Aisha Pachoud
How and when did you first connect with Triple R?
I’d been living in Melbourne for around 3 years until I discovered Triple R. It was by pure chance! I kept seeing all…
Amy Mullins
How did you first connect with Triple R?
In 2011, Michelle Bennett, then presenter of Triple R’s Spoke and producer for the Breakfasters asked me to do a book review on Breakfasters…
Annaliese Redlich
How did you first connect with Triple R?
As a fresh faced young pup having recently migrated from warmer states and curious about all the bumper stickers. Wig Wam Bam used to make…
Anthony Boxshall
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I started listening to RRR when I was about 15 when a mate of mine told me about this wild show that played 50s and…
Anthony Carew
How did you first connect with Triple R?
As teenager, lovingly listening to Karen Leng's Station to Station in a pre-internet era. I first appeared on air when I was 20. Richard Moffat…
Areej Nur
How did you first connect with Triple R?
First connected on the airwaves! I came in to chat about a panel I was moderating about Beyoncé on a show hosted by the wonderful…
Bec Fary
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I first visited the station a few years ago for a pitch meeting for a show called All The Best. It’s a storytelling show based…
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Bethany Atkinson Quinton
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I blame the bumper stickers! I started listening when I was a teenager and became hooked, Triple R really introduced me to a whole new…
Bez Zewdie
Bez Zewdie presents aussie music show Represented, Local Minority is a fill-in presenter on Read the Room, and is also 3RRR's events producer. She's an African-Australian content producer, whose experience includes work at…
Brian Wise
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I saw a Triple R presents Jo Jo Zep & the Falcons gig (MC'd by Geoff King) on the back of a trailer in the…
Bron Burton
How did you first connect with Triple R?
One lunchtime in the mid-80s I was drawn to the faint sounds of the Triffids coming from a classroom at school. Until then I'd only…
Bruce Milne
How did you first connect with Triple R?
Before she was the first RRR station manager, Sue Mathews had a Radio National show and did a special on punk in early ’77. When…
Cameron Smith
How did you first connect with Triple R?
My first experience with the mighty R's was listening to it in its first incarnation: 3RMT.
The first time I tried to listen to it…
Casey Bennetto
How did you first connect with Triple R?
In a late-night flick around the dial, as a suburban (Greensborough) teenager sometime in the mid-1980s. I accidentally stumbled across James Baker doing an in-studio…
Charlie Miller
Charlie presents Green Ray
Chelsea King
How did you first connect with Triple R?
In high school a friend dragged me along to a see Jess Ribeiro play at the station in the live performance space. I had know…
Chris Gill
How did you first connect with Triple R?
A long long time ago when I was little and interested in finding out about music other than the Frank Sinatra which came out of…
Christina Pap
How did you first connect with Triple R?
It's been over a decade since I first volunteered for RRR so unfortunately can't remember our love at first sight moment. Over the years I've…
Christos Tsiolkas
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I was in high school in suburban Melbourne and someone at school must have been talking about this weird new station that played strange weird…
Clara Slewa
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I had come back from living in Amsterdam in 2018 and really wanted to surround myself with the music community so I applied for a…
Clem Bastow
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I have fond memories of listening to the Sunday programs when I was a teenager; I would sit in the family shed, painting and drawing…
Cyber Sioux
How and when did you first connect with Triple R?
RRR is the ‘bFM’ of my youth – the station I grew up on in NZ. They’re both wonderful. I connected with RRR…
Daisy Nduta
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I actually started out as a volunteer editing podcasts, then transitioned to live to air as a stage & broadcast assist.
What/when was your first…
Dan Dare
Presents How High the Moon
Daniel Burt
How did you first connect with Triple R?
Listening to The Cheese Shop supercharged my obsession with Melbourne comedy and I begged my older sisters to drive me into the city to see…
Daniel James
How and when did you first connect with Triple R?
I was invited on to The Rap to talk to Areej about an article I had written for IndigenousX. Dylan then offered…
Dave Graney
How did you first connect with Triple R?
Listening to it. Punter to Punter, Film Buffs Broadcast with John Flaus and Paul Harris and the electronic show Alan Bamford used to run…
Denise Hylands
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I first hooked up with RRR in 1984. I had just finished High School and applied for a job at RRR as Administrative Assistant. To…
Doctor Patient
How and when did you first connect with Triple R?
I think it was probably the completely inaccessible stylings of my elder brother listening to Push Th’ Little Daisies that made me question…
DoLittle
How and when did you first connect with Triple R?
I discovered Triple R as a Uni student. First it was the music, but one day to my surprise I listened to Radiotherapy…
Dr Beach
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I was an interview guest on RM.
What/when was your first show?
May 2008.
Your favourite other Triple R program and why?
Skull Cave -…
Dr G-Spot
How and when did you first connect with Triple R?
I was introduced to Triple R by “Dr Mal Practice” in 2018. He was sitting at another desk in my office and he…
Dr Mal Practice
How and when did you first connect with Triple R?
Dr Mal was born in exceptional circumstance on an arid field next to a beach in outback Australia. Due to his unsightly appearance…
Dr Nick
Presents Radiotherapy
Dr Shane
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I had listened to the weekend programs for about a year when I was asked to be a guest on Einstein-A-Go-Go during my PhD years…
Dr Sharma
Dr Vyom Sharma has been a broadcaster with Radiotherapy since 2017.
He is a General Practitioner and health commentator on radio, print and TV, but proudly states his true home is with RRR…
Dr Surf
How did you first connect with Triple R?
Interview guest
What/when was your first show?
Radio Marinara - Feb 2008
What's your favourite Triple R story?
Fee B Squared playing the crickets chirping…
Dylan Bird
How did you first connect with Triple R?
Began listening to Breakfasters in my teens and gradually discovered a whole lot of other gems. I first walked in the door as a volunteer…
Emerald Cowell
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I first got involved with Triple R through RMIT University. I was taking the radio course in my final year and we got to create…
Ennio Styles
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I started listening to Triple R in my early teens, starting off on the more general shows like New Used & Abused - I still…
Epipen
Presents Radiotherapy
Eva Lubulwa
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I connected through a friend who said I should email Bec. The following script is kinda what happened next:
Bec (being nice) - Sure come…
Fee B-Squared
How did you first connect with Triple R?
As a listener, on a school bus in Whittlesea in the 80’s.
What/when was your first show?
VPL with Mel Northrope.
What's your favourite Triple…
Flick Ford
How and when did you first connect with Triple R?
I’ve been listening to RRR since I moved to Melbourne in 2012 and it’s still the soundtrack of my house. Coincidentally, my cat…
Geraldine Hickey
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I’m pretty sure it was when I was a guest on Breakfasters in 2007. Fee came to my comedy festival show and made me feel…
Headly Gritter
Mr Gritter works in the dead of night.
He is joined, with perfect regularity, by this aquamarine t-shirt.
They both started some time in the 20th Century.
This, is all we know.
HNYMLK
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I moved to Melbourne from Perth when I was 16 and RRR was the first
Station I got into. At 21 I moved to Brunswick…
Holly Alexander
How did you first connect with Triple R?
A few years back now, when I was 19 and made the big move to Melbourne to become an audio engineer - it was literally…
Holly Pereira
How did you first connect with Triple R?
Listening to Local and/or General and trying to win a Terrible Truths record. I think I subscribed to the station just to get my hands…
Jason Moore
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I had seen a couple of Triple R stickers around Albury, and was curious. I moved to Melbourne and decided to take a walk around…
Jazz Feldy
How and when did you first connect with Triple R?
I first heard about Triple R through my friend Eli, who had excellent an show called Hellzapoppin’. I came in to play some…
Jim Malo
Jim Malo is a journalist and co-host of RRR's Vocal Minority.
Jo Eaton
How did you first connect with Triple R?
Before I moved to Australia, Anthony Carew and I used to write rambling emails to each other after we 'met' through music social media website…
Joe Brnadic
How did you first connect with Triple R?
The Party show is my first memory of a real connection with the station. I felt that every time I was tuning in I was…
John Bailey
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I first came to Australia for a wedding. It was for my girlfriend’s (now wife) best friend back in the tail end of the ‘90s…
Johnny Topper
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I was exhibiting my collection of rare plastic beatle wigs at the Royal Melbourne Show, when I was approached by a shadowy cabal of radio…
Jonathan Alley
How did you first connect with Triple R?
One afternoon, aged 21, I walked into the offices of Radio Active in Wellington New Zealand where I had been a broadcaster for three years…
Jonnie von Goes
Name:
Jonnie von Goes, as opposed to my real name, Jon von Goes. Subtle yeah? I have an ever so subtle change in demeanor when I'm behind the console
Show:
JVG Radio Method
…
Kade Mills
How did you first connect with Triple R?
As a 16 year old in my school common room Spiderbait's 'Old Man Sam' came on the radio. I took note of where the dial…
Kieren Fahey
Neonatal aka Kieren Fahey is part of the Radiotherapy team.
How and when did you first connect with Triple R?
It has always been a part of my life - Triple R seems…
Kulja Coulston
How did you first connect with Triple R?
Via my dad who had it on when I was growing up. It was very influential and not just music-wise – once I heard an…
Laura Summers
How did you first connect with Triple R?
Listening on the car stereo when I first moved to Melbourne back in 2002. I don't remember the show but I do remember flipping around…
Lauren Taylor
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I started out at Triple R by volunteering to do graveyard shifts. I had always been really into music, and had a rather large collection…
Liz Watt
Liz Watts presents Low Wattage
Matt Steadman
Presents Eat It with Cam Smith
Max Crawdaddy
How did you first connect with Triple R?
Stumbled across RRR in the late 70's, when I was fiddlin' with the dial one night.
What/when was your first show
The CRAWDADDY CLUB. Mid-late…
Meaghan Weiley
How did you first connect with Triple R?
When I moved to Melbourne in 2013, I just vividly remember seeing those classic 3RRR stickers everywhere! I became a regular listener after that.
What/when…
Megan McKeough
How did you first connect with Triple R?
When I first moved to Melbourne, you couldn’t miss the bumper stickers - and pretty early on I was volunteering here as a way to…
Melissa Cranenburgh
Birthplace?
I was born here! In Melbourne. In Carlton, in fact. Although I didn’t grow up here, I like to think I had a love of the inner-north from birth.
If you could…
Mia Richter
How did you first connect with triple R?
I grew up around the corner from the RRR station in Brunswick, and the large brick facade would intruige me as a wee tyke on…
Mia Timpano
How and when did you first connect with Triple R?
I did a Graveyard Shift in the late 2000s with a couple of mates, who invited me to join them at the last…
Millú
How and when did you first connect with Triple R?
This answer comes in two parts:
Firstly, as a teen driving home with my Dad on Friday nights listening to The Ghost -…
Monique Sebire
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I first vaguely remember my older sister doing Year 10 work experience at the station. A school friend of mine also did it and I…
Neil Morris
Presenting Still Here
Neil Rogers
How did you first connect with Triple R?
Firstly as a listener, and then working as a band manager/tour booker and placing interviews for artists/bands on the station (circa 1983).
What/when was your…
Nereaders Digest
Presenter of Livewire
Nicole Tadpole
Baby baby.
Panel Beater
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I first listened with very, very innocent ears in the '80's - a friend's older brother tuned us into it, and then a first stint…
Patrick O'Brien
How did you first connect with Triple R?
When I was about 13 or 14. On a transistor radio down at the Rosebud foreshore caravan park. I think it was a song by…
Paul Anthony Nelson
After discussing other filmmakers’ careers for five-and-a-half years with Lee Zachariah on the cult hit podcast Hell is for Hyphenates, Paul Anthony Nelson decided it was time to make his own feature…
Paul Gorrie
How and when did you first connect with Triple R?
I connected with Triple many years ago and wanted to be a part of the station half a decade ago, but it took…
Paul Jones
Live Music Producer for The Party Show
Pauly P
How did you first connect with Triple R?
After listening to Triple R for many years, I heard about a production course the station was running, possibly to raise some much needed funds…
Pietro Civello
Presents Door of the Cosmos
Rachel Short
How and when did you first connect with Triple R?
Radio was a huge part of my coming-of-age, as a kid growing up in rural Victoria. When I moved to Melbourne, it took…
Rex Hunter
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I first started listening to the Rs in the 1970s when it was part of RMIT. Lots of new music not heard on commercial stations.
…
Richard Watts
How did you first connect with Triple R?
It was actually my dad who introduced me to RRR, back in the early 1980s. Every time we drove up to Melbourne from the Latrobe…
Rob Jan
On-air name:
Air? Typical Earth-centric conceit! I rarely use the stuff myself. It promotes rust, unsightly tentacle dandruff and hazardous spontaneous combustion. In any case, Earthlings lack the necessary vocal dexterity to pronounce…
Sally Christie
How and when did you first connect with Triple R?
I first connected with Triple R in the late '90s, when I was in my teens. I began to discover Australian music, which…
Samira Farah
Samira Farah presents Travellin Light
Sarah Smith
How did you first connect with Triple R?
In 2001 I was a 17-year-old wannabe punk who was very busy being bored with everything and rolling my eyes at everyone. One day, while…
Simon Winkler
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I first connected with Triple R as a curious listener when I arrived in Melbourne - as a way to discover music and culture it…
Small FRY
How and when did you first connect with Triple R?
I first connected with Triple R back in 2012 as a publicist, meeting with Simon and hand-delivering CDs. A couple years following, I…
Sophie Miles
How did you first connect with Triple R?
As a school kid listening to Triple R opened up new worlds to me. I started volunteering at 3CR, helping to read and write the…
Steve Cross
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I applied for a gig on Breakfasters in 1986. I didn't know what Breakfasters actually was cos I had no concept of mornings at that…
Steve Wide
How did you first connect with Triple R?
Listening to late night Saturday RRR, boy... the freaks that used to send messages to each other over the air...made me realise that there was…
Systa BB
Presents The Good the Dub and the Global
Tess Monaghan
How did you first connect with Triple R?
Was lucky enough to grow up listening to the station (thank you parents) and it was always on in the background. Decided to just go…
Tim Scott
How did you first connect with Triple R?
Taping songs off Karen Leng's old show Station to Station. Bands like Archers of Loaf, Superchunk and Fugazi, all left a big impression on…
Tim Thorpe
How did you first connect with Triple R?
First really brought to my attention thirty years ago at my then place of work when a taciturn middle-aged fairly straight-looking technician (aren't they all?)…
Tony Biggs
How did you first connect with Triple R?
So I'd moved down from Sydney. One black mark (even though I'm originally from Brissie). For some reason, a reputation for wanton destruction at the…
Training Wheels
Presents Radiotherapy
Tristen Harris
How did you first connect with Triple R?
Sincethere is nothing better than being in an empty radio station with nothing but coffee, a bag of CDs and a microphone, I have been…
Vanessa Toholka
How did you first connect with Triple R?
Hanging out in the seniors study portable, I asked a mate what music they were into lately. He often knew about bands before everyone else…
Vaughan Quinn
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I grew up close by, so think I first connected with Triple R looking at the posters while at the bus stop just after the…
Warren Davies
How did you first connect with Triple R?
Listening to Breakfasters Hatzis, Langbroek & Young. The whole station being a soundtrack to the late 90s and RMIT student days and protests. Doing the…
Woody Mcdonald
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I was already a volunteer in the music department but never considered being on air. I was working full time so graveyards were tricky. But…
Zara Kravchenko
How did you first connect with Triple R?
My Uncle L, or some may know him as Leaping Larry L, is a long time Triple R announcer and RRR was always around me…