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An interview Morcheeba alum, Jody Sternberg and Paris Combo co-founder, David Lewis
01, August 2024
Virginia Lowe spoke with Jody Sternberg and David Lewis during Tuesday’s Lowedown about their work and upcoming shows across Australia. Both Paris-based Australians, Lewis’ melodic, colourful trumpet and flugelhorn interweave effortlessly with Sternberg’s warm voice and feeling for lyric, playfully mixing languages and musical styles. They will join forces with outstanding Sydney pianist Chris Cody […]
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Professor Stevens IV – Trauma
10, January 2024
Professor Stevens is not only a local business sponsor of Eastside Radio – I’m sure you’ve all heard his spots offering assistance to those of you undergoing change in your careers and or your lives. His decades long experience in the field of business psychology has meant he’s been at the forefront of helping people […]
Breaking Waves, Episode 134
23, October 2023
John and Riley are in the studio for this week’s Breaking Waves. This dynamic duo encapsulates all that is amazing about this show, smashing stereotypes and dispelling stigma is their forte! Articulated, humorous and always honest, John and Riley simply ensure the best show week in, week out. […]
Another World: Tough Love
12, April 2022
Let yourself be transported to Another World with this podcast by host Siobhán Moran-McFarlane, as she examines historical, social, cultural and political issues from other cultures through reports, interviews and debates. World music provides an appropriate accompanying dynamic to each week’s discussions. Another World explores often unfamiliar situations from all the hidden, and sometimes more obvious, corners […]
Another World: Finance
12, April 2022
Let yourself be transported to Another World with this podcast by host Siobhán Moran-McFarlane, as she examines historical, social, cultural and political issues from other cultures through reports, interviews and debates. World music provides an appropriate accompanying dynamic to each week’s discussions. Another World explores often unfamiliar situations from all the hidden, and sometimes more […]
Inner West Council supporting street art is a Perfect Match
30, June 2021
Street art is dotted all over the walls of the inner west of Sydney. A Fish chases a butterfly in Petersham. A river settler gallops a horse on Marrickville Road. No one walking along King Street in Newtown could miss the face of Martin Luther King high above the pavement with the famous opening words […]
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Work choices MK 2?
24, February 2021
David Barr talks to Alison Pennington from the Centre for Future Work about the omnibus IR bill currently before parliament. It threatens to accelerate the casualisation of the workforce. […]
Recent Allegations of War Crimes by Australian Special Forces
20, December 2020
David Barr talks to Associate Prof. Martin Crotty about war atrocities following the recent allegations of war crimes by special forces troops in Afghanistan. […]
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Was there ever slavery in Australia?
06, July 2020
Was there ever slavery in Australia? Dr. Stephen Gray from Monash University says yes there was. He talks to David Barr on Drive Tuesday. […]
Interview with Waverley Mayor Paula Masselos
29, March 2020
David Barr talks to Paula Masselos the Mayor of Waverley about what the council is doing to help prepare us for the Covid-19 pandemic. […]
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The Threat of Donations to Australian Democracy
19, February 2020
Political donations are distorting Australian politics and impose a threat to our democracy. David Barr talks to Steven Mayne, walkley award winning journalist and an advocate for open and transparent government. […]
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Dirty Power – The Coal Industry Shaping Government Policy
10, February 2020
Drive Tuesday talks to Dr. Nikola Casule, head of research and investigations at Greenpeace about the influence of the coal industry in shaping government policy. Greenpeace has produced Dirty Power a film which documents the influence of the coal industry in blocking action on climate change. […]
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Norrie – Ultrasex – Beyond Division
08, February 2020
All the way from Scotland, to Perth, via South Australia, to Sydney, renowned Activist and Human Rights Advocate Norrie, has lived a life of great inquiry, huge personal transformations, and consistent Proud Protest. Norrie’s book Ultrasex – Beyond Division traces it all – from taking on High School bullies while discovering sexuality and identity, to […]
Interview with Mary Kostakidis – About Julian Assange
04, February 2020
Julian Assange is in a British prison, awaiting a hearing which could see him extradited to the US. Many people are concerned about his physical and mental well-being. David Barr talks to Mary Kostakidis about his present predicament. Mary has recently visited Assange and tells us of his plight. […]
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Hall of Fame – Famous Female Omissions – Janis Ian
27, January 2020
How has the brilliant Janis Ian been overlooked for inclusion in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Yes, maybe her music doesn’t exactly scream Rock & Roll, but does ABBA? Hear Janis speak her passions here, and hear the great Leonard Bernstein sing the praises of Janis Ian too! […]
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Nowt But Drippin’, with Julie Howard | Tuesday Drive
22, November 2019
David Barr from Drive Tuesday talks to Julie Howard who has just published a charming book about life in Yorkshire in the early 1960s. The story revolves around Bert and his daughter Jennifer still coming to terms with the death of Mary, wife and mother of the two. They move in with Ma, Bert’s mother. […]
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Daniel Hyde Director of Music at Choir of King’s College Cambridge on Friday Drive
25, July 2019
Founded in the fifteenth century, the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge is arguably the world’s most famous choir and the pre-eminent representative of the British church music tradition. Gemma Purves had the chance to speak to their Director of Music, Daniel Hyde during Friday Drive. […]
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Ken Knight – Plein-air painter talking with Virginia Lowe
15, July 2019
Ken Knight, a native of Sydney, is one of Australia’s most admired landscape painters. He is an impressionist artist who expresses his enthusiasm for the Australian landscape using oils outdoors and on location in a spontaneous manner. THE WATERHOLE An Exhibition of Paintings by Ken Knight 19 June – 3 July 2019 Wentworth Galleries at […]
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Jordan Berger Yoga Instructor
08, July 2019
David Barr talks yoga to Jordan Berger from Power Living. Jordan teaches at the Bondi and Manly Studios of Power Living. He sometimes plays his guitar and sings a song during Shavasana. He does the same here during Tuesday Drive on Eastside Radio. […]
Polari – The Coded Gay Language of Our Forebears
29, April 2019
Polari is an informal language made up of a mixture of Italian, Romany & cockney London rhyming slang words that was used in London fishmarkets, the theatre, fairgrounds, and circuses since at least the early 19th Century. Because many homosexual men worked in theatrical entertainment, Polari was also used among the gay subculture, at a time […]
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Interview with Trumpeter Lee McIver
20, March 2019
In this podcast, Trevor Brown talks with Lee McIver on Found Sounds Lost Horizons about his upcoming show in the Polymorphic Orkestra with Paul Cutlan’s String Project at the ARA Darling Quarter theatre. Together Trevor and Lee both discuss the similarities and differences between the two groups, and also the aspects that make them go […]
We Salute the Brave 78’ers!
04, February 2019
Before the Mardi Gras Parade, there was the Protest. There was the Fight against Discrimination. There was the Battle for Recognition & Equality. In this instalment, Queer for Your Ears pays homage to the brave men and women, the original Protesters & Freedom Fighters of Sydney’s LGBTQIA+ community, who went through hell one particular night […]
Sex At Dawn – Our Bonobo Cousins & Their Community
27, November 2018
Packed full of expert opinion as well as comedic points of view, this Queer 4 Your Ears review of the amazing book ‘Sex At Dawn’ by Cacilda Jetha & Christopher Ryan, looks at how homosexuality, bisexuality, multiple sex partners, and shared parenting were all hallmarks of human cultures in pre-agriculture and pre-religious times, and indeed […]
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QUEER 4 YOUR EARS – Episode 1
30, October 2018
What’s Queer 4 Us may not be Queer 4 You! So, in this the first Episode lovingly out together by Bibi & The Big Blue, come see where we land on the Beautiful Big LGBTQIAAP++ Spectrum, and where we can intersect and live, and love, and … DANCE together! Coming out of our studios on […]
