Dave Graney is joined by actor, playwright and director Greg Carroll to remember their friend and collaborator Barry Dickins, whose writing gave Melbourne’s pubs, forgotten corners and overlooked lives a strange, luminous beauty.

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Associate Professor and neurologist Amanda Gilligan joins Dr Nick and Prudence Dear on Radiotherapy to unpack stroke, Parkinson’s disease and the rapidly evolving treatments available for neurological conditions.

Amanda explains what happens when…

Marieke Hardy is in her zero fu*k’s era. The writer, broadcaster and producer joins Sarah for a sprawling and tender conversation about what it means to get old, be a friend, lose friends…

Larissa Behrendt is a Euahleyai/Gamillaroi activist, academic, writer and director. She joins Krystal to talk about her book The First Inventors: How people shaped a continent (co-authored with Billy Griffiths and Sean Ulm)…

Anna Funder is an acclaimed Australian author behind award-winning books Stasiland and All That I Am, and her most recent Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life.

Earlier this month, Anna travelled to…

Earlier this year, acclaimed Australian concert pianist Jayson Gillham sued the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for unlawful discrimination over their cancelling of a concert he was set to perform in August 2024 following his…

Tennessee free jazz saxophonist turned singer-songwriter Zoh Amba joins the 'Formative Five Club', jumping on the airwaves to share the songs and artists that have influenced their sound and career over the years…

Richard Watts sits down with writer and performer Karin McCracken to discuss her hit show Heartbreak Hotel.

Together, Richard and Karin explore the universal experience of going through heartbreak and the deep…

Journalism professor Andrew Dodd joins the Spin Cycle team to chat about Getting Murdoched: How Murdoch’s Media Wields Power and Punishment, a new book he has co-authored with Matthew Ricketson.

They discuss…

Guest host Sara Savage is joined by Filipino-Murrawarri composer, rapper, producer and drummer Dobby, ahead of the release of his sophomore album MARSHMALLOW.

Following his ARIA award-winning debut album Warrangu; River Story…

West Papuan artist Voice of Lele joins Baseline, with guest hosts Namila Benson and Najma Sambul, to discuss music as an act of cultural survival, political resistance, and connection to homeland.

Lele…

Following the recent Four Corners episode on concussion in the AFL, Dr Alan Pearce wrote in the Conversation that the crisis of long-term brain damage in Australian rules footballers may be deepening.

There's…

Lauren sits down with Elise Peyronnet, artistic director of Now or Never, to discuss the fourth iteration of the festival in Melbourne/Naarm. The cultural event, which spans ideas, sound and technology, takes…

New reporting has confirmed that many iconic songs from Australian and New Zealand based artists have been scraped into A.I. training databases, without permission, payment or credit. From Kylie Minogue, to Yothu Yindi…

This week, Evie and Gigi from Naarm-based punk group Public Figures drop by The Distant Sky, to reflect on the killer year they've had, and the many exciting things to come. From the…

Cultural anthropologist and death studies scholar Dr Hannah Gould joins Amy to discuss her new book, 'How To Die in the 21st Century: A Whole New Way To Talk About Death'…

You Are Spring!, the new fourth album for Tasha, is an album attuned to the turning of the seasons.

It opens with a tune titled Spring —in which Tasha sings in harmony…

New York based writer Sofia Montrone joins the Queer View Mirror team to discuss her debut novel Nymph, a languid, queer, coming-of-age tale set in the Italian mountains described as a "sapphic…

Dax Carnay-Hanrahan is an award-winning transwoman artist, actor, writer, and in-demand speaker. Their rich heritage in the arts is rooted in an academic journey at the University of the Philippines. We chatted with…

Sam and Andrew speak with writer, activist, critic, and Triple R broadcaster Natalie Feliks about a counter protest tackling transphobia being held on the steps of Parliament House on Saturday 4th July 2026…