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Teddy Clitter talks top surgery, fundraising, Medicare for Trans folks and performing on Smith Street in the heart of queer Melbourne.  Discussion includes the lack of Medicare support for gender affirmation surgery. Teddy Clitter (@teddyclitter) • Instagram photos and videos

Queer protest singer and songwriter Irish Mythen joins us for an interview during their Australian tour.  Includes discussion about growing up queer in Ireland, their international music career, immigration journeys and global politics. Musician | Singer | Songwriter - Irish Mythen

Interview with Beth Uhe from BB Sabina celebrating the release of new single In Between.  https://www.instagram.com/bbsabina.music/

Interview with dancers Alex Dobson & Jonathan Homsey about their separate productions Pool and Solarpunk. Two dancers perform in a world of liquid ice in Pool at Dancehouse to "exorcise a fever".  March 25 to 28, 6.30 pm.  Pool by Alex Dobson - Dancehouse Street dance dissolves Fascism in Solarpunk's tribute to Melbourne's activism history in a sunset performance at The Great Sculpture, Burston Reserve, Melbourne.  March 21 to 22, 7.45 pm.  Solarpunk by Jonathan Homsey - Dancehouse

Possible Prince X interview celebrating today's release of The Crowd Remix, a collaboration with Brazilian DJ and music producer Zuffo. Zuffo (@zuffomusic) • Instagram photos and videos Possible Prince X (@possibleprincex) • Instagram photos and videos

Musician & songwriter moonsea joins us in the studio after the release of her single I'll Kill You If You Die Before Me. moonsea (@moonseamusic) • Instagram photos and videos 

Performer Jessi Ryan interview.  Includes discussion about censorship, boxing and playing with fire.  Their new show All Guts, No Glory stages March 25 to 28 at Club Voltaire, Melbourne International Comedy Festival.  Directed by Fiona Scott-Norman. Jessi Ryan | All Guts, No Glory! | Melbourne International Comedy Festival 

Naavikaran interview ahead of her first national tour and new EP.  The MYSTIQUE TOUR kicks off in Alice Springs March 27, followed by shows in Castemaine, Brisbane, Geelong, Sydney, Newcaste, Melbourne.  EP MYSTIQUE DISCOTHEQ drops 31 March. Naavikaran: The MYSTIQ Tour

Interview with David Massingham.  Murder Village: An Improvised Whodunnit plays at Arts Centre Melbourne, Member's Lounge for Melbourne Comedy Festival, 26 March to 19 April.  Features Australia's best improvisation actors.  No two shows are the same. Murder Village: An Improvised Whodunnit | Melbourne International Comedy Festival

Anesti Danelis joins us from Toronto before he heads to Australia for the Melbourne and Sydney Comedy Festivals with his show Artificiallly Intelligent. Anesti Danelis | Artificially Intelligent | Melbourne International Comedy Festival ANESTI DANELIS – ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT – SYDNEY COMEDY FESTIVAL

Comedian Cassie Workman chats about her show You Are Here and shares her accounts of living in the US with the authoritarianism of ICE and MAGA.  Cassie performs You Are Here at the Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane Comedy Festivals. Cassandra Workman (@thecassieworkman) • Instagram photos and videos Cassie Workman | You Are Here | Melbourne International Comedy Festival CASSIE WORKMAN – YOU ARE HERE – SYDNEY COMEDY FESTIVAL Cassie Workman - Brisbane Comedy Festival

Billy & Dale from Melbourne five-piece band Billy Cart join James for a chat before the release of their album Greatest Hits.  Drops March 5. Billy Cart (@billycart_) • Instagram photos and videos

Bridge to Safety is a new legal service that prepares and lodges applications for queer refugees and asylum seekers to come to Australia.  It's based at the Refugee Advice and Casework Service (RACS) in Sydney in partnership with the Forcibly Displaced People Network (FDPN).  Lawyer Gretel Emerson from RACS' LGBTIQ+ Safety Team joins us for an interview. RACS | Refugee Advice & Casework Service Forcibly Displaced People Network – We are the voice of LGBTIQA+ displacement 

Damien Nguyen interview.  Damien will co-chair with Luna Choo the annual Mardi Gras Street Rally organised by Pride In Protest, Sunday, 15 February in Sydney.  Begins 1 pm at Pride Square in Newtown and finishes at Victoria Park at Fair Day. Pride in Protest | Facebook

Director Suzanne Chaundy interview.  Thirty years after Port Arthur, Tom Holloway's Beyond The Neck plays at Theatre Works, 19 March to 4 April.  It's about community survival, grief and recovery. Beyond The Neck | Theatre Works

Possible Prince X and Istanbul DJ Mustafa Basal released the I Won't Break Remix today and Possible Prince X joined us for an interview.  Includes a sample of I Won't Break from our world premiere radio broadcast today. Possible Prince X – possibleprincex

Shitzulover07 interview celebrating Black Dahlia.  Sydney's trans femme, dance-pop resurgence queen will release a 24-track album soon. shitzu / verona (@shitzulover07) • Instagram photos and videos

Interview with performer Ruby Slippers ahead of Victoria's Pride Street Party in the Smith-Gertrude-Peel precinct in Fitzroy and Collingwood, Sunday, 8 February.  

Madam Nightingale aka Phaedra Gunn chats about their shows Dynamic Darkness and New Beginnings (a collaboration with Cloutie Will and Pauli Field aka Flip That Groove). Midsumma Festival - Dynamic Darkness Midsumma Festival - New Beginnings  

Jessi Ryan dives into SKIN, their incendiary performance and exhibition at Collingwood's @14 for Midsumma. Midsumma Festival - SKIN: THE PERFORMANCE Midsumma Festival - SKIN: THE EXHIBITION

Thorne Harbour Health's Rachel Cook chats about Wise Words, a night of intergenerational storytelling for Midsumma.  5 February, 6.30 to 8.30 pm, 75 Reid St, North Fitzroy.  Speakers: Candy Bowers, Cherry Zeng, Kate Rowe, Mira Robertson, Krystal De Napoli, Simone O'Brien, Jax Bulstrode, Gabrielle Griffin. Midsumma Festival - Wise Words – A Night of Intergenerational Storytelling 

Ben MacEllen interview about his play The Placeholder.  A trans man comes out to friends in an Australian town.  Plays at fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, 27 January to 8 February for Midsumma.  Directed by Kitan Petkovski. Midsumma Festival - The Placeholder

Activist lawyer Danish Sheikh performs Much to do with Law, but More to do with Love for Midsumma.  Pop culture intersects with Taylor Swift and the fight to overturn India's colonial-era criminalisation of homosexuality.  Gasworks, February 4 to 7. Midsumma Festival - Much to do with Law, but more to do with Love

Interview with Australian Open actor Jane Montgomery Griffiths.  A gay man tells his family his open relationship would continue after his wedding after all they wanted to talk about was his partner's match against Roger Federer.  Plays at Theatre Works, January 21 to 31.  Written by Angus Cameron.  Directed by Riley Spadaro.  Performed by Eddie Orton, Sebastian Li, Alec Gilbert, Melissa Kahraman, Jane Montgomery Griffiths. Home | Theatre Works

Performer and writer Josh Moyes interview.  "In the vulnerability, there's a lot of laughs sometimes." Finding Glitter in the Storm stages at Club Voltaire, North Melbourne, January 22 to 25.  Directed by Lachlan Plain. Midsumma Festival - Finding Glitter in the Storm

Interview with Midsumma's Karen Bryant.  Includes discussion about pill testing at Victoria's Pride and why Police aren't marching at Pride March.    Midsumma Festival - Midsumma Festival - Home

Nate Hudson aka Faker discusses new single Comet and reflects on his career, including coming out in 2008 during a pinnacle for the band. Nathan Hudson in a band called Faker (@natefaker) • Instagram photos and videos

COMEDY made their 70s' inspired music video for L.A. Perfume at the John Curtin.  Francis Glass from the band joins us. C O M E D Y (@comedy__band) • Instagram photos and videos 

Myllo released new EP Cause + Effect this week and joined us for a chat ahead of its launch at Shotkickers.  Music | Myllo

Interview with Charly Oakley celebrating Against The Odds.  The Melbourne artist has recorded ten songs with acclaimed LA producer Xandy Barry. charly ★ (@charly.oakley) • Instagram photos and videos  

We discuss funding cuts, multicultural engagement, a slight rise in HIV cases in Victoria and an unusual ministerial absence at a World AIDS Day event with Living Positive Victoria CEO Richard Keane.  World AIDS Day, 1 December, 'No one left behind'. Living Positive Victoria

Interview with Possible Prince X celebrating the 7th Heaven remix of You Can Feel It.  Includes world radio premiere. Facebook

Adam Noviello interview celebrating their latest single Ballet Boy and their performances in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Adam Noviello (@adamnoviello) • Instagram photos and videos

Television is the latest single and music video from This Empty City.  Hope, Rachel & Mat join us in the studio. This Empty City - Television (Official Music Video)

Sally Goldner reflects on trans activism and support in the 90s and 2000s and what's needed today in an interview to celebrate her receiving the Legacy Award at the Trans Visibility Awards.  Celebrating the Finalists of the 2025 Trans Visibility Awards!

Kate DeAraugo interview.  Kate celebrates 20 years since winning Australian Idol with live shows at JazzLab in Brunswick on November 21 and at Universal in Sydney on November 28. FROM IDOL 'TILL NOW: Kate DeAraugo w/ special guest Greg Gould - The JazzLab - Bennetts Lane Jazz Club Brunswick FROM IDOL TILL NOW Kate DeAraugo w/ Greg Gould & Paulini Tickets, Universal Sydney , DARLINGHURST | TryBooking Australia

Paul Hetherington live to air interview celebrating the release of Cruel.  Paul Hetherington (@paulhofficial) • Instagram photos and videos

Brendan Welch joins us for a studio interview to celebrate his new album Returning. Brendan Welch

Featuring local Asian artists, Limitless Play is an immersive takeover at Melbourne's No Vacancy Gallery that blurs the boundaries between visual, physical and auditory art.  Artist Joshua So aka Juniper Care joins us for a studio interview.  Limitless Play is on now until 16 November. 

Interview with Morgan Rose from Rawcus.  Immersive theatre created by Jackson Castiglione and Rawcus, local residents play the protagonist in One Night Only at the Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre, November 26 to 30. One Night Only by Jackson Castiglione & Rawcus Darebin Arts

Director Emily O'Brien-Brown discusses wit incorporated's production of Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.  November 25 to 29 at the Bluestone Church Arts Space, Footscray and 13 December at the Bowery Theatre, St Albans. Wit Incorporated Theatre Company

Second Idol's Kate Farquharson interview celebrating the band's new single Spineless Wonders. "The concept emerged from the music."  SECOND IDOL (@second_idol) • Instagram photos and videos

Krishna Istha interviews potential sperm donors in their Melbourne Fringe reality theatre show First Trimester at Arts House, North Melbourne. On now until October 18. Melbourne Fringe Festival - First Trimester

Psyarchy celebrates the release of their debut EP 17 with an interview in the 3CR studios.  Includes their track Principles from 17. Psyarchy (@psyarchy) • Instagram photos and videos

Interviews with Mitch Jones, punk clown show Strange Chaos, Anna Lumb, femme bot burlesque show Queen Machine and Queer soul and RnB songwriter Thorne.   Melbourne Fringe Festival - Strange Chaos Melbourne Fringe Festival - QUEEN MACHINE Thorne (@thorne_music) • Instagram photos and videos

Interview with drag kings Teddy Clitter & Alf Alpha. Alf Alpha (@thealfalpha) • Instagram photos and videos Teddy Clitter (@teddyclitter) • Instagram photos and videos 

Two women yap on the beach while the world burns.  Alex Hines & Sarah Stafford star in camp comedy BIRDS for Melbourne Fringe.  Directed by David Stewart.  Meat Market - The Stables 1, September 30 to October 18.    Melbourne Fringe Festival - Birds

Possible Prince X interview after the release of new single Too Hot remixed by Istanbul DJ and producer Mustafa Basal.  "Industrial, early 2000s, sweaty dance party stuff." Possible Prince X – possibleprincex

Explores queer African diaspora with "a poetic, bruising dive into the ways we love".  I Met An Angel Named Jacques' writer, director & actor Gideon D. Wilonja joins us.  October 1 to 4 at Footscray Community Arts Performance Space, 45 Moreland St, Footscray. Footscray Community Arts | HomeFootscray Community Arts

Tuck Shop Ladies Rosie & Sam join us for a chat about their Melbourne Fringe show There's A Song In That.  October 8 to 12 at Trades Hall's Quilt Room. Melbourne Fringe Festival - There's a song in that

An intimate robo-burlesque spectacle.  Queen Machine performer Anna Lumb joins us in the studio.  October 15 to 19 at Trades Hall's Quilt Room for Melbourne Fringe.   Melbourne Fringe Festival - QUEEN MACHINE