Neon Sunset: Sleaford Mods’ Jason Williamson On “Matters Of The Soul & The Nature Of All Things”
“It is kind of reminiscent of the human being in the eye of capitalism. Much like the body can rid itself of a couple of ribs and carry on, so capitalism can rid…
Off The Record: Remembering Chris Wilson And The Continental
Recorded in 1994, Chris Wilson’s Live At The Continental stands as a remarkable document of a performer, a venue and a city. The live album is being released for the first time on…
Breakfasters: The Power Of Paper
Are you a fan of origami and paper planes? Well, Breakfasters has something for all you paper fans out there. Only this is bigger － heaps bigger.
Polyglot Theatre’s Artistic Director and Co-CEO…
The Sweetest Plum Host Declan Fay Joins Summer Breakfasters
It may seem as though every person and their dog has a podcast in 2021, but Declan Fay and Nick Maxwell get to claim the title of longest-running comedy podcast in Australia –…
Breakfasters: A Trip To The Dark Side With Comedian & Author Bob Franklin
On Summer Breakfasters, Billy, Steph and Dan chat to stand-up comedian and author Bob Franklin about his new collection of short stories, Lengthening Shadows. Bob, who’s had roles on such television…
Get Down: Nui Moon On The Tony Allen Experience – A Live Tribute
Legendary percussionist and pioneer of Afrobeat music Tony Allen passed away last year. With Melbourne in lockdown, there was no real space to celebrate and acknowledge the contribution to music Tony has made…
Breaking And Entering: How DJ Kush Jones’ Past Informs His Future
Breaking And Entering summer host Paul Gorrie chats to Bronx footwork artist Kush Jones. Kush explains how music has always played a massive role in his life, including getting started in high school…
The Grapevine: The Life & Cultural Significances Of The Cicada
Dr. Eliza Middleton is an academic whose research explores invertebrate and behavioural ecology (University of Sydney). She joins Associate Professor Linda Evans, Egyptologist and environmental historian (Macquarie University) on The Grapevine with summer…
The Rap: What To Expect When You’re Immigrating With Nash
On this week's summer edition of The Rap, fill-in hosts Jim Malo and Bez Zewdie are joined by Sri Lankan-born, Melbourne-based multidisciplinary designer Nash, who’s just released his first book called What…
Matt From Chook Race Shares His Formative Five
Matt from Chook Race gives us his Formative Five. Starting with songs that he saw performed live and inspired him to take a shot with music, he takes us on a journey of…
Breakfasters: Thrifty Living Tips With The CWA
Spilt coffee on yourself? Splashed a bit of beetroot on your t-shirt? Not sure what to do with too many lemons? The Country Women’s Association (CWA) have over 1000 solutions to common problems…
Busting Sunburn Myths On Breakfasters
It’s the middle of summer in Australia and for many that means spending time by the water. For a lot of people, it also means sunburn. Despite leading research in this area, Australia…
International Pop Underground: Midnight Sister's Music Summons Movies & Mystique
Midnight Sister's debut LP, 2017's Saturn Over Sunset, felt like some lost classic from the moment it came out. Matching the adrogynous vocals of Juliana Giraffe to the giddy, woody orchestrations of…
Out On The Patio: What’s Next For Live Music?
The music industry was hit hard by COVID-19 and is still feeling the impacts. Dr Catherine Strong, a Music Industry Lecturer at RMIT, recently completed a study exploring how people working in music…
Wikileaks Editor-in-Chief Kristinn Hrafnsson Joins Uncommon Sense
On Monday 4 January 2021, a judge in the United Kingdom ruled against extraditing Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, to the United States – who allege Assange has violated the US Espionage Act…
The Rap: ‘The Invisibility Of Microaggressions’ With Dr Gatwiri
"The perpetrator [...] performs it as a 'joke' or 'compliment' [...] then the burden of interpretation is on the recipient. Because of the constant patterns of gaslighting, you end up doubting your experiences"…
Maps: Cruisin’ With Emily Wurramara
Singer-songwriter Emily Wurramara is a proud Indigenous performer from Groote Eylandt, Northern Territory. She joins Maps to talk about her new single “Cruisin’”.
Emily’s first new material since her 2018 debut Milyakburra…
The Grapevine: Zen And The Art Of Fighting The Climate Crisis
The Contemplative Rebels are a group that use mediation to bring awareness to the ongoing climate crisis. Part of the Extinction Rebellion movement and taking cues from Buddhist teachings, the group uses silence…
Vocal Minority: Indigenous Education With Jacqui Katona
"We're seeing now an extraordinarily, politically conservative approach to people who are not seen to be acceptable in Australia's racial heirarchy - which still exists. People like asylum seekers and Aboriginal people are…
The Mission: Thalia Eastman On The Factors Preventing Aboriginal Women From Reporting Domestic Violence
It is estimated that 90 percent of domestic violence suffered by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women goes unreported to authorities. Palawa woman Thalia Eastman is a University of Melbourne researcher who has…