An episode of Off The Record on 27 December 2025 presented by Jonathon Alley
- Dead Media MixRecord Stores vs Yvonne Kux (ABC TV 1980)
- Lift OffTommy Cook
- FarafinaAUSECUMA BEATS
- The Beat UpMaya McCraven
- Beyond the SunBeth Gibbons
- The Great CurveThe Talking Heads
- Strange Weather (ft. David Byrne)Anna Calvi
- Scenes from the CityCharles Mingus
- Goodbye Porkpie HatJoni Mitchell
- Canon (reading Mingus Beneath the Underdog)Robbie Robertson
- The CharadeD'Angelo and The Vanguard
- Crossword PuzzleSly Stone
- Wozam MahipMalathina and the Mahotella Queens
- Crying WolfHollie Cook
- The Next Set of LIghtsOllie Olsen and Andrew Duffield
- GoddessCrime And The City Solution
- When did Our Friendship End?Snarski Lindy Circus Band with Romy Vager
- Wild Is The WindDavid Bowie
- I hold no GrudgeNina Simone
- She Walks in Beauty (feat. Warren Ellis)Marianne Faithfull
- The Bells and The BirdsGillian Welch and David Rawlings
- Color of StrangeAlex E.T.
- Evil FeelingsMatt Walker and Ashley Davies
- Still Alive and WellDavid McComb
- Ruffer VersionKing Tubby and the Aggrovators
- Gossip GossipDiamond Joe
- CaribeaMoondog
- She CrackedJonathan Richman
- Letters from JamshedUrthboy and Group 120
- MedicineYonatan Gat
- Abou ZillfOmar Souleyman
- Fear Like YouChet Faker and the Royal Swazi Spa
- If I were youShayne P. Carter and the NZSO
- War in My HeadThe Verlaines
- DesireGEORGIA KNIGHT
- Baba YagaThe Pagans
About this program
'More old-fashioned than ever before.' John Cooper Clarke 2007
'The older I get, the better I was!' Van Dyke Parks
A ‘roots’ music program with feature interviews, in studio performances and live recordings and regular broadcasts from festivals at home and overseas.
Off The Record won the InPress Writers' Poll for Best Radio Program in Melbourne for 2011 and 2005 and was runner-up for 2006 and 2008!! Off The Record also won the PPCA Award for Excellence In Music Programming at the 2005 National Conference of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia for a Ry Cooder interview special about his album Chavez Ravine. The program was also a finalist in the category in 2012. A weekly one hour version of the program is broadcast on the satellite network of the CBAA to more than 45 stations across Australia.
Brian is the Founding & Editor of Rhythms Magazine (which he founded in 1992). You can visit the magazine at rhythms.com.au and read about what Brian is up to outside Triple R.
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