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NEW Music added this week Angus Stone - Broken Nights Emmy Bryce - Every Star Is A Setting Sun For ...

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Great Australia Day Swim Live Broadcast Join us on Australia Day morning, as we broadcast live from the Great Australia ...

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Stage set for a fantastic World Music Festival 28th & 29th January, will be broadcast live on 88.3 A talented line up of musicians will perform at the spectacular 2012 Globe to ...

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RADIO GA GA PRESENTS……………………. THE STARS OF COUNTDOWN

It is Australian Music Week on Southern FM and by way of tribute Radio Ga Ga is going to feature all of the Australian acts who made their name, had an impact or simply appeared on the Sunday night fixture that was Countdown. Legendary acts such as Skyhooks, Sherbet, Dragon, Cold Chisel, ACDC, John Paul...

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DREAMBOOGIE’S AUSTRALIA DAY SPECIAL FROM 2PM

A totally excellent show at the GH Hotel in St.Kilda featuring some of AUSTRALIA’S finest blues musicians on Sunday 22nd January was captured for posterity by the Southern FM team and now you get to hear it on 88.3 on AUSTRALIA DAY. Following our live broadcast of the Great Australia Day Swim from Brighton Beach...

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Two up Front – all things soccer – starts Wed 25th

The world game hits 88.3 Fm Wednesday 25th Jan from 6pm -7.  Co hosts, Joe Novella and Simon “Nige” Mansell will be covering everything soccer from the grassroots to the elite levels. These self-proclaimed revolutionaries are aiming to “bring the game back to the fans”. On their first show the lads will be looking at...

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First fleet chaplain thanks God – podcast

Thursday this week is Australia Day. Listen again to the story of the first fleet chaplain Richard Johnson (4 minutes). He preached the first Christian sermon in Australia, thanking God for safe arrival and a new land. Program “Songs of Hope”, segment “Christians who have made a difference” on 2012 01 22.     [display_podcast]

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First sermon in Australia – Bible verse podcast

Listen again to the Bible reading and Bible verse for the first sermon in Australia on 3 feb 1788. First fleet chaplain Richard Johnson preached to the colony on Psalm 116 verse 12 “What shall I render unto the Lord for all that he has done for me?” Program “Songs of Hope” 2012 01 22. [display_podcast]

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HOT AUGUST NIGHT in its entirety on Purplr Haze Classic Albums, Wednesday night 1/2/12 8pm!

A SouthernFM special event on Purple Haze Classic Albums with Mark Naumann – the classic double album from Neil Diamond – Hot August Night. I will play all 4 sides uninterrupted interspersed with lots of facts and trivia on Diamonds career – a show not to be missed. Wednesday night from 8pm 1/2/12, tune in...

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Built for Speed: Playlist for 20th January 2012

PLAY LIST 20/1/2012  1.     COURTNEY LOVE – Mono 2.     YOU AM I – Fifteen 3.      THE DAMNED – Song.com 4.       YEAH YEAH YEAHS – Turn into 5.       CAPTAIN SENSIBLE – Wot 6.       28 DAYS – Rip it up 7.       HOODOO GURUS – I want you back 8.       DEREK AND THE DOMINOS – Bell Bottom Blues...

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Film review: TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY from Built for Speed

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy which is directed by Let the Right One In’s Thomas Alfredson is the second adaptation of the famed John Le Carre spy thriller; it was previously turned into a TV mini-series in 1979.  This film certainly has impressive credentials: it’s adapted from an acclaimed novel and features a stellar cast including...

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Film review: WAR HORSE from Built for Speed

Stephen Spielberg’s old fashioned WW1 epic War Horse is at times thrilling and moving but too often falls victim to Spielberg’s cheesy filmmaking style. Initially set in a John Ford approved scenic English valley, the film sees young Albert (Jeremy Irvine) the son of a turnip farmer dedicating himself to raising a thoroughbred horse named...

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Rock The House Down is on again!

That’s right Rock The House Down is once again this Saturday from 2-4pm on 88.3 Southern FM. So tune in to listen to myself, Troy McVay, bring you “The Show Where We Go Through All Eras Of Rock And Roll” with artists including: Pete Murray, Genesis, AC/DC, Johnny Diesel & The Injectors, a new local band called Dreams...

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