The Adelaide Show

This week's episode of The Adelaide Show, is our last. At least, our last after 260 consecutive weeks of producing a 90-minute-plus program covering many aspects of life and passion in South Australia. Our guest this week is Mr South Australia, Keith Conlon. This week, we have an SA Drink Of The Week that is a Small Change Shiraz. In IS IT NEWS, Nigel challenges us on stories about design in Adela...

This week's episode of The Adelaide Show, Vietnamese in Adelaide, explores the food, culture, and history of Vietnamese Australians in SA. Our guests this week are Kim Le and Viet Bui, two cousins who share culture and a love for stand up comedy. This week, we have an SA Drink Of The Week that is an absolute bargain from The Poplars, Coonawarra. In IS IT NEWS, Nigel challenges us on stories about...

This week's episode of The Adelaide Show, Playing games in Adelaide, explores the inner world of the gamer. Our guests this week are Anthony Sebastiani and Fabian Tauriello, two ordinary Adelaideans who just happen to enjoy playing online games. This week, we have an SA Drink Of The Week from Rockfords in the Barossa. In IS IT NEWS, Nigel challenges us on stories about games. In 100 Weeks Ago...

This week's episode of The Adelaide Show, Stories of shopping, summer, and Saturday nights , is an opportunity to remember what it was like growing up in South Australia in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. Our guides accompanying us on this nostalgic tour are Lina and Don Violi. Lina worked as a cigarette promotions girl as one of her early jobs, and Don has been a hairdresser in Adelaide for more deca...

This week's episode of The Adelaide Show, Thinking Out Loud About Violence Against Women, came about because it struck us that a couple of king hits against men led to new laws and curfews, especially in Kings Cross, meanwhile one woman a week in Australia is killed by a current or former partner and despite seemingly large and bloated Family Services networks, there has been no sudden cut through...

This week's episode of The Adelaide Show, The Human Lie Detector and The Hard Man, will explore deception and how to spot it with Steve Van Aperen, and many aspects of physicality, from survival on deployment as an Australian soldier, coordinating mind and body with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and tasting wine deeply with your senses on overdrive with Ash Sinclair. This week, we have TWO SA Drinks Of The...

This week's episode of The Adelaide Show, quantum physics with Dr Sundance Bilson-Thompson, will introduce you to a complex area of science in a way that will hopefully interest and engage you. This week, the SA Drink Of The Week is Nippy's Apple Juice. In IS IT NEWS, Nigel challenges us on stories about physics. In 100 Weeks Ago, we take you back to our night with Dr Gemma Munro, CEO and founder...

This week's episode of The Adelaide Show, will introduce you to Campbelltown Mayor Simon Brewer and the Cheeky Monkey. Simon has been mayor since 2006 but is not standing in the elections later this year. He joins us to give us the "true" story about life as an elected member. We also have a chat with comedian and "Cheeky Monkey", Tim Ferguson, about the history of comedy. Tim was in Adelaide over...

Greg Clark is a radio, TV, and advertising legend in South Australia. He'll be remembered by many as one of the hot jocks of the 80s, spinning discs and taking requests on radio, as well as venturing into various TV shows that married current radio stars with music and chatter. Since then, he forged a career voicing and producing commercials. This week, the SA Drink Of The Week is a wine from Fox...

This week's episode of The Adelaide Show, 'Til death us do laugh, we'll celebrate the fact that Steve and Nigel both turn a year older this week by reliving a classic interview on the topic of facing your own mortality. This interview with Andrew Reimer, Brett Williams, and Michael Shanahan, revolved around Steve asking his friends to all write and record their eulogies for him, which he did not h...

This week's episode of The Adelaide Show, features two interviews produced by the School of Hard Knock Knocks featuring Morry Morgan and legendary comedian, Glynn Nicholas. We're playing these interviews because Steve is tied up all week at the School Of Hard Knock Knocks comedy course being run by Glynn Nicholas. In 100 Weeks Ago, we take you back to episode 150 when we interviewed DJ Gex. And in...

This week's episode of The Adelaide Show, will introduce you to Captain Harry Butler, the first person to fly across the Gulf St Vincent to Yorke Peninsula, which he did on the 6th of August, 1919. Our guests tonight are writing a book about Harry Butler, Les Parsons and Dr Sam Battams. This week, the SA Drink Of The Week is a wine from GISA. In IS IT NEWS, Nigel challenges us on stories abou...

This week's episode of The Adelaide Show, Growing Data and Getting Laughs, introduces us to two experienced "geeks" and one experienced comedian and producer. Glynn Nicholas needs no introduction for people who lived through the 90s and enjoyed the ABC's live, edgy comedy show, The Big Gig. In recent years, he has become a director, producer, and speaker, travelling the world and exporting enterta...

This week's episode of The Adelaide Show, Back to Futurist Stephen Yarwood, reintroduces us to the former Lord Mayor of Adelaide turned futurist, to find out what he's doing on the world stage. This week, the SA Drink Of The Week is a wine from Turkey Flat. In IS IT NEWS, Nigel challenges us on stories about transport in Adelaide. In 100 Weeks Ago, we take you back to episode 147 for with the man...

This week's episode of The Adelaide Show, Banking on South Australia, features a husband and wife team that has moved back home from interstate to continue careers while raising a family. Ben Owen, head of small business banking at Bank SA, and Eszter Vasensky, owner of Bloomberri and former marketer/PR for The Big Issue, spend an evening with us discussing the allure of SA and the passion they ha...

This week's episode of The Adelaide Show, has been created to help us make the most of living Life In Half A Second. That's title of a motivational book by local author and entrepreneur, Matthew Michalewicz. This week, the SA Drink Of The Week is a wine from Artis Wines. In IS IT NEWS, Nigel challenges us on stories about mathematics. In 100 Weeks Ago, we take you back to episode 145 for with form...

This week's episode of The Adelaide Show, is an evening with an ear, nose, and throat surgeon, Dr Michael Schultz. We assure you there will be fragrant talking worth listening to. See what I did there? This week, the SA Drink Of The Week is a wine from Michael's cellar. In IS IT NEWS, Nigel challenges us on stories about earns, noses, and throats. In 100 Weeks Ago, we take you back to episode 144...

This week's episode of The Adelaide Show, Of Words and Wine with Philip White, we introduce you to a man who has written more about wine in Australia than most others. Philip not only was one of the early editors of Winestate Magazine, he has been published in just about every publication in Australia, has written about and advocated for many aspects of the wine industry, and this week, we sift be...

This week's episode of The Adelaide Show, celebrates Ralf Hadzic without the F-word. Ralf was previously on The Adelaide Show in episode 119, in which we squeezed many stories from him about the time in his life when he played Fat Cat on television. But this week, we are talking about his tour company, Life Is A Cabernet, which not only shows people around our glorious wineries in SA but also tran...

This week's episode of The Adelaide Show, has been like returning home, albeit with someone who is proud to wear the moniker, Small Winemaker, Big Wines. Ralf Hadzic introduced us to Ballycroft Wines back in 2015 and we fell in love. Now, three years later, here is Steve, volunteering to spend a day in the vineyards toiling with Joe and Sue. This episode covers themes like hard work, our reliance...

This week's episode of The Adelaide Show, French Film Festival, celebrates that aspect of French cinema that is best captured in this quote by the charismatic actor Emmanuelle Beart: Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. When you go to a French movie, it's kind of like, oh!, and you can't go out; you're stuck in your chair. It goes so deep...

This week’s episode of The Adelaide Show was recorded as a live radio show on WOW-FM with the working title, SA Election Night Of The New Dawn. Well, at least we gave it that title after incoming Premier Steven Marshall’s use of the cliche in his victory speech. Our panel included Robert Godden as OUR Antony Green aka Political Commentator, and Jim Manning as our producer. Our guests inlcuded Nat...

This week's episode of The Adelaide Show, is really The WOMADelaide Show because it was all recorded under the trees in Botanic Park where some 95,000 people milled and danced to a wide array of music over the Adelaide Cup long weekend. We had many guests, and they all helped build a patchwork image of what WOMAD means to the people who take part. This week, the SA Drink Of The Week is a wine from...

This week's episode of The Adelaide Show, Adelaide's Got Talent, is an ode to singing. Our guest is Deanna Kangas from national adult singing studio, Voicehouse, and also from the cabaret troupe, Two Brunettes and A Gay. This week, the SA Drink Of The Week is a wine from Yalumba. In IS IT NEWS, Nigel challenges us on stories about singing. In 100 Weeks Ago, we take you back to our interview with D...

This week's episode of The Adelaide Show is an homage to Adelaide Wine Wankers, as we spend an evening with one of the new owners of Treasury 1860, Anna Thomas. Anna has shifted gears from being a corporate high flyer to being the most over-qualified bar tender and Adelaide Fringe sensation. This week, the SA Drink Of The Week is a wine from Anna's Fringe show, How To Drink Wine Like A Wanker . In...