The Adelaide Show

The Salt 'N Pepa song, Let's Talk About Sex, Baby, could well be the theme song for this week's episode because that's exactly what we're talking about with our special guest, Wala Truscott, who is a relationship, intimacy and attraction facilitator, professional touch therapist, and The Wheel of Consent teacher. If your relationship has lost is flames of desire and attraction, Wala has some hope-...

Simone Douglas wears many hats but this time we are going to interview her as proprieter of the Duke Of Brunswick Hotel and as a representative of the Hospo Owners Collective, during this phase of trying to deliver hospitality in a time of Covid. Ultimately we discover, we need to honour the science, we need to manager our communal health, we need to nurture our economy, and perhaps the missing li...

Eudunda is the birthplace of one of South Australia's most famous authors, the late Colin Thiele, and this week we celebrate the Eudunda 150 celebrations with two local authors; historian, Samuel Doering, and former resident from the 1950s, Chris Stegmeyer. On the way to record this episode, we stopped in at St Hallett Wines in the Barossa Valley to taste the SA Drink Of The Week, which happens to...

They say a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down but maybe they should say it brings us closer to diabetes. Our special guest in this episode is former Australian Of The Year and eye specialist, Dr James Muecke, who is on the warpath against sugar because he's seen what it's done to his patients, including instantaneous blindness. In the SA Drink Of The Week, we have a shot or two of Barist...

Not many South Australians have visited Andamooka, way up in the outback. But, as it turns out, people who have grown up in the town have also missed a lot of their history, if the first female opal miner, Minnie Berrington, is anything to go by. Lara Lukich joins us to dig into Andamooka's history. In the SA Drink Of The Week, we have a quick sip of 2016 DiGiorgio Sparkling Merlot, from Coonawarr...

We like to cook up a delicious serving of thought and insight and this week, you get a triple helping! Oh, and the reference to the title of the show this week will become obvious but if you can't wait, one guest talks about baking cakes and another guest talks about CJ Dennis who wrote a fun poem for kids called, The Baker . Now, to our aural menu this week: Firstly, in the SA Drink Of The Week,...

Do you know what POTS is? If not, consider yourself lucky. POTS is a syndrome that affects women of child-bearing age but can be experienced by both men and women of any age. We'll be chatting with Claire Seeley, founder and director of the Australian POTS Foundation to learn more about the syndrome, its diagnosis, and its treatment. The SA Drink Of The Week is St Hallett's Blackwells Shiraz....

What's involved in coaching kids' sport? What effort is needed and what is the payoff? In this episode, we chat with two parents who have risen to the challenge to make sure kids' sport happens in their school for their kids. We talk with comedian, Marc Ryan, and consultant, Nardia Symonds. The SA Drink Of The Week is from Big Shed Brewing Concern And in the musical pilgrimage we have a track from...

John Schumann of Redgum fame joins us to reflect on the role of protest songs, especially in times like these, given that protest songs are often rooted in a particular time and place. The SA Drink Of The Week is from Andrew Pike in the Clare Valley And in the musical pilgrimage we have a track from John Schumann and the Vagabond Crew. You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcas...

Alex Frayne first came to public attention with his release of a stunning coffee table, photography book, Adelaide Noir. He's back with a new book of South Australian landscapes and will take us behind the scenes of a professional photographer. The SA Drink Of The Week is Ginache. And in the musical pilgrimage we have a track from the Magic Tortoise band. You can navigate episodes using chapter ma...

Jim Manning has been well known to The Adelaide Show audience. The former chair of WOW-FM collaborated with us for election coverage specials, and supported us by connecting passionate South Australians to our style of conversational podcast, driven by curiosity. Jim died on June 6, 2021, losing out to pancreatic cancer, and this episode is our short tribute. More details below. Thanks to Jim, the...

Holiday Here is the current messaging being used by SA Tourism, urging South Aussies to get out and about safely during this time of Covid. Heading up the SA Tourism Commission is Rodney Harrex, our guest this week. The SA Drink Of The Week is 2016 Reilly's Shiraz. And in the musical pilgrimage we have a track from John O'Dea. You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. No...

Does separation and divorce need to be expensive and fraught with bitterness? Meg McFarlane and Lauren de Vries van Leeuwen at Kin Lawyers believe the divorce can be undertaken calmly with minimal legal fees if the parties involved do some preparation and have wise input from lawyers who take a collaborative approach to the process. The SA Drink Of The Week is Spiced Rum from 23rd Street Distiller...

Too busy too cook? Money too tight to eat out? The No Recipe Cookbook might be just what you need. We have its author, Dr Samantha Pillay joining us to help us change habits and perceptions and take control of what goes into our bodies. Plus, the musical, The Wedding Singer, is opening in Adelaide soon, so we'll talk to someone who knows about balancing busyness with eating well, Nadia Komazec. Sh...

Blinky Bill Is On The Loose ... This week, we use the Fringe show, Blinky Bill Is On The Loose, as a reason to revisit the wonderful Koala character created by Dorothy Wall. Michael Mills (who wrote the songs and oversaw Musical Direction), Chloe Bremner (who performed in the show and on the soundtrack), and Professor Chris Daniels (who captured the vision and decided this was a worthy project for...

Auditions strike fear into the hearts of many, not just actors. In this episode, we have two theatre professionals who run a theatre company focussed on training actors to revel in the activity of auditions. Michelle Nightingale and Alicia Zorkovic will take us behind the curtain to the world of pre-acting, known as auditions. The SA Drink Of The Week is a Vagrant Wines Cabernet Shiraz. And in the...

South Australia is poised for another Fringe season with most interstate artists making it across the border before more snap closures due to Covid. We meet one of those artists in this episode, Charles Firth from The Chaser. We also chat with someone who is pushing beyond her borders of security, Dr Gill Hicks. She is giving it all in her Fringe show. And we share a rare recording of Professor Se...

The art world and most of South Australia is on tenterhooks, hoping the 2021 Adelaide Fringe will go off without a hitch from Covid or bushfires or some other tragedy. We have a diverse group of speakers for this episode of The Adelaide Show, featuring, Professor Sebastian Longsword, from the MBA School Of MBA Credentials . You can come to his show, A Lunchtime MBA , any weekday throughout the Fri...

It’s the 26th of January and amid much reflection on Australia's history and South Australia’s history, it became clear that we’ve had one omission throughout this community project known as The Adelaide Show. Even though our full theme song about Adelaide acknowledges the Kaurna people, we have never done an acknowledgement of country at the start of our episodes. That chan...

In this week's episode of The Adelaide Show, we are rustling through our present cupboard and serving up some audio treats to see you through the festive period. To kick things off for our audio Christmas stocking, in the SA Drink Of The Week, we chat with Australia's most trusted Sparkling Winemakers, Trina Smith, who has just launched a stunning, SA-based premium vintage sparkling wine, Jacob. T...

In this week's episode of The Adelaide Show, we invite you to an audience with an epidemiologist during the Covid-19 pandemic, and we're doing this so you can be armed with more understanding of the complexity of this field and why our health authorities make decisions we often don't understand. Dr Jacqueline Stephens, Research Fellow and Epidemiologist at Flinders University, is our special guest...

In this week's episode of The Adelaide Show, we are going to the chapel and we're gonna get married, or rather, we're going to Woodburn Homestead to talk about weddings. In the Musical Pilgrimage, we have a perfect song by Ben Roberts from Ukulele Death Squad to give us the Fairytale ending for our chat about weddings. To kick things off, in the SA Drink Of The Week, we return to Poonawatta. You c...

In this week's episode of The Adelaide Show, we deliver a show with "that swing" as we dive into the world of piano with Kym Purling and all that jazz! The person responsible for connecting us up with Kym, Kari Seeley, helps Steve open the show. And the photographer who snapped Steve and Kym at The Highway, was Kerry Marsh . We also duck up to the Barossa for a Cabernet Franc tasting with Jo Irvin...

In this week's episode of The Adelaide Show, we explore a range of Flinders Ranges stories. Firstly, Brendan, Governess Carmel, and Michelle Reynods share their story of diversitying their Willow Springs Station property into Skytrek (a 4WD tourism experience). Secondly, we hear from Kaye Fels and John Teague from Hawker and surrounds, recorded at the Hawker Drought Muster on the weekend, an event...

In this week's episode of The Adelaide Show, we are going to explore topics covering fish, fauna, fun, and facts, with two main guests: Joel Howland, creator of the animal-based, card game, Animoz John Marriott, teacher of aquaculture at Urrbrae Agricultural High School The SA Drink Of The Week is from Poonawatta Wines in Eden Valley. In the Musical Pilgrimage, we celebrate the great, satirical so...