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There are episodes of The Adelaide Show, and then there are events. This is one of the latter. Recorded live at the Mercury Cinema as part of South Australia’s History Festival 2026, History Hit Parade brings together broadcaster and journalist Keith Conlon and host Steve Davis for a ninety-minute show that weaves original songwriting with storytelling, historical context, and the kind of warm, unhurried conversation that feels like sitting in a room full of people who actually know where you live. Ten songs. Ten slices of South Australian life. All of them written with pen and paper by Steve, given musical life through his AI-assisted “virtual session band,” and offered here as what he describes as “audition pieces” for real musicians who might one day make them their own. There is no SA Drink of the Week in this episode. The entire show is the Musical Pilgrimage. Rather than a single track appended at the end, this episode is the songs, each one set up by Keith’s historical grounding and Steve’s personal connections before the music rolls. Full notes on each song appear in the segment breakdown below. You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of one segment? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We’re here to serve! The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast in Australia at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for Best News and Current Affairs Podcast in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards. And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It’s an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we’ll add you to the list: podcast@theadelaideshow.com.au If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store – The Adelaide Show Shop. We’d greatly appreciate it. And please talk about us and share our episodes on social media, it really helps build our community. Oh, and here’s our index of all episode in one concisepage. Running Sheet: History Hit Parade 00:00:00 Intro Introduction 00:00:00 SA Drink Of The Week There is no SA Drink Of The Week this week. 00:04:07 History Hit Parade The Mercury Cinema is not a neutral venue for Steve Davis. He was married there on a sweltering 42-degree December day in 2002. He launched Talked About Marketing there. And it is where, on two days in May 2026, he and Keith Conlon performed History Hit Parade to an audience that included Steve’s parents, his former drama teacher, the chair of the History Trust, and the real-life couple immortalised in one of the songs. The name History Hit Parade, Steve reveals, was Keith’s idea, drawn from his memory of the Harold Wright Hit Parade on 5AD, a Thursday-night ritual of about eight or ten songs in an era before the Top 40 existed. Buddy Holly, Elvis, Perry Como, and Pat Boone: that was your week’s music. The name lands perfectly for a show that does something similar, except every track is an original, and every track is South Australian. Song 1: Jack and Lil (Up Please, Going Up)Keith sets the historical scene: John Martins began as Peters and Martin, a drapery store in Rundle Street, until Mr Martin was released from his duties due to what Keith delicately describes as “debauchery.” The Hayward family eventually took the helm, and it was Sir Edward Hayward who, in 1933, looked to Canada for inspiration and brought the Christmas Pageant to Adelaide. He was so nervous before the first one that he hired a biplane, circled the inner suburbs with a megaphone, and personally invited people to come. They did. About 300,000 still do, each year.The personal thread in this song belongs to Steve’s maternal grandparents, Jack and Lil, whose photograph appeared on the screen behind him. Lil worked in the kitchenware department. Jack was the young engineer installing the new lifts in the building during the 1930s. The rest, as Steve says, is history. The song follows their life together as their family grows, moving floor by floor through what John Martins offered, with the lift ladies’ announcement, “Up please, going up,” as its guiding refrain. Steve thanks Paul Flavell, who has written a book on John Martins, and former John Martin’s planner, Robert Tedstone, who provided a complete floor-by-floor inventory to keep the lyrics accurate. Song 2: Oh MarionMarion, the suburb, was surveyed in 1838 by Colonel Light’s private firm after Light had broken with Governor Hindmarsh. The name comes from Marianne, daughter of resident commissioner James Hurtle Fisher, though somewhere along the way Mariannen became Marion. Keith’s own connection is fond: his father learned to drive in the 1950s by heading south into the almond groves and vineyards of Marion, where the long straight roads offered room to practise.Steve’s Marion is the 1970s version: aerial photographs, numbered landmarks, railway tracks where he’d flatten 20-cent pieces, overpass pile drivers thumping for weeks, and a Coles New World at the Park Holme Shopping Centre. He walked to school at age six, “with my little satchel and my shorts.” One afternoon he left school early, got lost, and found his way to a doctor’s surgery he recognised. They rang his mother. She wasn’t home. The neighbour came to collect him and made him a sandwich. “That was life in Marion back then,” he says, with a fondness that carries no nostalgia for the vineyards his own family’s house helped displace. Song 3: My Jolly ValentineThis one starts with the Torrens. Keith explains that before the lake arrived, the river in summer was “a series of rather smelly waterholes” until Mayor Sir Edwin Smith, a beer baron with civic ambitions, created the weir. Within a year of the lake’s arrival in 1882, a rowing craze had taken hold, boat sheds lined the banks, and Jolley’s Boathouse was selling milkshakes and pies to rowers who could rent a boat by the hour.The Palais de Danse gets its moment: a floating ballroom on a barge moored near the Elder Park Rotunda from 1924, with a soda fountain, no grog, and 800 people on opening night. It was gone by 1928, Keith noting, “maybe it was just not well made and sank slowly into the mud.”Steve’s research for this Valentine’s Day song turned up two details that captured his imagination. First, the Rundle Street Parade: on Saturday nights, young men would walk down one side of the street, young women down the other, window-shopping for company rather than goods. Second, the postage stamp code used in the twice-daily mail service to communicate what couldn’t be written openly: upside-down meant “I love you,” tilted right meant yes, left meant no, sideways meant “let’s stay as friends,” which Steve notes is “a soft no.” Song 4: Spring Gully RoadKeith traces the geography first: up Third Creek from the Torrens, past the village of Magill, pointing toward Norton Summit. Market gardens that ran through to Tea Tree Gully. One of Steve’s friends, Dominic, remembers his father loading a ute with cucumbers twice a week and driving them across town to Spring Gully. That was not long ago.The song covers four generations families. Edward McKee began pickling onions after returning from the war. His son-in-law Alan McMillan, stepson Eric Webb, and friend Malcolm Climer formed the second generation. Kevin and Ross Webb steered it through 2013 when a public campaign saved the company. Russell and Tegan Webb were at the helm when cheap imports and cost-of-living pressures finally made it too hard.Steve played the song to Russell Webb before the performance. Russell’s response: “Our whole family thinks this song should be in the state archives for covering the story so well.” Steve says it with quiet pride, and then lets the song make the case. Song 5: Away, Away (The PS Canally Crew Song)Keith tells the founding story of the Murray River trade with the energy of someone who could spend a full hour on it. Governor Sir Henry Fox Young puts up a prize in 1853 for the first boat to take a paddle steamer from Goolwa to Swan Hill and back. Two men are unknowingly racing: Captain William Randell, a flour miller from Gumeracha building the Mary Ann upstream from Mannum, and Captain Francis Cadell, who has a paddle steamer built in New South Wales and sails it through the Murray mouth. They end up racing each other, neither knowing the other was coming. Both get their prize, and instantly the river is transformed: wool that was a month away from market by bullock wagon is now days away by water.Steve wrote this song aboard the PS Marion, on a three-day cruise, watching jet skis cut through the peace of the river and thinking about the crews who worked these boats without rest. He noted he’d been “a bit passionate” about the contrast. One thing he is proud of: annoying the captain by asking about terminology, which is how he discovered that “larboard” was the original term for port side, changed because “larboard” and “starboard” were too easily confused when shouted across a noisy deck. Song 6: Shout Your Mates Another RoundThis song grew from a drive past the West End Brewery site on Port Road, now demolished. The chimney is gone. Steve felt its absence.Keith sketches the arc: South Australia once had around 43 breweries. The West End Brewery operated from 1859 through to about 1980, and somewhere in there a Westies supporter working at the brewery persuaded the boss to paint the chimney in the SANFL grand final colours each year. Port Adelaide’s coach Fos Williams asked to be included. The tradition held, moved to a second chimney after the first came down, and now continues on the old brickworks chimney with the help of some “fancy technology.”The pickaxe long-neck bottle gets its own verse. Those amber glass communal bottles that sat on dinner tables, shared rather than individual. Steve remembers the day his Italian neighbour Nino offered him a sip of Southwark Bitter from one: “It put me off beer for the rest of my life.” He recalls his paternal grandfather worked at the original Hindley Street brewery. A bottle recently turned up on Kangaroo Island. These things accumulate meaning. Song 7: Tunarama Love SongGreg and Nicole, Steve’s brother-in-law and sister-in-law, are in the audience. They wave when introduced. Greg is described as “so bashful.”Keith gives the historical context: Captain Matthew Flinders named Memory Cove after losing eight sailors there when he was 28 years old, 10,000 miles from home. He named Cape Catastrophe, Thistle Island, and Boston Island after those men. Port Lincoln was named, Keith theorises, from homesickness for Lincolnshire. The tuna industry came after the war, when scientists found massive schools in the Bight. Colin Thiele wrote Bluefin there as a high school teacher, which became a film. Tunarama itself began in 1962.The song’s story is Greg’s: he left Adelaide on a bicycle heading west, eventually reached Port Lincoln, and through mutual friends met Nicole. They came back to Adelaide later that year and were at the Mercury Cinema for Steve and Nardia’s wedding. “Their love story didn’t actually happen at Tunarama,” Steve admits, “but my wife loves her rom-com movies, so I did a bit of rom-com where I just put it against the backdrop.” He also notes that Tunarama won Best Seafood Experience this year, and that “it is okay to call someone a tosser, at Tunarama.” Song 8: Good Night DonThis one has weight. Every episode of The Adelaide Show signs off with “Good night, Don,” so a song about Don Dunstan was, as Steve puts it, always going to happen. Keith, who lived through the Dunstan decade, tries to give it its due in a few minutes. Decriminalisation of homosexuality. Women’s rights reforms. Aboriginal land rights. The South Australian Film Corporation in 1972. The State Theatre Company in 1974. The Rundle Mall, celebrating its 50th anniversary later in 2026. The week of the performance happened to be the anniversary of the death of Dr George Duncan, thrown into the Torrens in 1972, a murder that accelerated the push for decriminalisation.Keith acknowledges the controversies too: the Salisbury Affair, the personal challenges, the pajama press conference, and, with particular relish, the day Don stood on the Pier Hotel balcony during the 1976 tidal wave scare and told the crowd that “the only thing that will happen today is that we will all get a bit hotter.”Steve wrote the song in Brechtian cabaret style, a nod to Don’s close friendship with Robyn Archer. The refrain draws on a George Bernard Shaw quote: “Your life was no brief candle, was a mighty torch that shone.” Steele Hall also gets a verse, recognised for his willingness to equalise the electoral boundaries even when it worked against his own party. Song 9: Cellar Door ShuffleKeith went to university with Malcolm Seppelt, “which was pretty helpful,” and takes us back to the first commercial vineyard up Jacob’s Creek, planted by Johann Gramp, one of the early German arrivals. The creek became the name of one of the most recognised wine labels in the world. The doctors follow: Penfold, Hamilton, Angove, Tolley. Keith notes that by the 1960s, 90% of South Australian grapes were going into fortifieds. Barossa Pearl and BenEan Moselle changed that. Keith asks the audience who had a sip of BenEan Moselle as a youngster. Most hands go up.The song is partly in honour of Joseph, who runs Ballycroft at Greenock. Steve describes him as “the sweet spot of wine tasting because it’s not stuffy with him.” The song delivers two reminders: if your cellar door is making you feel uncomfortable, leave; and you are not there to guzzle. Song 10: Ben Venuti (The Rostrevor Pizza Bar Song)The final song is an ode to Gaetano at Rostrevor Pizza Bar, who has stood behind the same counter for 35-plus years.Keith sets up the context with Don Dunstan’s liquor reforms: the end of the six o’clock swill, and the radical notion of drinking a glass of wine at a footpath cafe. Then the postwar wave of Italian migrants, and how pizza arrived in Adelaide. Keith’s first was in 1962 at a corner of Hindley and Morphett Streets, long since demolished. “In another ten years,” he predicts, “there’ll be Australians who reckon we actually made it.”Steve moved to Rostrevor in 2006 and spent his evenings stripping 1970s Italian wallpaper off the walls of his new house before heading around the corner to eat Gaetano’s pizza. Gaetano calls his dough “pastry,” starts making it the night before, and has won awards for it. He welcomes every regular by name. He personally refuses to put pineapple on a pizza, but if you want it, he will make it. “The Italians,” Steve says, “they understand the value of the money.” He goes through about a pallet of pineapple a month.The song is in Italian and close-to-Italian, with the chorus “Benvenuti, come inside” running through it. Steve says you will come along for the ride. ClosingSteve thanks the audience and invites them to stay in touch with Keith via This Day in South Australia on Facebook and LinkedIn, where Keith posts about South Australian history every day, and via the Wednesday morning bike rides from Bicycle Express in the city at 9am. He then plays the old State Bank ad, which Keith greets with “Oh, dear. Well, I wasn’t actually named at the time, but a lot of people said, ‘I reckon that’s Keith in there.'”Steve closes by noting that the album from the show, History Hit Parade, is available on Bandcamp. 00:00:00 Musical Pilgrimage No Musical Pilgrimage this week because the whole show was a Musical Pilgrimage.Support the show: https://theadelaideshow.com.au/listen-or-download-the-podcast/adelaide-in-crowd/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Federal Government to create an Australian government-owned fuel security reserve, Victoria announces it's secured 10 million litres of diesel specifically for its farmers in an emergency, and Mannum farmer Narelle Zanker named the winner of the 2026 South Australia AgriFutures Rural Women's Award.

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The Tinny Rally rolls into Mildura this weekend leaving Apex Park this Sunday heading towards Mannum. 726kms of Advwenture. Dan Willersdorf tells us more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dan Willersdorf with details on the epic Tinny Rally. An amzing River Adventure travelling 726KMS starting this Sunday from Apex Park heading towards Mannum.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pat Brown joined the Flow Friday Sports Show and recapped the first weekend of finals in the River Murray Netball Association, as the Mallee Storm recorded their third win over the Imperials for the season to book their Grand Final spot. The Southern Suns dominated Mannum to keep their season alive and set up a preliminary final against the Imps. 

Pat Brown joined the Flow Friday Sports Show and recapped a thrilling round in the River Murray Netball Association, headlined by Mypolonga's crucial win over Mannum. Pat also previewed the upcoming round 17 games, and analyzed the finals equation with just two weeks left of the pre-finals portion of the season. 

Pat Brown joined the Flow Friday Sports Show and provided a recap of last weekend's slate of games in the River Murray Netball Association. Pat also analyzed the ladder, of which the middle section features a tight battle for finals spots between Mypolonga, Mannum and The Ramblers.

Pat Brown joined the Flow Friday Sports Show and recapped the Southern Suns' unexpected blowout win, the thriller played between Mannum and Mypolonga, and the rest of the round 7 games in the River Murray Netball Association. 

Livestock producers and other groups meet with the government to explore ways to improve South Australia's outback roads, PIRSA set to to release millions of sterile fruit flies from a low-flying plane over suburban Adelaide, and more than $30million to be spent on short-term repairs of flood-damaged levees between Mannum and Wellington.

Bruce Phillips spoke on the Flow Friday Sports Show about the first round of play in Murray Towns cricket, including a chaotic finish between Mannum and the Wanderers.

Hannah Loller joined the Friday Night Sports Show and updated Dan Crouch on the latest results in the River Murray Netball Association. The Mallee Storm come in off an unexpected blowout win over Mannum, and Hannah was optimistic on their chances to cause an upset against Mypolonga. The Imperials had a narrow win over Mypolonga to win straight through to the grand final and force Mypo to do things the hard way.

The Mallee Storm officially locked in their finals spot in the final round of the season in the River Murray Netball Assocation. Hannah Loller took a look forward to the beginning of the finals and gave a recap of exactly how the finals work, as it is the first finals series for the new-look league. Mannum and Mallee will face off in a do-or-die clash, while Mypolonga and the Imps are playing off to book a spot in the grand final.

Hannah Loller filled Dan Crouch in on all the latest action in the River Murray Netball Association, headlined by the Mallee Storm's clutch two-goal win over Mannum, which has all but locked them in to a spot in the finals.

Hannah Loller joined Dan Crouch to discuss the latest action in the River Murray Netball Association, in which Mannum and the Mallee Storm showed they have closed the gap between them and the top two teams, the Imperials and Mypolonga.

Hannah Loller provided an update on the state of play in the River Murray Netball Association headlined by Mannum's one-goal win over the Sothern Suns in round nine.

Hannah Loller joined Dan Crouch to review a great weekend at country champs and provide a preview of all the upcoming action in round 9 of the River Murray Netball Association. A top four clash between Mannum and the Southern Suns looms as the match of the round.

Hannah Loller, Flow FM's new River Murray Netball correspondent revealed she was excited by the unpredictable nature of the netball matches recently taking place in the River Murray Netball competition. This weekend sees a marquee fixture scheduled in the competition, with first going up against second with Imperials going up against Mannum.

Tom Rehn, Keith Parkes, Tim Lester, Stephen Rowe, Brad from the Pretoria Hotel in Mannum, Brenton Cox, Jon Blake, Lucy's Movie Review, Miranda Starke and Behind Closed Doors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The famed Pretoria Hotel in Mannum is opening today! It's one of the many businesses who had to close for the River Murray floods. Brad Harper from the Pub chats with David and WillSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Tim Marshman from Down to Earth Nursery in Mannum chats with David and Will, after he relocated his whole nursery for the flooding, and is now bracing for the heatwave.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We discuss the challenge of flood recovery and road repair - and upgrade - in the Riverland and Mid-Murray down to Mannum in the electorate of Chaffey, as the Department of Infrastructure and Transport's director of road maintenance on Tuesday morning expressed support for making a business case for improving the flood resilience of the Bookpurnong Road between Loxton and Berri. The local state MP also responds to the challenges facing caravan parks such as Waikerie and Renmark's after levee banks were built between their accomodation and 'million dollar views' of the River Murray.

Ollie Haig for 9 News joined David and Will with an update on the levee building in Mannum.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on the show we hadRhonda Burchmore interview: talking theatre and HairSpray,We take your calls on places you've snuck into,Xmas card opinions - does everyone hate them??Enews,And interview with a Mannum local about to lose her business to flood waters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on the show we had Rhonda Burchmore interview: talking theatre and HairSpray, We take your calls on places you've snuck into, Xmas card opinions - does everyone hate them?? Enews, And interview with a Mannum local about to lose her business to flood waters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A principal credits a collaborative teaching approach for her public school achieving the highest NAPLAN score across all SA schools. Mannum residents are packing up and fleeing their homes as the state's flood crisis continues. Matteas Phillipou is the first South Australian taken in the AFL's national draft. Supercar  driver Nick Percat is gearing up to farewell the Holden brand at this weekend's Adelaide 500.For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription at advertiser.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Brad Harper, manager of the Pretoria Hotel in Mannum, joins David and Will with their unfortunate front-row seats to the Murray inundation and dirt levees.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Children and Christmas enthusiasts alike have been turned away when trying to visit Santa Claus at the Magic Cave.THE closure of South Australia's largest thermal generator almost a decade earlier than expected will come at the cost of 100 jobs, a bill to taxpayers of almost $20m and increased threat to the reliability of the state's power grid.MANNUM'S kids are worried the embattled town will “not have a very nice Christmas” if rising waters inundate the riverside community.Independent supermarket operator Foodland is launching its own liquor store chain, promising to showcase the state's finest producers as it battles head-on with rival grocery retailers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

ABOUT 150 homes in low-lying parts of Mannum will have their sewerage connections cut off over the next fortnight.UP to 85,000 South Australian families will have access to cheaper childcare after Labor passed a flagship election promise to raise subsidies.ORGANISERS of the state's Schoolies Festival have responded to a disturbing checklist of “challenges” that encourage school leavers to take drugs and engage in sexually explicit activities.A self-described German “techno marching band” and a Grammy Award-winning US blues artist, whose new album explores the illegal interracial romance of his forebears, are among 35 final acts announced for WOMADelaide.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The South Australian premier joins Flow on the road to the River Murray to make further announcements regarding the flooding situation in the Riverland and Mid-Murray, discussing urgent levee works in Mannum, the state of emergency declared, the recent failure of the interconnector with Victoria, green hydrogen, nuclear energy ... and whether the Port Districts player will pull the boots on for a cameo appearance for Kangarilla in 2023

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The Mid Murray community has come together to make a large-scale public art project possible along 60 metres of water pipelines. Internationally acclaimed SA-based artist Jack Fran has been commissioned to paint SA Water pipelines near Apamurra (the road to silos off main Palmer to Mannum road). Jack joins Jennie Lenman on the line along with one of the project coordinators, Bill Nehmy Tourism Development Manager at Murray River, Lakes & Coorong.

Vince Pannell is running as an Independent candidate for Barker this Federal Election. The IT consultant from Mannum says its time for a big change to the status quo in politics. The anti-mandate candidate says he believes there is currently too much corruption in politics and too much overseas ownership of Australian land. He joins Jennie Lenman in her series of candidates with Mayo and Barker candidates.

A walking tour of Mannum's main street is on for South Australia's History Festival in May. The Mannum & District History Association is hosting the weekly events (Wednesdays 2-3.30 in May) at their brand new home, the Mannum Institute (47 Randall Road). Secretary, Jude Johnson, joins Jennie Lenman in this podcast to talk about Tinker, Tailor, Butcher, Baker and Even the Undertaker (Wednesdays in May 2-3.30pm), the birthday celebration this Monday 4 May, and to share some history of the town.

Opener. Overnight News - Good news for first home buyers, Boris Johnson banned for life from Russia & Aussies losing 3 nights per week because of snoring. What would you do if you find millions of dollars' worth of cocaine? Overnight Sport  Out and About with Loz! - Loz talks us through her trip to Mannum. What We Learnt - Roo learns that liars improve over time, Loz learns that koala's have fingerprints that are so similar to human's that they can get confused at crime scenes, Haydo learns that there is a Glenelg on Mars. Tex Walker on his return, the Trent Cotchin kick and on how Rory Sloane is doing. Rumour Mill - Roo's rumour that the 50kg of cocaine unaccounted for on a Yorke Peninsula beach. Ditts Gets Kicked Off a Plane! - Ditts has been bumped off a flight from Melbourne back to Adelaide because the flight was overbooked. Aunty Loz spoiling her niece with chocolate - Loz's friend doesn't let her kids have chocolate - even for Easter! They had apples and mandarins instead! Tom Rockliff - explains the front page story where he and his little boy Jack were spat at going to the Port game on the weekend. Rumour Mill Recap. Footy Hotline Recap - End. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Owner operator and Master Juggler, Kelly Kuhn (better known as 'Kel') has worked in the South Australian tourism industry for over 20 years, in private enterprise and more government departments than she cares to count. She is the creator of Juggle House Experiences and values the busy life her customers lead. Most recently while starting her tour business, Kelly was the Deputy Mayor of her local Council and tour host of Lions 360 Walk of the Brave at the world famous Monarto Zoo. Now when Kel is not on the road, she is busy juggling commitments for her two beautiful tween daughters, is a Board Member of the Murray River, Lakes and Coorong Tourism Alliance, the Governing Council Vice Chairperson of Mypolonga Primary School and Secretary of the local Progress Association. So, Kel truly lives up to her title as Master Juggler. And she can actually juggle for real - 3 in one hand, 2 in the other! Kelly's incredibly diverse background has seen her go from growing up on a wheat and sheep farm, to travelling the world for work through her state government marketing roles. From spending months in Mexico learning the tourism industry, to discovering stories on the back roads of Norfolk Island. Her public relations roles see her work closely with media and celebrities from around the nation, and all of these experiences roll into one incredibly knowledgeable and enthusiastic human! Kel holds an Advanced Diploma of Business in Tourism, and has inroads with oodles of fellow tourism businesses in regional South Australia to help get the best out of her customer's adventure. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

South Australian sculptor Greg Johns founded the Palmer Sculpture Landscape in 2001 as an awe-inspiring natural venue for contemporary sculpture. Since then, the Palmer Biennial Sculpture Exhibition has become a world class event and the land has transformed thanks to ongoing ecological restoration work. Greg joins Jennie Lenman in this podcast to talk about the exhibition and what is planned for the opening event on Saturday 19 March. The Palmer Sculpture Biennial opens on Saturday March 19th and will be open to the public on weekends (11am to 5.30pm) and Wednesday afternoons (2 to 5.30) until Sunday April 17th. For more information about the event and opening celebration, head to palmersculpturebiennial.org/about/   The property is 3.5 km down the Davenport Road which starts opposite the Hotel at Palmer on the way to Mannum.

Barry Burdett has been named the 2022 Mid Murray Council Citizen of the Year. The long-serving Mannum CFS member also volunteers with bushfire recovery organisation Blazeaid, is a long-standing member of the Lions Club of Mannum, volunteers with the local Luthern Church and is Deputy Chair of the Mannum Health Advisory Board. Barry joins Jennie Lenman in this podcast to reflect on his achievements so far.

A world-first space observatory to track space traffic has opened in the Murraylands. Using FM radio waves, Silentium Defence is tracking objects orbiting the Earth up to 10,000km into the sky from the edge of the internationally recognised Dark Sky Reserve. As the area is an ideal area for stargazing and tracking objects in space, a lot of work is going on to secure its promising future. Mid Murray Council Mayor Dave Burgess joins Jennie Lenman in this podcast to talk about the issue, along with news about the Cambrai and Mannum pools opening and to share his thoughts on how to tackle overabundant Little Corella populations in SA.

The State Government is investing $2M into the reopening of the Kanmantoo copper and gold mine in the Adelaide Hills in 2022. Meantime, a Murray Bridge Councillor is running for the seat of Hammond as an Independent next year, and concerns have been raised about emergency healthcare in Mannum.   Local Liberal Member Adrian Pederick, joins Jennie Lenman in this podcast to discuss.

There are concerns in Mannum about emergency health services in the region. More than 120 residents have signed a petition for better coverage and for the ambulance station to be fully funded. Task Driver Coordinator with the Retired Officers Association Ken Jenkins joins Jennie Lenman to discuss the issue. 

Mannum Dragon Boat Club has been selected to host the Annual Regional Hat Regatta with Dragon Boat SA on Saturday 12 February. Joining Jennie Lenman for a chat about what is in store is Mannum Dragon Boat Club Assistant Secretary and Public Officer, Colleen Walker and Promotions Officer Sue French.

Half of the aged care homes that have been identified as ‘below standard' in South Australia are in regional areas, prompting calls for better incentives to encourage workers to move to remote locations. The Aged Care Quality Safety Commission (ACQSC) has imposed non-compliance orders against 16 SA aged care homes. including Strathalbyn and District Aged Care, Aminya Village Hostel in Mannum and Aldinga Beach Court. CEO of COTA SA, Jane Mussared, joins Jennie Lenman in this podcast to talk about the issue and discuss the recent Country Conversations in Murray Bridge.

Fourteen of the 38 leaseholders at Mannum Caravan Park are being asked to leave. A letter from operators Big 4 Breeze Holiday Parks has been sent to the residents with news that their annual site licence agreement has been terminated and will not be renewed after the end of June. The Mid Murray Council owns the property but now leases it out on a long-term basis to Queensland-owned Big 4 Breeze Holiday Parks. Gary, who has been there for 28 years, joins Jennie Lenman in this podcast to discuss, followed by Ben Scales, Mid Murray Council Chief Executive (starts at 7'24").

Headlining the 2021 Sounds By The River Festival in Mannum, the legendary Jimmy Barnes can't wait to hit the stage! He joins Damon to talk time in lockdown with his wonderful wife Jane, his new book Killing Time and the story about leaving his daughter at a truck stop in Germany!

This week's episode of The Adelaide Show, Stories of shopping, summer, and Saturday nights, is an opportunity to remember what it was like growing up in South Australia in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. Our guides accompanying us on this nostalgic tour are Lina and Don Violi. Lina worked as a cigarette promotions girl as one of her early jobs, and Don has been a hairdresser in Adelaide for more decades than he cares to remember. This week, we have an SA Drink Of The Week from Shingleback Wines in McLaren Vale. In IS IT NEWS, Nigel challenges us on stories about Saturday Nights. In 100 Weeks Ago, we take you back to our trip to the Game Obsession Expo in Mannum. And in the musical pilgrimage ... we have a brand new song from Lost Woods. And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: podcast@theadelaideshow.com.au If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it. And please talk about us and share our episodes on social media, it really helps build our community. Oh, and here's our index of all episode in one concise page Support the show: https://theadelaideshow.com.au/listen-or-download-the-podcast/adelaide-in-crowd/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Adelaide Show 2017 Retrospective: Food, is a bite-sized recap of three of the tastiest slithers of food discussion held this year on the podcast. Our retrospective is co-hosted by 2017 guest, Leila Henderson. In 2017 we chatted a lot about food and wine and we should give honourable mentions to: Joy White from Homestead Lovers in Mannum with her food powders and Adelaide Show cushion Associate Professor Alison Coates and Michael Coates who introduced us to the rich history of almonds Kapil and Jo Gupta who recently introduced us to Indian food at India To You We also made salami with Don Violi and family Met an amazing Thai chef at Richard Fewster's Ruxton's Roses in the Riverland. But for this week's show we'll be revisiting: Pizza with Gaetano from Rostrevor Pizza Bar Sipping wine with Nick Ryan (wine writer) and Greg Follett (winemaker) Chocolate with Red Cacao chocolatier, Marcus Booth-Remmers This week, the SA Drink Of The Week is Penfolds Grange, which we will cook with. In 100 Weeks Ago, we hear from award-winning barbecue team, The Smoking Joint, before they were famous. And in the musical pilgrimage ... we'll go back to the coconut kids from episode 177. We also have an experiment. Steve has falling in love with Jon Blake's podcast from FIVEaa, not only because it is funny but also because he finds Jon to be an enigma. So, in our attempt at an homage to the great comic and announcer, we are experimenting with a segment called Bath Time With Blakey - it's a fly-on-the-wall glimpse into Jon Blake when he's away from the mic and behind closed doors! And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: podcast@theadelaideshow.com.au If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it. Support the show: https://theadelaideshow.com.au/listen-or-download-the-podcast/adelaide-in-crowd/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In South Australia, this month, you can choose peddle power or pedal power, depending on your needs and desires. Our main guest and co-host is Joy White from Homestead Lovers in Mannum. She espouses great peddle power in being able to create interest and desire for her growing and inventive range of food powders and other treats. Meanwhile, Tiffany Cromwell, Adelaide's top ten international cyclist and our queen of pedal power, shares some thoughts ahed of the Tour Down Under on dealing with saddles and pain, sharing the road and some of her favourite spots for cycling around her hometown. This week, the SA Drink Of The Week is from Heward Estate Nigel will start the year, trying to stump you and our guests with IS IT NEWS. And the Skeleton Club will rattle and shake the musical pilgrimage. Next week, former Royal Adelaide Show Society President, Richard Fewster, will be introducing us to his Riverland. And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: podcast@theadelaideshow.com.au If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it. Support the show: https://theadelaideshow.com.au/listen-or-download-the-podcast/adelaide-in-crowd/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pokemon GO has dominated the collective imagination for three months now, rekindling memories of youth for children of the 90s and reawakening the spirit of playtime for other generations. Some have argued Pokemon GO fascination borders on obsession with a suggestion that obsession is something new. Here at the Game Obsession Expo in Mannum, we're being reminded that obsession predates Pokemon and will outlive it too. But can it be healthy? Let's find out with the man behind the expo, secretary of the Mannum Show, Gavin Pitman. We discuss Red Sonja Chainmail outfits Country shows Local honey Collecting Role Play and gaming in regional areas Also appearing on Game Obsession Mannum Our guests include: Gavin Pitman - treasurer Mannum Show and collector Chris Berkin, apiarist and Warhammer enthusiast Firebear, chainmail maker SA Quidditch Association's Danni McCormick and Kirsty Lucas In the musical pilgrimage, Dan Drummond is onto the dopamine game! The SA Drink Of The Week is a honey. Yes, you heard that right! In IS IT NEWS, Nigel tests us on games Support the show: https://theadelaideshow.com.au/listen-or-download-the-podcast/adelaide-in-crowd/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.