Latest Episodes from Wide Open Air Exchange

Internationalism and labour associations

To coincide with International Workers' Day, historian Professor Glenda Sluga kindly participated in a chat about internationalism with attention to how international workers associations and the International Labour Organization fits in the history of the early phase of twentieth century internationalism. Read More

Phantom Dancer host Greg Poppleton

Greg Poppleton shares the origins of his interests in swing and jazz music of the early twentieth century and archival radio broadcasts of the era that he carefully curates and presents in non-stop mixes for his long running radio program The Phantom Dancer. Read More

Becoming an historical fiction novelist

In part two of this chat with author Nicholas Graham we hear about his vocational pathway to becoming a novelist of historical fiction, and what horse riding and reading Latin have to do with this vocational pursuit.  Read More

Ramadan explained by a practicing Muslim

Oula Ghannoum is a Lebanese-Australian Muslim who has happy memories of Ramadan evening festivities during her childhood in Tripoli. Oula kindly provides an introduction to the religious and cultural significance of Ramadan for the interest of non-Muslim listeners and shares insights about how Ramadan is observed in Sydney. This includes a description of prayer rituals at mosques and street food fairs such as the Lakemba Night Markets and about Sawm (fasting) and Zakat (charitable giving). Read More

Master Control Operator Julia Beveridge

A television professional with vast experience as a Master Control Operator, Julia Beveridge gives us an introduction to what's involved in the role including some of the technicalities of managing all of the vision and audio for the network and the communication skills that help in this line of work.  Read More

Gender Equity Programs Manager, Dr Kumi de Silva

Dr Kumi de Silva is Gender Equity Programs Manager at the Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion at UTS in conversation about gender equity issues and sharing what motivated her vocational shift away from academic research as a scientist to this professional role.  Read More

DJ Soup in conversation live at the Powerhouse (Part One)

Hear about DJ Soup’s early experiences experimenting with developments in audio sampling technology from a double cassette boom box to an Amega 500 and a K2000 sampler. DJ Soup also shares his early musical influences in the family and some of the first records he recalls hearing and playing.  Read More

High School Careers Advisor Jenine Smith

Jenine Smith shares insights from her vocation as a careers adviser, assisting high school students with understanding their skills, abilities and interests and with identifying post-school learning and vocational opportunities. Jenine is President of the Careers Advisers Association of NSW & ACT. Read More

Yolngu musical artist Yirrmal

Yirrmal joined us via a studio in Yirrkala in North East Arnhem Land to discuss his music, culture, and community connections and his experience developing his song writing as a new generation artist.  Read More

What are the concerns about NLP?

This is a follow up to an introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP) in response to a listener suggestion that we should consider concerns and fears about the technology. Read More

Papyrology, Dr Rachel Yuen-Collingridge

Dr Rachel Yuen-Collingridge shares insights from her studies of papyrology including ideas about cultural receptions to new forms of knowledge communication technology in antiquity and thoughts on ethical approaches to studying Ancient History. Rachel is an associate lecturer with the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University. Read More

Historian Catherine Freyne

UTS doctoral researcher Catherine Freyne was a guest on the Wide Open Air Exchange when nearing completion of a thesis titled: “The Family as Closet: Gay/Bisexual married men and their families in Sydney, 1970-2000″.  Read More