Hi Everyone, I’ve decided to start loading up to our podcast page some of my past interviews (with music) with major recording artists from my last 18 years on 88.3 Southern FM, here in Melbourne, Australia. I selected Ringo Starr to go first, seeing that I’m one of the
Read moreLet’s Be Cops is a major source of disappointment. It had most of the credentials for a mega turkey: a buddy cop piss-take storyline and a Wayans a in a lead role but astonishingly the film exceeds all expectations by being mediocre. It’s probably because Lets Be Cops borrows so liberally from other films such as Beverley Hills Cop, Stripes
Read moreLove, Rosie at first seems to be just another cute, fluffy British (or more accurately Irish) rom-com full of unrealistically pretty people enjoying idealised twenty-something lifestyles. As we have seen, though, with Studio Canal films such as the similarly named Love, Actually, these types of movies have a sneaky way of seducing audiences with their romantic fantasy world. This film
Read moreListen to Songs of Hope tomorrow at 8:45am to hear Rod interview Canadian Brian McConaghy. In 1989 Brian founded a charity Ratanak International to help the people of Cambodia, a people devastated by Khmer Rouge murderings and atrocies. Ratanak has built schools, clinics and hospitals, opened orphanages, provided shelters for the elderly and AIDS victims, and initiated emergency programs in
Read moreThis week on “Built For Speed” we review Ridley Scott’s latest film, biblical epic, Exodus: Gods and Kings. We also take a look at Jason Reitman’s latest examination of modern day spiritual emptiness in Men, Women and Children. There’s plenty of fine music including “Built For Speed” favourites from Radio Birdman and You Am I and new tracks from the likes of
Read moreOn this Purple Haze Archive podcast we present one of Australia’s greatest entertainers ever! Normie Rowe AM has been wowing audiences for over half a century & still continues his dynamic live performances. His back catalogue is one of Australia’s most enduring with hits such as: “Shakin’ All Over”, “Que Sera Sera”, Ooh La La”, “It Ain’t Necessarily So“, & many many others. Normie continues
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