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Where are the poets and intellectuals of this time?? The innovative minds, the intelligentsia, those that are breaking down the barriers, choosing a bohemian existence, escaping from dreary suburban ideals and materialistic death traps. Where are these

Riddhi


    • Apr 30, 2018 LATEST EPISODE
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    The Bohemian Beat - Discussion Panel - #MeToo

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2018 57:29


    In this episode Riddhi is joined by leading artists and innovators to explore an important topic most recently brought to light by the extension of the #MeToo movement.

    The Bohemian Beat - One By One - an ANZAC radio play

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2018 55:56


    The Bohemian Beat presents in conjunction with Drill Hall Theatre Company and SAE Creative Media Institute an ANZAC play for radio by Gary Lewis called One by One.

    The Bohemian Beat - International Women's Day 2018

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2018 55:56


    Join Riddhi in a special International Women's Day broadcast with a focus on pioneering bohemians from around the Northern Rivers Region of NSW.

    The Bohemian Beat - Train of thought

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2018 57:05


    Riddhi talks with Australian singer/songwriter and poet Gyan.

    The Bohemian Beat - Sufi Joy

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2018 58:06


    In this episode Riddhi explores poetry and music from Sufi Mystic poets.

    The Bohemian Beat - We Refugees

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2018 55:59


    This week hear the plight of refugees through poetry and music. From K'naan, Anoushka Shankar, Pavana Reddy, Omar Saghir, to Samah Sabawi, and Benjamin Zephaniah. Grassroots poetry section features a poem by Isabella Gillespie that became their motto

    The Bohemian Beat - Decade Dance

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2018 56:46


    Join Riddhi to celebrate 10 years of bohemians and poets gracing the national airwaves.

    The Bohemian Beat - Howl

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2018 57:14


    In this episode Riddhi features Allen Ginsberg's ground breaking poem ‘Howl For Carl Solomon'

    The Bohemian Beat - Gothic Tales, Act 4

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2018 58:43


    In the final four part series Gothic Tales, Riddhi focuses on the year 1816 - When Frankenstein and The Vampire were conceived.

    The Bohemian Beat - Gothic Tales Act 3

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2018 58:23


    In Act 3 of this four part special we continue with tales of terror.

    The Bohemian Beat - Gothic Tales Act 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2018 56:29


    Continuing with tales of Paradise, Vampire's, and Frankenstein.

    The Bohemian Beat - Gothic Tales Act 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2018 58:33


    Join Riddhi and journey into the dark imaginings of Percy Bysshe Shelly, Mary Shelly, and Lord Byron.

    The Bohemian Beat - Sovereign Rights Mandate

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2017 56:44


    In this episode Riddhi presents a Sovereign Rights Mandate put together by Indigenous leaders Lois Cook & Kerrianne Cox.

    The Bohemian Beat - Walking Free at Gugamai

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2017 55:56


    A group of inspiring people lead by Lois Cook, a Nyangbul woman from Cabbage Tree Island, Wardell and Ballina regions of NSW are claiming their sovereign right to live on Country and have set up camp at Gugamai just south of Byron Bay

    The Bohemian Beat - Kangaroo

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2017 57:55


    Riddhi shares a true and incredible tale about how a small group of people saved the lives of hundreds of kangaroos on Mt Panorama.

    The Bohemian Beat - John Trudell

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2017 56:52


    Riddhi features works from John Trudell, the late Native American rights activist, musician and poet.

    The Bohemian Beat - I Live My Life In Growing Orbits

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2017 57:05


    Poetry from Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Bly, William Stafford, Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Mary Oliver.

    The Bohemian Beat - Stars and Bushmen

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2017 56:34


    In this episode Riddhi presents poetry from the romantic poets to the metaphysical poets to Banjo Patterson with his highly romantic view of the bush and the iconic figure of the bushman.

    The Bohemian Beat - Hymn to Persephone

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2017 57:10


    Hymn to Persephone- From Helen of Troy to Cleopatra

    The Bohemian Beat - The Mask of Anarchy

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2017 57:38


    In this episode Riddhi explores one of the greatest political protest poems ever written - Mask Of Anarchy by the English Romantic Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

    The Bohemian Beat - Mr Sampson - A Play in One Act

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2017 56:10


    In this episode Riddhi is joined in the studio with members of the Mullumbimby Drill Hall Theatre Company to perform an obscure 1912 play, adapted for radio, called "Mr. Sampson: A Play in One Act" by Charles James Lee.

    The Bohemian Beat - Grace

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2017 55:57


    Riddhi features some poetry from poets associated with the Northern Rivers region of NSW, and Jenni Cargil-Strong with be joining us in the studio with Stories that Matter.

    The Bohemian Beat - The poetics of Bob Dylan: An Exploration Part 3.

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2016 57:29


    In the final part of this special feature, Riddhi explores the poetics of Bob Dylan traveling through The Times They Are a Changin', Unresponsible Black Nite Crash, The Lost Land, Kubla Khan, Don Juan, It's Alight, Ma - I'm only bleeding and more.

    The Bohemian Beat - Shakespeare and the 80s: Part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2016 56:02


    In this episode, back by popular demand Riddhi presents another Shakespeare and the eighties musical adventure!

    The Bohemian Beat - Here We Stand

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2016 57:24


    In this episode Riddhi talks to an inspiring group of women - survivors of domestic violence who have been telling their stories in a theatre production called HERE WE STAND.

    The Bohemian Beat - Bird-witted

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2016 56:21


    In this episode Riddhi features poetry from Anne Waldman, William Carlos Williams, and Marianne Moore.

    The Bohemian Beat - The poetics of Bob Dylan: An Exploration Part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2016 56:48


    In this episode Riddhi continues to explore Bob Dylan's poetics.

    The Bohemian Beat - The poetics of Bob Dylan: An Exploration Part 1.

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2016 59:38


    You may have heard that Bob Dylan was recently awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature. For The Bohemian Beat, this recipient of the 'richest literately prize in the world' represents a significant poetic event.

    The Bohemian Beat - Raft

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2016 56:19


    Riddhi features poetry from William Shakespeare and Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Including special guest author and poet Susan Varga, and Stories That Matter with Jenni Cargill.

    The Bohemian Beat - Eurydice Retold

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2016 57:50


    We delve into the Greek myth of Eurydice reinterpreted by the great English poet Edith Sitwell. From the male perspective through the ages to the feminine voice that asserts her own experience of death and the underworld into wisdom.

    The Bohemian Beat - Traits

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2016 56:13


    This episode Riddhi shares an interview with upcoming Melbourne poet Martin Jon Porter talking about his debut chapbook of poetry called ‘Traits'. Northern Rivers poet False Prophet joins us in the studio, and our segment ‘Your special poem'.

    The Bohemian Beat - The Clock

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2016 57:39


    Riddhi contracts the Modernist movement with the Beat Generation. Enjoy poetry from TS Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Gregory Corso, Daevid Allen, Diane Diprima, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs.

    The Bohemian Beat - Walers and Warriors

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2016 56:19


    Riddhi features the book 'Walers and Warriors', by Neil Plim. With stories about the Waler war horses of the Australian Light Horsemen, and stories of the fate of indigenous volunteers confronted with abandonment at the end of the Boer War & WWI

    The Bohemian Beat - Hell is Light

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2016 58:20


    Riddhi continues her exploration of George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984. Special guest singer/songwriter Andy Jans-Brown shares new songs and talks about his latest endeavour a feature film script 'Hell is Light'.

    The Bohemian Beat - as freedom is a breakfast food

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2016 56:58


    Riddhi meanders with poets Hart Crane, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dylan Thomas, Jack Kerouac and ee Cummings. Including the segment ‘Your Special Poems', where listeners are invited to share poems close to their hearts.

    The Bohemian Beat - Dangerous

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2016 56:31


    Riddhi features German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's master piece - Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Including pieces from Hermann Hesse, Franz Kafka, and Goethe.

    The Bohemian Beat - Poetry, Bards and Storytellers

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2016 56:19


    Riddhi meanders with poetry and melodies from Banjo Paterson, Paul Kelly, Kev Carmody and Peter Porter. Including the segment ‘Stories that Matter' with Jenni Cargil. featuring The Cedar Girl of Mullumbimby Grass by Annie Byrant.

    The Bohemian Beat - Satsong with Amir Paiss

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2016 56:32


    Enjoy poetry from Dylan Thomas, and special guest - Amir Paiss, composer and poet shares his latest creative gems a book of poetry 50 Gates of Binah, and collection of songs from his latest album Satsong.

    The Bohemian Beat - Emma Goldman

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2016 56:12


    In this episode Riddhi explores one of the most important figures in the history of anarchism - Emma Goldman.

    The Bohemian Beat - Irish Joe Lynch

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2016 57:15


    Riddhi is joined by multi-award winning storyteller and poet Irish Joe Lynch. Listen to tales and poetry, and a new section ‘Your Special Poems', where listeners are invited to share poems close to their hearts.

    The Bohemian Beat - Unlocked

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2016 56:54


    This episode we journey behind bars and witness the transformative powers of poetry through the Unlocked project (an initiative of The Red Room Company), where poets and hip-hop artists participate in poetry workshops.

    The Bohemian Beat - The Struggle

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2016 56:03


    Riddhi explores the stories of struggle behind the poetry. With revolutionary artists and activists from North America to Somali, Mali, South Africa and Jamaica.

    The Bohemian Beat - Free West Papua

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2016 57:40


    This episode Riddhi examines the effect of political trauma on the poet's use of language.

    The Bohemian Beat -Shakespeare and the 80's

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2016 56:05


    This episode we're re-discovering Shakespeare's genius through the music, words and spirit of the nineteen eighties.

    The Bohemian Beat - Kurilpa Poets

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2015 56:05


    This episode Riddhi features poets known for their performance poetry. From Edna St. Vincent Millay to Dylan Thomas to the contemporary Brisbane poetry group the Kurilpa Poets.

    The Bohemian Beat - The WikiLeaks Files

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2015 56:54


    The Bohemian Beat - Ep341 - The WikiLeaks Files - This episode Riddhi travels along the Road of Anarchy, from Chomsky, Orwell, Shelley, Gandhi and Thoreau to the contemporary anarchist group - 'Cypherpunk'.

    The Bohemian Beat - Burning In The Skies

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2015 58:35


    The Bohemian Beat - Ep217- Burning In The Skies - This episode Riddhi explores the moving dynamic of the older poetic philosophy of Romanticism and its evolution into the more cynical Modernism of the Industrial Revolution.

    The Bohemian Beat - Icarus

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2015 57:34


    The Bohemian Beat - Ep121 - Icarus- In this episode Riddhi explores the myth of the Greek story of Icarus who took flight from prison wearing wings made from wax and feathers.

    The Bohemian Beat - The Big Bang

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2015 56:26


    The Bohemian Beat - Ep336 - The Big Bang- Join Riddhi for another poetic adventure journeying to the stars, through worm holes, black holes and extraterrestrial possibilities.

    The Bohemian Beat - Stars That Speak

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2015 56:39


    The Bohemian Beat - Ep228- Stars That Speak- This episode is EPIC - A statue comes to life, a knight rejects the real world. A new life separates into exile as the poet travels through the realms of the dead.

    The Bohemian Beat - Grow Old With Me

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2015 56:13


    The Bohemian Beat - Ep342- Grow Old With Me - This episode Riddhi features some rare poetic gems she recently encountered. Including tales of Africa, an elusive performance poet, and a student creative project called Grow Old With Me.

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