Podcasts about eastside 89.7fm

Will online gambling ads on TV go the same way as tobacco ads? Don’t bet on it. David Barr talks to Dr. Rebecca Jenkinson, Manager of the Australian Gambling Research Centre.

Drive Tuesday talks to David Lyons from the Australian Tea Cultural Society about the pleasures of tea drinking.  

Kids in charge! Six and seven year olds share stories, songs, jokes and advice on playing the recorder. Thanks to Bellevue Hill Public School, Fort Street Public School and Waverley Public Library for letting CIBTT in the door. Find details at www.catchitbythetail.com.

Poems, stories, fables – hard to pin down exactly what kind of book The King and the Sea is and, luckily, no need to try. Beautifully read by Sarah Peirse and Tom Hobbs, musical pictures by Peter Dasent. Big thank you to Gecko Press for allowing this transformation from page to audio. Find details at […]

Another episode with an outdoor theme. Bicyclists young and older share tips and stories and there’s some music to get everyone up and pedalling. Find more info at www.catchitbythetail.com.

Elaine Chia the CEO of City Recital Hall joined us at Eastside FM for an interview by Virginia Lowe on Arts Wednesday. Chia tells Eastside how though she’s always had a passion for music, her degree was actually in interior architecture. During her time studying she worked at The Princess Theatre in Melbourne as an […]

Australian Israeli Singer and Songwriter, Lior, joined David Barr on Drive Tuesday to discuss his upcoming concert, Leaving the Western Shadows with the Australian Youth Orchestra’s, Momentum Ensemble. The orchestra will be directed by conductor Nigel Westlake, whose previous endeavours with Lior have included the co-creation of the award-winning song cycle Compassion. Leaving the Western Shadows is […]

English singer-songwriter, Wreckless Eric joined David Barr on Tuesday Drive to discuss his upcoming visit to Australia. He’s an original Stiff Records artist, alongside Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, the Damned and Ian Dury. Eric is regarded as on one of the UK’s greatest underground songwriters. His classic ‘Whole Wide World’ has been covered by the […]

Black, queer and fabulous – these were the performers at this years Miss First Nations Grand Final. The competition brings the nations best Indigenous drag queens to Sydney to strut their stuff in a week long competition. Competitors came from as far as the Northern Territories Tiwi Islands, as well as showcasing local Sydney talent. […]

It seems like almost everyday more bizarre news comes out the US. President Trump has pushed boundaries like no other US President has. Drive Tuesday spoke with Associate Professor, Brendan O’Connor, of the US Studies Centre at the University of Sydney in anticipation of the upcoming Midterm elections.

William Crighton dropped by Eastside FM for a chat with Cathy Kirkpatrick about his brand new ablum “Empire”, and played “Happiness” and “Morning Song” live on The Last Waltz.  This extraordinary artist was born in the Riverina, now living in Hunter Valley, songs are fuelled with enormous passion and hope for a better, brighter future.    […]

Published just a few weeks ago, Girls at the Piano, is , in part, a memoir of a young girl’s infatuation with the piano which over the years into her adolescence becomes a burden rather than a source of pleasure. It is also the story of her grandmother, a singer and pianist who emigrated to […]

2017 Freedman Jazz Fellowship Award winner Emma Stephenson has been living and working in New York for the past eight months. She was briefly back in Sydney in April to attend a couple of weddings which gave Mick Paddon, presenter of Time and Space a chance to catch up with her to ask about how […]

Christine Jane’s unique sound is self described as ‘cinematic blues’. She has been compared to artists who share her love of storytelling, darkness and the enigma of song such as Nick Cave, Cat Power, Beck, Feist, Fiona Apple, and Neil Finn. Her songs are deeply personal and reflect on loss, love, listlessness, and the shadows of […]

A flesh eating ulcer, known as Buruli has led to a record number of amputations in Melbourne this year. The number of cases has tripled in the last five years, with the disease spreading from Victoria’s coastal towns to inner city Melbourne – and researchers have no idea why. Drive Tuesday chatted to Associate Professor […]

On Tuesday 5th of April at 6pm, Eastside Radio broadcast the 9th instalment of Making Airwaves! Making Airwaves is a Windgap Foundation initiative, which allows adults who live with an intellectual disability to create their own half hour radio show. In this broadcast we hear from the talented Kevin, Kirsty, Scott, Alex, Victor and Marie. You’ll learn […]

On Tuesday 7th July at 6pm, Eastside Radio broadcast the 5th instalment of Making Airwaves! Making Airwaves is a Windgap Foundation initiative which allows adults who live with an intellectual disability to create their own half hour radio show. In this broadcast we hear from the talented Shai, Joe, Lynne, LC, Shadman, Sammy and Alex Butters. You’ll […]

The Windgap Foundation along with Accessible Arts have partnered with Eastside Radio, theatre professionals and DJs to develop the ‘Making Airwaves’ project, giving people with a disability the opportunity to learn radio presentation and production skills by creating their own radio show. Listen to the podcast below  of Eastside Radio and Windgap Foundation’s 2013 project “Making Airwaves with […]