Southern FM’s Colin Tyrus has been a lifelong fan of Bert Newton. In this special tribute, Colin speaks with some of Bert’s former colleagues including GTV 9 legends Pete Smith and Philip Brady. You’ll also hear from Bert’s Good Morning Australia music director John Foreman and the pioneering TV comedy writer Mike McColl-Jones. Pictured: Graham Kennedy (left) and Bert Newton
Read moreBEST MEDICINE – today 9/11/21 – Victorian Disability Sport & Recreation Awards; then the Gathering of Kindness. Please join me, Gaytana
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After months of darkness and uncertainty, local theatre is getting ready to return. On A Newsman and His Music this week, Colin spoke with Brighton Theatre Company board member Deborah Fabbro who tells us what’s on the playbill for 2022. Bookings and info: brightontheatre.com.au
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In this podcast from A Newsman and His Music, Colin is speaking with the CEO of the Shrine of Remembrance Dean Lee. Every year, at 11am on 11 November—the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month—we pause to remember those men and women who have served and those who have died in all wars and peacekeeping operations.
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$85.7m was lost to pokie machines in the Kingston Municipality in the 2019/20 financial year – that’s more than the council’s capital works budget. Kingston Council has a commissioned a new play called Enough is Enough to tell the stories of those most affected by gambling harm. Playwright Kieran Carroll spoke with Hear and There presenter Nathan Reynolds about the
Read moreThe Many Saints of Newark is writer/ producer David Chase’s eagerly anticipated feature-length prequel to one of the most lauded TV series in history, The Sopranos. While the show’s contemporary The Wire was about sociology, The Sopranos was about psychology, its central motif was the therapy that mob boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) underwent with psychiatrist Dr Melfi (Lorraine Bracco).
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