The Saturday Quiz

This first episode of the sixth season of The Saturday Quiz takes a wild, meandering journey through some mostly music-related territory. Which is appropriate given that the guests are two giants of Australian musical theatre - Eddie Perfect and Elise McCann. Get your tickets to see them both in the Australian premiere production of Beetlejuice here: https://beetlejuicethemusical.com.au/ If you ha...

The Saturday Quiz will be back for its sixth season in 2025 very, very soon. In the meantime, please complete this survey so I can bring you the guests and content that you like best: http://bit.ly/thesaturdayquiz-survey   It's all anonymous and no personalised data is collected. Follow the show on Instagram @thesaturdayquiz And John has pretty much dumped X (formally Twitter), so follow him...

If you have a few minutes, please complete this survey so The Saturday Quiz can return for another season with the guests and content that you like best: http://bit.ly/thesaturdayquiz-survey As always on the season finale of this podcast, the whole thing becomes a competition. The four original contestants are back once more to answer the 40 questions. Who will win? Will John be able to hear which...

Kate and Damon have both been on this podcast before - but never together. Much in the same way that they are both appearing in two massive films released this month. One of those films is a Christmas movie based on a much loved song - and the other is a biopic based on the life of a much loved singer! Better Man - in cinemas Boxing Day  How to Make Gravy - on Binge, right now. This podcast i...

Gillian Cosgriff is an absolute delight. Funny, self-deprecating and fabulously talented. It's been far too long since she's been on this podcast. So, before this season comes to an end, it's time to get her back on the show to answer the ten questions from the quiz in The Saturday Paper. Find Gillian's tour dates here: https://comedy.com.au/tour/gillian-cosgriff/ This podcast is made on the land...

Pamela Rabe and Bert LaBonté are both giants of Australian theatre. And it's lucky they are, because right now they are both appearing in the enormous epic that is August: Osage County. This brand new production at Belvoir Street Theatre, directed by Eamon Flack, has been getting rave reviews and playing to full houses - so much so, that they've extended until the 22nd of December! Get your ticket...

Very occasionally, there is a new piece of theatre created which gets everything just right, that it becomes an instant classic. My Brilliant Career is one of those shows. The new musical based on the novel by Miles Franklin, with a book by Sheridan Harbridge and Dean Bryant, music by Mathew Frank and Dean Bryant and directed by Anne-Louise Sarks is quite simply brilliant. In the central role of S...

Lucy Ansell and Caroline Lee are both currently starring in the Red Stitch production of José Rivera’s play “ Your Name Means Dream ” which explores the notion of what it means to be human in a world increasingly encroached upon by AI. No AI was used in discovering the answers to these questions though. Get your tickets to " Your Name Means Dream " here: https://www.redstitch.net This podcast is m...

Stop what you're doing and get in the car and drive to Mitchelton Estate Winery for this weekend's Comedy in the Vines - a mini festival of great comedians and fantastic wines in Nagambie, Victoria, a little over an hour away from Melbourne. While you're there, make sure you check out Ethan and Sweeney's show In Pour Taste - a comedy wine tasting. It's hilarious! Ethan and Sweeney might get the aw...

Iain Grandage thinks he's a hedgehog, but wishes he was a fox. But he is arguably a T-person. Or perhaps a hammerhead shark. What does that mean? You'll have to listen to find out. This podcast is made on the land belonging to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and acknowledge their traditions of sharing knowledge and stories for millenni...

This is the 200th episode of The Saturday Quiz, and what better way to mark the occasion than by having two of the funniest comedians to have ever answered the quiz, do it all over again? Zoë and Alexei have never been on the show together, but their rapport is brilliant. And somehow, they wind up with mostly correct answers. As always, play along at home by getting your copy of The Saturday Paper...

The last time Geraldine Hickey and Vidya Rajan were on this podcast together, they performed remarkably well, pretty much getting ten out of ten. Will they be able to do the same with this, somewhat more difficult quiz? Listen to find out! Also listen if you want to hear all the bonus facts about pigeons that the ABC cut out of Geraldine’s appearance on Question Everything.   This podcast is...

Stephanie Caccamo and Elenoa Rokobaro are two of the cast members of Well-Behaved Women - a show with music and lyrics by Carmel Dean and directed by Blazey Best - which has just opened at Belvoir Street Theatre. Well-Behaved Women celebrates extraordinary women who have made history. From Cleopatra to Virginia Woolf to Frida Kahlo and more, these women are legends who smashed the glass ceili...

The Melbourne Fringe Festival has just kicked off, which means that there are over four hundred and fifty events vying for your attention. One of them stars this episode's guests Hannah Camilleri and Oliver Coleman. It’s a play called Prune which is a comedy about a woman who won’t get out of the bath. Both Hannah and Oliver have been nominated for Most Outstanding Show at the Melbourne Internatio...

Real life couple Hannah Waterman and Huw Higginson are performing as husband and wife in the moving play about love, loss and laughter  Colder Than Here at the Ensemble theatre. On this episode of the Quiz, they do exceptionally well and take some fascinating trips down memory lane... and all sorts of other lanes too! Get tickets to Colder Than Here here: https://www.ensemble.com.au/shows/col...

Julia Zemiro has been on this podcast many times before, but this time she’s brought along Susie Youssef to partner with. Which is kind of what she’s done with her tv show Great Australian Walks on SBS. She was the solo host of the first season, but now for the second season, Julis is sharing the hosting duties with Susie and Gina Chick. Great Australian Walks is a great show, and Julia and Susie...

It’s no secret that this podcast skews towards the big cities of this country, mostly those on the Eastern Seaboard. In fact, most podcasts in general favour the big cities. Kirsten Diprose and Damian Callinan are doing their bit to change that with their brand new podcast: Town Criers . She's a journalist and and he's a comedian and together they are sharing the driving on a road trip through rur...

Joining John to answer the questions on this episode of The Saturday Quiz is the director Bert LaBonté and one of the actors Ras-Samuel from the Pulitzer Prize winning play Topdog/Underdog , which is playing right now in the Lawler at Melbourne Theatre Company’s Southbank Theatre. The Suzan-Lori Parks play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two down-on-their-luck brothers wrestling with the rea...

Alexei Tolioppoulos and Lauren Bonner have both recently joined a real-life pub trivia team. But that doesn't mean they get all the questions correct on this episode. Alexei learns that no matter how good you are at your expert category, if the questions don't tend that way, you're in for a world of pain. This podcast is made on the land belonging to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. We p...

If you're a reader or listener of any of the Schwartz Media publications, you're sure to have encountered Erik Jensen and Michael Williams. Erik is the Editor in Chief at Schwartz and Michael is the Editor of The Monthly magazine, as well as hosting the podcast Read This . They're both intimidatingly intelligent, so it's no surprise that they do very well at the quiz on this episode. Apologies for...

Runt is a brand new family movie in cinemas around the country from September 19, but if you’re in Melbourne, you can see it at MIFF on the 25th of August. Written by Craig Silvey, based on his book of the same name and directed by John Sheedy, Runt tells the story of Annie Shearer and her best friend, a stray dog called Runt. When her family's farm comes under threat from drought and a local land...

The Melbourne International Film Festival has just opened! On this episode of the quiz, the guests are MIFF programmer Kate Jinx and pop culture author and critic Brodie Lancaster. Jinx's MIFF list: Matt and Mara  https://miff.com.au/program/film/matt-and-mara Welcome Space Brothers https://miff.com.au/program/film/welcome-space-brothers The World According to Allee Willis https://miff.com.au...

Gabbi Bolt and Maverick Newman are both extraordinarily multi-talented performers; They sing, they dance, they act, they even play classical piano in the hilarious parody musical Murder For Two, which   is an outrageous blend of music, mayhem, and murder. In this hilarious 90-minute show, two performers play 13 roles – not to mention the piano – in a rip-roaring parody of classic murder myste...

For only the second time, this episode of the podcast is recorded in situ (Latin) in the same room as the guests!  Melbourne Shakespeare Company returns to fortyfivedownstairs to present possibly the most famous play in the English language - Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy Hamlet . And John has crashed their rehearsal room to ask the actors playing Laertes and Claudius (Laurence Boxhall and P...

It is rare for a piece of independent theatre to earn itself a return season. Rarer still for that return season to be on the main stages and tour around the country. And even rarer yet for that piece of theatre to be a brand new play from a debut playwright.  But that is exactly what has happened for actor and playwright Emmanuel Mattana and director Marni Mount. Trophy Boys is a queer black...