, the six-part series features conversations with people with lived experience and experts in the field on what we can do to help in situations that we all might encounter at some point in our lives – whether that’s when you see someone sleeping rough, if you think a friend or colleague is in an abusive relationship, or if a family member is suffering from depression.
This podcast is not going to solve the world’s problems. But it might just give some of us the tools we need to help make the world a better place.
Making A Difference
(Junction Journalism) 
Wednesday 06 April
How Can I Help?
(Pro Bono Australia)
With so many huge problems in the world, it can be hard to know how you can help.
To better empower individuals to make a difference to those around them, Pro Bono News has launched How Can I Help?
Hosted by Pro Bono News editor Wendy Williams, the six-part series features conversations with people with lived experience and experts in the field on what we can do to help in situations that we all might encounter at some point in our lives – whether that’s when you see someone sleeping rough, if you think a friend or colleague is in an abusive relationship, or if a family member is suffering from depression.
This podcast is not going to solve the world’s problems. But it might just give some of us the tools we need to help make the world a better place.
Making A Difference
(Junction Journalism) 
Past Extras
Wednesday 30 March
Queering the Air - Trans Day of Audibility
(3CR) 
Parenting Beyond Gender - Trans Day of Audibility
(3CR) 
Wednesday 23 March
How Can I Help?
(Pro Bono Australia)
With so many huge problems in the world, it can be hard to know how you can help.
To better empower individuals to make a difference to those around them, Pro Bono News has launched How Can I Help?
Hosted by Pro Bono News editor Wendy Williams, the six-part series features conversations with people with lived experience and experts in the field on what we can do to help in situations that we all might encounter at some point in our lives – whether that’s when you see someone sleeping rough, if you think a friend or colleague is in an abusive relationship, or if a family member is suffering from depression.
This podcast is not going to solve the world’s problems. But it might just give some of us the tools we need to help make the world a better place.
Making A Difference
(Junction Journalism) 
Wednesday 16 March
Mardi Gras Broadcast 2022
(JOY 94.9)
JOY 94.9 well and truly brought you the joy this year for their special Mardi Gras broadcast live from the Sydney Cricket Ground!
The Community Radio Network has partnered with the team at JOY to bring you 2 x 55'50 specials containing some of the best bits of the Mardi Gras live broadcast. As one of the biggest events on the rainbow calendar, this was a huge effort by the team at JOY, including those at the cricket ground, and those behind the scenes back in Melbourne making sure the broadcast was as good as it could be, and allowing you to #partywithJOY via socials and video.
Thanks for tuning in to the 2022 Mardi Gras broadcast special!
Mardi Gras Broadcast 2022
(JOY 94.9)
JOY 94.9 well and truly brought you the joy this year for their special Mardi Gras broadcast live from the Sydney Cricket Ground!
The Community Radio Network has partnered with the team at JOY to bring you 2 x 55'50 specials containing some of the best bits of the Mardi Gras live broadcast. As one of the biggest events on the rainbow calendar, this was a huge effort by the team at JOY, including those at the cricket ground, and those behind the scenes back in Melbourne making sure the broadcast was as good as it could be, and allowing you to #partywithJOY via socials and video.
Thanks for tuning in to the 2022 Mardi Gras broadcast special!
Wednesday 9 March
How Much Can I Help?
(Pro Bono Australia)
1 x 27'50 - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
With so many huge problems in the world, it can be hard to know how you can help.
To better empower individuals to make a difference to those around them, Pro Bono News has launched How Can I Help?
Hosted by Pro Bono News editor Wendy Williams, the six-part series features conversations with people with lived experience and experts in the field on what we can do to help in situations that we all might encounter at some point in our lives – whether that’s when you see someone sleeping rough, if you think a friend or colleague is in an abusive relationship, or if a family member is suffering from depression.
This podcast is not going to solve the world’s problems. But it might just give some of us the tools we need to help make the world a better place

Making A Difference
(Junction Journalism)
1 x 27'50 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Making A Difference is a Junction Journalism podcast produced by student journalists in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. New episodes of Making A Difference will be hosted a different university each month. Over summer, the Junction Journalism team shared the best stories from the year of 2021 with community radio stations across Australia. The team at Junction Journalism continue to report on stories that don't shy away from issues but also explore solutions and better ways of working.
Wednesday 2 March
Raides Of The Lost Archives
(Recorded Live Special - Part 3)
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Recorded Live will hit 500 episodes on Sunday on 20 February 2022! To help celebrate the show’s milestone, three accompanying 1-hour shows have been produced by long term CRN contributor John Robinson, and are playing in Extras until 2 March 2022. These three shows are entitled, Raiders Of The Lost Archives, and will be a whirlwind respective time jump through the different eras of Recorded Live! This episode is part 3 in that three part series.
Making A Difference
(Junction Journalism)
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Making A Difference is a Junction Journalism podcast produced by student journalists in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. New episodes of Making A Difference will be hosted a different university each month. Over summer, the Junction Journalism team shared the best stories from the year of 2021 with community radio stations across Australia. The team at Junction Journalism continue to report on stories that don't shy away from issues but also explore solutions and better ways of working.
Wednesday 23 February
Raides Of The Lost Archives
(Recorded Live Special - Part 2)
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Recorded Live will hit 500 episodes on Sunday on 20 February 2022! To help celebrate the show’s milestone, three accompanying 1-hour shows have been produced by long term CRN contributor John Robinson, and are playing in Extras until 2 March 2022. These three shows are entitled, Raiders Of The Lost Archives, and will be a whirlwind respective time jump through the different eras of Recorded Live! This episode is part 2 in that three part series.
Community Matters
(SWQ Regional Arts Network - Part 7)
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Wednesday 16 February
Raides Of The Lost Archives
(Recorded Live Special - Part 1)
1 x 25'50 - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Recorded Live will hit 500 episodes on Sunday on 20 February 2022! To help celebrate the show’s milestone, three accompanying 1-hour shows have been produced by long term CRN contributor John Robinson, and are playing in Extras until 2 March 2022. These three shows are entitled, Raiders Of The Lost Archives, and will be a whirlwind respective time jump through the different eras of Recorded Live! This episode is part 1 in that three part series.
Community Matters
(SWQ Regional Arts Network - Part 6)
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How knowledge and creativity make us stronger together! Community Matters is produced from live presentations from various regional locations in Southern Queensland by the South West Regional Arts Network and supported by Arts QLD through their Regional Arts Showcase program. Featuring knowledgeable guests who draw on their own experiences on topics including, what makes a resilient woman and celebrating public art. Produced by CRN regular contributor John Robinson.
Wednesday 9 February
Blokes Don't Talk
(2MCE - Parts 6 - 7)
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A series of monologues written by Vince Melton for the Bathurst Theatre Company and 2MCE FM. The series was produced in partnership with the Bathurst Theatre Company, with funding from Arts Out West. The 7-part series looks at issues that affect men’s lives but are sometimes difficult to talk about. The series has been previously performed by the Bathurst Theatre Company in pubs and clubs around the region but have now been brought to life as a series of radio plays. Blokes Don't Talk was the winner of The 2021 CBAA Award for Excellence in Innovative Programming.
Community Matters
(SWQ Regional Arts Network - Part 5)
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How knowledge and creativity make us stronger together! Community Matters is produced from live presentations from various regional locations in Southern Queensland by the South West Regional Arts Network and supported by Arts QLD through their Regional Arts Showcase program. Featuring knowledgeable guests who draw on their own experiences on topics including, what makes a resilient woman and celebrating public art. Produced by CRN regular contributor John Robinson.
Wednesday 2 February
Blokes Don't Talk
(2MCE - Parts 4 - 5)
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A series of monologues written by Vince Melton for the Bathurst Theatre Company and 2MCE FM. The series was produced in partnership with the Bathurst Theatre Company, with funding from Arts Out West. The 7-part series looks at issues that affect men’s lives but are sometimes difficult to talk about. The series has been previously performed by the Bathurst Theatre Company in pubs and clubs around the region but have now been brought to life as a series of radio plays. Blokes Don't Talk was the winner of The 2021 CBAA Award for Excellence in Innovative Programming.
Community Matters
(SWQ Regional Arts Network - Part 4)
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How knowledge and creativity make us stronger together! Community Matters is produced from live presentations from various regional locations in Southern Queensland by the South West Regional Arts Network and supported by Arts QLD through their Regional Arts Showcase program. Featuring knowledgeable guests who draw on their own experiences on topics including, what makes a resilient woman and celebrating public art. Produced by CRN regular contributor John Robinson.
Wednesday 26 January
Blokes Don't Talk
(2MCE - Part 3)
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A series of monologues written by Vince Melton for the Bathurst Theatre Company and 2MCE FM. The series was produced in partnership with the Bathurst Theatre Company, with funding from Arts Out West. The 7-part series looks at issues that affect men’s lives but are sometimes difficult to talk about. The series has been previously performed by the Bathurst Theatre Company in pubs and clubs around the region but have now been brought to life as a series of radio plays. Blokes Don't Talk was the winner of The 2021 CBAA Award for Excellence in Innovative Programming.
Community Matters
(SWQ Regional Arts Network - Part 3)
1 x 55'50 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
How knowledge and creativity make us stronger together! Community Matters is produced from live presentations from various regional locations in Southern Queensland by the South West Regional Arts Network and supported by Arts QLD through their Regional Arts Showcase program. Featuring knowledgeable guests who draw on their own experiences on topics including, what makes a resilient woman and celebrating public art. Produced by CRN regular contributor John Robinson.
Wednesday 19 January
Blokes Don't Talk
(2MCE - Part 2)
1 x 25'50 - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
A series of monologues written by Vince Melton for the Bathurst Theatre Company and 2MCE FM. The series was produced in partnership with the Bathurst Theatre Company, with funding from Arts Out West. The 7-part series looks at issues that affect men’s lives but are sometimes difficult to talk about. The series has been previously performed by the Bathurst Theatre Company in pubs and clubs around the region but have now been brought to life as a series of radio plays. Blokes Don't Talk was the winner of The 2021 CBAA Award for Excellence in Innovative Programming.
Community Matters
(SWQ Regional Arts Network - Part 2)
1 x 55'50 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
How knowledge and creativity make us stronger together! Community Matters is produced from live presentations from various regional locations in Southern Queensland by the South West Regional Arts Network and supported by Arts QLD through their Regional Arts Showcase program. Featuring knowledgeable guests who draw on their own experiences on topics including, what makes a resilient woman and celebrating public art. Produced by CRN regular contributor John Robinson.
Wednesday 12 January
Blokes Don't Talk
(2MCE)
1 x 25'50 - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
A series of monologues written by Vince Melton for the Bathurst Theatre Company and 2MCE FM. The series was produced in partnership with the Bathurst Theatre Company, with funding from Arts Out West. The 7-part series looks at issues that affect men’s lives but are sometimes difficult to talk about. The series has been previously performed by the Bathurst Theatre Company in pubs and clubs around the region but have now been brought to life as a series of radio plays. Blokes Don't Talk was the winner of The 2021 CBAA Award for Excellence in Innovative Programming.
Community Matters
(SWQ Regional Arts Network - Part 1)
1 x 55'50 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
How knowledge and creativity make us stronger together! Community Matters is produced from live presentations from various regional locations in Southern Queensland by the South West Regional Arts Network and supported by Arts QLD through their Regional Arts Showcase program. Featuring knowledgeable guests who draw on their own experiences on topics including, what makes a resilient woman and celebrating public art. Produced by CRN regular contributor John Robinson.
Wednesday 5 January
An Ordinary Australian
(Eastside Radio - Part 3)
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An Ordinary Australian, a personal account of social drinking and alcoholism” is a 4-part open discussion with co-creator and contributor Mark Bennett, who, after three decades of alcohol use and abuse, is now sober and ready to share his personal journey. From ordinary social alcoholism to the devastating emotional impact on personal and professional relationships, this is a universal story that affects many of us. There is no judgment here, this is just a conversation starter so we can all examine our personal relationship with alcohol and decide if it is a healthy one. Produced and presented by Laurent Auclair.
An Ordinary Australian
(Eastside Radio - Part 4)
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An Ordinary Australian, a personal account of social drinking and alcoholism” is a 4-part open discussion with co-creator and contributor Mark Bennett, who, after three decades of alcohol use and abuse, is now sober and ready to share his personal journey. From ordinary social alcoholism to the devastating emotional impact on personal and professional relationships, this is a universal story that affects many of us. There is no judgment here, this is just a conversation starter so we can all examine our personal relationship with alcohol and decide if it is a healthy one. Produced and presented by Laurent Auclair.
Wednesday 29 December
Jumping the Gap Chaka Khan Mix
(2SER)
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We are lucky to share a specially curated DJ mix by none other than Paris Groovescooter of Jumping The Gap on Sydney's 2SER. Paris is a legendary DJ around Sydney and runs the label Groovescooter alongside another Sydney music heavyweight. Paris has cooked up a Chaka Kahan mix full of incredible disco and tropical sounds perfect for summer. This special has minimal talking and perfectly mixed music so is a timeless addition to any programming roster if a presenter is away or something last minute needs filling! Or... just for the love of Chaka Khan.
An Ordinary Australian
(Eastside Radio - Parts 1-2)
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An Ordinary Australian, a personal account of social drinking and alcoholism” is a 4-part open discussion with co-creator and contributor Mark Bennett, who, after three decades of alcohol use and abuse, is now sober and ready to share his personal journey. From ordinary social alcoholism to the devastating emotional impact on personal and professional relationships, this is a universal story that affects many of us. There is no judgment here, this is just a conversation starter so we can all examine our personal relationship with alcohol and decide if it is a healthy one. Produced and presented by Laurent Auclair.
Wednesday 15 December
National Features and Documentary Series 2021
(Vision Australia Radio - Rideability)
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From Vision Australia Radio in Melbourne, Melaine Robinson takes us for a ride and shows us the important role horses play in animal-assisted therapies.
The undeniable power of animal connections to humans shows us that a little bit of something good and special still exists in our world.
When the animals are horses, often big, flighty creatures, and the humans are some of the most vulnerable, this gets taken to another level.
During this 12-minute journey, you will meet some wonderful characters, equine and human, who will show you what can be achieved when the right space is provided.
Wednesday 22 December
National Features and Documentary Series 2021
(4ZZZ - The Gympie Pyramid)
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From 4ZZZ in Brisbane, Nic Huntington takes us on a journey filled with mystery and conspiracy, as we head to Dijaki Kundu.
For hours I awkwardly felt out the energy at Djaki Kundu with a roaring fire, camp chairs, and a bowl of delicious soup in front of me as the stars set.
On hour 6 of an overnight trip, I started to think this whole story might have been a mistake, stumbling through awkward introductions to the constantly expanding roster of characters.
But when I awoke in the morning to a welcoming "I like this fella, he has a trustworthy energy about him" I knew the story was going to turn out.
This story was a story of many visits similar to this, feeling my way through awkward reintroductions before finally understanding when the time was right to record.
I never could get Wit-Boooka to feel comfortable around a Shure SM58, but I can live with that.
National Features and Documentary Series 2021
(Vox FM - Turning The Tide)
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From 106.9 Vox FM in Wollongong, Dee Milenkovic shares a tale that is attached to a national scandal, the story of the Ruby Princess when it hit the docks in Port Kembla.
When I heard about the “death ship” berthing in my town, I saw fear turn to hatred as people scrambled to keep our community safe from the infested Ruby Princess cruise ship.
Then one day, a lone voice of compassion cut through the sea of anger and panic and showed us that we weren’t helpless against a viral enemy.
My documentary tells the story of how this man’s compassionate action turned the tide in one of Australia’s most sensational public health disasters.
Wednesday 15 December
National Features and Documentary Series 2021
(Vision Australia Radio - Rideability)
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From Vision Australia Radio in Melbourne, Melaine Robinson takes us for a ride and shows us the important role horses play in animal-assisted therapies.
The undeniable power of animal connections to humans shows us that a little bit of something good and special still exists in our world.
When the animals are horses, often big, flighty creatures, and the humans are some of the most vulnerable, this gets taken to another level.
During this 12-minute journey, you will meet some wonderful characters, equine and human, who will show you what can be achieved when the right space is provided.
National Features and Documentary Series 2021
(4EB - Standing Tall)
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From 4EB in Brisbane, Anisa Hobaya shows us how the subject of height discrimination often falls short of including the stories of incredibly tall people.
We might think it’s an innocent joke but when you really think about it, what are people of extraordinary height going through in their day-to-day life?
After hearing a story from a tall friend about some extreme prejudice she experienced growing up, Anisa Hobaya decided to explore the height stereotypes and challenges tall women face.
Listen to Standing Tall for a jaw-dropping story and insight into the lives of tall women.
Wednesday 8 December
National Features and Documentary Series 2021
(Eastside Radio - One Friend Away)
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From Eastside Radio in Sydney, Poppy Dowsett, and Sharon Haritos show us just how close some of us are to crossing the line of homelessness.
Housing in Australia is extremely precarious, with affordability increasingly out of reach for many.
We hear plenty of bad news in this arena, but what is being done to address this situation?
Poppy Dowsett and Shannon Haritos of Eastside Radio take us on a very personal journey to speak to some pioneering Australians thinking outside the box when it comes to social and affordable housing initiatives.
National Features and Documentary Series 2021
(One FM - Pilot Episode)
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From One FM in Shepparton, Terri Cowley tells a part of Australian history from a unique perspective, as she recounts the tale of one of Australia's first mid-air collisions.
The episode happened at Sydney’s Bankstown Airport in 1955 but, more than 60 years later, it’s still rippling down through the generations of the Cowley family, coming to rest with Terri, a journalist who felt compelled to tell the story – before it was too late.
Wednesday 1 December
National Features and Documentary Series 2021
(CBAA - Dwelling)
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From FBi Radio and the CBAA in Sydney, Mitch Fuller takes you through the 2021 Sydney lockdown from his perspective and those of his friends.
So, in 2021 I decided to live alone in Sydney. What I didn't realise at the time was what that really meant.
During 100 days of lockdown in 2021, I spent most of my time in my studio apartment. What started out as novel, began to drag as Winter turned into Spring, but Sydney stayed quiet. When the solitude felt more like isolation I was kept afloat by conversations with friends over the phone.
I have attempted to condense 100 days of lockdown into 12 minutes of audio featuring Gladys, coffee making, and the varied experiences of my friends.
National Features and Documentary Series 2021
(RTRFM - Fat Bodies, Healthy Size)
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From RTR FM in Perth, Bec Bowman takes a look at a movement that has been growing in popularity for decades - the Health At Every Size movement.
For years we have been lectured about an obesity crisis.
We have been told that fat people are indeed ‘the biggest losers’ - lazy, greedy, and a drain on our public health system.
But is this true? Is it possible to be both fat and healthy? And what happens to our health when we take the focus off weight loss?
Find out along with Bec Bowman as she explores the Health at Every Size movement with experienced healthcare professionals – Dietitian Claire Gasper and Physiotherapist Simone Berzen.
Wednesday 24 November
National Features and Documentary Series 2021
(SYN - A Love Letter to Wrestling)
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From SYN Media in Melbourne, Erin Dick takes us into her world via A Love Letter to Wrestling, an ode to the place where she found her people.
Mindless violence?
Or, a sanctuary for storytelling?
Professional wrestling is more than meets the eye.
When Deathmatch Downunder’s Erin Dick became a born-again professional wrestling fan in her early twenties, she didn’t expect to fall into the embrace of a community of oddballs and outsiders who would help her find her place in the world.
National Features and Documentary Series 2021
(CMTO - Dancing with Death)
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Chelsea Deeley of Eastside Radio and the CMTO reflects on what it's like to work around death and dying every single day.
Christmas lunch with the family, 2020. We’re having a delicious roast dinner when all of a sudden - my mother, a palliative care nurse, says “Do you know what I think we should do? Have a funeral planning party!”.
This documentary is inspired by her flagrant embracing of the subject of death, unwrapping the personal experiences and views of 2 people, including my mum, who effectively ‘dance with death' on a daily basis.
Wednesday 18 November
Step Away From The Car
(Radio Adelaide)
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Big oil companies and car manufacturers have influenced urban planning policy for too long. Step Away from the Car brings the good news about the growing worldwide Active Transport movement.
Step Away from the Car is a 10-part series ready for summer broadcasting when your listeners relax, listen deeply and ponder. These 10-minute segments cover it all. The research, the strategies, the case for healthier stronger safer communities. Think bikes, fun, kids, public transport, walking, good planning, smart campaigns.
The series features some of the best thinking presented at the 2021 Australian Walking and Cycling Conference and was produced by Nicky Page and Sarah Martin from Radio Adelaide. If you’re inspired by what you hear there is much more on the Step Away from the Car podcast where the best of the last 5 years of the conference is now available.
My Town
(2SER)
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Education is vital but rural students in Australia face unique challenges when accessing education at all stages of development, as well as the associated advantages that students in more urban areas might take for granted. My Town aims to capture the experiences of rural Australia students seeking higher education in their own words through a series of interviews. Produced by 2SER 107.3's Macquarie University studios.
Wednesday 11 November
Step Away From The Car
(Radio Adelaide)
1 x 12'00 - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Big oil companies and car manufacturers have influenced urban planning policy for too long. Step Away from the Car brings the good news about the growing worldwide Active Transport movement.
Step Away from the Car is a 10-part series ready for summer broadcasting when your listeners relax, listen deeply and ponder. These 10-minute segments cover it all. The research, the strategies, the case for healthier stronger safer communities. Think bikes, fun, kids, public transport, walking, good planning, smart campaigns.
The series features some of the best thinking presented at the 2021 Australian Walking and Cycling Conference and was produced by Nicky Page and Sarah Martin from Radio Adelaide. If you’re inspired by what you hear there is much more on the Step Away from the Car podcast where the best of the last 5 years of the conference is now available.
My Town
(2SER)
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Education is vital but rural students in Australia face unique challenges when accessing education at all stages of development, as well as the associated advantages that students in more urban areas might take for granted. My Town aims to capture the experiences of rural Australia students seeking higher education in their own words through a series of interviews. Produced by 2SER 107.3's Macquarie University studios.
Wednesday 3 November
Service Voices - Remembrance Day Content
(Radio Adelaide)
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My Town
(2SER)
2 x 12'00 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Education is vital but rural students in Australia face unique challenges when accessing education at all stages of development, as well as the associated advantages that students in more urban areas might take for granted. My Town aims to capture the experiences of rural Australia students seeking higher education in their own words through a series of interviews. Produced by 2SER 107.3's Macquarie University studios.
Wednesday 27 October
Service Voices - Remembrance Day Content
(Radio Adelaide)
2 x 27'50 - Extras 1 at 13:04
20 Years on the Inside
(3CR)
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“20 Years on the Inside” is a rare and insightful glimpse into the imprisonment and experience of First Nations incarceration over the last twenty years. First Nations people in Australia are the most incarcerated people on earth, and this series amplifies the voices of those who have spent time on the inside. This series also honours the resilience and commitment of the prison radio show “Beyond the Bars”, first broadcast on 3CR Community Radio in 2002 and still going strong after 20 years. Throughout the series, we’ll hear live broadcasts from prisons across Victoria, with the wonderful broadcasters that make “Beyond the Bars” such compelling listening.
Episode 6: Life Beyond Bars
In this final episode, Vickie and Kutcha explore the ideas and dreams of those on the inside for their lives on the outside. Dreams of making a difference, and ideas of contributing to their community and building a better future for the generations of Aboriginal people to come. Visions of steering the younger generation in the right direction, and hopes of supporting the older generation through reconnection with culture.
Wednesday 20 October
Activist Sikh
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Many Sikhs all over the world have joined together in support of protests by Indian farmers against new laws proposed by the Indian government. Solidarity has come from musicians, singers, sportspeople and many young second and third generation diaspora Sikhs who have joined social media and local drive-thru protests in British, Canadian and American cities. A culture of protest is embedded in Sikhism through prayer, songs and stories, which inspires this sense of activism. Modern-day Sikhs, through their poetry or music or through their voluntary work or political campaigns, explain how their religion’s history of protest against persecution and standing up to injustice, inspires their view of the world in 2021. The roots and passing down of stories in families from Sikh history, as well as the use of social media to spread campaign messages, are, they say, helping to nurture and grow a shared sense of Sikh activism against inequality and oppression.
20 Years on the Inside
(3CR)
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“20 Years on the Inside” is a rare and insightful glimpse into the imprisonment and experience of First Nations incarceration over the last twenty years. First Nations people in Australia are the most incarcerated people on earth, and this series amplifies the voices of those who have spent time on the inside. This series also honours the resilience and commitment of the prison radio show “Beyond the Bars”, first broadcast on 3CR Community Radio in 2002 and still going strong after 20 years. Throughout the series, we’ll hear live broadcasts from prisons across Victoria, with the wonderful broadcasters that make “Beyond the Bars” such compelling listening.
Episode 5: Listen to the lived experience of systemic institutionalisation
Today’s episode is about listening to the depth of insight into the impacts of prisons on prisoners themselves. Who better to really listen to than those directly experiencing the failures of the system? Yet their voices seem to fall on deaf ears. It can be difficult to imagine a world without prisons, but if we really listen to the experiences of incarcerated First Nations people it has to follow that we demand an end to their unjust imprisonment.
Wednesday 13 October
Agent Orange: A Vietnamese grandmother's last battle Part 1
(BBC)
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When Tran To Nga was growing up in Vietnam during the 1950s, she had a close relationship with her mother - an important figure in the resistance movement against the regime of South Vietnam. During the Vietnam war, mother and daughter grew even closer, both fighting for the resistance in the depths of the jungle. It was at this time that Nga was sprayed with Agent Orange - a toxic defoliant used by the US military to strip away the leafy canopy of the trees and expose their enemies hiding beneath it. Two years later, her first daughter was born with severe health issues and died, and Nga is battling serious illnesses herself, which she believes are a result of her contact with Agent Orange. She tells Emily Webb about her fight to get compensation for the survivors of Agent Orange, and about her decades-long search for her mother who disappeared in 1966. Nga's story is featured in a documentary called The People vs Agent Orange.
20 Years on the Inside
(3CR)
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“20 Years on the Inside” is a rare and insightful glimpse into the imprisonment and experience of First Nations incarceration over the last twenty years. First Nations people in Australia are the most incarcerated people on earth, and this series amplifies the voices of those who have spent time on the inside. This series also honours the resilience and commitment of the prison radio show “Beyond the Bars”, first broadcast on 3CR Community Radio in 2002 and still going strong after 20 years. Throughout the series, we’ll hear live broadcasts from prisons across Victoria, with the wonderful broadcasters that make “Beyond the Bars” such compelling listening.
Episode 4: The daily grind
In this episode, Kutcha and Vickie hear from the men and women on the “inside” about the daily grind. Life and work on the “inside”. We listen to the brothers and sisters who are living the grind day in, day out, and try to understand just what this system is doing to our people.
Wednesday 6 October
Dry Times Talks
(Austrailan Red Cross)
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Dry Times Talks is a new series from Australian Red Cross featuring powerful stories of resilience from our rural and regional communities.
Episode 4: Looking after you
It can be difficult to stay healthy and feeling well when you’re under pressure – and you can’t help anyone if you’re not looking after yourself. In this episode, Alina Hart and John Harper explain how they look after their health and wellbeing, while Dr Kate Gunn from University of South Australia and John Clark from Rural Alive & Well Tas. give you simple strategies that help in stressful times.
20 Years on the Inside
(3CR)
1 x 55'50 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
“20 Years on the Inside” is a rare and insightful glimpse into the imprisonment and experience of First Nations incarceration over the last twenty years. First Nations people in Australia are the most incarcerated people on earth, and this series amplifies the voices of those who have spent time on the inside. This series also honours the resilience and commitment of the prison radio show “Beyond the Bars”, first broadcast on 3CR Community Radio in 2002 and still going strong after 20 years. Throughout the series, we’ll hear live broadcasts from prisons across Victoria, with the wonderful broadcasters that make “Beyond the Bars” such compelling listening.
Episode 3: The Aboriginal spirit Is strong and ever-present
In this episode, Kutcha and Vickie explore how inmates find creative expression, engage in the healing process and learn about culture while on the “inside”. Vickie shares how she found moments of peace during her time in prison through her creativity, daydreaming, writing and strengthening her spiritual connections.
Wednesday 29 September
Dry Times Talks
(Austrailan Red Cross)
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Dry Times Talks is a new series from Australian Red Cross featuring powerful stories of resilience from our rural and regional communities.
Episode 3: Supporting friends, family and children
20 Years on the Inside
(3CR)
1 x 55'50 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
“20 Years on the Inside” is a rare and insightful glimpse into the imprisonment and experience of First Nations incarceration over the last twenty years. First Nations people in Australia are the most incarcerated people on earth, and this series amplifies the voices of those who have spent time on the inside. This series also honours the resilience and commitment of the prison radio show “Beyond the Bars”, first broadcast on 3CR Community Radio in 2002 and still going strong after 20 years. Throughout the series, we’ll hear live broadcasts from prisons across Victoria, with the wonderful broadcasters that make “Beyond the Bars” such compelling listening.
Episode 2: Unfinished Business
This episode not only looks at the pain associated with grief and mourning, but also with drug addiction, and how prisons only prolong the pain. We hear from mob on the inside about their stories of grief and addiction, and Vickie shares her own experiences with unfinished drug habits and the ongoing pain and injustice prisoners continue to face when they’re on the “outside”.
Wednesday 22 September
Dry Times Talks
(Austrailan Red Cross)
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Dry Times Talks is a new series from Australian Red Cross featuring powerful stories of resilience from our rural and regional communities.
20 Years on the Inside
(3CR)
1 x 55'50 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
“20 Years on the Inside” is a rare and insightful glimpse into the imprisonment and experience of First Nations incarceration over the last twenty years. First Nations people in Australia are the most incarcerated people on earth, and this series amplifies the voices of those who have spent time on the inside. This series also honours the resilience and commitment of the prison radio show “Beyond the Bars”, first broadcast on 3CR Community Radio in 2002 and still going strong after 20 years. Throughout the series, we’ll hear live broadcasts from prisons across Victoria, with the wonderful broadcasters that make “Beyond the Bars” such compelling listening.
Episode 1: It’s a white man’s world, it’s a black man’s jail
In this first episode, we remember the early days of “Beyond the Bars” and reflect on what, or if, anything has changed in the last twenty years. We listen to poets, storytellers, singers, and activists, and reflect on the “prison economy” in so-called Australia.
Wednesday 15 September
The Hotel for the Homeless
(BBC)
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What would happen if the government of a country decided to try to find everyone who was homeless and living on the streets and find a place for them to live? That is exactly what happened in England as the coronavirus pandemic hit. The government says 90% of rough sleepers were offered rooms in hotels that sat empty because of the lockdown. Simon Maybin spent the past year and a half following the lives of some of the people who came to live in a Holiday Inn hotel in Manchester. This documentary is taken from an the series, People Fixing The World.
Beyond the Bars 2021
(3CR) 
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Beyond the Bars is a unique series of live prison radio broadcasts that give voice to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inmates in Victorian prisons. The broadcasts are presented by 3CR's First Nations broadcasters during NAIDOC* Week (July). Beyond the Bars began in 2002 and each year it features songs, stories, opinions and poems from the men and women inside, while also connecting them with culture and community. The Community Radio Network offered the content to stations throughout NAIDOC Week on demand, but thought it was worth playing out again live on the grid. This is part 3 of 3 episodes. *National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee
Wednesday 8 September
Heaps Better
(Greenpeace) 
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Your get-it-done guide for turning climate anxiety into climate action! In this four part series, follow hosts Jess and Ash as they guide you through how you can make a difference to the climate crisis with individual action. It's guaranteed to make you feel better about the future.
Episode 4 - How can we make our leaders listen?
For collective action to succeed, we need to influence the influential. Who should we be targeting here, and how do we communicate about climate change in a way that actually makes a difference? We hear inspiring stories of everyday people making big changes through their words, voices and stories, meet friends in the Pacific who’ve been fighting this fight for decades, and work out how we’re going to change course to a heaps better future, together.
Beyond the Bars 2021
(3CR) 
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Beyond the Bars is a unique series of live prison radio broadcasts that give voice to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inmates in Victorian prisons. The broadcasts are presented by 3CR's First Nations broadcasters during NAIDOC* Week (July). Beyond the Bars began in 2002 and each year it features songs, stories, opinions and poems from the men and women inside, while also connecting them with culture and community. The Community Radio Network offered the content to stations throughout NAIDOC Week on demand, but thought it was worth playing out again live on the grid. This is part 2 of 3 episodes. *National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee
Wednesday 1 September
Heaps Better
(Greenpeace) 
1 x 55'50 - Extras 1 at 13:04
Your get-it-done guide for turning climate anxiety into climate action! In this four part series, follow hosts Jess and Ash as they guide you through how you can make a difference to the climate crisis with individual action. It's guaranteed to make you feel better about the future.
Episode 3 - How can we top funding the climate crisis?
Is our money financing the climate crisis? Our financial experts explain the influence of those holding the financial puppet-strings, and show us the potential impacts of divesting from fossil fuels like coal. Ash and Jess learn about the power we all have to shift money on a global scale, and how easy it is to make sure your money is clean and green!
Beyond the Bars 2021
(3CR) 
1 x 55'50 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Beyond the Bars is a unique series of live prison radio broadcasts that give voice to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inmates in Victorian prisons. The broadcasts are presented by 3CR's First Nations broadcasters during NAIDOC* Week (July). Beyond the Bars began in 2002 and each year it features songs, stories, opinions and poems from the men and women inside, while also connecting them with culture and community. The Community Radio Network offered the content to stations throughout NAIDOC Week on demand, but thought it was worth playing out again live on the grid. This is part 1 of 3 episodes. *National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee
Wednesday 25 August
Heaps Better
(Greenpeace) 
1 x 55'50 - Extras 1 at 13:04
Your get-it-done guide for turning climate anxiety into climate action! In this four part series, follow hosts Jess and Ash as they guide you through how you can make a difference to the climate crisis with individual action. It's guaranteed to make you feel better about the future.
Episode 2 - How can we speed up renewables?
For collective action to succeed, we need to influence the influential. Hear inspiring stories of everyday people making big changes. In this episode, Ash and Jess find out about Australia’s potential as a global leader in renewable power, and start to unpack the structures and powers that keep us dependent on fossil fuels. We learn more about what everyday people can do to kick coal out of the system, speed up the renewable energy revolution, and encourage big businesses to do so too!
Poetry Says Poetry Month Specials
(Red Room Poetry)
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This August, Red Room Poetry is calling on Australians to celebrate all the ways poetry connects, entertains and expands our understanding. They have created the innuagural Poetry Month this year and hope for it to be an ongoing literary event on the nations calendar.
Poetry Says is produced by Alice Allan, where she gets to chat with poets from Australia and elsewhere about what they’re reading and how they create their work, as well as discussions about time, influences, goals, failures and keeping on going when things are tough. In collaboration with Red Room Poetry four episodes have been produced for the Community Radio Network's celebration of Poetry Month. This week we played episode 4.
Wednesday 18 August
Heaps Better
(Greenpeace) 
1 x 55'50 - Extras 1 at 13:04
Your get-it-done guide for turning climate anxiety into climate action! In this four part series, follow hosts Jess and Ash as they guide you through how you can make a difference to the climate crisis with individual action. It's guaranteed to make you feel better about the future.
Episode 1 - How can we be better planet savers?
For collective action to succeed, we need to influence the influential. Hear inspiring stories of everyday people making big changes. Hear what we can do to kick coal out of the system, speed up the renewable energy revolution, and encourage big business to do it too. Is our money financing the climate crisis? Join Ash and Jess as we learn about how easy it is to make sure your money is clean and green! What can we do to stop climate change? We discover our superpowers for climate action, especially when we work together.
Poetry Says Poetry Month Specials
(Red Room Poetry)
1 x 55'50 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
This August, Red Room Poetry is calling on Australians to celebrate all the ways poetry connects, entertains and expands our understanding. They have created the innuagural Poetry Month this year and hope for it to be an ongoing literary event on the nations calendar.
Poetry Says is produced by Alice Allan, where she gets to chat with poets from Australia and elsewhere about what they’re reading and how they create their work, as well as discussions about time, influences, goals, failures and keeping on going when things are tough. In collaboration with Red Room Poetry four episodes have been produced for the Community Radio Network's celebration of Poetry Month. This week we played episode 3.
Wednesday 11 August
The Good Life with Andrew Leigh 
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Jihad Dib
Andrew Leigh MP interviews people on living a happy, healthy and ethical life. This week Andrew speaks with Jihad Dib on racism, role models and respect.
Jihad Dib is an Australian politician who was elected at the 2015 New South Wales state election to the Legislative Assembly as the member for Lakemba representing the Labor Party. he is also the Shadow Minister for Emergency Services, and Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change.
Poetry Says Poetry Month Specials
(Red Room Poetry)
1 x 55'50 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
This August, Red Room Poetry is calling on Australians to celebrate all the ways poetry connects, entertains and expands our understanding. They have created the innuagural Poetry Month this year and hope for it to be an ongoing literary event on the nations calendar.
Poetry Says is produced by Alice Allan, where she gets to chat with poets from Australia and elsewhere about what they’re reading and how they create their work, as well as discussions about time, influences, goals, failures and keeping on going when things are tough. In collaboration with Red Room Poetry four episodes have been produced for the Community Radio Network's celebration of Poetry Month. This week we played episode 2.
Wednesday 4 August
The Good Life with Andrew Leigh 
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Leigh Sales
Andrew Leigh MP interviews people on living a happy, healthy and ethical life. This week Andrew speaks with Leigh Sales on luck, doubt, trolls and what makes a great interview
Leigh Peta Sales AM is an Australian journalist and author. She is the host of the Australian television channel ABC's news and current affairs program 7.30. In 2019, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for her services to broadcast journalism.
Poetry Says Poetry Month Specials
(Red Room Poetry)
1 x 55'50 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
This August, Red Room Poetry is calling on Australians to celebrate all the ways poetry connects, entertains and expands our understanding. They have created the innuagural Poetry Month this year and hope for it to be an ongoing literary event on the nations calendar.
Poetry Says is produced by Alice Allan, where she gets to chat with poets from Australia and elsewhere about what they’re reading and how they create their work, as well as discussions about time, influences, goals, failures and keeping on going when things are tough. In collaboration with Red Room Poetry four episodes have been produced for the Community Radio Network's celebration of Poetry Month. This week, we played episode 1.
Wednesday 28 July
The Good Life with Andrew Leigh 
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Marie Coleman
Andrew Leigh MP interviews people on living a happy, healthy and ethical life. This week Andrew speaks with Marie Coleman on feminism, trailblazing and a good retirement
Marie Yvonne Coleman, AO PSM, is an Australian feminist, social activist, public servant and journalist. She was the first woman to head an Australian national statutory authority. She spent over 60 years campaigning against the gender pay gap and other social injustices
Music Masala 2020 (4EB)
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Music Masala Vol 3 showcases 13 artists with backgrounds from Romania to China, Latvia toThailand and more. Produced by 4EB Brisbane, Music Masala presents not just the music, but the lives and passions of south east Queensland’s
culturally diverse artists.
Episode 13 - Menaka & Old Semeil - feat. Tsoof Baras
This is a collaboration between Brisbane based world musician; Menaka Thomas (Indian fusion singer), Old Semeil (Indie-Folk Duo) and Tsoof Baras (Percussionist). The group have collaborated to write and develop the song “Feel the Joy”. This song is a response to the, present-day experience of collective emotional turmoil and struggle, as the world grapples with a pandemic and social-political unrest. The intention of the song is to lift the hearts of listeners and give people an experience of joy through music.
Wednesday 21 July
The Good Life with Andrew Leigh 
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David Sinclair
Andrew Leigh MP interviews people on living a happy, healthy and ethical life. This week Andrew speaks with David Sinclair on the science of anti-ageing
David Andrew Sinclair AO is an Australian biologist who is a Professor of Genetics and co-Director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research at Harvard Medical School. He is known for his research on aging with a focus on epigenetics. He is an Officer of the Order of Australia.
Music Masala 2020 (4EB)
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Music Masala Vol 3 showcases 13 artists with backgrounds from Romania to China, Latvia toThailand and more. Produced by 4EB Brisbane, Music Masala presents not just the music, but the lives and passions of south east Queensland’s
culturally diverse artists.
Episode 12 - Taraf Traditii
A dynamic and dedicated group Taraf Traditii was formed by violinist Helen Brereton with a passion for traditional Romanian music, singing, and dance. They teach and showcase Romanian culture and traditions through musical performance and workshops. The lead vocalist/percussionist Dorinel Buliga shares a rich musical tradition through the fast paced, joyful tunes, which were performed over hundreds of years for village dances and ceremonies like weddings, that can last for days. At times the music is so upbeat and characterful, it has an almost manic quality to it.
Wednesday 14 July
The Good Life with Andrew Leigh 
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Jess HIll
Andrew Leigh MP interviews people on living a happy, healthy and ethical life. This week Andrew speaks with Jess Hill on power, control and domestic abuse.
Jess Hill is an Australian investigative journalist. In 2020, she won the Stella Prize for her non-fiction work See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse, and in 2021 had a documentary series of the same name on SBS.
Music Masala 2020 (4EB)
1 x 27'50 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Music Masala Vol 3 showcases 13 artists with backgrounds from Romania to China, Latvia toThailand and more. Produced by 4EB Brisbane, Music Masala presents not just the music, but the lives and passions of south east Queensland’s
culturally diverse artists.
Episode 11 - Ostoorah
Celebrated Lebanese vocalist, Samira sings Arabic classical, folk and original songs from the Levant accompanied by musicians from Iran and Australia. Ostoorah’s virtuosic oud (fretless lute) played by Michael Taylor, bell-like santur (Persian hammered dulcimer) played by Masoud Kamgarpour, and soulful shah kaman (Persian spike-fiddle) by Greta Kelly perfectly accompany Samira’s rich, passionate and nuanced voice. Ah Ya Helou is a Syrian folk song that is part of the al-qudud al-halabiyya tradition of popular music. It is a love song in makam Beyat.
Wednesday 7 July
The Good Life with Andrew Leigh 
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Jonathan Haidt
Andrew Leigh MP interviews people on living a happy, healthy and ethical life. This week Andrew speaks with Jonathan Haidt on the Coddling of the American Mind.
Jonathan David Haidt is an American social psychologist, Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University Stern School of Business, and author. His main areas of study are the psychology of morality and moral emotions.
Music Masala 2020 (4EB)
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Music Masala Vol 3 showcases 13 artists with backgrounds from Romania to China, Latvia toThailand and more. Produced by 4EB Brisbane, Music Masala presents not just the music, but the lives and passions of south east Queensland’s
culturally diverse artists.
Episode 10 - Odai Nmai
Odai is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and dancer who inspired his music from his home town Nungua, Ghana in an exciting fusion of traditional and contemporary West African rhythms, instruments and harmonies with vibrant cultural dancing. His style called ‘High Hiplife’ music which is about happiness, energy and love. He has produced music and performed in England, Australia and New Zeland since 2001.
Wednesday 30 June
The Good Life with Andrew Leigh 
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Julia Gillard
Andrew Leigh MP interviews people on living a happy, healthy and ethical life. This week Andrew speaks with Julia Gillard on friendship, purpose and the cone of silence.
Julia Eileen Gillard AC is an Australian politician who served as the 27th Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of the Labor Party from 2010 to 2013, the first and only woman to date to hold either role.
Music Masala 2020 (4EB)
1 x 27'50 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Music Masala Vol 3 showcases 13 artists with backgrounds from Romania to China, Latvia toThailand and more. Produced by 4EB Brisbane, Music Masala presents not just the music, but the lives and passions of south east Queensland’s
culturally diverse artists.
Episode 9 - Čardak
Čardak plays the haunting Sevdah music of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an urban tradition that unites the hearts of a resilient and passionate people. In the absence of our Melbourne-based members for this Music Masala compilation we decided to arrange a rendition of a well-known traditional Bosnian song called “Zapjevala sojka ptica“, with Amela Duheric on vocals and Goran Gajić on double bass, both Bosnian-born Queensland-based musicians and songwriters/composers.
Wednesday 23 June
The Good Life with Andrew Leigh 
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Cordelia Fine
Andrew Leigh MP interviews people on living a happy, healthy and ethical life. This week Andrew speaks with Cordelia Fine on Female Brains, Boys' Toys and Other Delusions of Gender.
Cordelia Fine is a philosopher, psychologist and writer. She is a Full Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at The University of Melbourne. Fine has written three popular science books on the topics of social cognition, neuroscience, and the popular myths of sex differences. She is also noted for coining the term 'neurosexism'.
Music Masala 2020 (4EB)
1 x 27'50 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Music Masala Vol 3 showcases 13 artists with backgrounds from Romania to China, Latvia toThailand and more. Produced by 4EB Brisbane, Music Masala presents not just the music, but the lives and passions of south east Queensland’s
culturally diverse artists.
Episode 8 - Yatra
"Yatra” whose roots are steeped in Indian classical music. Meaning a journey, “Yatra” is a neoclassical band comprising sitars, didgeridoo, percussion, tabla, and vocals. Together “Yatra” creates a perfectly orchestrated sound evoking a cocktail of emotions and an orchard of stories.
Wednesday 16 June
The Good Life with Andrew Leigh 
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Malcolm Turnbull
Andrew Leigh MP interviews people on living a happy, healthy and ethical life. This week Andrew speaks with Malcolm Turnbull on the big picture.
Malcolm Bligh Turnbull AC is a former Australian politician who was the 29th Prime Minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018. He served twice as Leader of the Liberal Party, from 2008 to 2009 when he was Leader of the Opposition, and from 2015 to 2018 when he was Prime Minister.
Music Masala 2020 (4EB)
1 x 27'50 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Music Masala Vol 3 showcases 13 artists with backgrounds from Romania to China, Latvia toThailand and more. Produced by 4EB Brisbane, Music Masala presents not just the music, but the lives and passions of south east Queensland’s
culturally diverse artists.
Episode 7 - Naz feat. Mostafa Odabaei
As a musician, visual artist and art therapist, Naz explores Persian music and culture to bring the taste of art into people’s lives. She has been playing Tanbur for more than ten years, an instrument which is popular among Kurdish people around the world. ‘Horizon’ is a re-arrangement of two pieces ‘Flower & Soil’ (Gol Va Khak) and ‘Twilight’ (Sahari) presenting a new take on Kurdish folk music (Maghami). The song starts with a lover’s whispers and continues on with the feeling of waiting for the sunrise in the second piece.
Wednesday 9 June
The Good Life with Andrew Leigh 
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Steve Biddulph
Andrew Leigh MP interviews people on living a happy, healthy and ethical life. This week Andrew speaks with Steve Biddulph on the secret to happy children.
Stephen John Biddulph AM is an Australian author, activist and psychologist who has written a number of influential bestselling books; and lectures worldwide on parenting, and boys' education. He is married and has two children and grandchildren
Music Masala 2020 (4EB)
1 x 27'50 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Music Masala Vol 3 showcases 13 artists with backgrounds from Romania to China, Latvia toThailand and more. Produced by 4EB Brisbane, Music Masala presents not just the music, but the lives and passions of south east Queensland’s
culturally diverse artists.
Episode 6 - Siam Lamoon
Siam Lamoon is a contemporary band featuring a range of different musicians from Thailand who hitch-hiked their way to Australia to try and make it big! With preserving Thai cultural wisdom as their mission, Siam Lamoon brings both the old times and good times of Thai music to audiences in the Thai–Australian community with their passion for cross-cultural musical collaborations.
Wednesday 2 June
The Good Life with Andrew Leigh 
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Alain de Botton
Andrew Leigh MP interviews people on living a happy, healthy and ethical life. This week Andrew speaks with Alain de Botton on how to live.
Alain de Botton, FRSL is a Swiss-born British philosopher and author. His books discuss various contemporary subjects and themes, emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life. He published Essays in Love, which went on to sell two million copies.
Music Masala 2020 (4EB)
1 x 27'50 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Music Masala Vol 3 showcases 13 artists with backgrounds from Romania to China, Latvia toThailand and more. Produced by 4EB Brisbane, Music Masala presents not just the music, but the lives and passions of south east Queensland’s
culturally diverse artists.
Episode 5 - Greshka
Loosen your suspenders, tighten your shoelaces and get ready to flap your extremities! Greshka is a seven piece neogypsy/klezmer ensemble not unlike a chipotle and cocaine kebab: you’re not sure where it’s from, but it sure knocks you off your tits. A torn canvas of Eastern European gypsy dons a filthy smear of electronica, metal, jazz-funk and classicalarrangement.
Wednesday 26 May
The Good Life with Andrew Leigh 
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Tim Minchin
Andrew Leigh MP interviews people on living a happy, healthy and ethical life. This week Andrew speaks with Tim Minchin on free will, anger, success and failure.
Timothy David Minchin AM is an Australian comedian, actor, writer, musician, and songwriter who refers to himself as a call comedic minstrel. He was born in Northampton, England, to Australian parents, and raised in Perth, Western Australia.
Music Masala 2020 (4EB)
1 x 27'50 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Music Masala Vol 3 showcases 13 artists with backgrounds from Romania to China, Latvia toThailand and more. Produced by 4EB Brisbane, Music Masala presents not just the music, but the lives and passions of south east Queensland’s
culturally diverse artists.
Episode 4 - Zigrida
Brisbane-based ‘Zigrida’ (Valda Biezaitis and Ance Deksne) explores Latvian musical and cultural heritage. The predominant instrument played by “Zigrida” is the kokle - an ancient Latvian string instrument. The group combines the use of two types of kokle, stabule, and voice to express and arrange Latvian folk music, and create music in true ‘Zigrida style’. The ensemble continuously develops and defines their voice in a contemporary context while maintaining strong connection to the Latvian traditions nature, work, and pagan gods.
Wednesday 19 May
The Good Life with Andrew Leigh
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Sisonke Msimang
Andrew Leigh MP interviews people on living a happy, healthy and ethical life. This week Andrew speaks with Sisonke Msimang on exile and home, hatred and belonging.
Sisonke Msimang is a South African writer, speaker, and activist based in Australia. She is most known for her memoirs Always Another Country: A memoir of exile and home and The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela, and concentrates matters of race, gender.
Music Masala 2020 (4EB)
1 x 27'50 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Music Masala Vol 3 showcases 13 artists with backgrounds from Romania to China, Latvia toThailand and more. Produced by 4EB Brisbane, Music Masala presents not just the music, but the lives and passions of south east Queensland’s culturally diverse artists.
Episode 3- Jaga
Jaga is a musical collaboration between Jayan Gopinathan and Guy Drory - two dedicated artists with very different musical and cultural backgrounds. The name Jaga represents the first syllables of each of their names as a tribute to the combination of styles.
Jayan and Guy met at an international multicultural music project called Ethno Australia. They connected over mutual respect of musical styles, technical skills and interest in the spiritual dimensions of music. All of these features shine through in their work. They feel that through this collaboration they are able to challenge their own limitations and hence continually improve as artists and people.
Jaga’s first single, “Her Loving Eyes”, is based on a traditional Carnatic composition in praise of the Divine Mother. The vocals are set to Western instrumentals and feature a rap verse by MC B Grade of Vaguely Human.
Wednesday 12 May
De-Stigmatised Part 5 (5UV)
1 x 55'50 - Extras 1 at 13:04 & 13:32
Fringing It With Accessibility Part 3 - Now in its third year, Fringing It With Accessibility showcases the upside and downside of participating at the Adelaide Fringe Festival as a disabled person with accessibility requirements. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a major disruption in the media, entertainment and performance arts industry over the past 12 months financially, psychologically and mentally due to federal/state/territory government sanctioned border closures, quarantine restrictions and lockdowns.
For this segment, l engage in some informative, fruitful and jovial conversations with 6 local and interstate disabled performers, actors and artists about their upcoming shows, commonly identified inaccessible obstacles/barriers, needing to comply to strict COVID-19 safety measures and protocols and what helped them to survive being jobless or ostracised when the stage went quiet and the lights faded to black.
Music Masala 2020 (4EB)
1 x 27'50 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Music Masala Vol 3 showcases 13 artists with backgrounds from Romania to China, Latvia toThailand and more. Produced by 4EB Brisbane, Music Masala presents not just the music, but the lives and passions of south east Queensland’s
culturally diverse artists.
Episode 2- SAATEEN
Formed in 2019 by Saateen Novéant and Natæsh Koham, SAATEEN brings together two creative worlds to explore and reimagine traditional, folk and popular songs of Australia, China, Taiwan and France, through a series of new adaptations, arrangements and interpretations, as well as original compositions formed on songwriting traditions across these cultures. SAATEEN combines the strengths of the duo’s melodic interpretations and musical arrangements
to create raw, colourful and mesmerising impressions through the art of music.
Wednesday 5 May
De-Stigmatised Part 5 (5UV)
1 x 55'50 - Extras 1 at 13:04 & 13:32
Fringing It With Accessibility Part 2 - Now in its third year, Fringing It With Accessibility showcases the upside and downside of participating at the Adelaide Fringe Festival as a disabled person with accessibility requirements. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a major disruption in the media, entertainment and performance arts industry over the past 12 months financially, psychologically and mentally due to federal/state/territory government sanctioned border closures, quarantine restrictions and lockdowns.
For this segment, l engage in some informative, fruitful and jovial conversations with 6 local and interstate disabled performers, actors and artists about their upcoming shows, commonly identified inaccessible obstacles/barriers, needing to comply to strict COVID-19 safety measures and protocols and what helped them to survive being jobless or ostracised when the stage went quiet and the lights faded to black.
Music Masala 2020 (4EB)
1 x 27'50 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Music Masala Vol 3 showcases 13 artists with backgrounds from Romania to China, Latvia toThailand and more. Produced by 4EB Brisbane, Music Masala presents not just the music, but the lives and passions of south east Queensland’s
culturally diverse artists.
Episode 1 - Mahaba
Mahaba, which means love, is a newly formed band by multi-instrumentalist Philadelphia Murefu. In their first collaboration with vocalist Beulah Quaynor their music connected with their African heritage from Zimbabwe and Ghana presenting rich African musical culture in a contemporary context. Written by Jason Vanherp, Kurangarira has unique, captivating and uplifting grooves that one cannot help but make a move no matter how small. The tune is a blend of vocals, contemporary
instruments -synths, live acoustic drums and traditional instruments, Marimba, Hosho (Shaker) and Ngoma (Congas). Kurangarira means commemoration- a ceremony or celebration of a person or event. In Africa it is a song for post rainy season when people are celebrating their crops to flourish. In Australia it’s just about being grateful as we come out of the winter hibernation and celebrate life.
Wednesday 28 April
De-Stigmatised Part 4 (5UV)
1 x 55'50 - Extras 1 at 13:04 & 13:32
Fringing It With Accessibility Part 1 - Now in its third year, Fringing It With Accessibility showcases the upside and downside of participating at the Adelaide Fringe Festival as a disabled person with accessibility requirements. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a major disruption in the media, entertainment and performance arts industry over the past 12 months financially, psychologically and mentally due to federal/state/territory government sanctioned border closures, quarantine restrictions and lockdowns.
For this segment, l engage in some informative, fruitful and jovial conversations with 6 local and interstate disabled performers, actors and artists about their upcoming shows, commonly identified inaccessible obstacles/barriers, needing to comply to strict COVID-19 safety measures and protocols and what helped them to survive being jobless or ostracised when the stage went quiet and the lights faded to black.
Short Stories
Brisbane Writes Group (4EB) 
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Short Stories is a program featuring the writing and reading talent of local emerging Brisbane writers. Each writer has written a collection of original short stories in their favourite genre so there is plenty of variety in their stories and literature styles.
This week we hear from Sandy Edwards – A traveller for most of her life visiting over 74 countries immersing herself in different cultures, religion and their way of life. These stories inspired Sandy to finally write her memoirs. Her short stories come from her book, yet to be published “Shedding my Skin”.
Wednesday 21 April
De-Stigmatised Part 3 (5UV) 
1 x 55'50 - Extras 1 at 13:04 & 13:32
Inaccessibly Queer part 3 - Many people with disabilities, particularly those who identify as LGBTQIA+ have face multiple traumatic and troubling instances of internal and societal ableism due to misaligned perceptions of their identities within the LGBTQIA+ community.
With Inaccessibly Queer, this segment hears from 6 different individuals who unpeel, expose and reveal their personal journeys with coming out to family, friends and those they might’ve met for the first time, how they explored, navigated love and intimacy and speaking out against ableist language and attitudes.
Short Stories
Brisbane Writes Group
(4EB) 
1 x 23'00 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Short Stories is a program featuring the writing and reading talent of local emerging Brisbane writers. Each writer has written a collection of original short stories in their favourite genre so there is plenty of variety in their stories and literature styles.
This week we hear a second set of stories from Tom Jones – Retired but not retired from his love of writing in the science fantasy genre where anything is possible and there is magic in the air with no boundaries. Having a varied working life including time as paramedic has given him plenty to draw on for his colourful and adventurous stories.
Wednesday 14 April
De-Stigmatised Part 2 (5UV) 
1 x 55'50 - Extras 1 at 13:04 & 13:32
Inaccessibly Queer part 2 - Many people with disabilities, particularly those who identify as LGBTQIA+ have face multiple traumatic and troubling instances of internal and societal ableism due to misaligned perceptions of their identities within the LGBTQIA+ community.
With Inaccessibly Queer, this segment hears from 6 different individuals who unpeel, expose and reveal their personal journeys with coming out to family, friends and those they might’ve met for the first time, how they explored, navigated love and intimacy and speaking out against ableist language and attitudes.
Short Stories
Brisbane Writes Group
(4EB) 
1 x 23'00 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Short Stories is a program featuring the writing and reading talent of local emerging Brisbane writers. Each writer has written a collection of original short stories in their favourite genre so there is plenty of variety in their stories and literature styles.
This week we hear from Geoff Covey – A retired Chemical Engineer, originally from England has written over 150 published technical papers and general interest articles for newsletters for companies across Australia. Geoff is an emerging creative writer and writes across different genres but his love of writing lies in Humorous short stories.
Wednesday 7 April
De-Stigmatised Part 1
(5UV) 
1 x 55'50 - Extras 1 at 13:04 & 13:32
Inaccessibly Queer part 1 - Many people with disabilities, particularly those who identify as LGBTQIA+ have face multiple traumatic and troubling instances of internal and societal ableism due to misaligned perceptions of their identities within the LGBTQIA+ community.
With Inaccessibly Queer, this segment hears from 6 different individuals who unpeel, expose and reveal their personal journeys with coming out to family, friends and those they might’ve met for the first time, how they explored, navigated love and intimacy and speaking out against ableist language and attitudes.
Short Stories
Brisbane Writes Group
(4EB) 
1 x 23'00 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Short Stories is a program featuring the writing and reading talent of local emerging Brisbane writers. Each writer has written a collection of original short stories in their favourite genre so there is plenty of variety in their stories and literature styles.
This week we hear from Philip J Bradbury - A published author of over 20 books across several different genres. He draws his inspiration from travelling the world and from his earlier working life as an accountant, business coach and trainer. He now runs writing workshops for emerging writers and continues to write on a regular basis.
Wednesday 31 March
3CR presents a Binary Busting Broadcast, 7 hours of trans and gender diverse radio in the lead up to the 2021 Transgender Day of Visibility. Hear from a diverse range of trans and gender-diverse programmers covering transgender art, music, culture, politics, wellbeing and resilience, aimed towards troubling and busting the western gender binary.
Inclusive Architecture & Unpronounsable
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Inclusive Architecture: Priya Kunjan of 3CR's Thursday Brekkie renown is interviewing architect and DJ Simona Castricum, about how to build a more inclusive world.
Unpronounsable: 3CR's 'Done By Law' presenter MJ is letting you in on a conversation with mates about the ways that grammar, pronouns and language usage in general shape our genders and our identities.
Out Of The Pan 
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Sally Goldner will be bringing you an episode of Out Of The Pan, featuring the first in a series of discussions about transgender community leadership. Sally will be joined by guests Jacob Thomas (they/them) and Kayleen White (she/her).
Wednesday 24 March
City Road's 50th Episode: Informal Housing
Short Stories
Brisbane Writes Group (4EB)
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Short Stories is a program featuring the writing and reading talent of local emerging Brisbane writers. Each writer has written a collection of original short stories in their favourite genre so there is plenty of variety in their stories and literature styles.
This week we hear from Connor Doig – A young emerging Brisbane Writer with an interest in the melancholy and the macabre. His stories contain anything and everything although his writing passion lies in those things that go bump in the night. He recently contributed several short stories to a collective works title ‘20/20 Vision Stories’ and has just completed his first fantasy novel.
Wednesday 17 March
City Road: Green Structural Adjustment
Within environmental and development finance practices, cities across the Global South are facing a costly infrastructural crisis stemming from rapid urbanisation and climate change. This threatens to further entrench poverty and precarity for millions of people.
Short Stories
Brisbane Writes Group (4EB)
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Short Stories is a program featuring the writing and reading talent of local emerging Brisbane writers. Each writer has written a collection of original short stories in their favourite genre so there is plenty of variety in their stories and literature styles.
This week we hear from Bill Pine – Former high School teacher and Parole Officer has enjoyed writing for over 30 years. His colourful and thought-provoking stories come from his life growing up overseas in different countries. He continues to write on a regular basis.
Wednesday 10 March
City Road: Gender and Cities
Short Stories
Brisbane Writes Group (4EB)
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Short Stories is a program featuring the writing and reading talent of local emerging Brisbane writers. Each writer has written a collection of original short stories in their favourite genre so there is plenty of variety in their stories and literature styles.
This week we hear from Ian Mathieson – A writer and freelance editor of manuscripts for many years. He co-authored ‘The Effective Leader’, and also six other personal development books. He’s worked as a speechwriter and contributed to several collections including business and governmental reports. He recently completed his latest book ‘Steve Hinchy – A tribute” and continues to work on the next great Australian novel.
Wednesday 03 March
City Road: COVID and Renting Part 2 of 2
“It’s very easy to think that a housing crisis is an individual persons problem and I think what’s really interesting and important about COVID is that it’s drawn into sharp relief the fact that a housing crisis is a community problem and not just an individual problem.” - Dr Emma Power
Short Stories
Brisbane Writes Group (4EB)
1 x 23'00 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Short Stories is a program featuring the writing and reading talent of local emerging Brisbane writers. Each writer has written a collection of original short stories in their favourite genre so there is plenty of variety in their stories and literature styles.
This week we hear from Tom Jones – who is currently retired but not retired from his love of writing, particularly in the science fantasy genre where anything is possible and there is magic in the air with no boundaries. Having a varied working life including time as paramedic has given him plenty to draw on for his colourful and adventurous stories.
Wednesday 24 February
City Road: COVID and Renting Part 1 of 2
“It’s very easy to think that a housing crisis is an individual persons problem and I think what’s really interesting and important about COVID is that it’s drawn into sharp relief the fact that a housing crisis is a community problem and not just an individual problem.” - Dr Emma Power
I Am Robert Chelsea
BBC World Service
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The first African-American to have a face transplant tells his own story - in a documentary about faith, identity and character.
Wednesday 17 February
City Road: The Architecture of Dread
We’re talking with Bradley Garrett about Doomsday peppers, underground bunkers and COVID-19.
Doomsday prepping is the practice of anticipating and adapting to an imagined impending crisis, ranging from low level crises to extinction-level events.
Bradley theorises this type of architecture as the Architecture of Dread, drawing on the work of Soren Kierkegaard’s 1844 The Concept of Dread and Sigmund Freud.
“The ‘objectless anxiety’ at the core of contemporary prepping, in contrast to the specific nuclear anxieties driving survivalism, is a ‘sense of existential dread we experience on many fronts’, without ‘much specification of particular risks’.”
The Politics of COVID-19
BBC World Service
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What works - and at what cost - in the fight against Covid? Jonny Dymond brings together top flight decision-makers with the public feeling the brunt of those decisions around the world. How some countries get ahead with vaccines, what the world has learned about preventing the next pandemic and whether vaccine passports are an assault on human rights - a few of the political questions on which a global panel from Singapore, USA, Kenya, South Korea and the United Kingdom, compare notes.
Wednesday 10 February
City Road: Alpha City
In recent decades, London has fallen into the hands of the super-rich. It is today the essential “World City” for High-Net-Worth Individuals and Ultra-High-Net-Worth Individuals.
Compared to New York or Tokyo, the two cities that bear the closest comparison, it has the largest number of wealthy people per head of population.
Taken as a whole, London is the epicentre of the world’s finance markets, an elite cultural hub, and a place to hide one’s wealth.
“It’s about how money has power, and how money has converted and perverted the mission statement of the city, which is to be a place for all citizens…”
Floppy disks and cassette tapes with Témé Tan and Nick Hakim
BBC World Service
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Témé Tan welcomes Nick Hakim, Raquel Berrios and Ela Minus to discuss the purpose of the work they make, whether they imagine their albums as one piece or a playlist of songs, and the importance of travelling and meeting other creatives from around the world.
Témé is an artist from the Democratic Republic of Congo, now based in Belgium, who mixes pop, soul, hip-hop and Afro elements in his music.
Wednesday 3 February
The NetThing (Episode 2 of 2)
The State of the Internet in Australia
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Conversation on the state of the Internet in Australia from NetThing 2020
This two part series presents highlights and interviews from the national conversation regarding THE INTERNET in Australia. With key stakeholders coming together in this space to debate and discuss Internet issues. NetThing is an annual event run by the Australian Internet Governance Forum (AUIGF).
The Wait (Episode 5 of 5)
Don’t forget to smile
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Of all Mozhgan’s family, her dad Amir is struggling the most. In episode one, we heard him in the midst of a shocking crisis, over a year ago.
How is he now? Meanwhile, a glimmer of hope flickers for Mozhgan, but who will get left behind?
Wednesday 27 January
The NetThing (Episode 1 of 2)
The State of the Internet in Australia
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Conversation on the state of the Internet in Australia from NetThing 2020
This two part series presents highlights and interviews from the national conversation regarding THE INTERNET in Australia. With key stakeholders coming together in this space to debate and discuss Internet issues. NetThing is an annual event run by the Australian Internet Governance Forum (AUIGF).
The Wait (Episode 4 of 5)
If there is a God
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Mozhgan Moarefizadeh is stuck in Jakarta, living without rights—but with a yappy dog named Bella. With journalist Nicole Curby, she brings you into the lives of refugees like her, who are trapped on Australia’s new borderline, in Indonesia. Also heard via The Guardian’s Full Story.
Mozhgan and her friend Elina, from Sudan, have a disagreement about beliefs. When the future is impossible to see, faith can be a rock—or, it can shatter completely. Either way, some refugees are taking matters into their own hands, in their quest to cope.
Wednesday 20 January
Making A Difference (Episode 3 of 3)
From little things
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In episode 3 of ‘Making A Difference’, we consider the things that are important to us – large and small – and the difference they make in people’s lives.
The Wait (Episode 3 of 5)
The place where we are kept
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As protests rage in cities across Indonesia, Yousif from Sudan takes the megaphone despite threats of arrest.
Mozhgan can’t travel, so Nicole investigates, visiting shelters in Makassar and Batam.
Who’s on the streets and why are they willing to risk it all to raise their voices?
Wednesday 13 January
Making A Difference (Episode 2 of 3)
To Be Seen and Heard
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In episode 2 of ‘Making A Difference’, we report on the little people (and creatures) who often don’t have a voice. There are stories about Australia’s endangered wildlife; people with a disability; older people in forced isolation the victims of crime too afraid to speak; and the women who suffer with an ‘invisible illness’. They all deserve to be heard, not only because of their struggles but the contribution they make to our communities.
The Wait (Episode 2 of 5)
We say it’s chance
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Mozhgan Moarefizadeh is stuck in Jakarta, living without rights—but with a yappy dog named Bella. With journalist Nicole Curby, she brings you into the lives of refugees like her, who are trapped on Australia’s new borderline, in Indonesia. Also heard via The Guardian’s Full Story.
Mozhgan met Hussein in 2013, both packed into a fishing boat, hoping to get to Australia. She takes Nicole to visit him in West Jakarta, where he lives with his dad in a small room. Their single beds touch toe to toe. How has Australia shaped Hussain and Mozhgan’s lives, even though they never got there?
Wednesday 6 January
Making A Difference (Episode 1 of 3)
Speaking For The Vulnerable
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This first episode of ‘Making A Difference’ looks at vulnerability – the many ways it can affect us and the way we respond. There are stories about drinking through Covid lockdowns; the health of Indigenous children; the victims of revenge porn; the strong, sporty types who bottle-up their struggles; and the refugees’ stories of trauma and healing.
The Wait (Episode 1 of 5)
A paradox and a dilemma
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Mozhgan Moarefizadeh is stuck in Jakarta, living without rights—but with a yappy dog named Bella. With journalist Nicole Curby, she brings you into the lives of refugees like her, who are trapped on Australia’s new borderline, in Indonesia. Also heard via The Guardian’s Full Story.
If you live without rights, far from your motherland, what happens when you die? Mozhgan’s little brother Mohammad speaks Bahasa Indonesia fluently. He knows people. If your relatives want your body sent home, who do they call? They call Mohammad.
Trending: The Year In Disinformation
(BBC)
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It’s been a year filled with lies, rumours and online deception. BBC Trending looks back on a tumultuous 12 months which have seen the tide of disinformation reach dizzying new heights. From the global pandemic to the US election, the extraordinary events of the past year have been shaped by the online spread of falsehoods, propaganda and bizarre conspiracy theories.
This was the year in which QAnon moved from the fringes of the internet to the political mainstream, and all sorts of shadowy forces were blamed for the damage caused by Covid-19.
Stung by years of criticism, social media companies also took unprecedented action to try to stem the flow of disinformation, but did their actions have an impact – and how can we all slow the tide of viral misinformation in the year ahead?
The Climate Question: A Year of Extremes
(BBC)
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Not only has this year been one of the hottest on record, but there has also been a catalogue of record breaking extreme weather events. From the unprecedented bush fires in Australia to the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record, we pick apart how climate change is impacting weather systems and the lives of millions of people around the world. Join a host of science and environmental experts as they break down the year that was 2020.
Wednesday 23 December
The Joy of Reindeer
(BBC)
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What does a reindeer smell like? How do they survive in a -30 degree climate?
Kim Chakanetsa talks all things reindeer with two Sámi women who follow these extraordinary animals for a living.
A Cut Christmas Special
(Eastside Radio)
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Merry Cutmas! It's one of the best times of the year which means... It's time for the annual Christmas Cut special - expect the dopest Christmas carols you've ever heard with the flyest festive rap for the season!
Give the gift that keeps on giving by gifting Xmas rap this year!
Wednesday 16 December
National Features and Documentary Series
Part 3 (CBAA x CMTO)
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Heard on community stations all around Australia. Open to all producers based at community radio stations around the continent, the National Features & Documentary Series has been mentoring producers to create radio stories since 2013. From language and law, to aged care and homeschooling, the 2020 edition of the series is as much about the year that was, as about what the future could be.
National Features and Documentary Series
Part 4 (CBAA x CMTO)
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Heard on community stations all around Australia. Open to all producers based at community radio stations around the continent, the National Features & Documentary Series has been mentoring producers to create radio stories since 2013. From language and law, to aged care and homeschooling, the 2020 edition of the series is as much about the year that was, as about what the future could be.
Wednesday 9 December
National Features and Documentary Series
Part 1 (CBAA x CMTO)
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Heard on community stations all around Australia. Open to all producers based at community radio stations around the continent, the National Features & Documentary Series has been mentoring producers to create radio stories since 2013. From language and law, to aged care and homeschooling, the 2020 edition of the series is as much about the year that was, as about what the future could be. In this episode we hear from two of the National Features and Documentary Series finalists for 2020. 'Never gonna let the language go away' produced by MJ Bakewell from 8CCC in Alice Springs, and 'Mother Cluckers' produced by Dione Green from Bay FM in Byron Bay.
National Features and Documentary Series
Part 2 (CBAA x CMTO)
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Heard on community stations all around Australia. Open to all producers based at community radio stations around the continent, the National Features & Documentary Series has been mentoring producers to create radio stories since 2013. From language and law, to aged care and homeschooling, the 2020 edition of the series is as much about the year that was, as about what the future could be. In this episode we hear from two of the National Features and Documentary Series finalists for 2020. My Mother Tongue produced by Bernadette Nguyen from FBi Radio in Sydney, and Patterns produced by Victor Weetra from Radio Adelaide.
Wednesday 2 December
Imagining Disability Justice
Part 1 (3CR)
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Showcasing special content made for 3CR's Imagining Disability Justice event. This episode includes Chronically Chilled: The Royal Commission - A show that facilitates discussion and explores topics about chronic illness, disability and mental health. El Gibbs from People With Disability Australia chats with Naomi Chainey and Marijo Pozega about the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of disabled people. As well as Raising Our Voices: Gender Violence Special, which is produced and presented by people with disabilities discussing gender based violence, domestic violence and cyber bullying on a global scale.
Imagining Disability Justice
Part 2 (3CR)
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This episode includes
Showcasing special content made for 3CR's Imagining Disability Justice event. This episode includes Vanamali Hermans: Black Lives Matter, Prison & Institutional Abolition & Mutual Aid. Vanamali Hermans, a Wiradjuri, Irish & Flemish disabled organiser and writer is joined Marijo Požega to discuss the current Black Lives Matter movement, what abolition could look like from a disability justice perspective, the role of social workers (if any) in abolitionist politics and her experiences in mutual aid organising.
Wednesday 25 November
Barack Obama talks to David Olusoga
(BBC)
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Ahead of the release of his memoirs, former President of the United States, Barack Obama talks to historian and broadcaster David Olusoga.
He discusses his motivations for writing the book and the challenges he faced confronting political, cultural and racial divisions in America, as the first African American to hold the nation’s highest office. Despite the challenges America is facing, particularly now, Obama believes in the possibility of America. “History doesn't move in a straight line – it zig-zags and can go backwards. If you were an African American right after the Civil War during Reconstruction, you might feel pretty optimistic. Fifteen years later, you'd feel very pessimistic, because there was a massive retrenchment.”
Ethiopia Crisis: High stakes for Africa
(BBC)
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The fighting between Ethiopian federal troops and regional forces in Tigray has forced thousands of people to flee to Sudan for safety. Ethiopia's Nobel Peace Prize winning prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, says there will be no let-up in his government's 'law enforcement' mission. His aim is to arrest and put on trial TPLF party politicians who he alleges have put the country's constitution in danger. Could the battle for Tigray end up destabilising the entire Horn of Africa?
Wednesday 18 November
Blood lands
(BBC)
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The frenzied attack in a farmhouse that left two dead men and a South African town divided
The Star-Spangled Banner
(BBC)
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Exploring the impact of America's national anthem, which is set to the tune of an English social men's club song.
Wednesday 11 November
The Unknown Soldier
(BBC)
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On the second anniversary of the armistice following the end of the Great War, the remains of a single Unknown Soldier were brought home from the battlefields of the Western Front. Given the scale of the carnage and the fact that so many of the fallen were simply unidentifiable, the idea to commemorate the dead through the remains of one anonymous soldier - that would represent them all - was more than just pragmatic. As an idea it had a symbolic, almost poetic, resonance.
In this moving feature, Moira asks whether the Unknown Soldier is finally an icon of war or peace; of sorrow and mourning – or is he a warning to us still?
Is Trumpism here to stay?
(BBC)
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The outcome of the most consequential elections in US history is still unknown. But what is certain is predictions of a Joe Biden landslide were wrong. The intense criticism towards president Trump over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic seems to have done little in changing the mind of his core supporters - Is there such a thing as 'Trumpism' and if so, what defines it? How have coalitions shifted and divisions widened and what do they tell us about the path forward?
Wednesday 28 October
In The Mind's Eye
(RR2020)
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Turkish born, LA-based media artist Refik Anadol examines how machine intelligence is reshaping his world and the world around him – imagining a near future where super intelligent machines that learn will redefine our places, relationships, economies and broader lives.
Refik Anadol is a lecturer and visiting researcher in UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts. He is working in the fields of site-specific public art.
- Produced by NGV as part of the Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series
- Presenter Refik Anadol
- Supported by the Drummond Foundation and Telstra
- Copyright NGV
Telling Tales
(RR2020)
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Telling Tales is the creation of Hot to Trot Productions: a creative team of industry leaders who have dedicated their working lives to the Arts, education, music and history. The creative team, along with the ‘tale tellers’ use oral history, music and theatre to bring stories to life. Older people have amazing stories to share with their families and communities. Using oral history and theatre, Telling Tales gives our elders the opportunity to not only tell and record their stories but to present them in a unique theatrical event that celebrates their lives and experiences - Pham Ho and Dr Peter Harms share their stories.
- Produced by Hot to Trot Productions
- Facilitator Evelyn Krape
- Oral Historian Vivienne Nicholson
- Community Participants Pham Ho and Dr Peter Harms
- Copyright Hot to Trot Productions
Wednesday 21 October
Can Artists and Designers be Agents of Change?
(RR2020)
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Hosted by The New York Times European Culture Editor, Matthew Anderson, this roundtable discussion features six artists and designers from the NGV Triennial, focusing on how they interpret some of most vital issues of our time, from the global movement of people to the impact of climate change and urbanization.
Journalist Matthew Anderson is the European Culture Editor of the New York Times. Previously he worked with the BBC as a reporter, producer and editor for TV, radio and online content.
- Hosted by Matthew Anderson
- Presenters - Simone Farresin (Formafantasma), Alexandra Kehayoglou, Josephine Meckseper, Brodie Neill, Richard Mosse and Elliat Riche.
- Supported by the Drummond Foundation and the Donald Russell Elford and Dorothy Grace Elford Bequest.
- Copyright NGV
Landscapes of the Future
(RR2020)
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Daan Roosegaarde delivers an interactive keynote presentation exploring the social role of design and the importance of Schoonheid (a Dutch word meaning both beauty and cleanliness), along with his vision for the future.
Dutch artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde is a creative thinker and maker of social designs which explore the relation between people, technology and space.
- Produced by NGV as part of Melbourne Design Week 2019
- Presenter Daan Roosegaarde
- Supported by the Drummond Foundation
- Copyright NGV
Wednesday 14 October
The Carer - Radio Play
(RR2020)
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In 1997, Bay Street Productions brought the worlds of art and health together, under the banner, HealthPlay. Subsequently, it has staged over 400 performances around Australia. Written and performed by Alan Hopgood, The Carer has been adapted to a radio play. The heart warming story of a man rediscovering joy after the death of his wife.
Credits:
- Written and performed by Alan Hopgood
- Based on an idea by Scott Ramsay
- Copyright Bay Street Productions
Music From The Hearth
(RR2020)
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Ithis Radio Play we feature two monologues by leading playwright Daniel Keene.
KADDISH: spoken by a man who has watched his companion die. His grief becomes unbearable as he reflects on the poverty in which they lived.
THE RAIN: an old woman remembers a time when she was confronted by the everyday humanity and faith of the victims of genocide.
Credits:
- Written by Daniel Keene
- Directed by Laurence Strangio
- Performed by Brenda Palmer and John Flaus
- Copyright Laurence Strangio
Wednesday 7 October
Merkel's Last Dance - Episode 1
(Deutsche Welle)
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The era of Angela Merkel is coming to an end. The actions, and inaction, by Germany's chancellor have reshaped Europe for years.
Our hosts will follow her moves over her last months in office — possibly the toughest yet.
Music From The Hearth
(RR2020)
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Deborah Conway and Willy Zygier perform in isolation at home a selection of songs from their recent 2019 album The Words of Men. They range from songs about relationships, their break down, and the mysteries and joys of ageing, to the strange circumstances we find ourselves in as the 21st century progresses.
Credits:
- Written and performed by Deborah Conway and Willy Zygier.
- Copyright Deborah Conway and Willy Zygier.
Wednesday 30 September
Scones, Lamingtons and Chocolate Rolls (RR2020)
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Wicked Widows was adapted by Alan Hopgood from the PhD thesis of Dr Susan Feldman, who interviewed 80 widows for her research .The play reflects the positive way the widows were adjusting to their new life or ‘life after death’ allowing the play to be a delightful comedy. This radio play is based on the stage version of Wicked Widows.
Credits:
- Written and Directed by Alan Hopgood
- Based on the PhD thesis of Dr Susan Feldman
- Performed by Kirsty Child. Margot Knight and Jenny Seedsman
- Copyright Bay Street Production
The Agatha Christie Radio Mysteries: Butter In A Lordly Dish
(RR2020)
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Acknowledged as the queen of crime fiction, Agatha Christie had success not only as a novelist but as a playwright. She was approached by the BBC to create some plays specially for radio and Butter In A Lordly Dish is the first of three that are being performed by the Lux Radio Theatre for Radio Reimagined.
Credits:
- Written by Agatha Christie
- Directed by Don Mackay
- Performed by Rosalind Mackay, Beverley Dunn, Jenny Seedsman, Simon Russell and James Wright
- Copyright Lux Radio Theatre
Wednesday 23 September
Scones, Lamingtons and Chocolate Rolls (RR2020)
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Meet Australian Outback 1940's restaurant owner Sheila and journey through her life with stories, song, bush verse and mouth watering recipes. Sheila's dessert trolley, laden with pavlova, creme caramel, mocha chocolate roll, mulberry pie, bowls of chocolate mousse and long stemmed glasses filled with strawberry romanoff, was famous throughout the region
Credits:
- Written and performed by Christine Middleton.
- Accompanied by Tim Sheed, Australian Bush Poet and son of Sheila.
- Copyright Christine Middleton
The Agatha Christie Radio Mysteries: Rats
(RR2020)
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Acknowledged as the queen of crime fiction, Agatha Christie had success not only as a novelist but as a playwright. She was approached by the BBC to create some plays specially for radio. Rats is the second of the three of these being performed by the Lux Radio Theatre for Radio Reimagined.
Credits:
- Written by Agatha Christie
- Directed by Don Mackay
- Performed by Rosalind Mackay, Beverley Dunn, Jenny Seedsman, Simon Russell and James Wright
- Copyright Lux Radio Theatre
Wednesday 16 September
U3A Melbourne City Script Writing Group Recent Works - Monologues
(RR2020)
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Melbourne City’s script writing group enjoy writing both monologues and dialogues on broad topics. Scripts are read in class where feedback is offered on content and presentation. Members are encouraged to submit their writing to competitions and festivals. Our four monologues were selected based on audience reaction in class and relevance to our potential audience. All very different, one topical, one wistful, another poetic and the fourth introspective.
Credits:
- University of the Third Age
- “If Only” – written and read by Maureen Inkster
- “A Certain Kind of Man” – written and read by Ron Irwin
- “Pandemic (hic) Blues” – written and read by Carole Miles
- “A Sister” – written and read by Toni Purdy
A Good and Pleasant Thing
(RR2020)
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Melanie Cheng is a writer and general practitioner based in Melbourne. Her short story collection, Australia Day, won the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction and her novel, Room for a Stranger, was longlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin award. A Good and Pleasant Thing is the final story in her short story collection, Australia Day. It follows Mrs Chan — a character loosely based on Cheng's own Chinese grandmother — as she attempts to forge a new life for herself in Australia.
Credits:
- Written and performed by Melanie Cheng
- A Good and Pleasant Thing, taken from Australia Day, published by The Text Publishing Company Australia, 2017
- Sound Design by Nat Grant
Wednesday 9 September
Allara Pattison Poetry [Multicultural Arts Victoria]
(RR2020)
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An intimate episode with Yorta Yorta musician, composer and filmmaker Allara Pattison. As a climate advocate, Allara’s artistic works align with environmental and social justice topics. In conversation with journalist Jessica Ankomah, Allara talks about her music, family, new projects and challenges in the current climate and delivers an original musical performance specially made for Radio Reimagined.
Stories From The Pier [Multircultural Arts Victoria]
(RR2020)
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Stories From The Pier shares the heritage, experiences, memories, emotions, and stories of migration by-and-about generations of immigrants and their families who decades ago, undertook the long life-changing journey to Australia by ship, and who have since become an integral part of Australian society and culture. In this edition of the program, hear stories from Janna McCurdy Hilbrink and Sylvie Leber.
Wednesday 2 September
The Agatha Christie Radio Mysteries: Personal Call [Radio Play]
(RR2020)
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In the golden days of radio before television, radio plays were a big feature of Sunday night listening. The Lux Radio Theatre was one of them. The actors wore evening clothes and frequently played several roles within the same show. The Lux shows have been recreated for stage performance by groups of actors who have appeared in many Lux Radio Theatre shows. Acknowledged as the queen of crime fiction, Agatha Christie had success not only as a novelist but as a playwright. She was approached by the BBC to create some plays specially for radio. Personal Call is the final of the three plays being performed by the Lux Radio Theatre for Radio Reimagined.
The Cockatoo [Radio Play]
(RR2020)
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This story is about a mistake, the consequences of which divides a family and plunges our protagonist, Ruth, into a dark place. Through a chance encounter, Ruth sees that there is still time. Through taking responsibility, she grows stronger in herself, discovering a way she can enact good in the world. Finally, she becomes brave enough to bridge the divide she caused in her family. But how will her family respond? Written by Laura Lethlean, who is an Australian playwright, with work produced in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra. and she says "When writing The Cockatoo, I wanted to explore the notion that each of us, despite our age, ability or past, can find a way to do good in the world. If we can discover something that fits with our soul, we are all able to leave a small part of the world slightly better than we found it." Enjoy this radio play that is written, directed, produced and acted in by women!
Wednesday 26 August
Recycling Chile, recycling Spain
(BBC)
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Why is Spain rubbish at recycling and Chile so much better? Leena Vuotovesi finds out.
Black Music in Europe: A Hidden History
(BBC Part 3)
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Drawing on rare archive recordings, Clarke Peters' new three-part series explores the hidden history of black music across Europe, from the late 1920s through the war years and beyond. Throughout the series, we hear from a huge array of different performers - including classical composers, jazz stars, calypso legends and more - as well as commentators and historians, to get to the heart of early black music in Europe.
Episode 3 - After 1945 In this final episode, Clarke delves into the sounds of 1950s London, from Ambrose Campbell and his West African Rhythm Brothers and steel pan master Sterling Betancourt MBE, to calypso star Lord Kitchener. He also uncovers the history of jazz in Paris after 1945 and tells how black American GIs found a new freedom in post-war Germany.
Wednesday 19 August
The Real Story - How Democratic Are American Elections?
(BBC)
1 x 49'30 - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
The US presidential election campaign is gathering steam, with the Democratic Party convention beginning next week. November's election in the United States will be taking place at a time when the country is going through unprecedented social and economic upheavals. With the uncertainty of the coronavirus, there is no clear consensus on the way polling stations can ensure the safety of the voters. So as the first major election in the middle of a pandemic, how credible will be the results in November? How are allegations of voter suppression being addressed? And is the system still working for American democracy if the popular vote and election outcomes are growing further apart?
Black Music in Europe: A Hidden History
(BBC Part 2)
1 x 26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Drawing on rare archive recordings, Clarke Peters' new three-part series explores the hidden history of black music across Europe, from the late 1920s through the war years and beyond. Throughout the series, we hear from a huge array of different performers - including classical composers, jazz stars, calypso legends and more - as well as commentators and historians, to get to the heart of early black music in Europe.
Episode 2 - 1939-45 Clarke looks at the music of black Europe at the time of the Second World War with recordings of Nazi propaganda jazz, underground bands in Hitler’s Germany, black American trumpet stars in occupied Paris, and Caribbean swing bands playing through the Blitz in London. He also examines the work of Nigerian composer Fela Sowande and plays extracts of his wartime broadcast for the BBC.
Wednesday 12 August
All Things Equal Season 3 - Digital Divides: Nothing About Us, Without Us
(2SER)
1 x 25'00 - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
We live in an age of disruption. Technology has reshaped all aspects of life on the planet. Every advance offers exciting possibilities, but also unintended consequences. Traditional social structures are being challenged, remade or destroyed, for better or worse. Human rights are not immune to the challenges posed by our new tech-defined reality. From 2SER and the Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion UTS, “All Things Equal 3: Digital Divides” explores the risks and rewards technological advances present to human rights.
Episode 6: AI Technology offers incredible, life changing opportunities to all, but with life chaning so rapidluu around us, do we have the right to a human-made decision?
Black Music in Europe: A Hidden History
(BBC Part 1)
1 x 26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Drawing on rare archive recordings, Clarke Peters' new three-part series explores the hidden history of black music across Europe, from the late 1920s through the war years and beyond. Throughout the series, we hear from a huge array of different performers - including classical composers, jazz stars, calypso legends and more - as well as commentators and historians, to get to the heart of early black music in Europe.
Episode 1: Before the War Clarke examines the variety of black music recorded in Europe from the late 1920s onwards - hot jazz in Weimar Berlin, calypso in Cardiff Bay and the sounds of the Beguine in Paris. He also investigates the Degenerate Music exhibition held in Dusseldorf in 1938, and hears how the rise of Hitler affected the lives of musicians like trumpeter Arthur Briggs.
Wednesday 5 August
All Things Equal Season 3 - Digital Divides: Indigenous Perspectives
(2SER)
1 x 25'00 - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
We live in an age of disruption. Technology has reshaped all aspects of life on the planet. Every advance offers exciting possibilities, but also unintended consequences. Traditional social structures are being challenged, remade or destroyed, for better or worse. Human rights are not immune to the challenges posed by our new tech-defined reality. From 2SER and the Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion UTS, “All Things Equal 3: Digital Divides” explores the risks and rewards technological advances present to human rights.
Episode 5: Indigenous Knowledge Indigenous people were the first engineers in the world, and Indigenous perspectives will be vital in the development of new technology, especially given its potential for further entrenching biases, discrimination and exclusion. Those perspectives can also serve to break ingrained ways of thinking within engineering and development.
Australia Remembers
(Media Heads Parts 1-20)
20 x 90 secs - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
August 15th marks the 75th Anniversary of the End of the Second World War, Victory in the Pacific Day. The majority veterans of the conflict still alive would be around 100 years of age. There are now just 11,000 of them still alive. The current pandemic is often held relative to the last world war. That generation lived through 6 years of a world war, and 3.5 years of the threat of mainland invasion. There was rationing, supplies of things we take for granted, such as flour, sugar, petrol, etc. Windows had to be blacked-out at night. You couldn’t travel interstate - for three-and-a-half years!
Media Heads has produced 20 segments – each 90-seconds in length – to be played in the lead-up to, and on, VP Day. Each segment provides a illustrative snapshot of life and events experienced by Australians during World War II.
Wednesday 29 July
All Things Equal Season 3 - Digital Divides: Privacy
(2SER)
1 x 25'00 - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
We live in an age of disruption. Technology has reshaped all aspects of life on the planet. Every advance offers exciting possibilities, but also unintended consequences. Traditional social structures are being challenged, remade or destroyed, for better or worse. Human rights are not immune to the challenges posed by our new tech-defined reality. From 2SER and the Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion UTS, “All Things Equal 3: Digital Divides” explores the risks and rewards technological advances present to human rights.
Episode 4: Privacy When was the last time you read all the Terms and Conditions before clicking “I agree”? We sign away our right to privacy on a daily basis, often for no more than a game. High-profile hacks have put the vulnerability of our information in the headlines. But is it foreign actors we need to beware of, or a threat closer to home?
Seven dead, 46 injured: One Chicago weekend
(BBC)
1 x 26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
On Monday 5 August last year, the Chicago Sun Times newspaper carried this headline: “Seven deaths, 46 wounded in Chicago Weekend Shootings.” It was referring to the casualty list after one summer weekend in Chicago.
As violence flares in cities across the USA this programme reconstructs those three days in 2019. Narrated by Clarke Peters (The Wire’s Detective Lester Freamon), and with a specially composed music and sound design, this immersive documentary uses the words of the city newspaper updates on the violence, alongside eyewitness accounts and the sad personal stories of relatives and friends who lost loved ones.
Wednesday 22 July
All Things Equal Season 3 - Digital Divides: Education
(2SER)
1 x 25'00 - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
We live in an age of disruption. Technology has reshaped all aspects of life on the planet. Every advance offers exciting possibilities, but also unintended consequences. Traditional social structures are being challenged, remade or destroyed, for better or worse. Human rights are not immune to the challenges posed by our new tech-defined reality. From 2SER and the Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion UTS, “All Things Equal 3: Digital Divides” explores the risks and rewards technological advances present to human rights.
Episode 3: Education Computers are capable of processing far more information than humans, and in a fraction of the time. What students can learn about machines and their programming has become far more relevant. But we should also ask what AI is learning about students…
Science in Action - How long do Covid-19 antibodies last?
(BBC)
1 x 26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Science in Action looks at some of the latest research on the response of our immune system to infection by the coronavirus. How well do our immune systems defend us from the coronavirus? Also, a novel Covid-19 vaccine passes its first test with promise and the dolphins that fish with giant shells.
Wednesday 15 July
All Things Equal Season 3 - Digital Divides: Medicine
(2SER)
1 x 30'00 - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
We live in an age of disruption. Technology has reshaped all aspects of life on the planet. Every advance offers exciting possibilities, but also unintended consequences. Traditional social structures are being challenged, remade or destroyed, for better or worse. Human rights are not immune to the challenges posed by our new tech-defined reality. From 2SER and the Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion UTS, “All Things Equal 3: Digital Divides” explores the risks and rewards technological advances present to human rights.
Episode 2: Medicine When it comes to medicine, we can see some of the most obvious benefits new technology creates for human kind. As bio-tech capabilities reach greater heights, we’re living longer than ever before. But equality of access to these expensive technologies will prove problematic, especially when it comes to our greatest, and most terrifying, feat: gene editing.
Global Questions - Coronavirus: A Step Back for Women?
(BBC)
1 x 26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Women appear to be bearing the brunt of the impact of Covid-19 - Many are asking if the pandemic is turning back the clock on women's lives. Zeinab Badawi is joined by Alexandra Shulman Former Editor-in-Chief of British Vogue and Tina Tchen CEO of Time’s Up and Former Chief of Staff to First Lady Michelle Obama.
Wednesday 08 July
All Things Equal Season 3 - Digital Divides: AI
(2SER)
1 x 30'00 - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
We live in an age of disruption. Technology has reshaped all aspects of life on the planet. Every advance offers exciting possibilities, but also unintended consequences. Traditional social structures are being challenged, remade or destroyed, for better or worse. Human rights are not immune to the challenges posed by our new tech-defined reality. From 2SER and the Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion UTS, “All Things Equal 3: Digital Divides” explores the risks and rewards technological advances present to human rights.
Episode 1: AI Artificial Intelligence is the holy grail of technology. But the dawn of AI has already broken: we see it in algorithms that predict what you want to buy, decide what news you see… even judge whether or not you should go to prison. But should we trust these algorithms to make our choices for us? Do we have the right to a human-made decision?
Assignment - Wuhan: City of Silence
(BBC)
1 x 26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
The BBC’s China correspondent, John Sudworth, travels to Wuhan – the city on the banks of the Yangtze river where Covid-19 first emerged. As the city returns to life, he examines one of the biggest questions on everyone’s mind: did the virus emerge naturally or could it have been leaked, as the US alleges, from a Wuhan lab, where work was being carried out to research bat viruses? As John and his team discover, asking questions and getting answers in Wuhan is no easy task.
Wednesday 01 July
OS Conversations: Women rethinking the world
(BBC)
1 x 17'30 - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
The conversation will be responding to comments and analysis resulting from a global discussion, being hosted this weekend by the Women of the World Foundation. There is concern the impact worldwide of COVID-19 is leaving many women worse off comparatively to men. Many are facing greater challenges with their careers, well-being, caring responsibilities and some with their personal safety - prompting a global conversation about where women find themselves in the new world that we are living in.
Killer Mike - The Rapper Turned Speech Maker
(BBC)
1 x 26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
in this short documentary, BBC journalist Mark Coles looks at the rapper Killer Mike who made a plea for calm after George Floyd’s death that went viral - a speech of him begging his community, the city of Atlanta, not to 'burn their own city to the ground'. Mark takes an indepth look at the life of Killer Mike, his long affiliations with civil rights action groups, and how he uses the music of his hip-hop group, Run The Jewels, to help shed light on some of the injustices faced by the Black community.
Wednesday 24 June
Can viral videos stop police brutality?
(BBC)
1 x 17'30 - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
It was a brutal killing which captured the attention of the US and the world. But the death of George Floyd wouldn’t have caused such an outcry if it hadn’t been captured on camera. The footage, captured by witnesses on that day in late May, galvanised a social media wave and prompted protests around the world. But are viral videos really an effective check on police abuse? We talk to the experts, look at the evidence – and talk to witnesses and people on the front lines of the protests.
Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast 2020
(BBC)
1 x 26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Every year, the BBC World Service makes this special programme for just 40 listeners: the team of scientists and support staff isolated at British research stations in the Antarctic midwinter. The Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast is unlike anything else on the BBC World Service. Presented by Cerys Matthews, it features messages from family and friends at home as well as music requests from Antarctica. For decades it has been part of the traditional midwinter celebrations.
Wednesday 17 June
The Real Story: Racial justice - Who are the allies?
(BBC)
1 x 49'30 - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Black protesters across the United States and the world have been joined by white people calling for lasting change in the way societies deal with systemic racism. But this isn’t the first time a cross-section of society has voiced its desire for radical action on race. In most instances calls for revolution die down and the moment brings only incremental change. As the economic crisis sparked by the pandemic leaves record numbers out of work, will the coalition of voters taking to the streets still have the same priorities when they go to the polls? When it comes to addressing systemic racism, who are the allies of black activists - and what is their role now?
Health Speak - COVID-19 Special 
(Part 5 7LTN)
1 x 26'00 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
With all the media about COVID-19, it may seem getting some sensible health, wellbeing and support advice may be like finding a needle in a haystack. Over 5 special episodes, Health Speak takes a community-led look at the impacts of the pandemic and lockdown as it matters to Australians: family violence, helping each other, caring for those who are unwell, intellectual disabilities, and dealing with addiction at this time. This upload is about people who suffer with addiction and how they are coping during the pandemic.
Wednesday 10 June
Cultural Frontline: Black Lives Matter in Art and Protest
(BBC)
1 x 26'30 - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
The Cultural Frontline explores how America’s artists and cultural voices are responding to the death of George Floyd and the protests that have followed. Telling the stories of black life that don't get told anywhere else. That’s the mission of The Nod a hugely popular American podcast presented by Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings. Tina Daheley speaks to Brittany and Eric about the death of George Floyd and confronting the pain felt by black Americans. We speak to a whole host of other creatives from around the world on this issue as It’s not just in the United States where the Black Lives Matter movement has been staging protests, it's happening across the globe, and even here on our home soil, in Australia.
Health Speak - COVID-19 Special 
(Part 4 7LTN)
1 x 26'00 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
With all the media about COVID-19, it may seem getting some sensible health, wellbeing and support advice may be like finding a needle in a haystack. Over 5 special episodes, Health Speak takes a community-led look at the impacts of the pandemic and lockdown as it matters to Australians: family violence, helping each other, caring for those who are unwell, intellectual disabilities, and dealing with addiction at this time. This upload is about people with Intelltectual disabilities and how they are coping during the pandemic.
Wednesday 3 June
The Documentary: The Covid Generation 
(BBC)
1 x 49'30 - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Tens of millions of young people are leaving school and university only to find themselves job hunting in what could be one of the worst recessions in living memory. With widespread recruitment freezes and redundancies, what hope is there of the class of 2020 finding employment?
Ruth Alexander speaks to young people from all over the world about their struggle to find work, and their worries about the long term impact this could have on their careers.
Experts from the fields of work, economics and education discuss what can be done to protect millions of bright young things from the prospect of a jobless future.
Health Speak - COVID-19 Special 
(Part 3 7LTN)
1 x 26'00 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
With all the media about COVID-19, it may seem getting some sensible health, wellbeing and support advice may be like finding a needle in a haystack. Over 5 special episodes, Health Speak takes a community-led look at the impacts of the pandemic and lockdown as it matters to Australians: family violence, helping each other, caring for those who are unwell, intellectual disabilities, and dealing with addiction at this time. This upload is about people who are already chronically unwell and how they are coping during the pandemic.
Wednesday 27 May
Further Fables Queer & Familiar 
(Part 15-20 5UV)
6 x 4'00 - 4'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Further Fables Queer & Familiar welcomes you to the hidden complexities of life in an ordinary Australian suburb. Who will fix the plumbing? How do you adapt to a trans person in the family? How do you end racism and make a safe haven for refugees, or keep up with the housework? And what on earth do you do about the climate emergency?
This is a short 20 part series where author Margaret Merrilees, reading exerts taken from her most recent book, Further Fables Queer & Familiar, has brought us the complete instructions for being a lesbian granny. This upload contains parts 10-15.
Health Speak - COVID-19 Special 
(Part 2 7LTN)
1 x 26'00 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
With all the media about COVID-19, it may seem getting some sensible health, wellbeing and support advice may be like finding a needle in a haystack. Over 5 special episodes, Health Speak takes a community-led look at the impacts of the pandemic and lockdown as it matters to Australians: family violence, helping each other, caring for those who are unwell, intellectual disabilities, and dealing with addiction at this time. This upload is about domestic violence and how it is increasing during the pandemic, and what people can do to help those who might be suffering.
Wednesday 20 May
Further Fables Queer & Familiar 
(Part 10-15 5UV)
6 x 4'00 - 4'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Further Fables Queer & Familiar welcomes you to the hidden complexities of life in an ordinary Australian suburb. Who will fix the plumbing? How do you adapt to a trans person in the family? How do you end racism and make a safe haven for refugees, or keep up with the housework? And what on earth do you do about the climate emergency?
This is a short 20 part series where author Margaret Merrilees, reading exerts taken from her most recent book, Further Fables Queer & Familiar, has brought us the complete instructions for being a lesbian granny. This upload contains parts 10-15.
Health Speak - COVID-19 Special 
(Part 1 7LTN)
1 x 26'00 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
With all the media about COVID-19, it may seem getting some sensible health, wellbeing and support advice may be like finding a needle in a haystack. Over 5 special episodes, Health Speak takes a community-led look at the impacts of the pandemic and lockdown as it matters to Australians: family violence, helping each other, caring for those who are unwell, intellectual disabilities, and dealing with addiction at this time.
Wednesday 13 May
Further Fables Queer & Familiar 
(Part 6-10 5UV)
6 x 4'00 - 4'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Further Fables Queer & Familiar welcomes you to the hidden complexities of life in an ordinary Australian suburb. Who will fix the plumbing? How do you adapt to a trans person in the family? How do you end racism and make a safe haven for refugees, or keep up with the housework? And what on earth do you do about the climate emergency?
This is a short 20 part series where author Margaret Merrilees, reading exerts taken from her most recent book, Further Fables Queer & Familiar, has brought us the complete instructions for being a lesbian granny. This upload contains parts 6-10.
Recorded Live Hour Long Special 
(Part 4 CRN)
1 x 55'50 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
The energy and atmosphere of a live performance can instantly lift one’s mood, change one's life and even make them happier, healthier and contribute to their general well-being. Not only is this a hard time for musicians with us all being cooped at home, it is hard for all of us too. So John Robinson from Recorded Live has kindly put together 4 hours of live music programming to play across 4 weeks in Extras. Spanning across the years to play us some of the best acts he has managed to record, John is hoping that this little burst of live entertainment can help shake your lockdown blues. Part 4.
Wednesday 6 May
Further Fables Queer & Familiar 
(Part 1-6 5UV)
6 x 4'00 - 4'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Further Fables Queer & Familiar welcomes you to the hidden complexities of life in an ordinary Australian suburb. Who will fix the plumbing? How do you adapt to a trans person in the family? How do you end racism and make a safe haven for refugees, or keep up with the housework? And what on earth do you do about the climate emergency?
This is a short 20 part series where author Margaret Merrilees, reading exerts taken from her most recent book, Further Fables Queer & Familiar, has brought us the complete instructions for being a lesbian granny. This upload contains parts 1-6.
Recorded Live Hour Long Special 
(Part 3 CRN)
1 x 55'50 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
The energy and atmosphere of a live performance can instantly lift one’s mood, change one's life and even make them happier, healthier and contribute to their general well-being. Not only is this a hard time for musicians with us all being cooped at home, it is hard for all of us too. So John Robinson from Recorded Live has kindly put together 4 hours of live music programming to play across 4 weeks in Extras. Spanning across the years to play us some of the best acts he has managed to record, John is hoping that this little burst of live entertainment can help shake your lockdown blues. Part 3.
Wednesday 29 April
Tech Tent: Social Media Influencers are Feeling the Pinch 
(BBC)
1 x 23'00 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
How social media influencers are earning less in lockdown and rethinking what they do. Plus, is it realistic to expect technology to provide an answer to ending social distancing measures? And we get some tips on producing music at home. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC tech reporter Jane Wakefield. Produced by Jat Gill.
Recorded Live Hour Long Special 
(Part 2 CRN)
1 x 55'50 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
The energy and atmosphere of a live performance can instantly lift one’s mood, change one's life and even make them happier, healthier and contribute to their general well-being. Not only is this a hard time for musicians with us all being cooped at home, it is hard for all of us too. So John Robinson from Recorded Live has kindly put together 4 hours of live music programming to play across 4 weeks in Extras. Spanning across the years to play us some of the best acts he has managed to record, John is hoping that this little burst of live entertainment can help shake your lockdown blues. Part 2.
Wednesday 22 April
The Food Chain: My Quarentine Kitchen 
(BBC)
1 x 26'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
As the spread of Covid-19 confines millions of us to our homes, we hear how people all over the world are using food and cooking to help them through the crisis. Graihagh Jackson speaks to an artist from Iran who has found inspiration in stories of shared recipes, a sense of healing in her own cooking, and hope for a more peaceful future.
Recorded Live Hour Long Special 
(Part 1 CRN)
1 x 55'50 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
The energy and atmosphere of a live performance can instantly lift one’s mood, change one's life and even make them happier, healthier and contribute to their general well-being. Not only is this a hard time for musicians with us all being cooped at home, it is hard for all of us too. So John Robinson from Recorded Live has kindly put together 4 hours of live music programming to play across 4 weeks in Extras. Spanning across the years to play us some of the best acts he has managed to record, John is hoping that this little burst of live entertainment can help shake your lockdown blues. Part 1.
Wednesday 15 April
Blak Diggers 
(Part 1-5 Media Heads)
5 x 1'30 - 2'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
As a result of COVID-19, all ANZAC Day events have been cancelled: there will be no marches, no commemorations, no dawn services, no wreath laying, and no crowds lining the streets. With none of the usual public events taking place, it’s important for the public to be able to observe this significant day in some other way from their own home. Given these circumstances, Media Heads have made 'Blak Diggers' available for use for the day. These comprise of 10 segments of varying lengths, presented by Aboriginal actor Aaron Pedersen, featuring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who served or assisted in Australia’s war efforts. Parts 1-5.
Blak Diggers 
(Part 6-10 Media Heads)
5 x 1'30 - 2'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
As a result of COVID-19, all ANZAC Day events have been cancelled: there will be no marches, no commemorations, no dawn services, no wreath laying, and no crowds lining the streets. With none of the usual public events taking place, it’s important for the public to be able to observe this significant day in some other way from their own home. Given these circumstances, Media Heads have made 'Blak Diggers' available for use for the day. These comprise of 10 segments of varying lengths, presented by Aboriginal actor Aaron Pedersen, featuring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who served or assisted in Australia’s war efforts. Parts 6-10.
Wednesday 8 April
Health Check: Tracking diseases from Animals to Humans

(BBC)
1 x 49'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Tracking diseases like Covid-19 that leap from animals into humans is something scientists have been doing way before COVID-19. In this discussion recorded in 2017 on a farm in Dong Thap in the Mekong Delta and Ho Chi Minh City’s Factory Contemporary Arts Centre we hear how Vietnam’s agricultural economy makes it easy for diseases to spread to humans. Claudia Hammond and Ha Mi hear from the farmers affected by the 2004 outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu. Things have improved but only a third of those involved in slaughtering animals have any protective equipment – so many are at risk of breathing in virus particles and becoming infected. Scientists test animals looking out for any new diseases which could spread to humans in the way that Ebola, Zika and HIV have – a process called zoonosis.
The Evidence: Taiwan, vaccines, & Africa preparedness 
(BBC)
1 x 26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Claudia Hammond and a panel of international experts discuss the latest research into Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus which is sweeping through the world. The Evidence looks at what we know about the virus and the immune system, why does it cause mild or even no symptoms in some people but makes others very ill? And as the disease is now pandemic, is there less stigma? On the panel this week are Professor Vivek Jha, the Executive Director of George Institute for Global Health India, Dr Christos Lynteris a medical anthropologist from The University of St. Andrews and Dr Lindsay Broadbent, a virologist from Queens University Belfast.
Wednesday 1 April
Kenny Rogers Tribute: Behind the Music
(The Pulse)
1 x 55'50 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Step 'Behind the Music' of the late and great Kenny Rogers with this tribue program which is presented by Wes Jay, host of CRN program '45RPM'. Behind the Music is produced in the studios at Geelong’s The Pulse, and chronicles the people and personalities behind some of our favourite acts traversing rock, blues, pop, theatre, contemporary classical, and much more. Wes kindly shared this special edition of the program to highlight the great career and life of Kenny Rogers.
Kenny Rogers Tribute: Spotight 
(Part 1 BBC)
1 x 55'50 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
you wouldn't be a legandary country music maker and worldwide entertainer without two special tribute programs... would you? Well, that's what we're asking ourselves anyway. To remember the late and great Kenny Rogers, the equaly legendary Kev Walsh from CRN's Good Morning Country and Spotlight programs, has put together this special tribute show in order to celebrate the life that was Kenny... Make sure you tune into both!
Wednesday 25 March
New York Stories with Joe Pascal 
(Part 1 BBC)
1 x 49'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Presenter Joe Pascal meets meets the Devastating Mic Controller himself - Darryl 'DMC' McDaniels. He grew up in Hollis Queens and was at the forefront of revolutionary change in the New York music scene with the explosion of hip hop. He was there, watching, from the early days, with the DJs and MCs at the neighbourhood block parties. And then, alongside Run and Jam Master Jay, they became a music phenomenon – with their new kind of rap bringing hip hop to the masses. DMC talks us through those early years and his later battles with alcoholism and depression.
The Legacy of the Cold War 
(Part 1 BBC)
1 x 26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
In The Cold War Legacy, we travel to Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia to examine what impact the Cold War had back then and how it still resonates today. The Cold War was a battle of ideology, politics, spies and military supremacy, with a sometimes terrifying arms race and nuclear proliferation. Like WW2 before it, the Cold War was truly global as the two camps struggled for influence and control across all continents. It may have officially ended in 1991 but its ramifications can still be felt today, especially with the younger generation who may not have lived through it but are still living with its aftermath.
Part One: Czechoslovakia
Thirty years ago, communism suddenly collapsed across central and eastern Europe, and nowhere did change seem more miraculous than in Czechoslovakia. A ‘velvet revolution’ replaced a stony faced politburo with a beaming playwright, President Vaclav Havel. There was much talk of democracy, prosperity, and a full embrace of Western values. Three decades on, Chris Bowlby, who knew Czechoslovakia before and after its revolution and split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, returns to see how that change looks now.
Wednesday 18 March
WOMADelaide Highlights 2020 
(5UV x 3RRR)
1 x 59'50 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Veteran host of 3RRR and the CRN's Off The Record Brian Wise will be bringing listeners around Australia the best of Womadelaide 2020, in conjunction with Radio Adelaide. Womadelaide is the premiere world music festival held in Adelaide every year. Hear interviews from the festival such as Dyson Stringer Cloher, Tami Neilson, the Cat Empire, Salif Keita, Deline Briscoe, L Subrammaniam, Public Opinion Afro Orchestra, Luisa Sobral and many more!
How do we learn from the Chinese response to COVID-19? 
(BBC)
1 x 26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
There are now significantly more new cases of coronavirus outside China than inside. While the authorities have been criticised for their initial slow response to the outbreak, since January they have taken unprecedented action to clamp down on the spread of the virus. China has been accused of infringing civil liberties in its fight against Coronavirus but it has also been praised for the extreme public health measures it has taken. So what did the Chinese actually do and can it be replicated elsewhere?
Wednesday 11 March
Coronavirus in Africa 
(BBC)
1 x 49'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
In the last week of February 2020, Nigeria successfully detected a coronavirus case and traced it back to Milan. It’s a success story which shows the virus screening system they put in place to deal with Ebola is still working. However, what about elsewhere in Africa? The continent has huge Chinese investment, many contacts with Wuhan, the industrial city where Covid-19 originated; there is a good chance the virus has already spread in countries which have limited means of detecting or treating it. Developing a vaccine for the virus is one of the routes to eradicating it, but vaccines usually need to be refrigerated. A team in Texas has come up with a vaccine encased in a film which means it can be transported and used without refrigeration, potentially a huge boost for a global roll out.
Can the Democrats Beat Trump? 
(BBC)
1 x 26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
After the results of the Super Tuesday primaries in the United States on March 3, two candidates have emerged as front-runners in the battle for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination: Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. Which vision for the future of the party will be the one more likely to deliver electoral success across the nation; one that aims to reach out to swing voters and Republicans, or one that energises the base of the party and attempts to bring new people to the polls? Is history a good indicator of how each candidate would perform in the general election, or has politics in America changed beyond recognition? Can Democrats beat President Trump, and if so, how?
Wednesday 04 March
Mardi Gras 2020 Special Part 1
(JOY FM)
1 x 55'50 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Is there a better way to celebrate the 42nd Annual Gay & Lesbian Sydney Mardi Gras than with a special broadcast? Brought to you live from the parade in Sydney on Saturday 28th of February 2020. Join the team from Joy FM in Melbourne as they bring you the highs, the lows, the glitter and glam from the rooftop of one of Sydney's favourite hangouts on Oxford Street - the Burdekin Hotel. This is the first half of the 2 part special.
Mardi Gras 2020 Special Part 2 
(JOY FM)
1 x 55'50 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Is there a better way to celebrate the 42nd Annual Gay & Lesbian Sydney Mardi Gras than with a special broadcast? Brought to you live from the parade in Sydney on Saturday 28th of February 2020. Join the team from Joy FM in Melbourne as they bring you the highs, the lows, the glitter and glam from the rooftop of one of Sydney's favourite hangouts on Oxford Street - the Burdekin Hotel. This is the second half of the 2 part special.
Wednesday 26 February
Nina Simone: High Priestess of Blues and Civil Rights
(8CCC)
1 x 55'48 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
The Last Supper: Twelve Apostles of Black Music takes a look at some of the founders of Black Music. Over the next hour, we're going to hear about the life and musical evolution of one high priestess who traversed jazz, Blues and the US Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. That high priestess is none other than Nina Simone. Stay with me as we hear much of her amazing music and discover how a passionate and embattled life wove between her famous recordings, voice and songs”.
Aretha Franklin: Queen of Soul 
(8CCC)
1 x 55'48 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
The Last Supper: Twelve Apostles of Black Music takes a look at some of the founders of Black Music. Over the next hour, we're going to hear about the life and and musical evolution of Aretha Franklin covering six decades from Gospel to Soul and back to Gospel. I get to play some of her celebrated tracks including the 1972 live recording of Amazing Grace and make the case why the Queen of Soul has a chair at the Last Supper as my 12th Apostle of Black Music.
Wednesday 19 February
Coxsone Dodd: The history of Jamaican Reggae 
(8CCC)
1 x 55'48 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
The Last Supper: Twelve Apostles of Black Music takes a look at some of the founders of Black Music. Over the space of an hour, we're going to hear about the founder and pioneer of Jamaican Reggae music, Coxsone Dodd, producer and owner of Studio One record label in Kingston, Jamaica between 1958 to 2004. We hear much of his amazing music and innovation of early reggae from Ska to Rocksteady with the first ever recording of a young Bob Marley, we call Coxsone Dodd to a seat at the Last Supper.
James Brown: Godfather of Soul 
(8CCC)
1 x 55'48 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
The Last Supper: Twelve Apostles of Black Music takes a look at some of the founders of Black Music. Over the space of an hour, we're going to hear about the life and musical evolution of James Brown, the Godfather of Soul. Stay with me as we hear much of his amazing music from 1958 to 1974 as we usher the showman, bandleader and singer - we call James Brown to a seat at the Last Supper.
Wednesday 12 February
Impeachment: What have we learned since Nixon? 
(BBC)
1 x 49'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
In 1974, the 37th President of the United States Richard Nixon - resigned after being told by members of his own Republican party that they could no longer support him. The allegations against President Nixon were similar in nature to those leveled at the 45th President Donald Trump. But this week, Mr Trump was acquitted of the two charges against him following his impeachment trial. So, have public attitudes towards allegations of corruption in public office changed over the past four decades?
World Questions: Lagos 
(BBC)
1 x 49'25 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Nigeria is one of the world’s largest oil producers, but national infrastructure, youth unemployment and insecurity are huge challenges for its civilian government. Jihadist attacks and separatist movements threaten to tear the country apart and despite being the biggest economy south of the Sahara, extreme poverty is very high. What next for Nigeria?
Wednesday 05 February
Is Recycling Broken? 
(BBC)
1 x 26'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
China used to accept 55% of the world’s plastic and paper waste, but it closed its doors in 2018. Initially, other countries in South East Asia took over China’s waste processing role. But they too are now sending much of the waste back, arguing it is contaminated and is harming their own environments. This has created major problems for countries in the West who traditionally relied on others to process their recycling waste.
Life After Brexit 
(BBC)
1 x 49'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
As the clock strikes 23:00 GMT on Friday 31 January 2020, Britain will be out of the European Union. It will mark the end of a bitter chapter in the country’s history, and the beginning of new one. The Brexit referendum of 2016 and its aftermath has dominated UK politics for the past three and a half years. The atmosphere has been fierce and acrimonious and only in late 2019 did it stabilise with the election of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and a large Conservative majority, on the campaign promise of getting Brexit done. But what does that mean? What can the UK do outside the structures of the EU? What course will the EU chart without the UK inside it? What will life after Brexit look like?
Wednesday 29 January
Finland - The Race to go Carbon Neutral 
(BBC)
1 x 26'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
In Finland a fisherman-turned-climate scientist believes he has part of the answer: re-wilding the country’s peat fields. The Finnish government has committed to reducing its carbon emis-sions to net-zero by 2035, that’s 15 years sooner than the UK.
Gabriel Gatehouse travels to Finland to meet Tero Mustonen, as he battles lobbyists and vested interests, in government and the peat industry, in a race to mitigate the consequences of climate change.
Has China learned from SARS? 
(BBC)
1 x 49'30 mins - at 14:04 EDT
A mysterious new virus has emerged from the city of Wuhan and is rapidly being identified in patients across the globe. Hundreds have been infected and a handful of deaths have also occurred. This isn’t the first potentially deadly virus to emerge from China - In 2002/3 the SARS virus killed nearly 800 people globally and belonged to the same family of virus as the current outbreak. How much has China’s approach changed? And is the world ready for the next global pandemic, whenever it may come?
Wednesday 22 January
What is climate change doing to cows? 
(BBC)
1 x 26'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Bush fires have ripped through unprecidented amounts of land in Australia. They’re thought to have killed hundreds of millions of animals, many of them livestock, which some farmers are burying in mass graves. So on this episode, we ask how climate change is affecting farm animals’ health and what can be done to reduce the industry’s footprint? For answers we turn to three livestock vets who are not only experts in animal medicine and productivity, but also have one of the closest relationships with farmers. What can they do to initiate change?
Hydrogen – the Energy of the Future? 
(BBC)
1 x 26'30 mins - at 14:04 EDT
The production of energy and power is a huge global issue. Fossil fuels are having an impact on the environment, but they have yet to be widely replaced by renewable sources like wind and solar. 2050 is a key year in the climate change calendar. It’s the deadline set by the Paris agreement. Some scientists are pinning their hopes on hydrogen, which is already being developed for use in the car industry, but how can it be further adapted?
Wednesday 15 January
When Freedom, Safety & Democracy Burn 
(4ZZZ)
27'50 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Against toxic smoke, corruption, waning freedoms and government crackdowns, 4ZZZ's Craig Garrett speaks with Dayak environmentalist Emmanuela Shinta (of the Ranu Welum Foundation) to paint us the beauty of Kalimantan and the Dayak peoples. After decades of questionable Australian water licences and Indonesian land permits, unprecedented fires burn under governments critical of those who speak out.
Step Away from the Car 
(Parts 6-10 5UV)
5 x 10'00 mins - at 14:04 EDT
Step Away from the Car is a series of 10 segments that get listeners thinking about using more 'active' choices when it comes to transport, choices that require us stepping away from the car. The Series features transport planners, traffic engineers, community artists, car designers and public health researchers, arguing the economic, business, environmental, public and community health reasons to step away from the car.
Wednesday 8 January
Will humans become extinct by the end of the century? 
(BBC)
23'00 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
What is the chance of the human race surviving the 21st century? There are many dangers – climate change for example, or nuclear war, or a pandemic, or planet Earth being hit by a giant asteroid.
Around the world a number of research centres have sprung up to investigate and moderate what’s called existential risk. How risky is our civilisation and what can be done to stop a global catastrophe?
Step Away from the Car 
(Parts 1-5 5UV)
5 x 10'00 mins - at 14:04 EDT
Step Away from the Car is a series of 10 segments that get listeners thinking about using more 'active' choices when it comes to transport, choices that require us stepping away from the car. The Series features transport planners, traffic engineers, community artists, car designers and public health researchers, arguing the economic, business, environmental, public and community health reasons to step away from the car.
Wednesday 1 January
Time Has Chosen Us
(BBC)
49'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
The story of the Soviet war in Afghanistan told through its teenage soldiers and the music they created. The 10-year conflict from 1979 to 1989 was one of the most dramatic and consequential wars of modern times. It saw the end of an empire, and triggered a political shockwave that we still live with today.
Time Has Chosen Us tells the story of this under-examined war through the oral histories of Soviet soldiers who reveal honest, sad and funny accounts of their teenage years on the frontlines.
Music Masala - Parts 8 to 10
(4EB)
3 x 10'30 mins - at 14:04 EDT
A Spicy Blend of Music and Life. Ten South East Queensland artists interviewed followed by an intimate performance:
- Menaka Thomas
- Rozana Azad
- Amela
Wednesday 25 December
The Rescue Project
55'50 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Produced by Gretchen Miller, The Rescue Project is a partnership between Landcare Australia and UNSW and forms part of a research project into the power of citizen storytelling in environmental communication.
In this special, longer episode of the Rescue Project Podcast, we’re in the Atherton Tablelands in Far North Queensland. Prepare to immerse yourself in the wettest part of the driest continent on earth, a tiny patch of emerald green. A World Heritage area.
We’re walking through the landscape with people living here and collaborating on interconnected projects – looking after tree kangaroos whose fragmented forest habitat needs re connecting, finding seeds for propagation, replanting great tracts of rain forest, and protecting the whole from a tiny but deadly invader – the yellow crazy ant.
Music Masala - Parts 5 to 7
(4EB)
3 x 10'30 mins - at 14:04 EDT
A Spicy Blend of Music and Life. Ten South East Queensland artists interviewed followed by an intimate performance:
- Delnava Ensemble
- Son Semilla
- East of West
Wednesday 18 December
The Rescue Project
3 x 13 to 18 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Produced by Gretchen Miller, The Rescue Project is a partnership between Landcare Australia and UNSW and forms part of a research project into the power of citizen storytelling in environmental communication.
Three stories of land and care:
- We listen to the history of land protection, hear what art reveals that the eye doesn’t see, and reflect on the meaning of saving just one tree.
- Three short stories which capture deep interactions between humans and other creatures.
- And three stories of care for the land. We’re travelling to farm country near Tumut, NSW, then across the Blue Mountains to a hidden valley and then to the Brisbane suburbs, as a simple pile of grass clippings threaten a small patch of local bush.
Music Masala - Parts 1 to 4
(4EB)
4 x 10'30 mins - at 14:04 EDT
A Spicy Blend of Music and Life. Ten South East Queensland artists interviewed followed by an intimate performance:
- Innessa
- Saraima
- Saba Ensemble (pictured)
- Matt Hsu
Wednesday 11 December
Remote Indigenous Media Festival Podcast Showcase 
(CMTO x CRN)
1 x 31'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
In this showcase, curated by the Community Media Training Organisations' Mikaela Ford, you will hear 6 exceptional podcasts that were produced by delegates at the 20th Remote Indigenous Media Festival, held from the 22-27 September this year. This year's festival was held on the remote Thursday Island, and held in conjunction with First Nations Media Austrlaia, and the Torres Strait Island Media Association. This Showcase was produced in conjunction with the CRN.
The World's Languages are Dying 
(BBC)
1 x 49'30 mins - at 15:04 EST
The world’s rich linguistic tapestry is unravelling. Around a third of the world’s languages now have fewer than a thousand speakers left. The UN says more needs to be done, and to raise awareness it declared 2019 the year of indigenous languages. The numbers of languages heading for extinction number in the thousands and are spoken by small tribes and ethnic groups scattered around the world. Join Julian Worricker and his panel of expert guests, as they discuss how we keep thousands of minority languages alive in an era when just 23 languages account for half the world’s population.
Wednesday 04 December
Why is there a Backlash against Climate Policies? 
(BBC)
1 x 23'00, & 27'00 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
In 2018, more than a quarter of a million people took to the streets across France, in what became known as the “gilets jaunes” protests. They began as a reaction to an increase in fuel tax; a tax which was supposed to help the environment but to the protesters, it meant they could no longer afford to drive their cars or get to work. These were the first high profile demonstrations against policies designed to tackle climate change, but they put a spotlight on a sense of unrest that has spread far beyond France. So if it is widely accepted that climate change is a real threat, why is there a backlash against climate policies?
National Features and Documentary Series 2019 
Part 7-8 (CBAA & CMTO)
2 x 25'50 mins - at 15:04 EST
Continuing on with the next two parts of the National Features and Documentary Series for 2019. The NFDS is a showcase of new radio works from Australian community radio producers. Eight participants were chosen in early 2019 after submitting an idea for a new feature. They were then trained and mentored by the Community Media Training Organisation to turn their idea into feature for a national audience. It is here that you will listen to the final pieces of this years series; Living in Paradise by Mia Armitage, and Kings of the Desert by Saad Khalid.
Wednesday 27 November
Disability Day 2019 
Parts 1-2 (3CR)
2 x 25'00, & 27'00 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
Tuesday the 3rd of December is Disability Day for 2019. Our friends at 3CR will be celebrating the day with dedicated programming, hearing from the voices of the BIPOC community (Black People, Indigenous People, and People of Colour) with various kinds of disabilities. We have three specials here for you to use for the day, with the third appearing in Extras 2 at 14:04:
DSP Denied (25'00)
- What do you do if your disability isn't recognised as a disability by the state, but your disability reduces your capacity to work? Fijian Mereani Qalovakawasa talks to Pauline Vetuna about her experience of living with Lupus on Newstart.
Free As A Bird (27'00)
- Deadly advocate Jane Rosengrave is free as a bird - but the road to freedom was long and tough. In this program, Jane talks about leaving abusive relationships, fighting institutional abuse, finding her power through self advocacy and independence.
Disability Day 2019 
Part 3 (3CR)
4 x 25'50 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
Disabled Parent, Disabled Child & the NDIS (23'00)
- Cubbie Mako is a migrant POC with disabilities and parent of a child with Downs Syndrome, cancer and hearing impairment. They share lived experiences and advice from the trenches as they navigate the complexity of the NDIS for their child.
National Features and Documentary Series 2019 
Part 5-6 (CBAA & CMTO)
2 x 25'50 mins - at 15:04 EST
Continuing on with the next two parts of the National Features and Documentary Series for 2019. The NFDS is a showcase of new radio works from Australian community radio producers. Eight participants were chosen in early 2019 after submitting an idea for a new feature. They were then trained and mentored by the Community Media Training Organisation to turn their idea into feature for a national audience. It is here that you will listen to pieces from four of our finalists; Transport for People with Disability by David Brown, & Eradicating Difference by Amy McMurtrie.
Wednesday 20 November
Extinction Elegies 
Part 3 (Red Room Poetry)
1 x 27'50 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
In this final episode of the Extinction Elegies radio series, titled 'The Loss of Australian Biodiversity', we explore cultural connections to Country and wedge-tailed eagles with Ali Cobby Eckerman. Meanwhile, poet Stuart Cooke examines the entanglement of human life with the northern long-nosed potoroo and Professor Sarah Bekessy speaks to ways we might increase sustainability in urban areas.
National Features and Documentary Series 2019 
Part 1-4 (CBAA & CMTO)
4 x 25'50 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
Welcome to the first four parts of the National Features and Documentary Series for 2019. The NFDS is a showcase of new radio works from Australian community radio producers. Eight participants were chosen in early 2019 after submitting an idea for a new feature. They were then trained and mentored by the Community Media Training Organisation to turn their idea into feature for a national audience. It is here that you will listen to pieces from four of our finalists; The CWA and the F Word by Alice Ansara, Yurala by Marion Cheedy, Living Water & Money to Make by Dylan Storer & Let It Fly: The Namok’s Legacy by Bernard Namok Jnr.
Wednesday 13 November
Extinction Elegies 
Part 2 (Red Room Poetry)
1 x 27'50 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
In this three-part radio series, six eminent Australian poets and three extinction experts share their poems and reflect on losses of animals significant to them. In episode two titled 'Art and Science', Poet Bruce Pascoe honours the azure kingfisher and Mark Tredinnick laments the plastic seas that swallow species and language, while Dr Thomas Bristow explores the history of the elegy and its role in eco-criticism.
India’s Environmental Record 
(BBC)
1 x 49'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
The Indian capital, Delhi, is facing an environmental emergency. The air pollution level has been so high that monitors could not record the toxicity in the air because it was off the scale. Fifteen of the world's twenty most polluted cities are in India. India is already the world's third biggest emitter of greenhouse gases; and some are questioning whether the government is promoting economic growth at a cost to the climate. So how bad are India's environmental problems? And is it possible for the country to transition into a green economy?
Wednesday 06 November
Extinction Elegies 
Part 1 (Red Room Poetry)
1 x 27'50 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
In this three-part radio series, six eminent Australian poets and three extinction experts share their poems and reflect on losses of animals significant to them. In Episode One of our Extinction Elegies radio series titled 'Isalnd Ecologies', poet Michelle Cahill reflects on the eradication of the King Island Emu, while John Kinsella discusses the demise of the Christmas Island Pipistrelle. Island and extinction specialist Professor John Woinarski contextualises these losses and what they mean in the bigger picture of extinctions in Australia.
Rocking the Stasi 
(BBC)
1 x 49'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
Since the former East German Police archives in Germany have opened, one of the most remarkable to emerge is how the East German regime - and in particular the Stasi - were obsessed with resisting and clamping down on Western music.Chris Bowlby uncovers this fascinating aspect of Cold War history. For the first time, we hear recordings of secret meetings in which Stasi Chief Erich Mielke discussed the threat of punk and heavy metal. Against the backdrop of a stellar soundtrack we hear from those who organised secret and illegal concerts in East Germany and from a former member of the Stasi who tried to stop them.
Wednesday 30 October
Is Vaping Safe? 
(BBC)
1 x 26'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
After deaths in the US and bans around the world, how risky are e-cigarettes? In the UK, doctors say if smokers switch from tobacco to e-cigarettes, it will save lives, but in the US where the authorities are investigating an outbreak of lung injury linked to vaping, they’re advising vapers to consider stopping. Vaping is still relatively new and scientists are still researching how harmful it may be in the long-term. What are the potential health risks associated with vaping?
Mass Protests in Lebanon 
(BBC)
1 x 40'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
A lack of jobs, crumbling public services, rising living costs and rampant inequality had millions of people out on the streets of Lebanon demanding change in all sections of their society. The proposed budget with more taxes, including one on WhatsApp, is seen as the straw that broke the camel’s back. So is Lebanon in the midst of a revolution? Do the protests reflect a generation that is ready to look beyond a system of sectarian patronage?
Wednesday 23 October
Is Maths Real? 
(BBC)
1 x 26'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
Faced with one cake and eight hungry people, it’s pretty obvious how maths underpins reality. But as mathematics gets further from common sense and into seemingly abstract territory, nature still seems to obey its rules. But what exactly is the relationship between mathematics and reality? Is maths a human construct to help us make sense of reality - a tool, a model, a language? Does maths create its own reality? Or is it reality itself?
The Cat: In From the Wild 
(BBC)
1 x 40'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
Domesticated cats are thought to have started living alongside humans more than 9000 years ago. Unlike dogs, it’s believed cats domesticated themselves, entering the homes of early arable farmers in the Fertile Crescent to control the rodent population. Since then, they’ve been worshipped, vilified, tortured, and revered by various societies around the world. Rajan Datar welcomes three experts in science, culture and archaeology to discuss the history of the domesticated cat.
Wednesday 16 October
Are we Heading for a Global Recession? 
(BBC)
1 x 23'00 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
The world’s two biggest economies are fighting a trade war, European growth is slowing and global manufacturing data looks grim. Financial markets are flashing warning signs. It’s been a decade since the last global recession and in 2019 so far, the data has started to turn down. Are we on the verge of an economic meltdown? And what can countries do to avoid recession or reduce its impact when it comes?
In the Studio with World of Warcraft 
(BBC)
1 x 26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
World of Warcraft is one of the most popular computer games on the planet & has sustained that popularity for 15 years. The key to it's success is maintaining the desire of players to come back for more, day after day. Alex follows the team as they prepare for their next content update; she talks to writers, producers & sound designers to find out how each of them play their part in creating Azeroth. Each step along the way contributes to the player experience & the success of the game.
Wednesday 09 October
Southern Stars Independent Country Music Awards 2019 
Part 1 (GMC)
1 x 54'40 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
Recorded live from the Mercy Theatre Mildura as part of the Mildura Country Music Festival, the Good Morning Country team broadcast the Southern Stars Independent Country Music Awards for 2019 over the weekend. Including the full awards show with performances from the best independent musicians that Australian country has to offer. Heard in two highlights packages, this is part one of the awards.
Southern Stars Independent Country Music Awards 2019 
Part 2 (GMC)
1 x 55'50 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
Recorded live from the Mercy Theatre Mildura as part of the Mildura Country Music Festival, the Good Morning Country team broadcast the Southern Stars Independent Country Music Awards for 2019 over the weekend. Including the full awards show with performances from the best independent musicians that Australian country has to offer. Heard in two highlights packages, this is part two of the awards.
Wednesday 02 October
Spirit of Woman 
(5UV)
1 x 34'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
Spirit of Woman is an Adelaide project working to build statues or memorials to women enduring or killed by domestic violence. It’s the latest brainchild of Helen Oxenham, now in her 80’s, who established one of SA’s first women’s shelters over 40 years ago. Spirit of Woman is also a series of interviews with Helen, her own story of growing up with a violent father in Dublin and becoming a lifelong campaigner against domestic violence and violence against women.
How Will the Hong Kong Protests End? 
(BBC World Service)
1 x 49'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
This week was the 70th anniversary of China's founding, the great fanfare playing out across the state could be overshadowed by events in the territory of Hong Kong, which is part of China but has separate judicial and economic freedoms. For months people have been taking to the streets every weekend to rally against a controversial extradition bill. The protests have turned into a movement calling for democracy, and an investigation into allegations of police brutality during the protests.
Wednesday 25 September
World War II: The Economic Battle 
(BBC World Service)
1 x 49'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
The story of World War II is usually told in terms of heroism on the battlefield, but perhaps the most important struggle was the economic battle. To mark the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II economist Duncan Weldon examines how the economies of the European powers, set the scene for the conduct of the war in 1939 and 1940. He also discovers how they produced weapons, how they secured oil, how they fed their populations and how a lack of resources dictated the path of war.
The Hugging Dentists 
(BBC World Service)
1 x 26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
For some, going to the dentist can cause a lot of anxiety. We bring together two Australian dentists who have come up with creative ways to support their patients. Dr Sharonne Zaks has over 20 years of experience in private practice in Melbourne, with a special focus on anxious patients, and survivors of sexual assault and trauma. Dr Sonia Sonia is a dentist based in Brisbane, who also focuses on domestic violence victims. Her biggest reward is putting the smile back on someone's face.
Wednesday 18 September
History Lab: Episode 7 
(2SER)
1 x 30'00 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
History Lab is a New York Festivals Radio Award winning series that explores history in interesting ways. History Lab asks you to come along to make sense of the traces the past leaves in the present: records are patchy, evidence is destroyed and a lot of the time people disagree about what happened and what it means. History Lab is produced in partnership with the Australian Centre for Public History.
In this episode, a century after the war we are still questioning our ability to come together.
Mojo Juju and the Aboriginal Comedy All Stars 
(BBC World Service)
1 x 26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
We head to Melbourne and the land of the Kulin Nations for the Blak & Bright Festival, a celebration of Australia’s First Nations writers, playwrights and poets. The writer and festival director Jane Harrison and the poet and educator Evelyn Araluen, explain why the festival is essential for culture in today’s Australia. Two of the brightest stars in Australian comedy, Steph Tisdell and Andy Saunders of the Aboriginal Comedy All Stars tell Tina how they combine comedy and culture to cook up fierce, fresh and funny stand-up. Plus, the singer Mojo Juju shares the story of how her life and her award winning album Native Tongue were shaped by her mixed indigenous Wiradjuri and Filipino heritage.
Wednesday 11 September
History Lab: Episode 6 
(2SER)
1 x 30'00 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
History Lab is a New York Festivals Radio Award winning series that explores history in interesting ways. History Lab asks you to come along to make sense of the traces the past leaves in the present: records are patchy, evidence is destroyed and a lot of the time people disagree about what happened and what it means. History Lab is produced in partnership with the Australian Centre for Public History.
In the sixth episode, we find the patternmakers, who create much of the stuff we use every day.
Would You Make Music for No Money? 
(BBC World Service)
1 x 49'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
Join Swindle, (an instrumentalist and music producer) R&B singer songwriter Joel Culpepper, vocalist Lioness, and multi-instrumentalist composer Ahnanse. Led by Swindle, they discuss how the city you grow up in influences your sound, the weirdest place they’ve recorded a song and would they still be doing this if there was no financial reward. Swindle aims to get to the bottom of how they all do what they do, and why they do it. In the second part of the episode, Joel Culpepper plays some of his favourite tracks, and tells stories around a playlist he has called ‘The Different Faces of Soul’
Wednesday 04 September
History Lab: Episode 5 
(2SER)
1 x 30'00 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
History Lab is a New York Festivals Radio Award winning series that explores history in interesting ways. History Lab asks you to come along to make sense of the traces the past leaves in the present: records are patchy, evidence is destroyed and a lot of the time people disagree about what happened and what it means. History Lab is produced in partnership with the Australian Centre for Public History.
In the fifth episode, follow the trail and discover the foundations of Australia's first bank.
Who Owns the Amazon? 
(BBC World Service)
1 x 49'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
The Amazon is seen as an essential part of maintaining the earth's ecosystem & weather patterns. But this year thousands of intense fires are ravaging in the rainforest; many of which are believed to have been started deliberately. Brazil's indigenous & environmental groups have raised alarm at the rate of deforestation caused by the fires. Should the Amazon be treated as a world treasure with a consensus over its preservation? Or, should its home countries have sovereignty over their forests?
Wednesday 28 August
History Lab: Episode 4 
(2SER)
1 x 30'00 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
History Lab is a New York Festivals Radio Award winning series that explores history in interesting ways. History Lab asks you to come along to make sense of the traces the past leaves in the present: records are patchy, evidence is destroyed and a lot of the time people disagree about what happened and what it means. History Lab is produced in partnership with the Australian Centre for Public History.
The fourth episode explores the songs of the Eora women that once fished Sydney's coastlines.
How Can I Motivate Myself?
(BBC World Service) 
1 x 26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
Many of us struggle to motivate ourselves to carry out certain tasks, from hanging up the washing to writing a job application. How can we best motivate ourselves? And how can we avoid procrastination? Listener Moses wants to find out. Setting out to uncover the secrets of motivation is presenter Anand Jagatia who puts the science to the test as he tries to motivate himself to train for a swimming race.
Wednesday 21 August
History Lab: Episode 3 
(2SER)
1 x 30'00 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
History Lab is a New York Festivals Radio Award winning series that explores history in interesting ways. History Lab asks you to come along to make sense of the traces the past leaves in the present: records are patchy, evidence is destroyed and a lot of the time people disagree about what happened and what it means. History Lab is produced in partnership with the Australian Centre for Public History.
The third episode asks why exactly a monument to the ship the Titanic exists 400km inland, in the Australian town Broken Hill.
Keeping Mum 
(5UV)
1 x 14'58 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
Suzanne Reece has produced a lot of live radio, but she’s also produced some great documentaries. Her latest, Keeping Mum, features a daughter talking about being raised by a lesbian mum in the 90's and keeping it all secret.
Wednesday 14 August
History Lab: Episode 2 
(2SER)
1 x 28'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
History Lab is a New York Festivals Radio Award winning series that explores history in interesting ways. History Lab asks you to come along to make sense of the traces the past leaves in the present: records are patchy, evidence is destroyed and a lot of the time people disagree about what happened and what it means. History Lab is produced in partnership with the Australian Centre for Public History.
The second episode focuses on a the damages of a broken heart, in the secret history of love that is buried away in Westen Sydney's state archives.
National Indigenous Music Awards 2019 
(TEEABA Part 1-2)
2 x 55'50 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
Over the weekend was the night of nights for First Nations' music, the National Indigenous Music Awards exceeded expectations, producing the annual award ceremnoy's largest ever crown, as well as an amazing variety of stellar live performances, all held under the stars at Darwin's iconic amphitheatre.
Over two parts, we deliver the best of the NIMAs 2019, thanks to our friends at the Top End Aboriginal Bush Broadcasting Association (TEABBA), with performances from Tasman Keith, the Larrakia/Belyuen, Mornington Island and North Winds dancers, Baker Boy, Archie Roach, Deborah Cheetman, and Spnifex Gum, the all-girl choir, and major award categories like, film clip of the year, young artist of the year and song of the year.
Wednesday 07 August
History Lab: Episode 1 
(2SER)
1 x 28'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
History Lab is a New York Festivals Radio Award winning series that explores history in interesting ways. History Lab asks you to come along to make sense of the traces the past leaves in the present: records are patchy, evidence is destroyed and a lot of the time people disagree about what happened and what it means. History Lab is produced in partnership with the Australian Centre for Public History.
The series will be comprised seven episodes over the next seven weeks. The first episode focuses on the case of Lindy Chamberlain, and the afterlife of evidence.
Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell’s dystopian classic 
(BBC World Service)
1 x 40'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
In the 70 years since its publication, George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four has penetrated popular culture but also public discourse to a degree rarely achieved by a work of fiction. It sets out a vision of life under a totalitarian state, where its citizens are watched 24 hours a day and everything is controlled by The Party. Modern-day readers have found the novel speaks to those concerned by an increase in surveillance, data sharing or the manipulation of facts.
Wednesday 31 July
The Politics of Boris Johnson
(BBC World Service)
1 x 49'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
Boris Johnson has become the Prime Minister of Britain at a time when the country is facing numerous challenges at home and abroad. In his acceptance speech, he said that he would deliver Brexit, unite the country, and defeat the left-wing opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn. His supporters admire him for his colourful politics and quick-witted oratory skills, but he has also been described as untrustworthy and divisive by members of his own party. So, what kind of politics can Boris Johnson offer?
How Music Festivals Change Culture 
(BBC World Service)
1 x 49'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
The music scene is changing with a growing market for festivals; we look at their history, their future, and the challenges of staging them. We go inside the festival that reshaped the future of the Balkans. We speak to the Will Roger, co-founder of Burning Man about the people that gather every year in the middle of the Nevada desert. As well as highlighting two revolutionary festivals; Diva in the UK and State in Sweeden, that is for women, non-binary and transgender people only.
Wednesday 24 July
Music to Land on the Moon by
(BBC World Service)
1 x 49'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
On the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landings, Beatriz De La Pava researches how real life events are reflected in the lyrics of popular songs, and shows how music can paint a vivid picture of the social, political, economic, and cultural landscape.
From Frank Sinatra’s Fly Me to the Moon, when reaching outer space was merely a metaphor for love, through to the Apollo 11 mission; narrated by bands like The Byrds and Public Service Broadcasting.
Religion and climate change in Nairobi
(BBC World Service)
1 x 49'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
For the BBC World Service, Nairobi based journalist and broadcaster Ciru Muriuki brings together young people of different faiths, together with a live audience, at the National Museum in Nairobi, Kenya, to hear what people want from their religious leaders and hear how faith motivates their activism.
Wednesday 17 July
Beyond the Bars
Part 1 (3CR)
1 x 55'50 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Part 2 (3CR)
1 x 55'50 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Each year during NAIDOC Week, 3CR presents Beyond the Bars - live prison radio shows featuring the stories, poems, songs and opinions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women in the Victorian prison system. This year the all-Black broadcast team will hear from 100 men and women across the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, Barwon Prison, Fulham Correctional Centre, Marngoneet Correctional Centre, Karreenga Annex, Loddon Prison and Port Phillip Prison. In Part 2, hear from the men that reside Beyond the Bars.
Wednesday 10 July
Mystify - A Musical Journey with Michael Hutchence 
Part 1-2 (Paradise FM)
2 x 15'00 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
The 5th of July saw the international release of Mystify - A Musical Journey with Michael Hutchence. To commemorate the release, Ballina's Paradise FM and Petrol Records have collaborated to bring a world exclusive preview of the album. All stations can access and air this special as 4 x 15'00 parts. Hear exclusive interviews with former INXS manager Chris Murphy and Australian music producer Mark Edwards, and plenty of archival recordings never before released to the public.
Mystify - A Musical Journey with Michael Hutchence 
Part 3-4 (Paradise FM)
2 x 15'00 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
The 5th of July saw the international release of Mystify - A Musical Journey with Michael Hutchence. To commemorate the release, Ballina's Paradise FM and Petrol Records have collaborated to bring a world exclusive preview of the album. All stations can access and air this special as 4 x 15'00 parts. Hear exclusive interviews with former INXS manager Chris Murphy and Australian music producer Mark Edwards, and plenty of archival recordings never before released to the public.
Wednesday 03 July
Vaccination: The Global Picture 
(BBC World Service)
1 x 49'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Across the world, fake news, a lack of access to reliable healthcare and medical supplies, poverty, religious leaders and a mistrust of authority are all cited as reasons for vaccination numbers falling. So far this year there have been 800 cases of measles, spreading through communities where vaccination rates are low. The mayor of New York has declared a health emergency, ordering mandatory vaccinations under threat of fines, but will such measures be counter-productive? Resistance to immunisation is not new, so how do we combat this resistance that is adding to the problem?
Communities In Control 2019 
Part 3-4 (CiC)
2 x 15'00 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Two days after the shock federal election result, the Communities in Control conference couldn’t have come at a better time for organisations fearing for the future, with its clarion call to “Get Angry. Then Get Organised.” This event generates inspiration, hope, and very personal connections. Without exception, each speaker brought home the message “We’re here to change things for the better.” In the final parts, listen to inspiring talks and performances about equality and change from individuals such as David Manne, Mariam Veiszadeh, and speakers from the Community Innovation Showcase.
Wednesday 26 June
No Land, No Livelihood, No Home 
Part 9-10 (4EB)
2 x 25'50 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Presented by Maureen Mopio from 4EB, this program showcases opinions from women and experts about the continuing effects of climate change in the Pacific Islands and Torres Strait. Over 10-parts, hear first hand from communities displaced by climate change, seeking climate justice and fighting for their survival. In the last two episodes, hear CSIRO scientist, John Clarke provide projections on the changes in weather patterms, wprld climate, and the gradual increase of temperatures, as well as Oxfam climate change advisor, Simon Bradshaw, on the economic effects of a changing climate. Finally, hear from Melbourned based CSIRO scientist Michael Grose about the complex science of climate change, as well as highlights of interviews throughout the series.
Communities In Control 2019 
Part 1-2 (CiC)
2 x 15'00 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Two days after the shock federal election result, the Communities in Control conference couldn’t have come at a better time for organisations fearing for the future, with its clarion call to “Get Angry. Then Get Organised.” This event generates inspiration, hope, and very personal connections. Without exception, each speaker brought home the message “We’re here to change things for the better.” In these two parts, listen to inspiring talks and performances about equality and change from individuals such as Tracy Spicer, Professor Helen Milroy, Shane Howard, Father Rod Bower, and Professor Lea Waters.
Wednesday 19 June
No Land, No Livelihood, No Home 
Part 7-8 (4EB)
2 x 25'50 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Presented by Maureen Mopio from 4EB, this program showcases opinions from women and experts about the continuing effects of climate change in the Pacific Islands and Torres Strait. Over 10-parts, hear first hand from communities displaced by climate change, seeking climate justice and fighting for their survival. In the seventh and eighth episodes, hear a call to action to end gender inbalnced issues when it comes to climate change, with guests Sharon Backwan-Rolls, the former director of FEMLINK, Dr Esther Onyango, a biologist and researcher and Larissa Waters QLD Senator for the Greens. These episodes also focus on the impacts of climate change to the islands of the Torres Strait.
In the Studio: Making Midge Ure’s New Guitar with Jimmy Moon 
(BBC World Service)
1 x 26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Guitar maker Jimmy Moon builds a custom-made guitar for the Scottish singe/songwriter Midge Ure. Jimmy has made guitars for a number of famous musicians, including Coldplay, Bryan Adams, Simple Minds, Primevals, Cherrygrove and the Scissor Sisters.
Wednesday 12 June
No Land, No Livelihood, No Home 
Part 5-6 (4EB)
2 x 25'50 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Presented by Maureen Mopio from 4EB, this program showcases opinions from women and experts about the continuing effects of climate change in the Pacific Islands and Torres Strait. Over 10-parts, hear first hand from communities displaced by climate change, seeking climate justice and fighting for their survival. In the fift and sixth episodes, hear from research fellow Anja Kanngieser who has worked with locals for a community led response on Cilmate Change impacts to the pacific, student Cassie Stevens does a voxpop on climate awareness, and Fiji based FEMLINK, which is a Pacific weather monitor that sends easily accesible warnings to preapre disadvantaged women for environmental disasters.
Thirteen Minutes to the Moon
(BBC World Service) 
1 x 25'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
In January 1967, the Apollo programme was hit by a devastating tragedy. The crew of the first planned human mission was killed in a fire, during tests in their capsule on the launch pad a month before launch. The Apollo 1 disaster revealed design flaws and organizational weaknesses in NASA’s race to meet its goal of taking humans to the moon by the end of that decade. There was a twenty one month period of recovery, which culminated in Apollo’s first successful manned mission into earth’s orbit; this was Apollo 7, which some say was the Apollo programme’s finest hour. However, that mission was not without controversy because of the argumentative relationship between Apollo 7’s commander Wally Schirra and the team at Mission Control.
Wednesday 05 June
No Land, No Livelihood, No Home 
Part 4 (4EB)
1 x 25'50 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Presented by Maureen Mopio from 4EB, this program showcases opinions from women and experts about the continuing effects of climate change in the Pacific Islands and Torres Strait. Over 10-parts, hear first hand from communities displaced by climate change, seeking climate justice and fighting for their survival. In the fourth episode, hear from 350 Pacific Climate Warrior coordinator, Lisa Jamieson of Samoan heritage, as well as the Pacific Islands Council of QLD Representative, Stella-Miria-Robinson of PNG heritage.
Bluesfest Interviews
Part 3 (Bay FM, 3ZZZ, Eastside FM) 
5 x 9'15 mins - 18'00 Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Showcasing the best in international and Australian acts from the 30th anniversary of Bluesfest (1990 - 2019). The interviews have been provided from the stations Bay FM, 3ZZZ and Eastside FM, which include live performances from some of the artists, and showcase the festival from a multitude of community broadcasting perspectives. Part 3 focusses on the third day of the festival, where we are lucky to hear from Deva Mala, Benny Walker, Nathaniel Rateliff, Larkin Poe, and Jessy Loyd from Mission Songs.
Wednesday 29 May
No Land, No Livelihood, No Home 
Part 3 (4EB)
1 x 25'50 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Presented by Maureen Mopio from 4EB, this program showcases opinions from women and experts about the continuing effects of climate change in the Pacific Islands and Torres Strait. Over 10-parts, hear first hand from communities displaced by climate change, seeking climate justice and fighting for their survival. In the third episode, hear from 3 Pacific women leaders from Tonga and Kiribati who discuss the need to maintain culture, food, and crops for future generations, including a call from the Pacific Calling Partnership to 'save Kiribati and humanity'.
Bluesfest Interviews
Part 2 (Bay FM, 3ZZZ, Eastside FM) 
3 x 10'48 mins - 17'15 Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Showcasing the best in international and Australian acts from the 30th anniversary of Bluesfest (1990 - 2019). The interviews have been provided from the stations Bay FM, 3ZZZ and Eastside FM, which include live performances from some of the artists, and showcase the festival from a multitude of community broadcasting perspectives. Part 2 focusses on the second day of the festival, where we are lucky to hear from Colin Hay, I'm With Her, and Kasey Chambers.
Wednesday 22 May
No Land, No Livelihood, No Home 
Part 1-2 (4EB)
2 x 25'50 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Presented by Maureen Mopio from 4EB, this program showcases opinions from women and experts about the continuing effects of climate change in the Pacific Islands and Torres Strait. Over 10-parts, hear first hand from communities displaced by climate change, seeking climate justice and fighting for their survival. In the first two episodes, here from displaced people from the Carteret Islands, as well as resilient communities tackling climate change through micro-finance, new farming methods and education.
Bluesfest Interviews
Part 1 (Bay FM, 3ZZZ, Eastside FM) 
5 x 4'45 mins - 18'15 Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Showcasing the best in international and Australian acts from the 30th anniversary of Bluesfest (1990 - 2019). The interviews have been provided from the stations Bay FM, 3ZZZ and Eastside FM, which include live performances from some of the artists, and showcase the festival from a multitude of community broadcasting perspectives. Part 1 focusses on the first day of the festival, where we are lucky to hear from Markus King, Anderson East, Snarky Puppy and Australia's very own Dobby.
Wednesday 15 May
The Documentary: Slavery's Untold Story 
(BBC World Service)
1 x 26'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Since the emancipation of the slaves in the 19th century, there has been an often uneasy relationship between the so called “Freedmen” and their former masters, both racial minorities with long histories of persecution in the US. This documentary uncovers their extraordinary twinned history, and investigates its legacy for the two communities today.
A History of Music and Technology
(BBC World Service)
1 x 48'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
A nine-part series, narrated by Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason, exploring a history of the instruments and studio innovations which have shaped popular music over the past century. We look at programme number three, focussing on the most influential instrument of the past century: the electric guitar. It’s the sound of rock n roll, and we trace its Hawaiian roots to it's first performance on Halloween 1932. We learn how the guitar got loud through advances in amplification, and how this phallic symbol for peacock rock stars, is now finding huge appeal among female musicians – who today buy nearly half of all guitars sold.
Wednesday 08 May
Discovery: A Sense of Time
(BBC World Service)
1 x 26'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Does a second feel the same for a fly, a bird, or a swordfish, as it does for me? Geoff Marsh drills into the science of time perception within and between species. Animal senses reveal a wealth of information that humans can't access - But how do different species sense time? Science reveals a window into the minds of different species and their temporal perceptions. This programme delves into each moment of experience to ask, what is time biologically?
The Documentary: When the Things Start to Talk
(BBC World Service)
1 x 26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
We’re becoming increasingly familiar with things that talk, in the form of the internet of things; devices that communicate with each other across networks. We see them increasingly in everyday life, controlling the heating systems in our houses or entertainment provided by voice activated assistants. Artificial intelligence, autonomous devices, self-driving cars; what’s the potential and pitfalls of living in a world of ‘things’ which talk to each other as well as to us?
Wednesday 01 May
The Real Story: Is Social Media Killing Elections?
(BBC World Service)
1 x 49'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Some argue that social media has levelled the playing field and opened up political space for people who previously had no voice. At the same time, there is plentiful evidence of foreign interference and the use of social media to spread disinformation in elections in the United States, Brazil, Kenya and India to name just a few.
So is it time for social media to be further regulated for the sake of democracy? Can technology companies be trusted to come up with their own solutions, or should governments intervene and make new laws? And if the state does step in, how can repression, surveillance and censorship be avoided? Join Celia Hatton and her guests as they delve into the murky world of social media and elections.
The Documentary: Dark Fibres and the Frozen North
(BBC World Service)
1 x 26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
If data is the new oil, are data centres the new oil rigs?
Far into the North of Europe, under half a year of darkness, where the landscape has inspired folklore and legend, are some of the biggest data centres in the world. The frozen mountains and deep fjords under the aurora hide the “dark fibre“ for the modern internet to function in the way we all want it to - instantly and reliably. 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last few years, and as a more internet enabled future, with Ai and the internet of things, becomes reality – data more than ever needs a physical home. This requires energy, and by 2020 some estimate around 20% of the world’s energy supply will be used to process data. This can be hugely costly, and damaging for the environment.
Wednesday 24 April
AustralianSuper Made Easy
Parts 5 - 7 (CAAMA)
3 x 12'56 to 16'06 - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
According to the recent Royal Commission on Banking, many First Nations Peoples are at the discriminatory end when it comes to information about their money. Notably, levels of financial literacy, remoteness and proof of identity were highlighted as broad issues affecting banking, superannuation and insurance outcomes which often impact the lives of many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Gilmore Johnston, Station Manager for Alice Springs based CAAMA Radio says, “The hope is to empower Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander fund members to access information to find out about their money. It’s their right!”
The program offers practical information and encourages members to use a free phone Helpline to obtain updates on their funds, find out the value of their personal or family superannuation and how to access funds and insurance in the case of funeral costs and “Sorry” Business.
The Road to Bluesfest 
Part 3 (2HHH)
55'50 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
A 3-part music documentary series, focusing on the excitement and build-up to Bluesfest 2019. Presenter Graeme Doyle (host of The Live Rock Report, Triple H 100.1FM, Hornsby, NSW), together with contributors Noddy (Aussie Music Weekly, Community Radio Network) and Rufus On Fire (The Music Almanac, Triple H 100.1FM, Hornsby, NSW) take an in-depth look at the festival in what is its 30th year. It’s a series of great music, interviews and discussion, which will both entertain and inform listeners.In the final episode, The Road To Bluesfest crew talk about their festival highlights from the 2019 event. Rufus On Fire focuses on one of Bluesfest’s returning acts Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals. Graeme gets hands-on with all things music photography. More great music including Mavis Staples, Archie Roach and Jack Johnson.
Wednesday 17 April
AustralianSuper Made Easy
Parts 1 - 4 (CAAMA)
4 x 12'56 to 16'06 - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
According to the recent Royal Commission on Banking, many First Nations Peoples are at the discriminatory end when it comes to information about their money. Notably, levels of financial literacy, remoteness and proof of identity were highlighted as broad issues affecting banking, superannuation and insurance outcomes which often impact the lives of many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Gilmore Johnston, Station Manager for Alice Springs based CAAMA Radio says, “The hope is to empower Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander fund members to access information to find out about their money. It’s their right!”
The program offers practical information and encourages members to use a free phone Helpline to obtain updates on their funds, find out the value of their personal or family superannuation and how to access funds and insurance in the case of funeral costs and “Sorry” Business.
The Road to Bluesfest 
Part 2 (2HHH)
55'50 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
A 3-part music documentary series, focusing on the excitement and build-up to Bluesfest 2019. Presenter Graeme Doyle (host of The Live Rock Report, Triple H 100.1FM, Hornsby, NSW), together with contributors Noddy (Aussie Music Weekly, Community Radio Network) and Rufus On Fire (The Music Almanac, Triple H 100.1FM, Hornsby, NSW) take an in-depth look at the festival in what is its 30th year. It’s a series of great music, interviews and discussion, which will both entertain and inform listeners.
In this episode, the team chats to Aussie artist Caiti Baker who shares her family history when it comes to Bluesfest, plus we take a look at the man behind Bluesfest, festival director Peter Noble. Meanwhile, Rufus On Fire delves into the Byron Bay creative scene, plus great music from Russell Morris, Gary Clark Jr and Nathaniel Rateliff
Wednesday 10 April 
Sonic Tonic
Part 7&8 (Swinburne University)
58'00 - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Concluding the Sonic Tonic series, this edition contains the final two episodes of the 2019 series, Roderick Nathan Diaz's 'My Game Strategy' and Alex Lowes with 'The Hunt for Haggis'
The Road to Bluesfest
Part 1 (2HHH)
55'50 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
A 3-part music documentary series, focusing on the excitement and build-up to Bluesfest 2019. Presenter Graeme Doyle (host of The Live Rock Report, Triple H 100.1FM, Hornsby, NSW), together with contributors Noddy (Aussie Music Weekly, Community Radio Network) and Rufus On Fire (The Music Almanac, Triple H 100.1FM, Hornsby, NSW) take an in-depth look at the festival in what is its 30th year. It’s a series of great music, interviews and discussion, which will both entertain and inform listeners.
In the opening episode, we speak with blues musician Shaun Kirk about his long association with Bluesfest. We also shine the spotlight on festival performer Ray La Montagne. As well we take a look at the festival within a festival, The Boomerang Festival. There’s also great music from Kurt Vile, Norah Jones, Benny Walker and Baker Boy.
Wednesday 3 April
Federal Budget Special
(2SER)
10 x 0'41 to 06'57 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
A consortium of community radio reporters were inside the 2019 Federal Budget Lockup. From ArtSound FM in Canberra, reporters from 2SER's On The Money present detailed analysis with a specialised team of reporters. Including highlights in key areas from the Budget like Health, Mental Health, Environment, Energy and Infastructure, making for excellent on-air segments leading up to the election later this year.
Sonic Tonic 
Part 5&6 (Swinburne University)
58'10 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Continuing in the Sonic Tonic series, this edition contains the next two episodes in the 8 part series; Anthony Pinda's 'Always on the Green' as well as Jayde Wilkinson with 'The Intolerant Intruder'.
Wednesday 27 March
Sonic Tonic 
Part 1&2 (Swinburne University)
58'10 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Over the last nine years the “Sonic Tonic” series and those that preceded it, have allowed the work of almost 70 Swinburne University students to gain exposure beyond the dusty confines of the university. This edition contains the first two episodes in the 8 part series; Cameron Pearce's 'The Apprentice’s Guide to Dungeons and Dragons' as well as Rebecca Pannell's 'Gift Giving'.
Sonic Tonic
Part 3&4 (Swinburne University)
58'10 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Continuing in the Sonic Tonic series, this edition contains the next two episodes in the 8 part series; Lidija Turkalj's 'The Racecourse to Retirement' as well as Maddison Pettit with 'Bonnie’s Story'.
Wednesday 20 March
Can you Murder a Robot? 
(BBC World Service)
49'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
The robot revolution is upon us, so is it time to consider what our relationship with machines looks like? How can we damage a robot? Back in 2015, a hitchhiker was murdered on the streets of Philadelphia. It was no ordinary crime, the hitchiker in question was a little robot called Hitchbot. The death raised interesting questions about the human-robot relationship - not so much whether we can trust robotos, but whether the robots can trust us. Dive deep into this experiement, as BBC News joined Prof Smith and Dr Zeller to take out the new Hitchbot 2.0 on one of it's first outings.
Global Beats: Peru 
(BBC World Service)
49'30 mins - Extras 2 at 13:04 EDT
Meet the talented group of young DJs and producers behind Peru’s captivating tropical bass sound. Deltatron and Tribilin Sound have been mining Peru’s rich musical archives and creating new highly danceable chicha and cumbia-based tracks.Their music is proving highly popular but not just in Peru, Deltatron now spends half his time Dj-ing in clubs around the world. Their music reflects a new pride in all things Peruvian.
Wednesday 13 March
Mardi Gras Parade 2019
Part 1 (JOY 94.9)
54'00 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
If you couldn’t make it to the 2019 Mardi GrasParade, thanks to JOY 94.9, CRN is bringing stations 2 x Mardi Gras specials.
Produced by a team of 12 volunteers roadside for over 200 floats in the parade, bring listeners all the fun, floats, dancing and much more of Mardi Gras 2019.
Mardi Gras Parade 2019
Part 2 (JOY 94.9)
54'00 mins - Extras 2 at 13:04 EDT
Wednesday 6 March
Women in Wartime
(Media Heads)
10 x 90 sec to 01'45 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Women In Wartime will highlight the deeply emotional and personal experiences of Australian women affected by war, along with the many and varied roles that they’ve filled – either by choice or by necessity – including:
- keeping the family together while their husband, father or son was overseas fighting
- filling vital positions vacated by men, such as those in munitions factories, the Women’s Land Army, etc
- nursing, and the role of nurses both abroad and on the home-front
- looking after returned servicemen suffering from shell shock or PTSD
Jailbreak: IWD 2019 Special
(2SER)
55'50 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
For International Women's Day 2019, Jailbreak presents an hour-long special of the voices of women locked up - separated from their children support and family.
Wednesday 27 February
Message from the Moon
(BBC World Service)
26'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
In December 1968, as the crew of Apollo 8 orbited the Moon, they read extracts from Genesis live to a global TV audience.
Astronaut Nicole Stott follows the Apollo 8 mission from launch to splashdown and we hear from astronauts giving their unique perspective on creation, faith and God. Their thoughts are interwoven with music from Hannah Peel's composition, Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia.
How do we stop young people killing themselves?
(BBC World Service)
26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among 15-29 year olds globally. But innovative and unexpected ways to tackle this public health issue are emerging.
From Nigeria to Finland, ordinary people and experts are putting their own experiences and expertise to use in coming up with ways that help prevent deaths in their communities. School timetables, video games and social media are among some of the new ways being trialled to cut deaths and break the taboo surrounding youth suicide. We ask what can be done to stop young people taking their own lives?
Wednesday 20 February
Where Are The Aliens?
(BBC World Service)
26'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Vulcans, Daleks, Martians, Grays - our culture is pervaded by alien beings from distant worlds – some benevolent…most not so much. In our galaxy alone, there should be tens of billions of planets harbouring life, but we have not heard any broadcasts or seen any flashing lights from distant civilisations.
Based in Silicon Valley, California, chief astronomer for SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), Seth Shostak, has devoted his career to searching for signs of alien life. In this programme he tackles this fundamental question about whether we are alone in the universe.
Sounds Of Space: Deep Space
(BBC World Service)
26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Some are recorded sound, others are data – like X-rays or radio waves - that have been sonified. All of them have inspired scientists and artists to help us understand our universe.
Joining Lucie Green on this sonic journey through space are:
- Prof Tim O'Brien (Associate Director of Jodrell Bank Observatory)
- Honor Harger (Executive Director of the ArtScience museum in Singapore)
- Dr Andrew Pontzen (Cosmology Research Group, University College London)
Wednesday 13 February
The Politics of Mongolian Hip-Hop
(BBC World Service)
49'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
MC Dizraeli hears how Mongolia’s massive hip hop scene is shaping the country’s future.
Post-mining boom 'Minegolia' is recovering from an economic crash. Half of the 3 million population lives in the growing capital, Ulaanbaatar. Yet these young, urban Mongolians aren’t turning their backs on traditional rural values.
Dizraeli meets Mongolia’s hip hop pioneers and finds surprising lyrics that dispense moral advice, worry about alcoholism or praise the taste of fresh yoghurt on the Mongolian steppe. Freestyles and conversations across Ulaanbaatar reveal global hip hop influences and deep resonances with Mongolia’s musical heritage.
Brazil: New Musical Voices
(BBC World Service)
49'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Maria Beraldo is a Brazilian singer, composer, clarinet player and LGBTQ activist. She released her first solo album, Cavala, in May 2018, to critical acclaim. For this Brazilian edition of Global Beats, Maria presents seven of her fellow musical artists, chosen for their strong voices, both musically and politically.
Wednesday 6 February
The Sun Our Star
(BBC World Service)
1 x 51'40 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
The Sun Our Star
(BBC World Service)
1 x 51'40 mins - Extras 2 at 13:04 EDT
Dava Sobel orbits the sun, getting as close as she dares, to understand the immense relationship we have with our nearest star.
The Sun, our star, the source and sustainer of all life on Earth... is also a death star in the making. To know the Sun is an age-old dream of humankind. For centuries astronomers contented themselves with analysing small sips of Sunlight collected through specialised instruments.
Wednesday 31 January
Tamworth CMF Golden Guitar Awards - Winner Interviews
(Good Morning Country)
15 x 01'00 to 04'00 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Interviews from Australian country music's night of nights - the 2019 Golden Guitar Awards live at the Tamworth Country Music Festival.
Good Morning Country caught up with the night's winners including Fanny Lumsden, The Wolfe Brothers, Beccy Cole and many more.
Solving Alzheimer’s
Part 3 (BBC World Service)
26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Solving Alzheimer's looks at the issues caused from the disease, reporting from South Korea, Nigeria and the Netherlands.
With a rise in the number of people living into their eighties and beyond, dementia is a growing issue.
Wednesday 24 January
Our Love For Indian Classical Music
(BBC World Service)
49'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Indian classical music is an art form that’s been in the making for thousands of years. Its exponential growth in the UK alone has seen a 70 percent increase in people taking exams in this form of music.
We visit the tomb of one of the original forefathers of the music, Amir Khusrao, and take to the road to experience the sights and sounds of the live concerts and festivals.
Solving Alzheimer’s
Part 2 (BBC World Service)
26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Solving Alzheimer's looks at the issues caused from the disease, reporting from South Korea, Nigeria and the Netherlands.
With a rise in the number of people living into their eighties and beyond, dementia is a growing issue.
Wednesday 16 January
Are we alone in the universe?
(BBC World Service)
49'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
The Real Story asks a panel of space scientists: are we any closer to finding extra-terrestrial life?
What new approaches are showing promise?
How will we know if we've found it? And what might that life be like?
Solving Alzheimer’s
Part 1 (BBC World Service)
26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Solving Alzheimer's looks at the issues caused from the disease, reporting from South Korea, Nigeria and the Netherlands.
With a rise in the number of people living into their eighties and beyond, dementia is a growing issue.
One in three - maybe even one in two - of us will get dementia and forget almost everything we ever knew. Those that don’t get the disease, have a high chance of caring for someone with Alzheimer’s, the most common form of dementia.
Wednesday 9 January
Woodford Folk Festival 2018
Part 3 (4ZZZ and 4EB)
55'50 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Highlights from Woodford Folk Festival 2018. Hear from performers, organisers, punters and notable guests including Butterfingers, Jonathan Sri, the Woodford Children's Festival, Esther, Tenzin Nyidon, Les Poules a Colin and Anthony Albanese.
Wingham Akoostik Festival
(2BOB)
55'50 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Highlights from the Wingham Akoostik Festival, held annually in the Manning Valley of New South Wales.
Wednesday 2 January
Woodford Folk Festival 2018
Part 1 (4ZZZ and 4EB)
55'50 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Highlights from Woodford Folk Festival 2018. Hear from performers, organisers, punters and notable guests including Butterfingers, Jonathan Sri, the Woodford Children's Festival, Esther, Tenzin Nyidon, Les Poules a Colin and Anthony Albanese.
Woodford Folk Festival 2018
Part 2 (4ZZZ and 4EB)
55'50 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Wednesday 26 December
The Hero's Journey
(Tribe FM)
55'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
From Star Wars to Mad Max to The Matrix and the Lion King, movie makers have for decades followed the stages identified in The Hero Journey, written by Joseph Campbell.
Join Teeya and Ros and guests as they follow Maria’s story along the stages of The Hero Journey, from The Call to Adventure, to The Meeting with the Mentor, through The Belly of the Whale and The Road of Trials, to The Supreme Ordeal and finally The Return home with the elixir that helps in some way to redeem the world.
Will you recognise these stages in your own life? Will these stages apply to your journeys and adventures?
Come along with us on The Hero Journey and find out how The Hero Journey really is a Guide to your Life.
Marysville Jazz And Blues Weekend Highlights
Part 3 (JOY 94.9 and UGFM)
22'50 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Joy 94.9’s David Moyle of Bent Notes and Peter Guest of UGFM's All that Jazz review the Marysville Jazz and Blues Weekend with interviews with some of the performers and their music.
In Part 3, hear from Harley & Rose - of headline act Joe Camilleri & the Black Sorrows. Hear an interview with Trad Jazz Band Shiraz.
Wednesday 19 December
Carols by Candlelight 2018 Preview
Part 2 (Vision Australia)
27'50 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Chris Thompson shines a light on the history of the Vision Australia Radio Carols by Candlelight event, now in its 82nd year.
Preview this year's even supporting blind and low-vision children whilst entertaining families Australia-wide this Christmas eve.
In Part 2, we focus on the 2018 event, hearing from the mother of one of our young clients Parker, and mum Amy Thorne shares her story. Dedicated carols fan Hala Austin shares why she’s attended the event each year since she was a toddler and performer Silvie Paladino explains why she’s again supporting this year’s event.
Marysville Jazz And Blues Weekend Highlights
Part 2 (JOY 94.9 and UGFM)
22'50 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Joy 94.9’s David Moyle of Bent Notes and Peter Guest of UGFM's All that Jazz review the Marysville Jazz and Blues Weekend with interviews with some of the performers and their music.
In Part 2, David and Peter discuss Admirals Own Big Band, an interview with Ben Charnley of Ben Charnley Quartet regarding a workshop and concert presented on the weekend. Plus an interview with official photographer Robyn Cuzens.
Wednesday 12 December
Carols by Candlelight 2018 Preview
Part 1 (Vision Australia)
27'50 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Chris Thompson shines a light on the history of the Vision Australia Radio Carols by Candlelight event, now in its 82nd year.
Preview this year's even supporting blind and low-vision children whilst entertaining families Australia-wide this Christmas eve.
Part 1 looks back at the history of the event.
Reflect on where it all began, hear from VA’s audio description manager Michael Ward on the service offered during the broadcast this year, learn why Vision Australia volunteer Steven Cavell has volunteered at the event for 11 years now. Also hear from Carols event coordinator Clementine Binks.
Marysville Jazz And Blues Weekend Highlights
Part 1 (JOY 94.9 and UGFM)
22'50 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Joy 94.9’s David Moyle of Bent Notes and Peter Guest of UGFM's All that Jazz review the Marysville Jazz and Blues Weekend with interviews with some of the performers and their music.
In Part 1, David and Peter discuss the highlights of the weekend including interviews with Gypsy Jazz Project (Canberra) also an Interview with Bruce Rose.
Interview with the weekend’s Music Director Bill Bate, Anita Harris music track, Interview with Bev & Leigh Fraser (Eva to Diva) with in studio live performance Woodstock.
Wednesday 5 December
Global Beats: South Korea
(BBC World Service)
1 x 49'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
South Korea is famous for K-pop, slick girl and boy bands with millions of fans around the world and now a multi-million dollar industry.
But South Korea also has a vibrant independent music scene, with bands playing every genre of music you can think of, and, as Global Beats discovers, increasingly seeking their own distinctly Korean sound.
Young, Cool and Kazakhstani
(BBC World Service)
1 x 49'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
More than 25 years after independence, young Kazakhstanis are still trying to make sense of their dark history and their place in the new world order. At least half of the 18 million population of Kazakhstan is under 30 - born and raised in the post-Soviet era.
Russian journalist Tatyana Movshevich goes to Almaty, the cultural capital of Kazakhstan to meet young Kazakhs and find out how they are moving their country forward, how they navigate their lives under an authoritarian regime and play their part in a global world.
Wednesday 28 November
IDPWD: Chronically Chilled and Direct Action (3CR)
2 x 27'50 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Chronically Chilled
Chronically Chilled is a show that discusses experiences and topics related to chronic illness, disability and mental health. In this special Disability Day episode, presenter Marijo Pozega is joined by Ricky Buchanan.
Direct Action - Worldwide Disability Protest in 2018
Helen Gwilliam reviews just some of the protests by disability activists in the past year, including activists occupying parliaments in the UK, Poland and Nigeria and the march of empty wheelchairs in Argentina
Read more here.
IDPWD: De-Stigmatised and Only Human (Radio Adelaide and 4ZZZ)
2 x 27'50 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
De-Stigmatised
De-Stigmatised celebrates IDPWD, hearing from three individuals striding to make a long-lasting impact in changing what we think or perceive about disabled people and their capabilities of living independently. Jarad McLoughlin and Aiden Marks look at autism/neurodiversity and expose incidents of inherent, hostile ableism involving employers and airlines.
Only Human
On this special episode of Only Human,hear from Dale Reardon (My Disability Matters); Sorry Day 2018; Holly and Chris (Help Enterprises); Sally Balwin (Braille House); and Linda Neil (musician and writer).
Read more here.
Wednesday 21 November
IDPWD: It's The People's Radio (4ZZZ)
4 x 15'00 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
It’s the People’s Radio is a four-part series about the experiences of people with a disability in community radio in Australia.
Producer Kim Stewart interviewed 19 People With Disability and their supporters from around the country, as part of a Doctorate of Creative Industries at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Queensland.
Read more here.
IDPWD: Access All Areas (4RPH)
2 x 27'30, 25'50 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Produced by Steve Richardson of 4RPH Brisbane, Access All Areas is a monthly program which focuses on issues and events in the disability field.
In Part 1, find out about 'Tactile Tours' provided to people with impaired vision to attend plays, performances and circus, and what is being done in electronic banking to make it more accessible.
And in Part 2, Steve speaks with an artist with low-vision about a website they created, and a blind-adventurer who has recently released their autobiography.
Read more here.
Wednesday 14 November
The Greyhound Diaries (BBC World Service)
49'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Singer-songwriter Doug Levitt hears the stories of America’s struggling people as they ride across the country on long-haul coaches – and turns their tales into songs. For 12 years and 120,000 miles, he has crossed the United States by Greyhound, guitar on his back, and notebook in his pocket.
The people on the margins ride Greyhound, the only form of long distance travel they can afford. It makes for a singular community of people on the move, looking for work, dealing with family emergencies and taking leaps of faith in pursuit of transformation, redemption and healing.
My Madonna (BBC World Service)
49'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
With contributions from people Madonna lived and worked with during her formative years, this special highlights the drive and determination that took a struggling, ambitious young dancer from suburban Detroit, with grand visions of one day becoming a club dancer in New York City, on a journey that exceeded her wildest expectations as she evolved to become one of pop music’s most successful icons.
Wednesday 7 November
Centenary of Armistice Remembrance Concert - Part 1 (City Park Radio)
54'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
From Launceston’s majestic Albert Hall comes a concert to mark the Centenary of Armistice, with local and international performances encompassing choir, pipe bands, folk music and Australian Army Buglers.
Over 200 performers will be on stage including the O’Dowds from Moe, Mick Whittle from Geelong, Dean Cocker and Mick Flannagan from Tasmania and Marian Burns from New Zealand.
Produced by Ros Elliot. Rea
d by Leo Gortz with permission from Behrouz.
Centenary of Armistice Remembrance Concert - Part 2 (City Park Radio)
54'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Wednesday 31 October
No Friend but the Mountains (TribeFM 91.1)
7 x 01'00 to 07'00 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Kurdish acaedemic, journalist and author Behrouz Boochani fled Iran, taking a smuggler's boat from Indonesia to Australia.
Since imprisoned on Manus Island, he secretly wrote 'No Friend But The Mountains', a powerful and poetic book over 5 years by sending out thousands of texts.
This descriptive, emotional and poetic book relates the lived experience of a crowded controlling prison with no knowledge of how long before resettled eleswhere will occur.
Download a synopsis sheet here.
Produced by Ros Elliot. Read by Leo Gortz with permission from Behrouz.
Global Beats: Gqom (BBC World Service)
49'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Gqom, pronounced with a Zulu click at the beginning, roughly translates as the sound of a kick drum being struck. It’s also the name of a sparse, dark, hypnotic genre of electronic music.
Made in the townships of Durban, South Africa, on basic software and distributed via taxi drivers, over the last few years gqom has caught the ears of DJs and ravers in some of the coolest clubs in Berlin, New York and London.
Emily Dust, a London-based DJ who fell in love with gqom at first listen, travels to Durban to meet the artists who created it and who are taking it forward, including Naked Boys, DJ Lag, Griffit Vigo and Distruction Boyz.
Wednesday 24 October
National Features and Documentary Series: Parts 5 & 6
2 x 25'50 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Healthy Soils, Healthy Communities
With over 30 years experience in organic farming, Barry Green is involved in something called the New Food Movement.
In Healthy Soils, Healthy Communities he hears from a group of Australians concerned about the future of food, and the solution they’re putting on the table.
Produced by Barry Green of Donnybrook Community Radio. Supervising production by Ian Hill.
At The Coalface
The story of a billboard, a coal mine, and a rural community split in two.
Nikola Van de Wetering returns to her hometown to dig-up the controversy sitting close to the surface in At The Coalface.
Produced by Nikola Van de Wetering of 4ZZZ, Brisbane. Supervising production by Stephen Stockwell.
National Features and Documentary Series: Parts 7 & 8
2 x 25'50 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Hidden Carers
A quarter of a million Australians care for family members living with mental health difficulties.
In Hidden Carers, Meredith Gilmore sits down with Anne and Robyn to find out what their lives and challenges look like.
Produced by Meredith Gilmore of Coast FM 963. Supervising production by Ian Crouch.
Finding Voice
For asylum seekers who are writers, poets, and journalists, finding a voice in their new home can be a significant challenge.
In Finding Voice, Bangladeshi poet and journalist Humayun Reza speaks about the challenges some writers face in Australia.
Produced by Mick Paddon and Humayun Reza of Eastside Radio. Supervising production by Sharon Davis.
Wednesday 17 October
National Features and Documentary Series: Parts 1 & 2
2 x 25'50 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
The Runners' Guide
For many of us, a quick jog is our preferred form of exercise. But what if you need to overcome additional barriers in order to get up and running? Tie up your laces and join Katharina Loesche as she meets a couple of joggers in The Runners’ Guide.
Produced by Katharina Loesche of Radio 4EB, Brisbane. Supervising production by Kim Stewart.
To Say I Am Home
A story of what we talk about when we talk about home. What is it like to leave the one home you’ve ever really known? In To Say I Am Home, Mahendra Chitrarasu tells the story of his grandmother’s migration to Australia.
Produced by Mahendra Chitrarasu of Radio Adelaide. Supervising production by Nikki Marcel.
National Features and Documentary Series: Parts 3 & 4
2 x 25'50 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
Hear Our Voices
How is Australia experienced by the South Sudanese youth growing up here? Aguer Athian brings us some of their stories to change the current narrative, and give voice to the voiceless in Hear Our Voices.
Produced by Aguer Athian of 3ZZZ, Melbourne. Supervising production by Maddy Macfarlane.
The Shooting Gallery
When it comes to drugs, we are often handed the line that it's best to be 'tough'. But there’s at least one community taking another approach. Aoife Cooke takes us to what’s formally known as a “medically supervised injecting centre", but is known to some as The Shooting Gallery.
Produced by Aoife Cooke of 3CR, Melbourne. Supervising production by Georgia Moodie.
Wednesday 10 October
On The Road: Memphis (BBC World Service)
49'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EDT
Renowned pianist Jools Holland drives from Clarksdale to Memphis replicating the journey which so many musicians have made before him.
Once in the Bluff City- arguably the most important music town in the world – he visits the project housing where Elvis Presley lived as a teenager and where he first played in public and goes to Aretha Franklin’s birthplace, situated in an area of tremendous urban deprivation which is gaining a new life through music.
Africa's Big Philanthropy: Health (BBC World Service)
26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EDT
In 2016 The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pledged to invest five billion dollars in poverty reduction and health in Africa. Other big givers like the Rockefeller Foundation have spent billions on health, agriculture and livelihood programmes. Some say governments and global agencies have come to depend on the donations of big philanthropic donors for their programmes, but how much influence do they have, and with the rise of home-grown African wealth what is the future is for philanthropy here?
Wednesday 3 October
Breaking The Seal (BBC World Service)
26'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
Whatever is said in the confessional stays in the confessional; it is a sacred, unyielding law throughout Catholicism, but in Australia it's now being challenged.
In certain states laws are being introduced so priests can now be fined if they are found to have withheld information from the confessions of child abusers. Priests across the country have said they won’t adhere to the law, saying it breaks a sacred trust.
The Children of Belsen (BBC World Service)
49'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
In April 1945 a 15-year-old Dutch Jewish girl was interviewed by the BBC in the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen shortly after its liberation by the British.
Weakened by typhoid, Hetty Werkendam, now known as Hetty Verolme, described to reporter Patrick Gordon Walker some of the horrific conditions in the Nazi camp where more than 50,000 prisoners died. She also told him how she and her younger brothers were separated from their parents, and how they lived for the last months of the war in a separate barracks with other Jewish children, largely ignored by the SS authorities.
Wednesday 26 September
Model X (BBC World Service)
26'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
In Paris, aspiring models have to adjust to rather spartan conditions - from sharing a flat with strangers to moving around an unknown city all alone and surviving on a mere 80 euros a week.
Despite their bestefforts to get a job, most of the girls will leave Paris with empty pockets.
Former model and now BBC journalist, Alina Isachenka, follows 17-year-old schoolgirl Anna Vasileva from the city of Nizhny Novgorod in Russia on her challenging journey through tough competition and over-demanding casting directors to the top of the fashion industry.
On The Road: Nashville (BBC World Service)
49'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
Join renowned pianist Jools Holland as he flies to Nashville to visit RCA Studio A. In the 1950s and early 60s under the leadership of Chet Atkins, Studio A was the place where modern day country music was invented.
In the cavernous room meet Dave Cobb and the man they call the soul of Nashville, musician & historian Marty Stuart, and some of the new young stars attracted to the city like the band Midland & Australian actress and singer Clare Bowen, star of the TV series “Nashville”.
Wednesday 19 September
The Changing Face of Procreation - Part 2 (BBC World Service)
26'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
Krupa Padhy meets the scientists at the cutting edge of reproductive medicine and examines the alternative paths being taken to create families. In part two, Krupa looks to what comes next.
She meets the doctor using IVF technology to reverse menopause. In England she visits a family of the future, made up of white British parents and their three boys plus a ‘snow baby’, created during an IVF cycle for her Indian-American genetic parents but adopted as an embryo by her birth family.
Iceland: What Happened Next? (BBC World Service)
49'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
Iceland is a small island nation of just 340,000 people but at the height of the global financial crisis in 2008 it was the scene of one of the biggest banking collapses in history.
Ten years on the economy has recovered, thanks to the millions of tourists who now visit every year. But what scars have been left on this close-knit island nation’s collective psyche?
Wednesday 12 September
The Changing Face of Procreation - Part 1 (BBC World Service)
26'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
By the end of the century, an estimated 157 million people alive or 1.4 % of the world’s population will owe their lives to assisted reproductive technologies like IVF, donor eggs and sperm and surrogacy.
So how are people around the world using these innovations? And how well is society doing in getting to grips with the ethical questions that go hand in hand with the creation of life of in these ways?
Falling (BBC World Service)
26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
A construction worker dies and, instinctively, we blame him. Why wasn’t he wearing his safety belt? But what if we are wrong?
What if all of us – families, colleagues, companies and society as a whole – have been failing workers who have lost their lives or been injured at work, all over the world?
Wednesday 5 September
Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is (BBC World Service)
49'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
What do our teeth say about us?
BBC Journalist Natalia Guerrero travels to Miami and LA and asks, do we judge others by their teeth and do we demonstrate our own wealth by paying for the perfect smile?
This documentary explores what our teeth say about us.
The Life and Times of Senator John McCain (BBC World Service)
26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
Few American politicians have carved such a distinctive career as the late John McCain, the Republican Senator for Arizona.
Anthony Zurcher, the BBC's North America reporter, looks back at his life, including his military service, during which he endured five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, and his two unsuccessful bids for the American presidency.
He also examines how McCain gained a reputation as a political maverick, and inflicted one of the most high-profile policy defeats of Donald Trump's presidency to date.
Wednesday 29 August
The Benefits of Nakedness (BBC World Service)
49'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
Some people just love to be naked in public. Dr. Keon West travels far and wide to speak to those who enjoy taking their clothes off to find out why they do it, and what the benefits – and disadvantages – might be.
Dr. West is a social psychologist at Goldsmiths, University of London, and has done some research into naturist groups in the UK.
His work showed that those of us who are naked in public are more likely to be happier not just with our bodies, but also with our lives more generally.
Aretha Franklin: Queen Of Soul (BBC World Service)
26'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
Aretha Franklin, for fifty years the Queen of Soul, with a voice of unique quality and who suffered a difficult and troubled life, has died at the age of 76.
Jumoke Fashola hears from musicians, fans and producers from different parts of the world about what made Aretha Franklin’s music special.
It Includes contributions from South African singer Lira, American musician Valerie June, record company mogul Clive Davis, producer Narada Michael Walden, singer Sarah Dash and music journalist David Nathan.
Wednesday 23 August
Step Away From The Car (Radio Adelaide)
10 x 05'00 to 07'00 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
Over a 10-part series of short pieces ready to drop into your radio programs, Step Away from the Car hears from a variety of thinkers who were present at the 2017 Australian Walking and Cycling Conference.
The conference and pieces get listeners thinking about using more 'active' choices when it comes to transport, choices that require stepping away from the car.
Producer: Nikki Page, Radio Adelaide
Global Beats: Heavy Metal in Finland (BBC World Service)
49'30 mins - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
Heavy-metal music, with its distorted guitar sounds, emphatic rhythms and dense bass and drum is incredibly popular in Nordic countries. In Finland there are more heavy-metal musicians per capita than in any other nation on Earth, and the country seems to have a real love affair with this genre of music.
Finnish presenter Ida Kiljander takes us to Tuska, one of her country’s biggest metal festivals, to meet bands including Finland’s Moonsorrow, Sweden’s Bombus and the headlining French band Gojira.
Wednesday 15 August
National Indigenous Music Awards 2018 (TEABBA)
55'50 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
55'50 mins - Extras 2 at 13:04 EST
On Saturday the Darwin Ampitheatre came alive for the 2018 NIMAs.
Catch performances from many award winners, finalists and hall-of-famers including Baker Boy, Busby Marou, Kasey Chambers, the Central Australian Aboriginal Women's Choir, Roger Knox and Alice Skye (pictured).
Wednesday 8 August
Communities in Control: Part 3 of 3 (SYN Media and Our Community)
27'50 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
Hear from some of Australia’s prominent public figures and community groups who lent their voices to the 2018 Communities in Control Conference, hosted by Our Community.
What does it take to combat inequality from the community level? What impacts are mental health issues and social fragmentation having on Australia as a society? How does difference act as a barrier for social integration?
Hear Stan Grant and Hugh Mackay, plus Ann Burbrook from Illawarra Multicultural Services share their thoughts and insights.
Producer: Caroline Tung
Winning It Big (BBC World Service)
26'30 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
Most people have dreamed of winning the lottery. It’s a dream that has become ever more common around the world as jackpots get bigger and lotteries more numerous. But does money really make us happy, and how much does this depend on where we live and how we spend it?
To find out, the BBC’s Mike Thomson meets lottery winners from around the globe. Mike dines with Arab/Israeli restaurateur, Jawdat Ibrahim, who spends much of his $23 million windfall on trying to bring Palestinians and Israelis closer together, through good food and dialogue.
Wednesday 1 August
2018 Reith Lectures: Part 5 of 5 (BBC World Service)
49'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
The 2018 Reith Lectures with Margaret MacMillan: is war an essential part of being human?
The lectures are recorded in front of an audience and have a question and answer session. They are chaired by journalist and historian Anita Anand.
Episode Five: Fatal Attraction
Historian Margaret MacMillan looks at representations of war: can we really create beauty from horror and death? Speaking at the Canadian War Museum, she discusses the paradox of commemoration. She questions attempts to capture the essence and meaning of war through art. The programme is presented by Anita Anand in front of an audience and includes a question and answer session.
Global Beats: New Labels (BBC World Service)
49'30 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
When the internet exploded onto the scene, it blew apart the way the music industry worked. Recording artists were no longer dependent on winning the attention of a record label. They could reach millions ofpotential fans all around the world direct.
For a moment it looked as if record labels were on a downward slide, but as it turns out this was wrong. And for new labels that's been very good news, judging from their ever increasing number. Some are dedicated to a particular genre or the music of a particular country, for example Tiger’s Milk, which is on a mission to make Peruvian grooves old and new available to a global audience.
Wednesday 25 July
2018 Reith Lectures: Part 4 of 5 (BBC World Service)
49'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
The 2018 Reith Lectures with Margaret MacMillan: is war an essential part of being human?
The lectures are recorded in front of an audience and have a question and answer session. They are chaired by journalist and historian Anita Anand.
Episode Four: Managing the Unmanageable
Historian Margaret MacMillan assesses how the law and international agreements have attempted to address conflict. Speaking to an audience at the Northern Irish Parliament Buildings at Stormont in Belfast, Professor MacMillan outlines how both states and the people have sought to justify warfare - from self-defence to civil war - focusing on examples from Irish and British history.
Skateboarding is 60 (BBC World Service)
49'30 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
Sixty years ago, a man wandered into a surf shop on the beach in Southern California with a homemade wooden board with four roller-skate wheels attached. An insignificant beginning for a culture that would eventually influence communities all around the world.
You might see the skateboard as just a toy, but in 60 years, the people who skate have created a culture that has had a profound influence across business, art, architecture, education and gender equality.
Wednesday 18 July
2018 Reith Lectures: Part 3 of 5 (BBC World Service)
49'30 mins - Extras 1 at 13:04 EST
The 2018 Reith Lectures with Margaret MacMillan: is war an essential part of being human?
The lectures are recorded in front of an audience and have a question and answer session. They are chaired by journalist and historian Anita Anand.
Episode Three: Civilians and War
Historian Margaret MacMillan dissects the relationship between war and the civilian. Speaking to an audience in Beirut, she looks back at the city's violent past and discusses the impact of conflict on noncombatants throughout the centuries.
She explores how civilians have been deliberately targeted, used as slaves and why women are still often singled out in mass rapes. And she addresses the proposition that human beings are becoming less, not more violent. The programme is chaired by Anita Anand.
Beyond The Bars 2018: Part 2 of 2 (3CR)
55'50 - Extras 2 at 14:04 EST
On the air since 2002, Beyond the Bars in 2018 features stories, songs, opinions and poems from over 100 men and women in the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, Barwon Prison, Fulham Correctional Centre, Marngoneet Correctional Centre, Loddon Prison and Port Phillip Prison.
The all-black radio broadcast team present the broadcasts and workshops in the lead up to NAIDOC Week.
Find out how to access these and other CRN programs for your station.
A century later we are still questioning our ability to come together.
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The 2021 National Features & Documentary Series are live
Flex your creative thinking, develop production skills, and share radio content on a national platform.
A guide to the programs currently being broadcast/distributed via the CBAA's Community Radio Network to community radio stations all over Australia.