Radical Radio

Vivien Langford brings you recordings from the People for Peace and Justice Concert, an afternoon of music and stories on May 3rd 2026, hosted by the Pitt St Uniting Church in Sydney. You will hear one of the best welcomes to country by Uncle Brendan Keren and ecstatic music in Turkish, Farsi and Spanish by these musicians: Aisha Goknoroshinal; Tariq Hussein; Asariq Tarajo; Kim Cunio; Heather Lee....

To find more audio from 3CR's Eureka Day 2025 Special Programming, head to www.3cr.org.au/eureka171Eureka Australia Medal Presentations, Bakery Hill Ballarat, 3 Dec 2025A recording of lifetime awards presented by Reclaim the Radical Spirit & Ballarat Regional Trades & Labour Council (BTRLC), and stories from the medalwinners. Introductory words from:Dr Anne Beggs-Sunter, Historian at Federation Un...

Presenter James Harkness interviews two sex workers, Kai and Pixie, about the NDIS changes which occurred in October 2024, which now prevent people with disabilities from using their NDIS funds to pay for sex workers. Transcript Here

Produced by Amy Ciara (she/her) of Kill Your Lawn & Kick Your Fence. Guest Charlie Bear (they/them) interviews Melinah Viking (she/her) about autonomy and belonging as an ably diverse sex worker. Melinah is an award winning porn, cam and full service sex worker, and advocate. Charlie is a hands on sex worker who specialises in working with neurodivergent, disabled and queer clients. Transcript Her...

Bestselling author Jennifer Scoullar joins Brainwaves host Flic Manning to talk about her new novel ‘Wild Horses’ — and the powerful role relationships with animals, with nature, and storytelling can play in supporting mental wellbeing. In the second half, Brainwaves host Mark Eastwood interviews lived experience embassador for Blue Knot Foundation, Sue. They discuss Sue's lived journey of living...

Kaitlyn Blythe explores the challenges and benefits of friendship while disabled. Social isolation is a common experience for chronically ill and disabled people, especially when we face ableism from our immediate family and non-disabled friends. Friendship between disabled folks becomes essential to our mental health. This one-hour program explores the importance of online communities to disabled...

VALID staff share real stories of hiring people with disability, and how they co-design programs that lead to better services and reform. Having a Say Conference is Australia's largest conference for people with disabilities, it is a platform to speak up, be heard and respected. The next Having a Say Conference is coming up early 2026.Transcript Here

BIPOC Creative Access Collective members Pearl Blackk (Artist & inclusive community facilitator) and Natasha Peiris (Bi-Cultural Disability Support worker, Ayurvedic Practitioner and Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula, Decolonial Alchemist and Well-being Advocate and Educator). They talk to Pauline (Disability Day worker) about their arts practice, healing modalities, and cultural humility. Program also f...

Care for Children, Care for Elders, Care for Country, care for Ancestors. Beginning with 5 minute feature 'Camp Sovereignty: Safety and Accessibility' by Uncle Robbie Thorpe (Bunjil's Fire), and featuring the voices of Renay Barker-Mulholland, Gi Brown, and Aunty Sue Coleman-Haseldine. Presented by Disability Day Worker Pauline Vetuna. Transcript Here

South Sudanese community carers and clients share stories of great NDIS care supporting people with disabilities. Transcript Here

Presented by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, part of the Disability Unbound Lecture Series (produced by Disability South and Disability South Rising). Care is a need and a right, for everyone but especially those of us who are disabled. However, care is also complicated- it's not always been safe or accessible for many of us to give, ask for and receive the care we need, and we often face condit...

Presented by William MacGroarty (2025 CMTO Audio Ability Mentee) and Tilde Joy (Slacker Radio, The Vibe Consultant) this programme will cover disabled people's relationship to the public transport network in Melbourne centring the lived experience of a vision impaired and neurodivergent traveller. While acknowledging features of the network which currently provide access to travellers with a disab...

SLOw is a fully sicko, anti-capitalist speed embodying the wisdom of slowing down, as known by disability pensioners Danielle & Shev. Danielle & Shev get together for a chat about late diagnosis, privilege, getting services from an inadequate system, stigma and disability inclusion in activist spaces. Transcript Here

The Raising Our Voices Team interview Janet from the Victorian Self Advocacy Network (VSAN) and talk about the work VSAN have been doing in regards to safety for people with disability. They share their lived experiences and explore who can help make the community a safer place. The team also share what a happier safer more inclusive world means to them and how we can get there. Transcript here 

Disability Day Worker Pauline Vetuna and former breakfast presenter Ayan Shirwa welcome you to the Disability Day Breakfast, talking ‘Rights Relations & Innovations’. Featuring music by ICONYX, the Our Stories Our Flats podcast, an interview with Lebanese and Palestinian scholar Dr Lina Koleilat on resisting the erasure of the Palestinian people, part of the late great Alice Wong’s future tech tal...

To find more audio from 3CR's Eureka Day 2025 Special Programming, head to www.3cr.org.au/eureka17150 Years Since Whitlam Dismissal & Eureka Rebellion Anniversary EVENTHosted by Spirit of Eureka at MUA Hall in West Melbourne, Sat 29 Nov 2025. Event highlights, originally broadcast on 3CR at 6.00am, 3 Dec 2025:Vittorio (Radio FILEF) & Karina discuss the night, and feature some audio highlights, wit...

To find more audio from 3CR's Eureka Day 2025 Special Programming, head to www.3cr.org.au/eureka171Live Outside Broadcast: Dawn Service at Eureka Stockade GardensHosted by Reclaim the Radical Spirit of the Eureka Rebellion and Ballarat Regional Trades & Labour Council. The day's celebrations began with a Dawn Ceremony at the Eureka Stockade Gardens (cnr Eureka & Stawell St), broadcast live on 3CR ...

Live Outside Broadcast at the Dawn Ceremony at the site of the Eureka Stockade for the 170th Anniversary commemoration. This event was held at the Eureka Stockade Gardens in Ballarat, from 4-6am on Tuesday 3rd December 2024, and was organised by Reclaim the Radical Spirit of the Eureka Rebellion and Ballarat Regional Trades & Labour Council. The on-site recording features the voices of Dr. Joseph...

Pat and Joe bring the attitude again this week with their tongue-in-cheek takes on Talkback With Attitude this Thursday 12th September. Listeners and community members share their varied opinions, poems, first-hand observations, and thoughts about the Festival of the Merchants of Death, and VicPol testing out their free samples on protesters yesterday. Check out our full Disrupt Land Forces 2024 p...

We bring you interviews from the community picket of the opening day of the Land Forces 2024 weapons expo at the Melbourne Convention Centre on Wednesday 11 September.  Features recordings from our onsite reporters Priya, Leila and Annie with attendees and an interview with Priya and our production team Tilde and Amy reflecting on the morning. Check out our full Disrupt Land Forces 2024 programmin...

* Content warning: military violence, atrocities of war, sexual assault, transphobia, suicide. Frontline community members and activists spoke of their experiences at the hands of the global military industrial complex, and the importance of international solidarity against imperialist structures, at the first planning meeting for Disrupt Land Forces 2024, held at Black Spark Cultural Centre in No...

 This special episode of Talkback with Attitude was broadcast live and direct from the Barak Beacon Public Housing Estate in Port Melbourne on 27 July 2023, where the last remaining resident Margaret Kelly continues to resist eviction while the surrounding residences are demolished. Highlighting the current situation at Barak Beacon, why we should retain, repair and reinvest in public housing (NOT...

How are comorbid mental health conditions "officially" recognised when we need government assistance? And how the heck do we navigate not-so-mutual obligations when there's so much else going on? Karina chats with Shy (aka swanbird(link is external), aka swanny b) about the diversity in neurodiversity, creativity, and the ebbs and flows of life in the system. It's hard out here when you're turbo. ...

Self advocates Chris, Heather, Shona and James (Raising Our Voices), speak up about their experiences as people with intellectual disability with bullying and discrimination. Sharing their experiences and ideas about what they think should change in the community, and why disability awareness continues to be so important. Transcript coming soon. 

Three years on from the 2019/20 Black Summer Bushfires, Chronically Chilled speaks with award-winning journalist and disability advocate Zoe Simmons on her first-hand experiences of watching Batemans Bay burn, and the under-acknowledged intersection of disability and climate change. Presented by Bridget McArthur & Marijo Pozega (Chronically Chilled)Transcript coming soon.