Breakfasters

The team is back with a holiday recap; Comedian Adam Hills talks about his live Zoom show  Easey Comedy ; Muriel Bamblett, CEO of Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency describes the idea behind their events 'Morning Tea for Culture'; Writer Sophie Cunningham explains her new  Meanjin  essay  If You Choose To Stay, We May Not Be Able To Save You ; Gez has had a sad night at a hotel; Lawyer Shahlee...

Greg Mullins talks about this year’s National Bushfire Summit; The team discuss good and bad board games; Dr. Jen explains why people are attracted to conspiracy theories; Sophie Black from The Wheeler Centre, chats about why The Next Chapter scheme is so important for up-and-coming writers; Gez creates a ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ that takes a miserable turn; And Lastly, it’s time for the end-of...

The team start off by summing up their weekends; Richard Sowada chats about the St Kilda Film Festival; Simone Ubaldi talks about the 'Save Our Scene' campaign; Elizabeth McCarthy reviews Mark Lanegan's memoir; Gez reminiscences about the time she did a character piece as an old Russian lady; Simone Ubaldi looks at Spike Lee’s  Do The Right Thing ; Simon Hinkley talks about zombie-like insect beha...

Writer Jack Latimore explains the continued significance of Sorry Day; Justin ‘Digga’ Calverley talks about growing green and black tea plants; Gez encounters a huntsman spider; Sarah announces that the rabbit died (or: she's pregnant!); Dr. Alistair Evans from Monash talks about the new discovery of an old mammal; comedian Laura Dunemann gives an update on the trials of the Royals in Iso; Filmmak...

Julia Zemiro talks about the new season of  Home Delivery;  The team discuss the extreme lengths they go to for take-away; Cricketer Corinne Hall chats about new book  Victress: Women Who Paved the Way in Australian Sport;  Simone Ubaldi gives her review on the new season of  Better Things; Marine biologist Ricky-lee Erickson explores Nudibranchs; The team wax lyrical about struggles with technolo...

Hugo Weaving chats about his new film,  Hearts and Bones;  Comedy legend Denise Scott talks about her participation on Who Do You Think You Are;  The team chat about the pressure that occurs now that restrictions are being lifted, as well as exploring the sport Frolf; A boisterous round of dinner reviews; and musician Briggs discusses the process of his song-turned-children’s book  Our Home, Our H...

Nadya Tkachenko talks about Museum Victoria’s program for at-home education; Russel Holmesby discuss his new book The Death of Fitzroy Football Club; the team discuss which type of Iso activity they are; Daniel reviews his recent food experiences, and Sarah re-lives her childhood lasagna overload; Simon Hinkley sheds light on dancing bees for 'Feature Creatures'; I spy with my little eye: Window E...

The team reveals what they know about bodysurfing; Daniel’s mother-in-law plays a heartfelt 'the last post' for ANZAC day; Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith talks about her online lessons for young stargazers; Is Pierce Brosnan the best 007 - discuss!; Helen Bidou chats about her online fashion show  ‘Bidou Zooms’; and Luke Hilakari from Victorian Trades Hall Council talks JobKeeper. With presenters Sar...

Toby Halligan talks Turnbull; food expert Michael Harden talks up apples; the team explore 'isolation privilege' and discuss what they’ve been reading lately; Judith Lucy chats about her online special  Judith Lucy vs. Men ; marine biologist Ricky-lee Erickson goes deep on the longest animals ever recorded. And finally, the team discuss everyone’s favorite isolation pastime: snacks. With presenter...

The team talks about their gardening efforts; and they explore what they’d do if they had one hour covid-restriction-free. Kate Torney, CEO of the State Library of Victoria, describes what they currently offer online; Alice Drury from Human Rights Law Centre explains the High Court ruling on the AFP raid on journalist Annika Smethurst; Sean ‘Birdman’ Dooley talks backyard birds; and actor-director...

Magda Szubanski talks about how her book  Timmy The Ticked-Off Pony and the Poo of Excitement  came to be; Jackie Tang reviews New Zealand author Rose Lu’s essay collection,  All Who Live On Islands ; Daniel and Gez go full Mean Girls on Sarah; Gez tells the others of her many animal encounters over the past days; Triple R subscriber Matthew McKay describes Italy in lockdown from the inside; and S...

Gez survives a gas leak down at her beach house; Kathleen Lee talks about her new web series Sex & Death; Gez admits to winning a school poem competition on unfair terms; writer Vivian Pham chats about her new book The Coconut Children; and CEO and director of ACMI, Katrina Sedgwick, explains ACMI's online resources. With presenters Sarah Smith, Daniel Burt, and Geraldine Hickey.  Gez survives...

Margaret Simons talks about her Quarterley Essay Cry Me A River: The Tragedy of the Murray-Darling ; Simone Ubaldi reviews the film noir icon, The Third Man ; Victor Steffensen explains his new book Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save Australia; Ricky-Lee Erickson chats about new sightings of orcas around the Victorian coast, and finally, Sarah blows off some steam regardi...

Dr. Vyom Sharma (from Triple R's Radiotherapy ) talks about essential actions re: coronavirus; The team chats about Geraldine’s giant zucchini, and has a closer look at each other’s dinner ambitions; Justin ‘Digga’ Calverley explains the top three easy vegetables to grow; Stephanie Convey talks about her new book After The Count : and for the grand finale: 'The Breakfasters Talent Show'. With pres...

Former Breakfaster Tony Wilson chats about his new book, 1989: The Great Grand Final ; playwright Michele Lee explores single ladies; Vanessa Toholka talks leaps and bounds in tattoo technology; the team explore holidaying like a boomer during whale season, and 90s sing-a-longs. With presenters Sarah Smith, Daniel Burt, and Geraldine Hickey.

Former Richmond AFL player Alex Rance talks about his new kids' book, and whether his AFL days are really behind him; the team get a Baby Gabe (formerly Chub-Fish) update; Adam Christou talks about the game Wide Ocean, Big Jacket , Justin ‘Digga’ Calverley talks citrus; Sanam Maher discusses her book about Pakistani social media star Qandeel Baloch; and the team talk about the concept of well-dese...

Marieke Hardy explores living eulogies; the team riff ideas around lost and stolen and returned objects; foodie Michael Harden espouses the loveliness of ugly vegetables; Simone Ubaldi reviews 'Honey Boy'; marine biologist Ricky-Lee Erickson talks about seahorses; and Nat Harris muses on the magic of panpipes. With presenters Sarah Smith, Geraldine Hickey, and fill-in presenters Daniel James and N...

Maya Newell’s documentary In My Blood It Runs takes a closer look at the difficulties First Nations people face in raising their children with an Arrernte education, and the documentary filmmaker talks to team about her new film; Psychologist Margaret Klein Salamon talks about her book Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth ; Fortnightly segment 'Down and Dirty'...

Brand and fashion expert Tony Lee discusses the shift towards a more ethical and sustainable fashion industry; the team explore shopping for "measured" items, such as bras, shoes and hats; Michael Harden is back for another 'Food Interlude' segment, and this time he’s talking about how people can have a more sustainable approach to food shopping; filmmaker Mark Dooley chats to the team about his n...

The team explore their thoughts around coloured $2 coins; Professor Tim Entiwsle, Director and Chief Executive at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, talks about the future conservation of the Botanic Gardens in the face of climate change; Dr Jen is back for 'Weird Science' - this time she talks about the new fad of dopamine fasting; entrepreneur Adam Jacoby and Sonia Randhawa, the founder of the Coal...

They’re back! Sarah, Daniel and Geraldine kick off 2020 by summing up their holidays, with a highlight being swimming; The water theme continues as Gez explains her Jetty adventures in Busselton, WA; Daniel is getting very close to welcoming his long-awaited Chub-Fish to the world, so an update on the pre-labour situation is in order; Gez has been hanging out with dolphins, and shares her experien...

In their last podcast for 2019, Breakfasters speak to senior curator at Museums Victoria, Matthew Churchward, about the restoration of the Great Melbourne Telescope; at least 50,000 young people in Australia are missing from our school system, and Dr Jim Watterston, the Dean of Melbourne Graduate Schools, sheds some light on this complex issue; Gez tells Sarah and Daniel how TV-series The L Word m...

Dr Amee Baird discusses her new book,  Sex in the Brain ;  Breakfasters  book reviewer Elizabeth McCarthy offers her take on Chris Fleming’s  On Drugs ; Writer, Musician and  Superfluity  host Casey Bennetto brings some musical comedy to the studio ahead of this year’s ‘A Swingin’ Bella Christmas’; Chris KP returns for Weird Science to talk about scientists who have experimented on themselves, wit...

Scientist Chris KP explains the concept of dog years; Award-winning author Bri Lee’s new essay, Beauty, reflects on how beauty standards impact the way we interact with ourselves, and when she joins the studio we get a closer look at her own experience with the current beauty norms; How’s former Breakfaster Jeff Sparrow? Find out as Gez and Sarah retell their catch-up session in the sun; Nat Harri...

The team get a visit from Melbourne illustrator and designer Beci Orpin, who talks about the inspiration behind her new book Take Heart, Take Action; Michelle Bennet returns to the studios and gives her assessment of Edward Snowden’s book Permanent Record; Christmas is for many synonymous with B grade Holiday movies, and Gez has seen newcomer Holiday in the Wild ; new production Children of the Ev...