Out of the Box

Karl Kruszelnicki is better known as ‘Dr Karl’ is an Australian science communicator and populariser. Dr Karl can be found on radio and television spitting out interesting but bizarre facts on science. Dr Karl joins Joey on Out of the Box today to discuss how he ended up in Australia, the variety of jobs he’s worked and teaches us how radio works. Producers: Bre Jones and Nicole...

Akala is a rapper, who through his music, activism and writing are confronting issues of race and class that are at the heart of the legacy of the British Empire. Our guest today has spoken at writers festivals, addressed the prestigious Oxford Union, done viral Ted Talks, written for rags as high flying as The Guardian and The Independent and researched history all around the world.  Akala j...

Fiona Wright is a writer, poet and critic from South Sydney. While attending university at the age of 19, a malicious version of anorexia struck. One that would define her life today. She is now an essayist and poet — reflecting on her experiences. Her book of essays, Small Acts of Disappearance, won the 2016 Queensland Literary Award for non-fiction, and her poetry collection, Knuckled, won...

Ella Dreyfus is a photographer with an impressive career spanning over 30 years. Her work is often confronting and deals with issues as conceptual as masculinity to as real as the holocaust, and the shadow it has cast over her family history. Ella is now a Senior Lecturer and Head of Public Programs at the National Art School in Sydney. Producers: Bre Jones and Nicole De Palo See omnystudio.com/li...

Sara Mansour is a lawyer, poet, co-founder and director of Bankstown Poetry Slam. Sara uses her art and passion for justice to empower others through poetry. Sara Mansour, the oldest of eight children, was born into a traditional Lebanese family. She would attend Arabic school each week, learning and memorising the Qu’ran. At the time it was unveiled, it was seen as a collection of poetry, w...

Eddie Woo is an Australian mathematician best known for his YouTube Channel focused on explanations of math problems, live from the classroom. Eddie’s parents placed a lot of importance on education, as they had packed up and left Malaysia to give their children better prospects. So when Eddie told them he wanted to be a teacher, they weren’t exactly thrilled. However, having over half...

Nikhil Autar is a 25-year-old social entrepreneur, writer, speaker, medical student, and survivor of childhood cancer. Growing up Nikhil's dad made him watch every episode of M.A.S.H, where the character Hawkeye inspired him to become a doctor due to his humour and caring for fundamental human rights. However, in the first term of year 12 Nikhil's health was declining, where it was later discovere...

Clementine Ford, is a prominant Australian feminist, writer and broadcaster. With two books, and a large social media following, Clementine is to the point in calling out sexism, and harpering on the importance of Feminism. Growing up, Clementine and her family were constantly moving from country to country, which brought on a heap of mental health struggle. These struggles followed her through he...

Aunty Norma Ingram is a proud Indigenous woman, who was at the centre of the black movement in Australia in the 1970s, and is still fighting for Aboriginal rights now. Aunty Norma is a Wiradjuri woman born in Cowra NSW and raised on ‘Erambie’ Aboriginal Reserve.  Although the youngest of 11 children, her mother never failed to encourage the importance of education, and the impact...

Eva Cox is a woman who likes to push for change from the outside in. Eva is an activist, a feminist, socialist and social commentator. Eva Cox was born into a Jewish family in Vienna, just weeks before Hitler marched into Austria.  She grew up as a refugee in England with her mother, but her family eventually settled in Sydney, Australia, where Eva was once again on the outskirts of a new pla...

Mojo Juju, founding member, songwriter and vocalist for notorious, seven-piece noir punk/garage switch bank ‘The Snake Oil Merchants’, sits down and tell us how she broke out on her own, although being told multiple times she was  ‘too queer, too brown or not attractive enough to sell records.’ Mojo Juju draws inspiration from Jazz, early blues and Latin American &lsqu...

Stella Donnelly is an Australian musician from Perth, Australia. Donnelly started off singing Green Day songs in her high school rock band. This eventually leads to her interest in jazz and contemporary as an adult studying at the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts. After two whirlwind years of international record deals, massive spots, and calling out bulls**t, Stella is preparing to rele...

Today Joey chats to Father Rod Bower. In July 2013 the sign outside the Gosford Anglican Church was thrust into the center of Australia’s national conversation when Rod changed it to read ' DEAR CHRISTIANS. SOME PPL ARE GAY. GET OVER IT.    LOVE GOD’ Rod posted the message on the Anglican Parish of Gosford Facebook page. It went viral. Five years on, and a healthy dose of dea...

Lexi grew up in the leafy eastern suburbs of Sydney in a secular Jewish family – the granddaughter of Hungarian refugees. Perhaps she didn’t know it at the time but after having a go as a play write, a short career in acting at the Bell Shakespeare company, and a move to New York it would be the leafy east of her childhood that would provide the setting of her debut novel. Published la...

Today Joey chats to drag artist Le Gateau Chocolat. Gateau was raised in the bustling seaside Nigerian city of Lagos, in a conservative Pentecostal family – he grew up suppressing his identity in an environment where being gay was forbidden. At 16 he moved to the UK to attend boarding school, which became a law degree. But soon he shook of the traditional route and, almost by accident, he be...

Today, rapper, poet, playwright, and novelist, Omar Musa. When Omar was growing up in the regional NSW town of Queenbeyan, the son of a theatre historian and Malaysian poet, he fell slowly into the world of the arts– driven partly by an obsessive desire to create, and partly by the injustices he saw in the Australia’s combustible society. It would be the basis for a life spent creating...

Today Joey speaks to Stuart Coupe. When Stuart moved from the northern Tasmanian town of Launceston to Adelaide in the mid-70s he was a representative squash player, with a passion for music, and an unlikely taste for counter culture. It was not long before he fell into the world of music – his own zine roadrunner was a quiet step into a career that would see him come face to face with the l...

Today Joey speaks to the owner of Oxford Art Factory Mark Gerber.  When Mark Gerber moved to Australia in 1971 he was a ten year old with a budding appreciation for the arts. His life to that point split between Denmark and the Netherlands. His new home city of Sydney would be the launch pad for global careers, as a musician, dj, actor, model, and promoter all driven by an obsessive fascinati...

Today Joey speaks to Ravi Prasad. Almost eight  years ago Ravi watched his eldest daughter  stop  breathing moments after she was born  – she survived, but it was a moment that changed everything.   Up to that point he’d spent  twenty years  working in  the  often-vacuous  world of  advertising   – a n environment ...

Over two years Serge has chatted with an incredible selection of people from the rapper Briggs, to journalist Jan Fran, to Anthony Albanese MP – his radio life continues now at triple J where he produces Hack. But there is more to Serge than radio. In his short years he’s been a wildlife ambassador, child actor, skate board fiend, Italian football hooligan, and the survivor of a l...

At just 16 years of age Chris Csab began gay conversion therapy and in decade following, it left him celibate, feeling a deep sense of shame, and ultimately suicidal. But his story is one that has light at the end of the tunnel and chris is now a gay christian LGBTQIA advocate who is pushing governments to stop gay conversion therapy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Indigenous broadcasting and all-round media talent Emily Nichols talks to Serge about powerful indigenous women and the best and brightest new indigenous artists. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Presenter and reporter for The Feed on SBS Marty Smiley talks to Serge about his Lebanese heritage and making great stories with a tongue in cheek. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mari Andrew is a writer and illustrator in New York City who has taken Instagram by storm with her modern take on becoming an adult. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The greatest snowboarder of all time, 3 times Olympic gold medalist, 15 times X-games gold medalist Shaun White talks to Serge about what life is like for a GOAT! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.