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Breaking Waves
Breaking Waves: Episode 57
19.04.22
This week on Breaking Waves, Alex and Arabella are discussing formative experiences – times in their lives when they’ve received advice that’s changed their lives.…
Boiling Point
Why do great white sharks attack people?
17.04.22
‘I am surprised they don’t attack us more often’. Andrew Fox’ reply might seem surprising. But indeed, when we enter the ocean, we automatically become part of the sharks’ world and hence part of the marine food chain. Andrew Fox is the son of Australia’s famous champion spearfisherman and shark bite-victim Rodney Fox. Rodney invented…
My Home Life
My Home Life: Andrew Cox – Election edition
15.04.22
Welcome to My Home Life with Stacey Leonie! In this podcast, Stacey interviews a variety of guests about their experiences making a home in Sydney’s vibrant property market. Want to catch the interviews even earlier? Tune in to My Home Life live on Eastside Radio, 5:30pm every Thursday! This week Stacey sat down with Andrew…
My Home Life
My Home Life: Penny Johnston
15.04.22
Welcome to My Home Life with Stacey Leonie! In this podcast, Stacey interviews a variety of guests about their experiences making a home in Sydney’s vibrant property market. Want to catch the interviews even earlier? Tune in to My Home Life live on Eastside Radio, 5:30pm every Thursday! This week, Stacey was joined by Penny…
Breaking Waves
Breaking Waves: Episode 56
12.04.22
John and Riley wrap up (for now) their series on travel.…
Boiling Point
No friends means no offspring – the tough life of male dolphins
09.04.22
Being social is essential for dolphins in Shark Bay, WA. Especially the male dolphins form lifelong friendships. Our guest, the behavioural ecologist, Dr Livia Gerber, from the University of New South Wales Sydney, wondered why the male dolphins spend so much time nurturing their relationships. Eventually she found, reported in a freshly published paper, that…
My Home Life
My Home Life: Paul Christie
08.04.22
Welcome to My Home Life with Stacey Leonie! In this podcast, Stacey interviews a variety of guests about their experiences making a home in Sydney’s vibrant property market. Want to catch the interviews even earlier? Tune in to My Home Life live on Eastside Radio, 5:30pm every Thursday! Buying your dream home is a massive…
Breaking Waves
Breaking Waves: Episode 55
05.04.22
Episode 2 of John and Riley’s series on travel features more discussion of John’s trip to Bali in this week’s Breaking Waves.…
My Home Life
My Home Life: Melissa Gerke
01.04.22
Welcome to My Home Life with Stacey Leonie! In this podcast, Stacey interviews a variety of guests about their experiences making a home in Sydney’s vibrant property market. Want to catch the interviews even earlier? Tune in to My Home Life live on Eastside Radio, 5:30pm every Thursday! Have you ever had a dispute with…
Boiling Point
Underwater weather reports – made in Sydney
30.03.22
Sydney’s underwater world has a lot to offer. There are the sponge gardens, the very rare and yet docile grey nurse sharks and the playful and always hungry blue gropers, so basically a whole world to explore. Our guest helps Sydneysiders to do exactly that, to feel at home underwater and to always keep up…
Breaking Waves
Breaking Waves: Episode 54
29.03.22
Join John and Riley for the next three weeks of Breaking Waves as they share some of their favourite travel stories.…
My Home Life
My Home Life: Kevin
25.03.22
Welcome to My Home Life with Stacey Leonie! In this podcast, Stacey interviews a variety of guests about their experiences making a home in Sydney’s vibrant property market. Want to catch the interviews even earlier? Tune in to My Home Life live on Eastside Radio, 5:30pm every Thursday! This week Stacey was joined in the…
Boiling Point
PFAS and polar bears – chemical pollution in the Arctic
23.03.22
PFAS or per- and polyfluorinated substances are everywhere, in rivers, the ocean and they have even made their way to the most remote places like the arctic. Polar bears show similar PFAS levels as people working at a PFAS production plant. The problem: PFAS are man-made chemicals that stay in the environment and our body…
Drive
Miriam Hechtman: Alphabet of Women on Thursday Drive
22.03.22
Miriam Hechtman joined us on Thursday Drive to talk about her new poetry book, Alphabet of Women. The book is a collaboration between 26 female poets, who wrote works inspired by a specific letter of the alphabet, and address issues in womanhood such as politics, the body, motherhood, tenderness, and everything in between.…
Breaking Waves
Breaking Waves: Episode 53
22.03.22
In this week’s instalment of Breaking Waves Shai and Geoff visit the Netherlands for an unguided exploration of all things Dutch, including Shai’s thoroughly multi-culti heritage. Yes, you thought the Dutch were just famous for windmills, tulips, dykes, bicycles, Van Gogh and being tall cheese loving people with a tolerance for freedom of expression. But…
Boiling Point
Fighting creepy with crawly: Spider venom in drug discovery
19.03.22
Are you afraid of spiders? Our guest, Dr Samantha Nixon, certainly was very afraid before she started studying spiders. By now, she is a venom scientist and regularly handles spiders to milk them for their venom. Spider venom has turned out to be very useful for a number of medical purposes. For instance, they appear…
My Home Life
My Home Life: Eliza Owen
18.03.22
Welcome to My Home Life with Stacey Leonie! In this podcast, Stacey interviews a variety of guests about their experiences making a home in Sydney’s vibrant property market. Want to catch the interviews even earlier? Tune in to My Home Life live on Eastside Radio, 5:30pm every Thursday! Home ownership has always been part of…
Drive
Cedric Burnside: His Fourth Time in Australia
17.03.22
Cedric Burnside is the grandson of RL (Big Daddy) Burnside and is heavily steeped in the gentle blues of the North Mississippi hill country. David Barr talks to him about his life and music.…
Breaking Waves
Breaking Waves: Episode 52
15.03.22
1This week on Breaking Waves, Shai and Geoff share their spooky stories… or rather, their love of horror movies.…
Drive
Green Infrastructure Equals Cool Towns
14.03.22
For the first time, scientists use smart climate management of green spaces to reduce urban heat, turning Bicentennial Park at Sydney Olympic Park into the coolest public park in NSW.…