Episodes

  • Elizabeth Farrelly on the city of the future

    Elizabeth Farrelly on the city of the future
    Apr 20 2024
    Today, columnist Elizabeth Farrelly will read her piece about our modern cities and how they relate to the history of how humanity has imagined the perfect city. Farrelly is one of Australia’s foremost writers on urban development and the communities of our cities – having earned devoted readers at the Sydney Morning Herald and now at Schwartz Media, inThe Saturday Paper. Socials: Stay in touch with us on Twitter and Instagram Guest: Columnist Elizabeth Farrelly
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    21 mins
  • Sophie Cunningham on remembering Georgia Blain

    Sophie Cunningham on remembering Georgia Blain
    Apr 5 2024
    Today, author and editor Sophie Cunningham reads her piece from a recent edition of The Saturday Paper. Australian author Georgia Blain chronicled her battle with cancer in a monthly column for The Saturday Paper, sadly passing away in 2016. Blain is remembered in this piece by her friend of over two decades, Sophie Cunningham – championing her legacy as a writer of rare talent, with a clear-eyed gaze, and a capacity to talk about sadness without self-pity. Socials: Stay in touch with us on Twitter and Instagram Guest: Author and editor, Sophie Cunningham
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    15 mins
  • Elmo Keep on the insane spectacle of U2 at the Las Vegas sphere

    Elmo Keep on the insane spectacle of U2 at the Las Vegas sphere
    Mar 22 2024
    On the Las Vegas strip, in a sea of casinos, sits an enormous dome that lights up the sky. It’s called The Sphere and it’s a performance venue where punters are dazzled by 54 thousand metres of LED screens capable of showing 256 million colours, in a display so overwhelming that some concertgoers faint. Writer Elmo Keep travelled to Vegas to see her favourite band U2 play at The Sphere in their inaugurating residency. There she found in equal parts, a religious experience and a hyper capitalist nightmare. Socials: Stay in touch with us on Twitter and Instagram Guest: Writer, Elmo Keep
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    29 mins
  • Ange Lavoipierre on how much sex is too much for one person

    Ange Lavoipierre on how much sex is too much for one person
    Mar 8 2024
    Today on the show, journalist Ange Lavoipierre will be reading her piece from a recent edition of The Monthly. In the suburb of Newtown, in Sydney, two support groups almost diametrically opposed are asking essentially the same question: how much sex is too much for one person? In one group, the Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous meeting welcomes those who are ashamed about the size of their sexual and romantic appetites. For the other, an ethical non-monogamy night allows space and discussion for those who can’t get enough. Socials: Stay in touch with us on Twitter and Instagram Guest: Journalist Ange Lavoipierre
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    18 mins
  • Jane Gleeson on why we need decay to save the planet

    Jane Gleeson on why we need decay to save the planet
    Feb 23 2024
    Today on the show, writer Jane Gleeson-White, with her piece from a recent edition of The Monthly. In inner-city Sydney, the heart of the urban jungle, Jane meets environmental lawyer turned activist, Michael Mobbs.  His ambition is to transform the concrete warren of terraces and narrow streets of Chippendale into a sustainable oasis.  Socials: Stay in touch with us on Twitter and Instagram Guest: Author, Jane Gleeson-White
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    17 mins
  • Konrad Muller on organic wine and whether it’s worth it

    Konrad Muller on organic wine and whether it’s worth it
    Feb 9 2024
    Today, writer Konrad Muller reads his latest piece on the quest to learn whether making organic wine is worth the effort. It's called “Notes from a small vineyard” and in it he tries to discover the true effort and cost of going organic and interrogates what difference it makes. Socials: Stay in touch with us on Twitter and Instagram Guest: Writer, Konrad Muller Background reading: Notes from a small vineyard
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    15 mins
  • Anthony Ham on what happens when a mine is meant to be rehabilitated

    Anthony Ham on what happens when a mine is meant to be rehabilitated
    Jan 26 2024
    Surrounded by what we know as the Kakadu National Park, the Northern Territory’s Ranger Uranium Mine finally ceased processing in 2021, after nearly 50 years of operation.  With the mine now closed, Kakadu’s traditional owners are seeking that the government make good on the original promise of a national park in their care. Socials: Stay in touch with us on Twitter and Instagram Guest: Writer and photographer Anthony Ham
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    27 mins
  • Suzannah Marshall Macbeth on the role of predators

    Suzannah Marshall Macbeth on the role of predators
    Dec 15 2023
    At certain times of the year, a group of volunteers can be found roaming Canberra’s bush reserves bearing raw chicken carcasses – all in the name of saving and studying the small local population of goannas. Of particular interest to the volunteers is the Rosenberg’s monitor – only seven are known to be living in the area, and their survival in an environment so close to Canberra’s city is uncertain.  But, armed with bait and cameras taking millions of photos, local ecologists and volunteers hope to give Canberra’s goannas a chance. Today on the show, Suzannah Marshall Macbeth, with her piece from a recent edition of The Saturday Paper, ‘Saving Canberra’s goannas’. Socials: Stay in touch with us on Twitter and Instagram Guest: Writer Anna Goldsworthy
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    17 mins