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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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Beź

Beź is RRR's Events Producer (Live at RRR) and presenter of RRR's Sunday night/Monday morning pop-up graveyard show Represented.

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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

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…

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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…

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Bumpy

How and when did you first connect with Triple R?

I first connected with Triple R as an artist in the interview seat! Triple R has been such an incredible support for Squid…

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Cabin Boy

Presents Radio Marinara.

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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…

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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…

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Charlie Lewis

How and when did you first connect with Triple R?

I was lucky enough to fill in on Breakfasters for a week in mid 2018 and I've being doing bits and pieces for…

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Charlie Miller

How and when did you first connect with Triple R?

For as long as I can remember, Triple R has been tuned in on the radio in the family kitchen and car. Listening…

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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…

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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…

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Clara Slewa

How and when 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…

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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…

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Cyber Siouxz

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…

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Dan Dare

Presents How High the Moon

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

Dr Patient

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…

Dr DoLittle

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…

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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 -…

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Dr Dilemma

Dr Dilemma is part of the Radiotherapy team

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Dr Kit Kat

How and when did you first connect with Triple R?

I was first invited to be a guest on Radiotherapy in 2022 and I had such a wonderful time with the team, they…

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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

Dr Nick

Dr Nick is part of the Radiotherapy team

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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…

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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.

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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…

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Emmy

How and when did you first connect with Triple R?

When moving to Naarm from Gunai Kurnai land someone recommended listening to Get Down and our love story began then.

What does Triple

Ennio Styles

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…

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Epipen

Epipen is part of the Radiotherapy team

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Ethan Savage

Presents Feel The Floor

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Fam Charko

How did you first connect with Triple R?

When I moved to Melbourne, my now ex-partner was quick to take me to the Community Cup, where I was introduced to the concept of…

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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…

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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…

Gemma Cafarella

Gemma Cafarella

Presents Queer View Mirror.

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Headley 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.

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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…

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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…

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Jess Lilley

How and when did you first connect with Triple R?

I got switched onto RRR and PBS waaaaay back in the 1990s when I was at uni. I started volunteering and doing shows…

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Joe

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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

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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…

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Kate Kingsmill

How and when did you first connect with Triple R?

Was it my friend and SYN FM co-host who introduced me to RRR? It’s too far back in the beer-soaked annals of history…

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Kiwat Kennell

Presents The Exchange

Krishan Meepe

Krishan Meepe

Presents Culture Shock.

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Krystal De Napoli

Krystal De Napoli presents Indigenuity.

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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…

Morning Safari

Mading Jock

Presents Morning Safari.

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Matt Steadman

Presents Eat It with Cam Smith

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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…

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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…

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Mel Fulton

How and when did you first connect with Triple R?

When I was 22 I visited Melbourne for the first time to see Wilco play at the Palais. I stayed upstairs at the…

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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 -…

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Miss Diagnosis

Miss Diagnosis is part of the Radiotherapy team.

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Miss Medic

Miss Medic is part of the Radiotherapy team

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Miss Peri Neum

Miss Peri Neum is part of the Radiotherapy team.

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Moto

Moto is part of the Radiotherapy team

Nat Harris

Nat Harris

How and when did you first connect with Triple R?

I became involved with Triple R when I did my first Friday Funnybugger segment in 2017, but I first discovered the station when…

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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…

Kieren Fahey

Neo Natal

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…

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Nereaders Digest

Presenter of Livewire

Respect The Rock

Nicole Tadpole

Nicole Tadpole is a veteran of community radio, having hosted the legendary show Respect The Rock since 1999. She recently also founded her second radio show On The Wing on Main FM in…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

Phoebe Crehan

Phoebe Crehan

Presents The Planetarium

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Prudence Dear

Prudence Dear is part of the Radiotherapy team.

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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

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.

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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…

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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…

Row Murray

Row Murray

How and when did you first connect with Triple R?

My ears first connected when I moved to Melbourne from Ballarat and I started listening. Those ubiquitous subscriber bumper stickers do a lot…

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Sam Cummins

How and when did you first connect with Triple R?

As a teenage music obsessive in Melbourne I always knew of the station, but first stumbled across it meaningfully at an all ages…

Sam Elkin

How and when did you first connect with Triple R?

When I first moved from Perth to Melbourne in 2004, my friends and I got a lease on a slanty brick veneer house…

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Samira Farah

How and when did you first connect with Triple R?

I started doing fill ins for a variety of shows including the amazing The Rap hosted by Areej Nur. Then during the pandemic…

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Shaad D'Souza

Presents Flop Era

Opium Audia

Shambe Olweny-Pu

Presents Opium Audia

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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…

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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…

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Sosefina Fuamoli

How and when did you first connect with Triple R?

I first connected with Triple R in 2016. I wasn’t living in Melbourne at the time, but was lucky enough to be able…

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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…

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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…

Stu Carlson

Stu Carlson

How and when did you first connect with Triple R?

I started listening to Triple R as a teenager and remember being blown away by the music being played. I loved how the…

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Systa BB

Presents The Good the Dub and the Global

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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…

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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?)…

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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…

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Training Wheels

Training Wheels is part of the Radiotherapy team

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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…

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Vanessa Morris

Presents Banksia

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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…

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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…

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Yasmine Sharaf

How and when did you first connect with Triple R?

I had a few sporadic encounters with Triple R over the years, but my first involvement was in 2020, after friend and fellow…