Listen to Scheming, Strayan and Sci-fi GFs01:09:117 February 2025

Culture critic Brodie Lancaster breaks down the cardinal sin of Oscar sabotage; linguist Kate Burridge briefs us on Australia's semantic border security; comedian Tom Ballard goes full steam ahead with his new play The Queer Kingdom; it's on for Jung and old in Fi Wright's review of Lauren Elkin's novel Scaffolding, the team ask if pen pals are due for a re-write and Breakfasters' movie companion Megan McKeough raves over a robot girlfriend gone haywire. With presenters Monique Sebire, Daniel Burt & Nat Harris.

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About this program

Music, news, sport, weather, information, special guests and regular segments each morning.

Monday to Friday from 6am. We post updates throughout the show (including links to books mentioned etc.) on Facebook and Twitter. You can also email us at breakfasters@rrr.org.au.


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INTRO TRACK:

Khruangbin - People Everywhere (Still Alive)

Weekly segments

Monday 7:15am Sports Wrap - Sean 'Woody' Woodward and AJ Mithen
8:15am Politics Wrap - Ben Eltham
Tuesday 7:45am Fi Wright and others - Book Reviews
8:45am Guest Presenter - Culture Pops / Game Changers
Wednesday 7.15am Down And Dirty - Justin "Digga" Calverley / Food Interlude - Besha Rodell
7.45am Weird Science - Dr. Jen
Thursday 7:45am Film Reviews - Simone Ubaldi / Megan McKeough
8.15am Vanessa Toholka - Tech Talk / Binoy Kampmark - Global Affairs
Friday 7:45am 'Friday Funnybugger' with local comedians
8:15am The Breakfasters Breakdown Quiz
8:45am Breakfasters Live

The podcast intro and outro theme is Soft Illusion and was generously provided by Andras.

https://andras.bandcamp.com/track/soft-illusion