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…
Bez Zewdie
Bez Zewdie is an East African broadcaster and producer, who presents RRR's pop-up graveyard program Represented, a show all about overrepresenting the underrepresented in music from all over the country, from Naarm…
Bobby Macumber
How and when did you first connect with Triple R?
Back in 2012, when I performed my very first solo show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, one of the Breakfasters came down…
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 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…
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…
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 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…
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…
Cody Lee
How did you first connect with Triple R?
LONG ANSWER: I first connected with the RRR'S in early high school. Like a lot of us, I was a lost sheep running rampid in…
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…
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…
Darcy Justice
Presents Moody
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 Dilemma
Dr Dilemma is part of the Radiotherapy team
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
Dr Nick is part of the Radiotherapy team
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…
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
Epipen is part of the Radiotherapy team
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Krystal De Napoli
Krystal De Napoli presents Indigenuity.
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…
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…
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…
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 -…
Miss Diagnosis
Miss Diagnosis is part of the Radiotherapy team.
Miss Medic
Miss Medic is part of the Radiotherapy team
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…
Moto
Moto is part of the Radiotherapy team
Najma Sambul
How and when did you first connect with Triple R?
I first connected with Triple R when I was interviewed by Samira Farah on The Score about my reporting on racism in schools.
…
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…
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…
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 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…
Prudence Dear
Prudence Dear is part of the Radiotherapy team.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Sosefina Fuamoli
Presents Window Seat
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
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
Training Wheels is part of the Radiotherapy team
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 Morris
Presents Everyday People
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…