Podcasts from the studios of Radio 1RPH

Selected articles read from the Canberra Times on Wednesday 1 October 2025.

Selected articles read from the Canberra Times of Wednesday 24 September 2025

Readings from COSMOS online.

Selected articles read from the Canberra Times on Tuesday 23 September 2025.

Selected articles read from the Canberra Times on Monday 22 September 2025.

Part 3/3 of a program from the Canberra Disability and Workability Expo. Includes interviews with: Jane Lee, National Director of Hearing Health at the Deafness Forum with Jenelle Provost Beatrice Tucker, Engagement Programs Manager for Women With Disability ACT with Sarah Guise Cain Beckett CEO of Carers ACT with Sarah Guise Volunteer Peter Ellis speaks to Nurse Next Door, Rainbow Club, Hartley Lifecare and Driving Miss Daisy

Part 2/3 of a program from the Canberra Disability and Workability Expo. Includes interviews with: David Smith, Manager and Founder of Employ for Ability with Sarah Guise Liam Z, Community Engagement Lead, Jigsaw Australia Canberra Hub with Sarah Guise Volunteer Virginia Brown on happenings at the expo Tim Howard, Head Gardener for Floriade with Jenelle Provost

Part 1/3 of a program from the Canberra Disability and Workability Expo. Includes interviews with: Suzanne Orr MLA, ACT Minister for Disability with Sarah Guise Nic Stuart, founder of AbilityNews and Emma Myers, Political and Disability reporter for Powerd Media Andrea Comastri, CEO and Founder, Hotel Etico Australia and JP, trainee, with Julia Dean

From the Canberra Disability And Workability Expo 2025. Volunteer Peter Ellis roamed the expo on Firday 12th and spoke to Nurse Next Door, Rainbow Club, Hartley Lifecare and Driving Miss Daisy about the different services they provide to support people with disability. 

From the Canberra Disability And Workability Expo 2025. Cain Beckett is the CEO of Carers ACT. He spoke to Sarah Guise at the expo about the organisation, his journey to becoming CEO and National Carers week. https://www.carersact.org.au/

From the Canberra Disability And Workability Expo 2025. Beatrice Tucker is the Engagement Program Manager at Women With Disability ACT (WWDACT). Beatrice spoke to Sarah Guise at the expo about what WWDACT does, what drew her to work there and some of the issue women and gender diverse people with disability face. https://wwdact.org.au/

From the Canberra Disability And Workability Expo 2025 program. Jenelle Provost speaks to Jane Lee, National Director for Hearing Health at the Deafness Forum about their Safe Hearing Action Plan and what you can do to protect your hearing at any age.

On 12 September, the day before it opened, Jenelle Provst went along to Floriade and asked Head Gardener Tim Howard all the secrets to how he and his team pull off this glorious annual floral display. 

From the Canberra Disability And Workability Expo 2025. Volunteer Virginia Brown had a look round the expo and talks to Sarah Guise about some of the exhibitors she saw and other goings on at the expo.

From the Canberra Disability And Workability Expo 2025. Jigsaw Australia proivde skills development and on the job training to assist people with disability into employment.  Sarah Guise spoke to Liam, the Community Engagement Lead for the Canberra Hub which include a document digitsation business and a training centre.

From the Canberra Disability And Workability Expo 2025. Employ for Ability provides programs to support neurodivergent young people into employment and help employers recruit and manage neurodivergent employees. Sarah Guise spoke to Manager and Founder, David Smith. Extended audio - why David founded the company and how he has helped his son and other young people like him. https://employforability.com.au/

From the Canberra Disability And Workability Expo 2025. Hotel Etico is a social enterprise offering independence and hospitality training to people with disability. Julia Dean spoke to CEO and Founder Andrea Comastri and JP, a graduate trainee. https://hoteletico.com.au/

From the Canberra Disability And Workability Expo 2025. On 12 September, Sarah Guise spoke to Nic Stuart, founder of ability news, and Emma Myers, Disability and political reporter for Powerd Media about working in the press gallery, disability media and respresentation in the media. Live from the expo.

From the Canberra Disability And Workability Expo 2025. Sarah Guise spoke to Suzanne Orr MLA about implmentation of the ACT Disability Strategy, the ACT Government's reaction to the federal government's plans for Foundational Supports and Thriving Kids and the new ACT Disability Inclusion Act.

Selected articles read from the Canberra Times on Friday 18 September 2025.

Readings of selected articles from The Canberra Times on Thursday 18 September 2025

Selected articles read from the Canberra Times on Wednesday 17 September 2025.

Readings from COSMOS online.  

Selected articles read from the Canberra Times on Tuesday 16 September 2025.

Selected articles read from the Canberra Times of Monday 15 September 2025

Selected articles read from  the Canberra Times on Friday 12 September 2025.

Readings of selected articles from The Canberra Times on Thursday 11 September 2025

Selected articles from the Canberra Times of Wednesday 10 September 2025.

Readings from COSMOS online.

Selected articles read from the Canberra Times on Tuesday 9 September 2025.

Maryanne Gore interviews Peter Lawler about his childhood memories of World War 2. Peter was a child of 6 in Boorowa when the war started; he remembers the men of the town digging trenches on the school oval, the Cowra breakout, ration cards and papering over the windows so the light didn't shine out into the street. Peter is one of our Radio1RPH volunteers and presents a weekly program "From the Columns" which can be heard every Friday at 12.30pm and repeated at 8.15pm.

Selected articles read from the Canberra Times on Monday 8 September 2025.

Sarah Guise interviews Mary Sayers, CEO of the National Disability Research Partnership about the new approach they are leading to disability research. Plus two perspectives from the autistic community in response to the announcement of a new Thriving Kids program. Emma Myers speaks to the mother of a child with autism and The Wire speaks to Nicole Rogerson, CEO of Autism Awareness Australia

Selected articles read from the Canberra Times on Friday 5 September 2025.

Readings of selected articles from The Canberra Times on Thursday 4 September 2025

Radio 1RPH has collaborated with members of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia to bring you the childhood memories of people aged over 86 of World War 2, on the eightieth anniversary of its ending. Maryanne Gore interviews Radio 1RPH volunteer, Peter Lawler, and Emma Myers interviews 101 year old Max Barry and 105 year old Merle Hare.  

Selected articles read from the Canberra Times on Wednesday 3 September 2025.

Readings from COSMOS online.

Selected articles read from the Canberra Times on Tuesday 2 September 2025.

Selected articles read from the Canberra Times of Monday 1 September 2025

Disability Reform - Interview -  Sarah Guise interviews Professor Sarath Kodagoda about how he and his team are using robots and AI to help vision impaired people navigate.  He is the head of the robotics institute at University of Technology Sydney and the project is being done in partnership with Guide Dogs Australia

Selected articles read from the Canberra Times on Friday 29 August 2025.

Readings of selected articles from The Canberra Times on Thursday 28 August 2025

Selected articles read from the Canberra Times on Wednesday 27 August 2025.

Christine interviewed Jo Hollier about her exhibition 'Creek Walks' at the Belconnen Arts Centre, which opens this week on 29 August.

Readings from COSMOS online.

Selected articles read from the Canberra Times on Tuesday 26 August 2025.

Selected articles read from the Canberra Times of Monday 25 August 2025

Selected articles read from the Canberra Times on Friday 22 August 2025.

Readings of selected articles from The Canberra Times on Thursday 21 August 2025

Selected articles read from the Canberra Times on Wednesday 20 August 2025.