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Society & Culture

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Society & Culture

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Politics

Updated 21 Apr
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Society & Culture

Updated 06/02/2025
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Arts

Updated 06/02/2025

9 July

Matthew Ricketson on what it's like getting Murdoched

The team sits down with Matthew Ricketson, co-author of Getting Murdoched: How Murdoch's Media Wields Power and Punishment, to discuss how the Murdoch empire turns journalists into instruments of personal destruction — and why it's so hard to push back from inside the machine.
13 July

Farewell Sam Neill, plus The Good Boy, The Invite and The People Upstairs reviewed

Flick Ford and Thomas Caldwell pay tribute to the late great Sir Sam Neill, discussing some of their favourite performances of his long and storied career. Flick and Thomas also review Jan Komasa’s dark comedy The Good Boy, Olivia Wilde’s dinner party comedy The Invite and The People Upstairs, the Spanish comedy on which Wilde’s film is based.
18 June

Why no-one at the National Press Club could land a hit on Pauline Hanson

Charlie, fresh from the room itself, joins Rachel to dissect Pauline Hanson's address to the National Press Club, unpacking why the press gallery played it so safe and how even the sharper questions still failed to pin her down. Plus, a roleplay of Tim Wilson's breakfast TV meltdown at Amanda Rishworth.
9 July

Engagements, Slow Cookers & Magnificent Ladies

We had a week off and Mon went to a bird show! Bron did something pretty cool too; our favourite football tragic and former Breakfaster, Tony Wilson joined us for a World Cup update; Bron got a front row seat to Craigieburn Dance Troupe The Magnificent Ladies; Breakfasters' own master chef, Emma Dean, sings the praises of the trusty slow cooker; and Friday Funnybugger and educator, Urvi Majumdar, laments the quality of illicit notes being handed around in class. With presenters Daniel Burt, Monique Sebire & Bronwyn Kuss. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/breakfasters/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Breakfasters3RRRFM/ Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/breakfasters/
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.
4 June

Emily Baker on Byron Bay's rape culture, and Charlie Pickering's Grace Tame non-apology

ABC journalist Emily Baker talks to Jess, Charlie and Rachel about her investigation into sexual violence in Byron Bay in the 2000s. Plus, the team unpacks why Charlie Pickering's decision to call Grace Tame "problematic" was itself pretty problematic — and his non-apology.
27/10/2020

Federal politics; A Vision For A Post-Capitalist Society With Yanis Varoufakis; Inspiration from the Mouths and Minds of Women Artists

Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis joins Amy for a special conversation about his vision for a post-capitalist society. They discuss Yanis's political influences, his time as Finance Minister seeking to negotiate a financial settlement for Greece and his battle with Europe's establishment, as well delving deeply into his new book, Another Now: Dispatches From An Alternative Present. Abigail Compton, artistic director and founder of Third Drawer Down chats with Amy about her beautiful new book, Truth Bomb: Inspiration from the Mouths and Minds of Women Artists. And Ben Eltham from New Matilda chats about federal and Victorian politics.
18 June

Daytime TV, Celeb Spotting & World Refugee Week

We get wistful for daytime TV gone by when Bron reminds us of that time that David Campbell thought his son was Princess Di reincarnated; Kon Karapanagiotidis from the ASRC was in to talk World Refugee Week; Celia Pacquola, fresh off the back of her best show win at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival was in to talk Gift Horse; We embark on the undignified work of identifying celebs in the wild; and Marieke Hardy unpacked Deborah Adelaide's latest work of auto fiction When I'm 64. With presenters Daniel Burt, Monique Sebire & Bronwyn Kuss. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/breakfasters/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Breakfasters3RRRFM/Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/breakfasters/
7 May

Dinking, Directing & Democracy

Artist and filmmaker Shaun Tan journeys back to his classic book turned exhibition The Red Tree; the team balance the do's and don'ts of dinking; the team go back and forth with theatre director Jessica Arthur about the new Malthouse play GAME. SET. MATCH; distinguished international lawyer Gillian Triggs AC stages a passionate defence of democracy; the team navigate awkward misnomers and author Susan Choi illimunates listeners on her bestselling novel Flashlight for Melbourne Writers Festival. With presenters Daniel Burt, Monique Sebire & Bronwyn Kuss. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/breakfasters/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Breakfasters3RRRFM/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breakfasters/
4 June

Rock Eisteddfods, Sauna Courage & Nits

This week: to celebrate its 20th anniversary, Alice Pung's memoir Unpolished Gem is getting a reissue and the award-winning author joined us in studio to reflect on its journey (and also how many times she's had nits); we reminisce on the long lost era of Rock Eisteddfods; Flick Ford gave a ringing review of Spanish film Deaf/Horda; Khalid Abdalla dropped in to chat about his deeply personal stage show, Nowhere; we learn about letting it all hang out in Sweden and book reviewer Sean O'Beirne bangs the drum for Halle Butler's satire Banal Nightmare. Website: https://www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/breakfasters/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Breakfasters3RRRFM/Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/breakfasters/

Talks and interviews from across the station.