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Updated 14 Apr
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Updated 06/02/2025
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5 DAYS AGO

Francesca Albanese on the Stories, Words, and Wounds of Palestine

Francesca Albanese is a human rights expert, legal scholar, and one of the world's most significant voices on Palestinian struggle. As the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, she has spent years documenting what she and others, including the International Court of Justice, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International have described as genocide. This has made her a target for the pro-Israel lobby. She’s been sanctioned by the US government, threatened with arrest in Germany, and has faced repeated death threats for her unwavering commitment to calling out Israel's attrociies. Her new book is called While the World Sleeps: Stories, Words and Wounds of Palestine – its part memoir, told through the stories of ten people she’s met in her life and career as legal expert on Palestine, and a rallying cry for the world to stop the horrors that the international human rights system is supposed to prevent. In this conversation, she reflects on her life and career spent face to face with human suffering, the moral imperative to mobilise against genocide, and where she finds hope. "Documenting human rights violations in a time of genocide are excrutiating for the mind, for the body....I've been swalling death and horrible things that humans have done to other humans for over three years now. "The genocide has changed my life forever. I don't think there is a way to repair it other than being good, to being caring towards myself, towards my loved ones...I have two young children. Preserving my sanity is something that goes hand in hand with being their mum. "I know that if all good people on Earth did what they could, and what they know they can do, the world will heal sooner than we think."

5 days ago

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29 min
20 APR

The Stranger, Calle Málaga, Exit 8

Film fans Hayley Inch and Thomas Caldwell convene to discuss a new Camus adaptation, a Tangeir-set housing drama, and a video-game inspired thriller set in a never-ending Japanese subway.

20 Apr

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39 min
21 APR

For ANZAC Day, Hear The Untold, Uncensored Story Of WWII Nurse Vivian Bullwinkel & The Bangka Island Massacre (Extended Interview)

For ANZAC Day, historical detective, author, and distinguished military historian Lynette R. Silver AM MBE delves into the evidence she has uncovered to piece together the untold, uncensored story of Australian nurse Lieutenant Colonel Vivian Bullwinkel. Sister Bullwinkel was the sole survivor of a massacre of 21 Australian nursing sisters at the hands of Japanese soldiers on Radji Beach on Bangka Island, east of Sumatra in the Indonesian archipelago on 16 February 1942. Lynette's latest book where she details the alleged war atrocities against 22 Australian nurses in World War Two is called, Sister Bullwinkel: The Untold Uncensored Story. It is also a fullsome biography of Bullwinkel's remarkable life and achievements. Hear Sister Vivian Bullwinkel recount the official story of what happened in the Bangka Island massacre in her interview for the National Library of Australia's oral history archives. Lynette Silver writes that Sister Bullwinkel put on a brave face to the world, recounting this "official" but sanitised version of events ever since she was released from a Japanese POW camp in Sumatra at the end of World War II. Vivian revealed the horrific truth of what happened on Radji Beach on Bangka Island to army investigators and was prepared to tell the Tokyo War Crimes Trial but, according to Lynette's research, "they censored her testimony and chose to obliterate it from the record. Despite her best efforts, Vivian was gagged from the outset by her own government and by the Australian army, who ordered her to keep quiet – an order that, as a serving member of the military, she was bound to keep. Vivian was desperate to speak out. She knew that the truth would set her free from the years of torment. Thwarted by higher authorities, by a succession of men who thought that they knew better, she was prevented from doing so." Through extensive research, Lynette Ramsay Silver has uncovered what she believes really happened on Bangka Island. Here's an example of eyewitness testimony published in 1946 (Trove). This is the extended interview, To hear the shorter interview that went to air, listen back here.

21 Apr

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1hr 18min
9 APR

Work Flames, Tickle Time & Boob News

The team run through the woes of being fire warden; UK comedian Phil Wang gets custody of his moustache; Dr Jen touches on the weird science of tickling; Bron looks into being sort-of recognised; and Friday Funnybugger Geraldine Hickey returns with some big (and small) news. With presenters Daniel Burt, Monique Sebire & Bronwyn Kuss.Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/breakfasters/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Breakfasters3RRRFM/ Insta: https://www.instagram.com/breakfasters/

9 Apr

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57 min
12 MAR

Yanis Varoufakis on Israel, Trump, Iran and Resistance

Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and former Greek finance minister. He’s also a best-selling author of titles including Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, and his latest: Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance. During his recent visit to Australia, Yanis sat down with Dylan Bird in the Triple R studios to share his thoughts on the US and Israel’s attack on Iran, the power of the Zionist lobby, the links between Israel and Big Tech, how we might combat the rise of right-wing populism, and Australia's response to Trump's bullying on the world stage. “The mind-numbing cowardice of Anthony Albanese and his government is going to stay as an albatross around the neck of Australia for decades.” Photo credit: supplied.

12 Mar

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40 min
3 DAYS AGO

Artist Georgia Boseley on building community through weaving workshops

Today’s episode of Indigenuity features a conversation with Naarm-based Central and Eastern Arrernte artist, Georgia Boseley who works in the mediums of weaving and sculpture. Georgia is hosting upcoming Weave n' Yarn workshop in Coburg on Saturday 9th & 16th May. Through the shared act of weaving, these workshops provide a meaningful space for reflection, learning, and community building. With presenter Krystal De Napoli.

3 days ago

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13 min
14 APR

Go On A Global Fungi Foray With Ecologist And Nature Photographer Dr Alison Pouliot

After an extended (reluctant, but necessary) hiatus Amy Mullins returns to the Triple R airwaves with long-time friend of the show and fungi expert Dr Alison Pouliot! She speaks about her two latest visually stunning books, Funga Obscura: Photo Journeys Among Fungi (NewSouth Publishing) – a book about fungi and the photography of fungi, and Mushroom Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Fungal Lives (University of Chicago Press). Enchantingly illustrated by Stuart Patience, Alison’s book takes us on a global tour of some highly peculiar and fascinating fungi across a 24-hour period. Amy’s current favourite; the Hairy Nuts Disco (Lanzia echinophila) lives in the spine of a chestnut and is based in Europe – take a look for yourself! Or go on a tour with Alison in person and attend one of her workshops, fungi forays, talks, and other events this autumn between April and June. Alison is a headline speaker at the fourth annual Moorabool Mushroom Festival in Bacchus Marsh, organised by MYCOmmunity, which takes place this weekend on April 18–19 2026. PS. A little note from me to say, thank you for your patience and kindness while I've been on leave and for all the generous messages of support and encouragement on the textline welcoming me back on air. Community radio, and specifically this show for me is about having independent, earnest, and stimulating conversations, with a foundational shared passion for beauty, critical-thinking, and justice. It's a listening, learning, and creative corner of the radio-verse for people who care. Much love back to all who listen xx

14 Apr

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49 min
18/09/2024

'The Temperature' by Katerina Gibson, and 'Cactus Pear For My Beloved' by Samah Sabawi

Mel chats with Katerina Gibson on her new book 'The Temperature', a collection of short stories about climate change in contemporary Australia. Then, Samah Sabawi discusses her novel 'Cactus Pear For My Beloved', a family story from Gaza.

18/09/2024

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41 min
6 APR

Primal Screen - THE D-D-DRAMA

Film buffs Maudie Osbourne and Alice McShane bring new release THE DRAMA (starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson) into conversation with 1945 noir-tinged melodrama LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN.

6 Apr

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40 min
2 APR

The manosphere meets the schoolyard: Dr Stephanie Wescott on teachers' experiences of misogyny

Louis Theroux's new Netflix documentary Inside the Manosphere has refocused public attention on how toxic masculinity is incubated online. But what whappens when these often violent, sexist attitudes towards women and girls enter the schoolyard? Dr Stephanie Wescott is a lecturer at Monash University who researches how manosphere figures like Andrew Tate influence gender attitudes in schools. Her new co-authored study reports on teachers' experiences of being harassed and targeted with intimidatory behaviour while at work - a pattern they say is getting worse. It paints a worrying picture of the education system's failure to properly address the problem. Dr Wescott spoke about the study's findings and what can be done both to protect teachers and educate boys about respectful relationships. "The level of violence, the visceral misogyny, and also the impunity or the brazenness with which young people can feel…entitled to do this to teachers…is pretty shocking."

2 Apr

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16 min

Talks and interviews from across the station.