Episodes

  • Ho Ho Ho...The 2025 TLP RADIO SHOW XMAS SPECIAL
    Dec 22 2025

    Join us for an hour and 23 minutes of Xmas cheer with a selection of guests never gathered in the one show in radio history! From Gary Mac to Kirstie Wyatt and, in between, stories of 200 soldiers in the one pool, a visit to the then-recently demolished Berlin Wall with Gareth Evans, with Xmas stories of childhood in Scotland, sneaking out for a surf on Xmas day and veterans telling stories of deployment overseas...

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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • No Secrets, an adoring crowd and the road crews underwear...
    Dec 21 2025

    We had a lot of fun doing this, virtual neighbours in Adelaide, during childhood, Greg speaks with author, musician, producer Buzz Bidstrup about his new book, 'No Secrets'. Buzz speaks about going to London in 1975, having a front-row seat to The Sex Pistols and The Stranglers. Buzz takes us through his musical journey, The Angels, Ganggajang, The Numbers. Buzz lets us know how Rick Neilson and Cheap Trick helped them out, how David Bowie was a gentleman and The Kinks' Davies brothers, bastards.

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    10 mins
  • "$2 will buy 8 loaves of bread...giving kids the chance to go to school"
    Dec 20 2025

    Butterfly of Hope is a humanitarian organisation dedicated to helping displaced Afghanistan civilians who are being forced to return to the country. A lot of these people are women and children. The Last Post Radio Show speaks with Butterfly of Hope's Chris Schmidt about how you can help, this Xmas.

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    25 mins
  • Lithium, John Cade and Changi...
    Dec 18 2025

    The TLP Radio Show visits the office of Prof John Silke, from WEHI, in Parkville. John speaks about the importance of discovering cancers early, lithium and mental health, why the drink 7-Up was so popular, why fish, cabbage and aspirin are preferable to salami and about a call home to Wales on Xmas Day.

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    26 mins
  • A compassion borne from memories of his mother quietly crying...
    Dec 10 2025

    In this honest and intimate, amazing conversation Major General Stephen Day DSC AM, RSL Qld State President, speaks with the Radio Show about being overseas on service, during Xmas. Stephen speaks about the benefits of compassion in leadership, of forgiveness and mercy, about veterans finding human dignity in work, taking a closer look at the veteran narrative, of soldiers having "the right stuff", of the recognition of Vietnam veterans being a turning point. Stephen also takes us back to his childhood with memories of his mother missing her husband, who was serving in Vietnam, of his mother renting a TV for Xmas...and of Stephen, as a 7-year old, watching The Flintstones on Xmas Day.

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    30 mins
  • "Howzat!"...The joys of suburban cricket
    Dec 4 2025

    When in Adelaide, a drive up Shepherds Hill Road or Belair Road will land you in the leafy surrounds of the Coromandel Cricket Club, in the city's foothills. On a beautiful summers day we get to speak to 'Coro' Club President Cameron van den Bos on the healthy outlets and friendships that are on offer at South Australia's second-oldest cricket club.

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    11 mins
  • "Jean Shrimpton's mini, with no stockings or hat...conscripting young men not old enough to vote"
    Dec 4 2025

    Old Treasury Building Director and Historian Margaret Anderson speaks with the Radio Show about two current free exhibitions, currently showing at 20 Spring Street, Making Modern Melbourne and Swinging Sixties. From the beginning of a new century, where anything seemed possible to Gallipoli, the Depression, world wars, a long boom, Australia's first "TV War" from Vietnam, the old-age pension, a new focus on youth, changing attitudes to authority, the housing commission, The Beatles, Normie Rowe, The Easybeats, The Seekers concert at the Myer Music Bowl, Jean Shrimpton's self-styled mini, conscripting young men not old enough to vote and man on the moon.

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    40 mins
  • "The act of creation is a feeling of completeness..." American photographer Lynn Goldsmith.
    Dec 2 2025

    American photographer Lynn Goldsmith speaks with the Radio Show about how her craft is part of her being alive, about the word "genius" and Hunter S Thompson, Miles Davis and Bob Dylan. Lynn speaks about her friendships with Patti Smith, Gilda Radner and Judy Belushi, about meeting Sting and realising he was no longer happy in the group. Lynn speaks about Prince, about how Eddie Murphy was "fantastic", about how we need heroes and figures to look up to...and how there is no such thing as an "ordinary" person.

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    49 mins