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Out of the Box

Each week, we delve into someone's record collection and talk about the music they love, the life they lead and how the two interact. Hosted by Mia Hull. Track lists every week at http://fbiradio.com/program/out-of-the-box/ Subscribe on iTunes or elsewhere.


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Tanya Ali from 2023-10-02T20:50:41

Tanya Ali is no stranger to you - she's the host of Wednesday lunch, as well as FBi Radio’s managing director, so she drives a lot of what we do here at station. During our Supporter Drive, she ...

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Antonia Gauci from 2023-09-04T07:49:35

Antonia Gauci is no stranger to FBi Radio. She’s a former presenter, our current sponsorship producer, and we play her songs on the radio all the time (she’s a member of the alt-pop three piece ...

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Chris Payne and Michael Gill from 2023-08-22T06:12:54

Chris Payne and Michael Gill are craftspeople, artists, radio presenters, snake rescuers, educators and owners of a wildlife refuge. Their story is about turning their interests into passions. T...

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José Alkon from 2022-04-21T06:27:27

José Alkon is a storyteller. As the owner of a Peruvian ‘taberna’ in Marrickville and as a career cinematographer, José’s stories are colourful and full of life and they traverse the globe. In this...

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Fred Smith from 2022-04-18T11:46:14

Artist and diplomat Fred Smith speaks on traversing the nature strip between his career paths. Fred’s songs reflect the world he has seen in what, so far, has been a messy and interesting life. He ...

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Jisu Im from 2022-04-18T11:42:54

Jisu Im is a full-time digital and multi-platform artist. In this interview and across their artistic practice, Jisu looks at self-love, self-acceptance, and heartbreak through a colourful and cute...

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Eliza Hull from 2022-04-18T11:38:38

Artist, writer, journalist, mum, and disability advocate Eliza Hull speaks on the roles each of those titles play in her life and how they interact. Eliza’s new book, ‘We’ve Got This’, looks at the...

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Lily Balatincz from 2022-03-18T01:35:43

Director, actor and producer Lily Balatincz speaks on the way the arts can reflect society back to us. She sat down with Mia ahead of her directing debut, ‘bad machine’, which looks at the human im...

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Maeve Marsden from 2022-03-11T04:59

Independent artist and creative producer Maeve Marsden is a master storyteller. She speaks on her life in the arts, the necessary messiness of her 20s, queer stories and the way they’re shared, how...

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Sophie Hardcastle from 2022-03-11T03:18

Sophie Hardcastle is an author, artist, screenwriter and scholar. Their name lives on the cover of the critically acclaimed ‘Running Like China: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Madness’ , and ‘Br...

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Hellen Rose from 2022-02-16T01:22

Hellen Rose has made a few cameos on Out of the Box before - both as a character in someone else’s stories, and the singer of a track chosen by a previous guest. She is a performance artist, lead s...

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Peter Day from 2022-02-07T23:06:55

Peter Day is a South West Sydney artist who's worked professionally for more 45 years. He specialises in both fine art and site-specific community engaged public art. He sat down with Mia to run t...

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Karla Dickens from 2022-01-19T21:50

Karla Dickens is a cross cultural artist. She also crosses mediums on this episode of Out of the Box: poring through memories both sonic and visual. She talked about the music she loves, the places...

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Dr Stephen Jurd from 2022-01-13T06:31

Dr Stephen Jurd is an addiction medicine specialist psychiatrist, Clinical Associate Professor at University of Sydney and has been instrumental in developing addiction recovery services and 12 ste...

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Martin del Amo from 2022-01-06T06:17

Acclaimed choreographer and dancer Martin del Amo sat down with Mia ahead of his show ‘Mirage’ as part of Sydney Festival 2022. He discussed how he came to develop his idiosyncratic, some might say...

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2021 Wrap-Up from 2021-12-30T06:58

2021 was a huge year for Out of the Box, and we're celebrating that by doing a huge end-of-year wrap-up. We connected over Zoom a lot this year, and we walked through the chronologies of some very ...

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Courtney Ammenhauser from 2021-12-24T07:42

Two weeks after wrapping up on FBi’s breakfast program Up For It, Courtney Ammenhauser made a grand return to the station to jump on the Out of the Box guest mic. It turns out she has a whole life ...

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Gabbi Bolt from 2021-12-16T08:15:25

Gabbi Bolt is a musical comedian, Tik Tok star, and writer for The Chaser. She sat down with Mia ahead of her first solo show, ‘I Hope My Keyboard Doesn’t Break’ to chat about the way people don’t ...

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Glace Chase from 2021-12-10T11:57:28

Glace Chase is a multiple award-winning multi-disciplinary trans-queen, performer, playwright, comic, screenwriter, tour guide, and fixture in New York City's drag community. She sat down with Mia ...

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Miro Bilbrough from 2021-12-08T06:31:06

Miro Bilbrough is an artist, poet, screenwriter and filmmaker. She sat down with Mia to chat about her new memoir 'In the Time of the Manaroans', and tease out some of the stories it contains. From...

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Rainbow Chan from 2021-11-25T03:54:22

Rainbow Chan is a musician, producer, vocalist, and interdisciplinary artist of Hong Kong-Chinese descent, living in Sydney. She sat down with Mia to roll through her earliest memories in Hong Kon...

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Michael Shafar from 2021-11-19T02:45:20

Michael Shafar is a standup comic, and writer for Network 10’s The Project and Studio 10. You might have also caught him on ABC’s Comedy Bites, and Triple J’s Good Az Friday. He sat down with Mia ...

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Shane Jenek (AKA Courtney Act) from 2021-11-12T03:04

You might know Shane Jenek by their drag name Courtney Act. They’re a drag artist, singer, advocate, cultural provocateur, and now author, with their memoir ‘Caught in the Act’ hitting shelves ahea...

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Brendan Cowell from 2021-11-04T03:47

Brendan Cowell is a master storyteller. I skill that’s shown its face in his acting, directing, plays, tv-series, books, and poetry. He caught up with Mia to discuss his new novel ‘Plum’, which chr...

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Paul McDermott from 2021-10-22T04:52:29

Paul McDermott makes a mean cup of tea. But you probably know him better as a member of the Doug Anthony All Stars and the former host of Good News Week. This week, he catches up with Mia to talk ...

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Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran from 2021-10-20T07:28

Sri Lankan-born contemporary artist Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran sat down with Mia ahead of his latest exhibition, 'The Guardians'. They discussed the materials and ideas that form his artistic practi...

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Yehudis Milchtein from 2021-10-08T04:55:59

Yehudis Milchtein reached out to FBi Radio from Paris to promote the band Moonage Hookers, which she manages, but Out of the Box EP Glen Wolter discovered that Yehudis herself had an incredible sto...

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AViVA from 2021-10-01T03:33

Musician and (newly appointed) author AViVA sat down with Mia ahead of publishing her book 'SELF/LESS' - the first book in a young adult series. Along with reflecting on the contents of 'SELF/LESS'...

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Isabelle Reinecke from 2021-09-27T06:56:58

Isabelle Reinecke is a movement lawyer: someone who uses the power of law to serve social movments. Isabelle is the Founder and Executive Director of Grata Fund, the 2021 Women's Leadership Institu...

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Phil Ferguson from 2021-09-23T06:32

Instafluencer, artist and emerging TV personality Phil Ferguson, aka @chilyphilly, joins Mia to talk about growing up in a small-country town and the artistic influence of both their family and rur...

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Tanya Plibersek from 2021-09-02T07:52:45

The proudly Labor Member for Sydney, Hon. Tanya Plibersek MP, joins Mia to talk about growing up in a politically engaged Slovenian-Australian family with two encouraging older brothers; her entry ...

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Dr George Gittoes AM from 2021-08-26T04:13:32

Dr George Gittoes AM is currently on his way back to Jalalabad in Afghanistan, where his Yellow House helps young people in the community, including young women, build their skills in creative arts...

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Bart Denaro from 2021-08-12T12:40

Bart Denaro — current MusicNSW Head of Content / former Kid Confucius drummer, Briscoe frontman, and FBi volunteer manager — conducts a long-overdue "exit interview" with Mia. He talks about bombin...

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Jess Scully from 2021-08-05T12:02

Our guest today is creative industries innovator, Councillor, and Deputy Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney Jess Scully. Jess tells Mia about her childhood in the Western suburbs and Central Tablelan...

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Chas Licciardello from 2021-08-02T06:34

It's fair to say that Chas Licciardello has become a phoenix within the Australian media landscape. In this episode, he talks to Mia about growing up as a perpetually sick and hyperrational kid fro...

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Amani Haydar from 2021-07-22T05:27

Content warning: This episode contains discussions of domestic and family violence Amani Haydar is a writer, artist and advocate for women's safety. She has just published her memoir 'The Mother W...

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Alexandra Keddie and Bobbie-Jean Henning from 2021-07-19T04:53:22

Alexandra Keddie and Bobbie-Jean Henning - creators, writers, superstars, and very famous people - dial in from Naarm/Melbourne to chat to Mia about their brand new mockumentary web series 'The Pow...

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Lewis McKirdy from 2021-07-08T14:01

Today Mia welcomes into the (socially distanced) studio former Triple J presenter and newly appointed FBi Managing Director Lewis McKirdy. They talk life after Triple J, eventful childhood holidays...

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Kaya Wilson from 2021-06-24T08:23

Kaya Wilson's story is set in, on, and around oceans. He was nurtured by oceans across the globe, suffered a traumatic injury at a beach, recovered in the sea, and has committed his working life to...

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Bre Jones from 2021-06-09T09:37

Bre Jones, the now-former executive producer of Out of the Box, has a whole life outside of FBi. It's one that's seen her amazing friends and her love for music serve as crutches during hard times....

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Dorothy McRae McMahon from 2021-06-09T09:35:45

Dorothy McRae McMahon is a celebrated activist, retired Australian Uniting Church minister, lesbian icon, and co-editor of the South Sydney Herald. Her life is one of very high highs, and very low ...

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Blak Douglas from 2021-06-09T09:33:57

Blak Douglas is a proud Dungutti man and self-taught painter. His artworks are culturally and politically charged and he’s been an Archibald Prize finalist four times. Blak spoke about the life he’...

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Dan Pash from 2021-06-09T09:31:57

In 2011 Dan Pash's band Leader Cheetah was championed as “Australia’s Biggest Export” by Rolling Stone. A classically trained clarinet player turned indie rocker, things were looking up for Dan. Ho...

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Tyree Barnette from 2021-05-06T08:32:23

Tyree Barnette is a storyteller. In the sense that he’s a former journalist, in the sense that his writing has been published by the SBS and in multiple Sweatshop Literacy Movement anthologies, and...

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Lizzy Hoo from 2021-04-29T02:54:37

Lizzy Hoo is a writer, actor, and a rising star in Sydney's comedy scene. She sat down with Mia ahead of a spate of shows at Sydney Comedy Festival to talk about her neverending hustle and childhoo...

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Shirley Le from 2021-04-23T07:22

Shirley Le is a creative producer at Sweatshop Literacy Movement. She’s also a second-generation Vietnamese-Australian who grew up in western Sydney. Her roots and her postcode used to create an in...

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Nancy Denis from 2021-04-23T07:13:58

Today’s guest on Out of the Box is Haitian-Australian Nancy Denis. She’s a writer, singer, dancer, and actor, but above all those she’s a fighter. She fights little battles every day – from attendi...

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Lindsay McDougall from 2021-04-08T03:23

You’ve most likely heard Lindsay McDougall’s voice on your radio before. He’s the current host of Drive on ABC Illawarra, and before rhat spent a decade as Triple J’s ‘The Doctor’. His story is one...

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Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts from 2021-04-05T02:30:40

Bundjalung woman, Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts, is an activist, writer and storyteller. At the age of 10, Vanessa was forcibly removed from her family by the Department of Community Services (now the D...

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Ana Maria Belo from 2021-03-18T05:38:33

Growing up, Ana Maria Belo was a dedicated music student hiding a secret from her teachers and her peers. She was deaf. Now as the Ambassador for the Shepherd Centre, Ana Maria helps children with ...

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Donny Benet from 2021-03-13T03:18:17

We all have different hats we wear in different places. Work hats, home hats, friend hats. The Donny Benet hat is known for shimmering, ironic, 80s disco, but it’s not always the one Donny wears. I...

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Jamarz On Marz from 2021-03-04T02:00

You might remember Jamarz On Marz from a viral campaign he lead last year which asked education ministers in each state and territory to stop schools restricting afro-textured hair. Along with his ...

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Rosie Piper from 2021-02-24T23:08:36

The walls of Rosie Piper’s apartment have seen highs and lows in the nine years she’s lived there. They’ve seen her go through breakups, they’ve watched her career as a comic evolve, and they’ve be...

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Bianca Willoughby from 2021-02-17T22:43

Bianca Willoughby is the artist formerly known as John A Douglas, and her identity is largely invisible. Beneath her skin is an invisible disability, a cultural background with many missing puzzle ...

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Robyn Kennedy from 2021-02-15T05:03:49

Robyn Kenney is a proud 78er - which is to say she took part in Sydney’s first Mardi Gras march in 1978. She is a radical, and she’s spent a lifetime addressing social inequity through her activis...

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Tilly Lawless from 2021-02-04T02:45

Sex work and feminism have a complex relationship. Tilly Lawless sits between the two.

In 2015 she coined a viral hashtag that attached her name to sex work forever. Unlike many sex worker...

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James Jirat Patradoon from 2021-02-04T02:35

If you find yourself at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art's offsite gallery at in World Square tomorrow, you'll enter hypercoloured scenes of life and death. You'll see contemporary Chinese Zodi...

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Winnie Dunn from 2021-01-21T03:56

As a mixed-race Tongan Australian kid growing up in Mt Druitt, Winnie Dunn thought her home was a place the arts came to die. She didn't access culturally diverse Australian writing in School or un...

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Ziggy Ramo from 2021-01-18T05:27

In 2015, activist and rapper, Ziggy Ramo wrote an album he described as an obituary. ‘Black Thoughts’ delved into the issues Aboriginal people face in Australia, from the perspective of someone on ...

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FBi Alumni Supporter Drive Special from 2020-09-28T08:14

This week on Out of the Box, we’re taking a look back at some stories from some much loved FBi alumni - Bridie Tanner, Stu Buchanan, Avani Dias, Osman Faruqi and Serge Negus. See omnystudio.com/li...

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Sean Sweeney from 2020-03-05T02:00

Sean Sweeney gained Australia's attention as being the big, bearded AUSLAN interpreter for the NSW Rural Fire Service during the 2019 - 2020 Australian bushfire crisis. Sean was born as the first h...

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Ricky Simundjuntak from 2020-02-27T02:00

Ricky Simandjuntak is the manager of Western Sydney drill group, OneFour. Despite pressure from police, they have become an international sensation. Ricky has been a feature in the recent renaissan...

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Amber Jackson from 2020-02-20T02:00

In the 1970s, a group of women decamped to Amazon Acres in Northern NSW to create a small society completely free of men. Amber Jackson was one of them. As a kid she grew up with her Mum in a femin...

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Susan Francis from 2020-02-13T02:21

When Susan Francis was a baby, she was privately adopted from a doctor's practice in Newcastle, NSW. In her 30s Susan went on a search for her biological parents. It would take her 20 years and all...

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Ron McCallum from 2020-01-23T02:00

Ron McCallum is the former Dean of the University of Sydney Law School, the chair the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Geneva, and a senior Australian of the y...

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A'isyiyah from 2020-01-16T02:00

Joey is joined by A'isyiyah - activist, community organiser and vocalist of SMAC nominated, anti-colonial hardcore group Arafura. Before music, A'isyiyah spent their childhood fighting for their fa...

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Osman Faruqi from 2019-12-19T03:00

Osman Faruqi is a journalist and commentator. And in that pursuit, he’s been exposed some of the most vitriolic, tactical abuse that Australia’s far right are capable of producing. Os has also had ...

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Jane Caro from 2019-12-05T02:00

Jane Caro is now known best for her advocacy as a writer and public commentator but it all started in the no rules, man’s world of Australian advertising in the 1970s. Now with over 8 books behind ...

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Avani Dias from 2019-11-28T03:00

From South West Sydney, Avani is weeks away from taking over as the presenter of Triple J’s youth issues and current affairs program, Hack. Like many figures in the Australian media landscape, Avan...

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Clare Bowditch from 2019-11-14T09:00

Clare Bowditch has an impressive stack of achievements to her name: seven albums, an acting career, a stack of ARIA’s, and a Rolling Stone Magazine ‘Woman of the Year’ nod. But away from the public...

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Debra Keenahan from 2019-11-07T02:00

Debra Keenahan is a psychologist, academic, artist and activist. Currently undertaking her second PhD, she explores themes of Dehumanisation and the Disability Aesthetic throughout her work in both...

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Gayle Austin from 2019-10-31T02:00

With an estimated 40,000 hours of music programming under her belt, Gayle Austin is Australia’s first female rock DJ. A true trailblazer, Gayle started working in Sydney radio in the late 1960s, pr...

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Ruby Hamad from 2019-09-19T03:00

Writer Ruby Hamad’s bread and butter is tackling big issues like identity and intersectionality. As the daughter of Syrian-Lebanese refugees, Ruby has experienced the breadth of what it means to be...

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Bridie Tanner from 2019-09-14T08:00

Mornings radio star, Bridie Tanner, joins Out of the Box for our special Supporter Drive episode. From growing up in regional NSW, travelling around Australia in a protest rave as a young kid and c...

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DeRay McKesson from 2019-09-05T03:00

When protest broke out on the streets of Fergusson, Missouri in opposition to police violence against African American’s and other minorities, DeRay left a comfortable job as a school administrator...

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Stuart Buchanan from 2019-08-29T03:00

On this day 16 years ago, Stuart Buchanan was one of the many midwives and midhusbands who helped birth FBi Radio. In the early 2000’s, he was at the frontier carving out the relationship between m...

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Glenn Lockitch from 2019-08-22T03:00

Glenn is a photographer and photojournalist with a purpose. For 25 years Glenn has carried the flag of human rights and environmental activism through his camera. It’s a passion and a mission that ...

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Murray Cook from 2019-08-15T03:00

For 20 years Murray graced Australian televisions as the Red Wiggle. He played everywhere from regional NSW to New York’s Maddison Square Garden and became a much loved part of millions of childhoo...

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Hazem Shammas from 2019-07-25T03:00

Hazem Shammas last year won a Logie for his role in TV show Safe Harbour, a drama which follows the story of five Australians who set out on a sailing holiday and encounter an overcrowded fishing b...

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Michael Mohammed Ahmad from 2019-07-18T04:00

Michael Mohammed Ahmad came of age as a young Muslim man in Western Sydney in the notoriously violent world of Punchbowl Boys High. This became the setting for his award-winning book a work of auto...

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Emelda Davis from 2019-07-11T04:00

Emelda’s grandfather was kidnapped on a beach in Vanuatu and brought to Australia as a 12 year old boy to work in unspeakably harsh conditions on the sugar plantations of Northern Queensland. It’s ...

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Ray Ahn from 2019-07-04T03:00

Today Joey chats with bass player Ray Ahn of Australia’s thumping 80s pub rock bands, controversially titled, The Hard-Ons. Ray acts as a chronicler of the wild Australian DIY scene of the 80s and ...

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Bri Lee from 2019-07-04T03:00

Bri Lee was a District Court Judge's Associate in Queensland where she was exposed to some of the worst rape cases in the country. It was dealing with these traumatic stories that spurred Bri to co...

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Rick Morton from 2019-06-20T03:00

Rick Morton is a social affairs journalist and writer, but Rick’s own story is a social affairs scoop like no other. When Rick was little growing up in the extremely remote and dusty Qld outback a ...

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Dor Akech Achiek from 2019-06-13T03:00

  As a young boy, Dor Akech Achiek spent 9 years in a refugee camp in Kenya, after escaping war-torn South Sudan.Once Australia accepted his family as refugees, as a teenager, Dor was educated at ...

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Steve Bunbajee Hodder Watt from 2019-05-30T05:00

Steve Bunbajee Hodder Watt is a radio maker but you won’t hear him stuck in traffic in the city. As the Senior News&Current Affairs presenter at Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association he ...

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Mahmood Fazal from 2019-05-23T05:00

Mahmood Fazal was once the sergeant-of-arms of the Mongols, one of Australia’s largest outlaw motorcycle clubs. He was in an environment shrouded in addiction, violence and often death. Now this is...

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Nina Oyama from 2019-05-16T05:00

Nina Oyama, has been a bong smoker, a party goer, and done a dash working the counter at Supré but she is nothing short of a chronic overachiever. Just out of uni she was picked up to play a recur...

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Dr Karl from 2019-05-09T03:00

Karl Kruszelnicki is better known as ‘Dr Karl’ is an Australian science communicator and populariser. Dr Karl can be found on radio and television spitting out interesting but bizarre facts on scie...

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Akala from 2019-05-02T02:00

Akala is a rapper, who through his music, activism and writing are confronting issues of race and class that are at the heart of the legacy of the British Empire. Our guest today has spoken at wri...

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Fiona Wright from 2019-04-25T06:00

Fiona Wright is a writer, poet and critic from South Sydney. While attending university at the age of 19, a malicious version of anorexia struck. One that would define her life today. She is now a...

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Ella Dreyfus from 2019-04-11T03:00

Ella Dreyfus is a photographer with an impressive career spanning over 30 years. Her work is often confronting and deals with issues as conceptual as masculinity to as real as the holocaust, and th...

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Sara Mansour from 2019-04-04T03:00

Sara Mansour is a lawyer, poet, co-founder and director of Bankstown Poetry Slam. Sara uses her art and passion for justice to empower others through poetry. Sara Mansour, the oldest of eight chil...

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Eddie Woo from 2019-03-28T02:00

Eddie Woo is an Australian mathematician best known for his YouTube Channel focused on explanations of math problems, live from the classroom. Eddie’s parents placed a lot of importance on educati...

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Nikhil Autar from 2019-03-21T05:00

Nikhil Autar is a 25-year-old social entrepreneur, writer, speaker, medical student, and survivor of childhood cancer. Growing up Nikhil's dad made him watch every episode of M.A.S.H, where the ch...

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Clementine Ford from 2019-03-14T02:00

Clementine Ford, is a prominant Australian feminist, writer and broadcaster. With two books, and a large social media following, Clementine is to the point in calling out sexism, and harpering on t...

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Aunty Norma Ingram from 2019-03-07T04:49

Aunty Norma Ingram is a proud Indigenous woman, who was at the centre of the black movement in Australia in the 1970s, and is still fighting for Aboriginal rights now. Aunty Norma is a Wiradjuri w...

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Eva Cox from 2019-03-01T00:15

Eva Cox is a woman who likes to push for change from the outside in. Eva is an activist, a feminist, socialist and social commentator. Eva Cox was born into a Jewish family in Vienna, just weeks b...

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Mojo Juju from 2019-02-21T04:58

Mojo Juju, founding member, songwriter and vocalist for notorious, seven-piece noir punk/garage switch bank ‘The Snake Oil Merchants’, sits down and tell us how she broke out on her own, although b...

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Stella Donnelly from 2019-02-14T01:00

Stella Donnelly is an Australian musician from Perth, Australia. Donnelly started off singing Green Day songs in her high school rock band. This eventually leads to her interest in jazz and contem...

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Fr Rod Bower from 2019-02-07T01:00

Today Joey chats to Father Rod Bower. In July 2013 the sign outside the Gosford Anglican Church was thrust into the center of Australia’s national conversation when Rod changed it to read 'DEAR CH...

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Lexi Freiman from 2019-01-31T01:00

Lexi grew up in the leafy eastern suburbs of Sydney in a secular Jewish family – the granddaughter of Hungarian refugees. Perhaps she didn’t know it at the time but after having a go as a play wri...

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Le Gateau Chocolat from 2019-01-24T01:00

Today Joey chats to drag artist Le Gateau Chocolat. Gateau was raised in the bustling seaside Nigerian city of Lagos, in a conservative Pentecostal family – he grew up suppressing his identity in ...

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Omar Musa from 2019-01-17T01:00

Today, rapper, poet, playwright, and novelist, Omar Musa. When Omar was growing up in the regional NSW town of Queenbeyan, the son of a theatre historian and Malaysian poet, he fell slowly into th...

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Stuart Coupe from 2019-01-10T01:00

Today Joey speaks to Stuart Coupe. When Stuart moved from the northern Tasmanian town of Launceston to Adelaide in the mid-70s he was a representative squash player, with a passion for music, and ...

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Mark Gerber from 2019-01-03T01:00

Today Joey speaks to the owner of Oxford Art Factory Mark Gerber.  When Mark Gerber moved to Australia in 1971 he was a ten year old with a budding appreciation for the arts. His life to that poin...

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Ravi Prasad from 2018-12-27T02:00

Today Joey speaks to Ravi Prasad. Almost eight years ago Ravi watched his eldest daughter stop breathing moments after she was born – she survived, but it was a moment that changed everything. Up ...

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Serge Negus from 2018-12-20T01:00

Over two years Serge has chatted with an incredible selection of people from the rapper Briggs, to journalist Jan Fran, to Anthony Albanese MP – his radio life continues now at triple J where he pr...

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Chris Csabs from 2018-07-21T02:00

At just 16 years of age Chris Csab began gay conversion therapy and in decade following, it left him celibate, feeling a deep sense of shame, and ultimately suicidal. But his story is one that has ...

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Emily Nichol from 2018-07-05T06:47

Indigenous broadcasting and all-round media talent Emily Nichols talks to Serge about powerful indigenous women and the best and brightest new indigenous artists. See omnystudio.com/listener for p...

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Marty Smiley from 2018-06-21T02:00

Presenter and reporter for The Feed on SBS Marty Smiley talks to Serge about his Lebanese heritage and making great stories with a tongue in cheek. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat...

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Mari Andrew from 2018-06-14T06:46

Mari Andrew is a writer and illustrator in New York City who has taken Instagram by storm with her modern take on becoming an adult.

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Shaun White from 2018-05-24T02:00

The greatest snowboarder of all time, 3 times Olympic gold medalist, 15 times X-games gold medalist Shaun White talks to Serge about what life is like for a GOAT!

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Alexis Okeowo from 2018-05-17T02:00

American writer and journalist Alexis Okeowo works for the new yorker as a staff writer and has spent years reporting across Africa, the experience of which she has now chronicled in a new book.

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Dave Thornton from 2018-05-10T06:29

Comedian, radio presenter and all-round funny man Dave Thornton chats to Serge about throwing away a secure job to become a dad and tour the comedy circuit.

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James Maskarlick from 2018-05-03T02:00

James Maskarlick is an emergency room doctor from Canada and a member for Medicins sans frontiers who spends half his life working in a state-of-the-art hospital in Toronto, the other half, in make...

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Jennifer Newman from 2018-04-26T02:00

Indigenous academic Jennifer Newman talks to Serge about the changing face of education for Australia's first people.

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Jen Wong from 2018-04-19T02:00

Comedian, writer and all-round media star Jen Wong talks to Serge about racism and passionate enthusiasm for work.

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Bianca Elmir from 2018-04-12T02:00

Woman, muslim, boxer, boss... what more is there to say about Bianca Elmir? A lot! Listen in to Her candid chat about going from kidnapped kid to boxing bad ass.

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Jan Fran from 2018-04-05T02:00

Journalist, documentary maker and presenter of The Feed on SBS chats to Serge about travel, the media and feminism.

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Scottie Marsh from 2018-03-29T01:00

The notorious Sydney street artsist Scott Marsh talks to Serge Negus about the politics of art, the graff scene and making a living out of what you love.

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Maddison Connaughton from 2018-03-22T01:00

Features editor at VICE Australia Maddison Connaughton talks to Serge about the ups and the downs of working as a young journo.

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Tim Omaji aka Timomatic from 2018-03-08T01:00

Tim Omaji aka Timomatic talks to Serge about pop music, creating, and the realities of being an African migrant in modern Australia.

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Mark Humphries from 2018-02-22T01:00

Comedian, writer and political satirist Mark Humphries talks to Serge about finding humour in the darkness of politics.

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Bhenji Ra from 2018-02-15T01:00

Trans activist, dancer, creator and all-round star Bhenji Ra talks influence and progression with Serge Negus

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Christine Forster from 2018-02-01T00:42

Former prime minister Tony Abbott's Lesbian sister talks about the public and polarising battle over marriage equality with her brother.

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Vaughan Blakey from 2018-01-11T00:38

Editor-in-Chief of the Surfing World magazine Vaughan Blakey talks early days hedonism in surfing, the evolution of the sport and waves pools.

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Osher Günsberg from 2017-12-14T01:00

There is far more to Osher Günsberg than simply handing out roses on reality television. Hear his deeply insightful chat with Serge Negus where they talk politics, refugee policy and mental health.

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Justin Jones from 2017-12-07T01:00

Justin Jones is a hardcore adventurer, breaking records like being the first to kayak from Australia to New Zealand, first to ski to the South Pole unassisted, and in his latest effort, walking hal...

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Nicola Barr from 2017-11-30T01:00

Nicola Barr is the number one draft pick for the Greater Western Sydney Giants Women’s AFL team, solidifying a meteoric rise from an aussie rules newbie, to one Australia’s most talented AFL prospect.

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Julia George from 2017-11-22T01:00

Julia George was Barak Obama's 2008 election campaign manager, now she is a psychic and clairvoyant.

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Madison Stewart aka Shark Girl from 2017-11-16T01:00

Madison Stewart otherwise known as Shark Girl, free dives and interacts in an incredible intimate way with sharks that people have been lead to believe are indiscriminate killers.

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Sally Rugg from 2017-11-09T01:00

Sally Rugg has made it her life work to better social equality, including leading the Same Sex Marriage YES VOTE campaign.

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Jenny Leong MP from 2017-11-02T01:00

Greens state member for Newtown talks social justice, police intimidation and being a young mum in parliament.

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Jeff Khan from 2017-10-26T01:00

Jeff Khan is a curator and writer working across performance, dance and the visual arts.

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Dean Sewell from 2017-10-19T01:00

Dean Sewell is one of Australia’s top independent documentary photographers and photojournalist. He has been the recipient of three World Press Photo Awards for works covering the transition of Eas...

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Ian Keteku from 2017-10-12T01:00

Ian Keteku a Canadian poet and multi-media artist who was 2010 World Poetry Slam champion. Hear him talk race, culture, diversity and love.

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Linda Burney MP from 2017-10-05T01:00

Wiradjuri woman and Federal Labor MP Linda Burney is Australia’s first indigenous woman to serve in the House of Representatives and she was also the first Aboriginal person to serve in the New Sou...

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Dan Box from 2017-08-31T02:00

Award winning crime journalist Dan Box speaks to Serge about the notorious crimes he's covered and the impact they've had on him.

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Briggs from 2017-08-24T02:00

Multi-talented Yorta Yorta rap superstar Adam Briggs talks to Serge about, racism, comedy and writing with the creators of The Simpsons.

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Kelly Brooke Nicholls from 2017-08-17T02:00

Kelly Brooke Nicholls has spent years in Colombia and latin America working as a journalist and in human-rights activist, experiencing the trauma and tragedy of the drug wars.

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Shellie Morris from 2017-08-10T02:00

Acclaimed singer songwriter Shellie Morris speaks to Serge Negus about finding her long lost heritage after being adopted out as a baby.

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Jenevieve Chang from 2017-08-03T02:00

Showgirl and author Jenevieve Change rebelled from her conservative Chinese roots and discovered what race and identity really mean.

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Umit Bali from 2017-07-27T04:00

Illegal immigrant Umit Bali spent 15 years on the run from immigration before he realised the funny side of it, and decided to become a comedian.

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Johnny Nguyen from 2017-07-20T04:00

Gangster, Ice tester, criminal, Johnny Nguyen talks to Serge Negus about falling into a life of crime and fighting his way out.

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Aislinn Lowe from 2017-06-29T04:00

Director, curator and influencer Aislinn Lowe talks what it takes to kill it as young woman in the creative world.

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Geoffrey Winters from 2017-06-22T04:00

Gay, Indigenous and a Liberal party candidate, a few things you wouldn't usually put together, but that is Geoffrey Winters, hear him break down stereotypes with Serge Negus.

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Zindzi Okenyo from 2016-06-23T05:00

Zindzi Okenyo is OKENYO on the stage and Zindzi on PlaySchool.

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Ianto Ware from 2016-06-16T07:40

Ianto Ware on the history of liquor licenses, binge drinking and making creative space in cities.

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Ian Flanders from 2016-06-09T05:08

Ian Flanders unflinchingly points his camera into the ethical minefield of sex slaves, prostitutes and death.

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Marlene Cummins from 2016-05-26T10:23

Blues singer, saxophonist, and former Black Panther Party member Marlene Cummins came on Out of the Box to reminisce about her colourful life, the light, the dark, and the music that accompanied it...

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Max Schollar-Root from 2016-05-19T05:00

Music therapist Max Schollar-Root on the therapeutic benefits of music throughout every life.

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