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The Drawing Room
Retire to the eclectic environs of the RN Drive Drawing Room, for music, musings and unexpected conversations. The Drawing Room is equal parts performance space, salon, and kitchen table confessional.
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Episodes
Spreading Christmas cheer with The Sydney Street Choir 13.12.2024 10:00
The Sydney Street Choir has inspired audiences around Australia and provided support and community to its members.
Pompeii: From eruption to exhibition 12.12.2024 13:00
A new exhibition brings the city of Pompeii to life, with captivating soundscapes, and digital projections with over 90 objects from the ancient city.
A cynics guide to unbelief 11.12.2024 15:00
Sita Walker lets go of her long-held beliefs and finds freedom in unexpected places in her essay A Cynics Guide to Unbelief.
A clone in the machine: Evan Ratliff's AI voice experiment 10.12.2024 15:00
Do you think you could tell the difference between your loved one's real voice and an A.I.-generated voice clone? Evan Ratliff's podcast Shell Game tested the theory.
Saltwater for the soul: Australians and the sea 09.12.2024 12:00
A new book records the connections that Australians from all walks of life have with our vast blue surroundings.
Jamie Webster hopes to be a voice for the voiceless 06.12.2024 17:00
Jamie Webster got his start singing for Liverpool FC fans, now he's hoping to give his fellow Liverpudlians a voice.
Ready for anything: Inside the world of 'Preppers' 05.12.2024 16:00
In the age of record temperatures, global conflict, pandemics and financial insecurity is preparing for the worst as far-fetched as it seems?
Bicce, Please: Reclaiming and rejecting a loaded word 04.12.2024 11:00
The word 'bitch' has been around for over one thousand years, longer than any other swear word. Author Dr. Karen Stollznow talks us through the history of this popular profanity.
Chiseling away at capitalism: Art, disability, and productivity 03.12.2024 10:00
In a country of workaholics, obsessed with productivity, artist Amanda Bennetts questions how those living with different bodies and disabilities define themselves.
Pier Paolo Pasolini and the sanctity of cinema 02.12.2024 13:00
Italian filmmaker and poet Pier Paolo Pasolini's body of work explored themes like sexuality and sanctity. So, what was Pasolini himself? was he a saint? or was he a sinner?
Jazz in Four Seasons: Hetty Kate’s new ambitious project 29.11.2024 14:00
Musician Hetty Kate's new project is inspired by Vivaldi's Four Seasons but this time it will be in jazz. So what will it sound like?
How the Australian 'Op Shop' got its name 28.11.2024 14:00
Take a look at the past, present and future of Op Shops in Australia.
'Ultras' fandom: The people and politics behind extreme football fans 27.11.2024 17:00
A sneak peek into the lives of the football fans known as the 'Ultras'. Whose support is a form of protest against the state, the mainstream media, and the commercialisation of professional sports.
Hat-trick: Capturing sport in classical music 26.11.2024 17:00
Australian classical music composer Harry Sdraulig captures the movement and energy of football in his piece 'Hat-trick'
Out of the habit: What its like to join and leave a monastic life 25.11.2024 19:00
What possesses a woman in her twenties to become a nun? And what is it like to run away and give up the monastic life? Catherine Coldstream did both.
A meditation on the impermanence of everything with Tenzin Choegyal and Matt Corby 22.11.2024 17:00
Tibetan singer, and musician Tenzin Choegyal and Australian singer songwriter Matt Corby present their new track Snow Flower.
What do we lose, if we lose privacy? 20.11.2024 18:00
Lowry Pressly argues that privacy is not just the key to a safe existence, but a meaningful one. He explains how the word oblivion relates to our idea of privacy.
Has the mystery of who invented Bitcoin been solved? 20.11.2024 18:00
A new documentary explores the origins of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin and the identity of its pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto.
Violet Crumbles, expressionist art and a documentary: The wonderful friendship of Pat and Ashleigh 19.11.2024 14:00
Artist Pat Harry and filmmaker Ashleigh McArthur have been friends since Pat babysat Ashleigh as a child. Now Ashleigh is helping to document and archive Pat's artwork.
Uncovering a long lost waltz by Chopin 18.11.2024 14:00
Rediscover a composition signed by Chopin that lay in an archive, unheard and unplayed for 200 years.
Long live Julius Caesar, the opera! 15.11.2024 9:00
Hear a sneak peek of Pinchgut Opera's latest offering, Handel's opera 'Julius Caesar'.
Australia's greatest gigs with Mark Lizotte 13.11.2024 16:00
In 1983 Cold Chisel played their final show at the Sydney Entertainment Centre, it would go down as one of the best concerts in history, a new series on SBS explores our favourite gigs.
Tales from Tasmania's Takayna: Saving Tasmania’s wild heart 13.11.2024 12:00
Photographer Matthew Newton on the untamed beauty and urgent conservation story of Tasmania’s takayna/Tarkine, one of the last great wildernesses on Earth.
Finances, Factions and Frenemies in the French Impressionist movement 12.11.2024 18:00
A history of the group dynamics of some of the most famous artists in the French Impressionist movement.
With the band: What it means to be a working musician today 11.11.2024 19:00
As glamorous as being in a band may look, it can be a job, just like any other. Franz Nicolay’s new book ‘Band People’ takes a look at the practicalities of being a working musician.
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