SmartArts 2024
Listen to SmartArts – 5 February 202603:00:005 February 2026

Highlights

  • SmartArts: Aakash Odedra on Songs of the Bulbul
Playlist for SmartArts – 5 February 2026
  • I'll Believe in AnythingWolf Parade
  • The Luckiest Guy on The Lower East SideThe Magnetic Fields
  • I Was Just a BoyMadra Salach
  • Let England ShakePJ Harvey
  • MayflyYe Vagabonds
  • I Fought the LawThe Clash
  • Your Sweet VoiceThe Reindeer Section
  • Terror MoonRún
  • Alla Hoo (score The Songs of the Bulbul)Rushil Ranjan

About this program

Visual art, theatre, film and literature. Segments include:

  • 'Art Attack' - fortnightly visual arts reviews with Tai Snaith.
  • 'Theatre Reviews' - fortnightly theatre news & reviews with Anne-Marie Peard.
  • 'Drawn Out' - monthly chat about comic books and graphic novels with Bernard Caleo.

Please email talks@rrr.org.au for all interview requests.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Richard Watts has many years experience working in the arts industry, including five years as the Artistic Director of the youth arts organisation Express Media, seven years on the Board of Melbourne Fringe (including three years as Chair), and six years on the Committee of Management at La Mama Theatre, where he currently serves as Chair. Richard has helped program a range of festivals including Next Wave, the National Young Writers' Festival, the Melbourne Queer Film Festival and the Emerging Writers' Festival (which he founded) and he has written for various broadsheets, journals, zines and magazines. Currently he pays the rent by working as the Performing Arts Editor at www.artshub.com.au. In his spare time he watches old Doctor Who episodes.

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