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Close your eyes and imagine a documentary about a rock star. Imagine the way they pan across still photos while the narrator shares stories about the artist. When I do this exercise, I think of Janis Joplin on her knees, Elvis Presley with beads of perspiration dripping from his forehead and cheeks, and Freddie Mercury punching the sky in front of a blazing wall of lights. Still images like these,...

Pokemon GO has dominated the collective imagination for three months now, rekindling memories of youth for children of the 90s and reawakening the spirit of playtime for other generations. Some have argued Pokemon GO fascination borders on obsession with a suggestion that obsession is something new. Here at the Game Obsession Expo in Mannum, we're being reminded that obsession predates Pokemon and...

Half a million show goers can't be wrong! One of the world's most successful Shows, the Royal Adelaide Show, opens its gates this Friday and will run over two weekends. Around 500,000 people are expected to do what South Australians have done since 1840, and spend some time at "the show". Tonight, we have former chairman of The Royal Adelaide Show, Richard Fewster and current general manager of th...

It is our 3rd anniversary episode, as calculated by Nigel Dobson-Keeffe. When Steve had a major birthday milestone this year, he asked a handful of close friends to come for dinner and to bring a eulogy for him. They were recorded in secret and have been edited by Michael to share in tonight's program. He had not heard them yet. You and he will hear them together, for the first time. He believes w...

The shortest route from paddock to plate is when you grow food in your own garden. Tonight's guest, Kate Punshon, is a former restaurateur who is now an agrarian adventurer, nurturing endangered flavours and trying to do so with an ever diminishing impact upon the planet. She writes at Roots, Recipes and Reasons but tonight, we've planted ourselves in her kitchen to discover what ideas and insight...

If you work for or run an organisation, do you know what percentage of your leadership team needs to be female for you to boost your financial performance and improve employee productivity and engagement? It is not 100 per cent. Nor is it 75 per cent. Nor is it 50 per cent. According to research, the critical threshold is just 30 per cent. To understand what that means and to get an update on our...

The Adelaide Guitar Festival is the largest of its kind in Australia and it runs next weekend, August 11 to 14. The Festival will celebrate the high art of classical guitar to the kneeslapping delights of bluegrass, stopping at every fret and note in between. Sarah Bleby from the Festival joins us tonight along with blues legend and Guitars In Bars performer, Cal Williams Junior. We discuss Guitar...

Adelaide is blessed by all things food and wine and that means we are home to quite a few food bloggers. While most are earnest and driven by passion, a few are slimy and misguided and resort to buying fake followers and likes for their social media accounts so they can trick businesses into paying for their social coverage. Today's guests abhor such shady practices, are fully immersed in the food...

Adelaide's Go Getter Gals are Caitlin Harvey and Chloe Reschke-Maguire. They are both known to this program because both of them are proactive in pursuing ventures and TALKING about them publicly. We have met Caitlin before with her Feast On Foot business (walking food tours of Adelaide) which has a new offshoot, a dumpling tour. She also has a venture called Up In Smoke which taps into the curren...

Ben Heard is an environmental professional. He was once a strong opponent of nuclear power until he underwent a Road To Evidence-Based Damascus experience about five years ago and since then has been a strong proponent. Tonight we have him on the topic of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission and our first taste of the citizens' jury's review of the findings. We discuss - Why a citizens' jury is...

DJ Gex is a man about town. You hear him on Fresh FM and you dance to him at various venues around town and tonight he turns the tables on us and talks about you and me on the dance floor our habits and our questions. We discuss Current DJ styles What to wear to nightclubs What to do at nightclubs when you're not a confident dancer Short attention spans in nightclubs Learning how to sneak home in...

InDaily is a media outlet that appears to seek out stories from wherever they might come, whether they are from celebrities, academics, politicians, or even 'social media' sources such as podcasts. While our podcast has been cited many times, so, too, has Rooster Radio, hosted by Andrew Montesi and James Begley. These 'lads' take a laid back approach to interviewing people from business, sport and...

Adelaide author and screenwriter, Simon Butters, has a book being launched this Saturday at Carclew. It is called The Hounded. it is about a 15 year old boy, Monty, who is ignored by his parents, bullied at school, and with a brain that’s prone to going walkabout - oh, and he sees a black dog that nobody else can see. Adolescence can be lonely at the best of times, but Simon ups the stakes in this...

Adelaide - City of coffee could easily be a new name for our town, or at least one we aspire to. And one of the cafes that really seized on the zeitgeist in our transition to 'proper' coffee culture is Bar 9 on Glen Osmond Road. The man behind Bar 9, Ian Callahan joins us tonight to extract his take on espresso and discard the grounds of 'wannabe' baristas who give you more attitude than essence....

In June 2014, Adelaide hairdresser, Don Violi, from Khrome Hair Studio, joined our podcast to take us through the history of hair and haunts in Adelaide through the 60s, 70s, and 80s. It is episode 41 and well worth a listen. Two years later, he is back, this time to focus on his craft of hairdressing and hair styling, along with what goes on behind the salon door. In our discussion we cover: Gett...

Georgia Adamason is an Adelaide gal who's travelled the world plying her stagecraft. A year after winning a Sydney Theatre Award, Georgia is back in South Australia performing in the State Theatre Company's Things I Know To Be True. Well, one thing we know to be true is George is not only talented AND related to Steve Davis, she's also on The Adelaide Show. Georgia generously lets us into her thou...

Shakespeare said if music be the food of love, play on, but the truth is more likely to be that love is the food of music. As Leonard Cohen wrote, love's the only engine of survival. And so here we are tonight to talk about love and in particular, love's bedfellow, sex, with Clinical Sexologist, Naomi Hutchings from Adelaide Sexology and Attuned Pyschology. We cover topics like: Sex and love Datin...

Damien Lewandowski is a man who writes about soccer aka football 'from the stands' and has been a faithful scribe of reigning champions, Adelaide United. You can find him on Twitter by searching for @DamoAdelaide but tonight he's here to take us under and behind the stands so we can grow our love for 'the beautiful game'. We learn about the emotional journey of Adelaide United's championship seaso...

The Beatles album cover for Abbey Road, is iconic. As is Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon, Nirvana's Nevermind and the Velvet Underground and Nico's self-titled album with Andy Warhol's banana. A man in Adelaide who is doing an increasing number of CD covers for local artists is Todd Fischer, and he joins us tonight to talk about the art of artwork for album covers. We ask him if Adelaide will e...

On Star Wars Day, May The Fourth, we welcome Sumen Rai back to The Adelaide Show to talk all things Space in South Australia Sumen tells us about the recent NASA International Space Apps Challenge held in Adelaide. She also sheds some light into the far corners of South Australia's space universe, uncovering an international space university, international astronautical conference coming to Adelai...

Tonight, we will send off the month of Capril by discussing how people live with depression, how people can die from depression and how we might all just go beyond the catchy taglines and actually take this illness seriously. Our guests are Alisson and Peter Marsland, parents of the late, Richard Marsland, who took his own life in 2008 after a heightening struggle with depression. We also have Tom...

So just how do you cook the perfect lasagna? Would you believe it involves BURNING it? These and many other gems and stories about life as Italian restaurateurs is what we have in store for you this week as Walter 'Wally' Gentile and Maria Gentile, sit around the table with Steve and Nigel and let us into the world of running their Mount Gambier restaurant for decades, along with insights into the...

Glenn Gale ruled the airwaves on 5MU for many, many years. Before that he was at 5KA and before that he was at most hit stations up and down the eastern seaboard. Tonight, we spend some time reflecting on his life as the 'morning DJ' and get insights from him into the realm of being confronted by cancer and the way he has chosen to deal with it. You will meet a man who has few regrets but who woul...

News should be about what's important, about what 'sticks', so says David Washington, editor of InDaily and our guest this week on The Adelaide Show podcast. For the Made To Move Minute, Max Martin ... will comment on how health is reported on in the current age Wine tonight is Take Two from Skillogaleeo. In IS IT NEWS, Nigel quizzes us on our knowledge of ... Rupert Murdoch. The Adelaide Visa Cou...

Goodbye, Mad March, I knew him, Horatio. Another year, another Adelaide Fringe has passed us by. But this time, instead of fanfare and much backslapping about ticket sales and success, we had a strong undercurrent of discontent from some of the more 'fringe'like performers. Tonight, we hold a round table discussion with an Adelaide Festival show director, Andy Packer, who had a sell out show, The...