Out of the Box

Anna supports Ghanaian garment makers through Yevu , by bringing their clothes to people who want to look loud and fabulous. She brought some loud and fabulous tracks on Out of the Box. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ben Marshall talks about his journey from promoting events via snail mail to being Head of Contemporary Music at the Opera House. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lawrence Leung on delivering a real baby as a TV Doctor, making bad David Lynchian films in high school, & his new film Sucker. All to a TV and film themed soundtrack. See 'Sucker' at Hoyts Broadway (Dec 3) or Hoyts Blacktown (Dec 4). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel Robins on freeing refugees from Woomera Detention Centre, the wrath of ASIO and fighting unsafe mining with Lock the Gate. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Comedy writer & producer Kara Schlegl on interviewing her exes, growing up in a house made of billboards and diversity in comedy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Atong Atem was born in Ethiopia, her family is from South Sudan but she grew up as a proud bogan on the Central Coast of NSW. She acknowledges that she's somewhere in the middle, a Third Culture Kid. This extends into her photography work, exploring the ideas of colonialism and migrant narratives, and also extends into her motley taste in music. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Matt Baker is a bionanotechnologist, a spoken word poet enthusiast, a player of the gentlemanly sport of fencing and a DJ in the not-so-gentlemanly music genre dancehall. He also hosts a radio show every week on Bondi Beach Radio, has lived in New Zealand, California and England as well as travelled around to many other countries in the name of science and sport. His many and varied interests rare...

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Have you ever been to a gig in Sydney? If you have, then you've more than likely spent time in the same room with David James Young , our guest on Out of the Box this week. He's THAT guy, the one that everyone recognises because he really loves music and REALLY loves seeing it live. He does other things with his time too though. He's a writer, a musician, podcast creator, among many other fab acti...

Juan Francisco Salazar is an anthropologist and film maker who came to Australia from Chile to become a doctor in Communication and Media at Western Sydney University. His speculative documentary, Nightfall on Gaia, was shot over 4 summers in Antarctica, and through the hour he spoke a bit about what it was like growing up around Pinochet's dictatorship. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inf...

What a boss! Blair Palese is the CEO of 350.org. She came in during our Business Time supporter drive to talk about being in the business of saving the world; from exposing the dumping of nuclear waste in the ocean, to getting banks to divest from mega mines in Australia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

During FBi Radio's 'Business Time' supporter drive, boss bitch and Executive Director of Vibewire Cass Mao conveniently played lots of business-related rap songs. She also told us what it was like being a prodigy and skipping Year 1 and Year 3 and about young people starting up their own dang businesses. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr Stefan Popescu is the co-director of the Sydney Underground Film Festival, an academic, an artist, and a bogan property tycoon. He made the leap to academia from growing up in Cabramatta, and talked about his experience of gangs there in this episode on Out of the Box. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This Out of the Box sees Emma Maye Gibson, also known as Betty Grumble coming in for a chat. A former child pageant star, beauty queen, and master of the burlesque, Emma is also interested in hyperfeminintiy and breaking down normal conventions of gender. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Olafur Arnalds came in for an hourlong special music interview with longtime fan and host, Ash Berdebes. In it they talked synths and Chopin, minimalism and the Tao te Ching, Mossfellsbaer, the beauty of imperfection, and playing games to create 'happy accidents' in music. Olafur gives some insight into how songs from his collaborations with Alice Sara Ott, Arnor Dan, Nico Muhly, Nils Frahm and Ja...

Double trouble on Out of the Box today with Jo Wallace and Heidi Haydon, locals of the inner-west area. Jo photographed Heidz as part of her rather successful Humans of Newtown . Heidi is paraplegic, after being hit by a ute while riding her motorcycle. Now, she's a motivational speaker and works to empower people with a spinal cord injury. Like what these ladies are doing? There are plenty of way...

Roslyn Helper was our guest on Out of the Box for this last week of August! She's just recently decided to call herself and practice as a performance artist full time, though before that, she's was doing a whole range of bits and bobs, including life as a flautist, an accounts manager and a journalism student. Most recently she's been the Human Google Project at Underbelly Arts and she's now curat...

Roslyn Helper was our guest on Out of the Box for this last week of August! She's just recently decided to call herself and practice as a performance artist full time, though before that, she's was doing a whole range of bits and bobs, including life as a flautist, an accounts manager and a journalism student. Most recently she's been the Human Google Project at Underbelly Arts and she's now curat...

Lovely local lady Georgia Woodyard is our guest on Out of the Box this week. She's the gal behind Scout's Honour cafe in Redfern and in a previous life was a commercial lawyer and played basketball for Australia. Keep your eyes peeled in the coming months for her brand new bar in Redfern! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lovely local lady Georgia Woodyard is our guest on Out of the Box this week. She's the gal behind Scout's Honour cafe in Redfern and in a previous life was a commercial lawyer and played basketball for Australia. Keep your eyes peeled in the coming months for her brand new bar in Redfern! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today the interviewer interviews the interviewer: Fenella Kernebone brought her music expertise and good yarns to Out of the Box! We discussed her new podcast Trackwork , which unpacks one track per show - the samples, the ideas, the stories - with musicians like Fishing, PVT & Caitlin Park. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today the interviewer interviews the interviewer: Fenella Kernebone brought her music expertise and good yarns to Out of the Box! We discussed her new podcast Trackwork , which unpacks one track per show - the samples, the ideas, the stories - with musicians like Fishing, PVT & Caitlin Park. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's show of Out Of The Box we have the ultimate powerhouse - Jaimie Leonarder. Jaimie's worked as a nurse, a social worker, (the kindest) film critic, and general Sydney cultural legend for over thirty years. With a distinct focus on stretching how music can be constructed by individuals, Jamie found a way to converge the world of mental illness and music, founding The Mu Mesons, a band fro...

While Nic Warnock works at Repressed Records in Newtown, is founder and director of R.I.P. Society Records and is part of the band Bed Wettin' Bad Boys, what it all comes down to is that he just really LOVES music. He share this love with us on Out of the Box this week, bringing some of his faves. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An artist, an academic and a media archaeologist walk into a Sydney bar... Ultimate slashie Pia van Gelder was our guest on Out of the Box today. What's a media archaeologist? Want to know more about electrotherapy? Or like ethereal tunes (plus a bit o' pop)? Check out Pia's work next weekend (August 1-2) at Underbelly Arts Festival on Cockatoo Island. What's a media archaeologist? Want to know mo...