Adam Grubb
How did you first connect with Triple R?
Coming from a country town which had two interchangably mediocre AM stations and one local ABC radio with lots of cattle price reports, Triple R…
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…
Autonomy
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Baby Doc
How did you first connect with Triple R?
Interview guest on Radiotherapy, then stuck around doing regular segments, finished up as host/panelist/producer!
What/when was your first show?
Started in Radiotherapy in 1998, still…
Bec Fary
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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…
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?
In the 1980s my school friends were listening to the likes of Rick Astley and the Pointer Sisters, neither of whom did anything for me.…
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…
Capri
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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…
Cerise Howard
Presenting Plato's Cave
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…
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…
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…
Dan Dare
Presents How High the Moon
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…
Didvid S
How did you first connect with Triple R?
Mum turned it on in the car. It was a 1981 Ford Laser (red).
What/when was your first show?
The Graveyard, of course. The first…
Dolittle
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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 -…
Dr Mal Practice
Radiotherapy
Dr Nic
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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…
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…
Emma Westwood
How and when did you first connect with Triple R?
I remember getting a red plastic carry box full of blank TDK SD-90 cassette tapes for my birthday when I turned five years…
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 remember…
Epipen
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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…
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…
Hugo Spiceland
How did you first connect with Triple R?
First connected w RRR in the early days. I had a few friends on-air so naturally we pulled up a chair to listen. Being the…
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…
Jed Macartney
Greening the Apocalypse
Jeff Sparrow
How did you first connect with Triple R?
As a kid growing up in the eastern suburbs, Triple R was a lifeline in a sea of crap commercial pop. I used to listen…
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…
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
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Kade Mills
Presents Radio Marinara
Kate Dundas
Presents Greening the Apocalypse
Kate O'Halloran
Journalist and host of Triple R's AFLW show Kick Like a Girl, midday to 1pm Mondays.
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…
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…
Lolly Doc
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Malice
Presents Radiotherapy
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…
McZiff
Presents Radiotherapy
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
Presents Backstory
Miss Medic
Presents Radiotherapy
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.
Patrick O'Brien
How did you first connect with Triple R?
WhenI was about 13 or 14. On a transistor radio down at the Rosebud foreshorecaravan park. I think it was a song by the Pogues…
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…
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…
Peri Partum
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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…
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 and…
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 Lukic
How did you first connect with Triple R?
I was first a listener and then a graveyarder.
What/when was your first show?
If I remember correctly it was in December 2004. I could…
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…
SK
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Steezy
How did you first connect with Triple R?
Proud to say my old man was a Triple R subscriber back when I was a lil’ tike. Still have memories of him driving us…
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Stephen Walker
Stephen Walker and 3RRR ‘s relationship is special. Having devoted 21 years in some capacity to RRR, he has helped define the message and direction of the station that equally gives him 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
Terri Allen
Presents Radio Marinara
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
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Tristen Harris
How did you first connect withTriple R?
Sincethere is nothing better than being in an empty radio station with nothing butcoffee, a bag of CDs and a microphone, I have been a proud…
Vanessa Toholka
Co-ordinator and presenter of Byte Into It
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
Presents Byte Into It
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…