A Rational Fear: 100th Episode:
https://giantdwarf.com.au/events/a-rational-fear-100/
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In regards to news podcasts, ABC News Briefing is short and sweet if you need a quick daily update or better still downloading the ABC local radio app and you get an hourly news update.
Test your knowledge and hear unforgettable stories with two hilariously unpredictable ABC podcasts
Settle into 2021 with a bang, or should we say ‘pop’ with The Pop Test , a brand-new comedy science quiz show that is both informative and hilarious. Plus, the heartbreaking and entertaining podcast Days Like These returns with a new season of strange but true Australian stories.
Imagine a brilliant scientist who is highly respected in their field put into a room with four comedians as they go head-to-head answering life’s biggest mysteries. It’s a bit curious but oh-so-entertaining and that’s what the new comedy and science panel quiz show The Pop Test is all about.
Presented by Andy Matthews & Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall ( Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell, Talkin’ Bout My Generation ), each episode takes on a scientific subject and asks guests to apply their knowledge to answer some of the big mysteries about computers, atoms, evolution, death, the human brain and many more marvels of science.
The incredible line-up of guests includes Shaun Micallef, Kate McLennan, Kate McCartney, Nazeem Hussain, Ross Noble, Alice Fraser, Alan Duffy and Dr Norman Swan and if you missed the first episode, you can catch it here.
And back for another round of classic Aussie tales, the wild and much-loved podcast, Days Like These returns with season two. Presented by host Elizabeth Kulas ( 7am , Planet Money ) alongside lead reporter Pat Abboud ( The Project, The Feed ), each episode introduces you to one regular human as they live through an extraordinary experience.
This season, expect to hear stories of weird side hustles that include delivering truth-bombs at funerals (‘Secrets Of The Dead’), an incredible story of an aspiring zoologist with dyslexia who discovers a love for magpies (‘Good Things Come In Trees’) and an ex-cop who has made it his mission to fight bike crime (‘The Bicycle Thief’s Worst Enemy’).
Just like the first season, Days Like These continues to deliver classic Aussie stories with humour, curiosity and buckets of empathy that will have you listening in amazement.
The Australian Financial Review launches true crime podcast series about largest ever insider trading scam
The incredible true story of Australia’s biggest insider trading heist, which turned $10,000 of seed money into $7.8 million in just nine months, will be told in a gripping new true crime podcast, The Sure Thing from The Australian Financial Review.
The six episode series about temptation, betrayal and a dream of becoming Australia’s Wolf of Wall Street will launch on February 22.
Two-time Walkley Award winner and Financial Review investigative reporter Angus Grigg narrates the series, sponsored by McGrath Nicol, which pieces together a devastatingly simple scam that could be straight out of a movie.
When university friends Christopher Hill and Lukas Kamay caught up during a “two day piss-up” in 2013, they hatched a near perfect plan to commit under-the-radar insider trading, agreeing to work towards the relatively modest profit of $200,000.
Hill, who worked at the Australian Bureau of Statistics at the time, agreed to give unpublished data to NAB foreign exchange broker Lukas Kamay, who used the inside information to trade the Australian dollar.
“There were not a lot of moving parts,” says Christopher Hill, speaking publicly for the first time. “Just the simplicity of it is kind of why it [the plan] went ahead.”
“I certainly couldn’t see any consequences occurring to anyone; there were no victims in my face that I was being reminded of every day. I was just giving him [Kamay] some numbers on a piece of paper and we were making a bit of money.”
But greed, an insatiable appetite for life’s more glamorous elements, and betrayal, would mark this endeavour from the very beginning. Kamay would eventually make $7.8 million, while Hill – unaware his friend was secretly squirreling millions – made just $20,000.
As Hill lived in his rented suburban Canberra house, an almost Shakespearean story of betrayal was playing out, with Kamay splurging on Rolex watches, shopping for a Ferrari and even buying a $2.375 million loft on the 2014 series of The Block from contestants Alisa and Lysandra Fraser.
“People always say to me you must hate Lukas,” says Hill.
The Sure Thing is the inside story of how this plan went wrong. It tells how the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission struggled for months to catch this “pair of amateurs”.
Featuring heavily throughout the podcast is Hill, white collar crime expert Clinton Free, two AFP officers and one ASIC investigator, who all worked the case.
Hill was jailed for three years while Kamay was sentenced to seven years and three months after Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth described the case as “the worst instance of insider trading to come before the courts in this country”.
The weekly podcast spans Chris and Lukas’ cooking up their plan, to the police chase, the pair’s eventual arrest and the brutality and violence of life in jail. It contemplates the culture of risk taking by young men, the worshipping of money on trading floors and if a second chance is possible for white collar criminals.
For Angus Grigg, who has spent two decades investigating fraud and corporate wrongdoing, including stints as a foreign correspondent in China and Indonesia, the story is a rare insight into the inner workings of a criminal enterprise.
“Thanks to the honesty of Chris Hill, along with the AFP and ASIC officers the audience is taken inside a criminal conspiracy, police chase and life on the inside,” said Grigg.
The Sure Thing weekly podcast begins February 22 on Apple , Google , Spotify
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PodcastOne Australia is changing to Listnr.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CLaLKThFYoE/?igshid=jmm626rrwz8s
The podcast starts this Sunday (February 28) with Hugh Sheridan as the first guest.
Listened to the TV Blackbox podcast today for the first time in a while and really enjoyed it. I haven’t looked at the Anj, Rob and Robbo Show this year and only sampled a few eps last year, but I’m compelled to watch after having listened to such an impassioned critique of Ten’s performance in this week’s podcast.
I’ve often advocated here that a loose discussion show like The Panel is something that’s missing from free to air. The ARR Show is something that I’d tune in for if it were on free to air mid evening so perhaps I need to be logging in to view ARR instead for entertaining discussion. Just a pity the free to air networks don’t see value in airing this type of show a few nights week to fill that gaping hole after the reality franchises.
You can’t fault Rob’s passion. It was palpable during that podcast so I guess I understand why he gets defensive when he feels he’s been unnecessarily attacked.
In relation to the exchange in the Sunrise thread earlier today, I’d like to think site staff here were removing anything that resembled an attack against Rob or his ever increasing empire. Flag it if you think a comment about anyone is too personal or unnecessarily harsh and mean spirited.
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Daniel Radcliffe and his former stunt double David Holmes have launched a new podcast, Cunning Stunts, in which the pair interview stunt performers from around the world.
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AUSTRALIA TODAY WITH STEVE PRICE - A NEW WAY FOR THE NATION TO TALK
DEBUTS LIVE ON LiSTNR NEXT WEEK
SCA today announced talkback radio heavyweight, Steve Price, will debut a new daily live streamed 7am-10am show, exclusively on the LiSTNR app.
Australia Today with Steve Price will be the country’s first truly digital audio live to air conversation, and alongside accomplished journalist Natarsha Belling, the duo will dive into the stories of the day. With an unrivalled network of SCA journalists on the ground in 46 markets, Australia Today with Steve Price will talk live and directly to locals across the nation via the LiSTNR app, from Broome to Bundaberg, Mt Isa down to Mount Gambier and all the capital cities in between, to get to the bottom of what matters most to Australians and cut through corporate and political spin.
Host Steve Price said: “What a privilege to be given the chance to launch a show that will give all Australians the chance to have their say. Our rural neighbours have endured unfathomable hardship with bushfires and floods, the whole country has been impacted by COVID-19 and the issues rolling out of Parliament House right now have sparked a cultural reckoning.
“I know there are so many stories and issues impacting individuals and communities across the country not being told and we want to hear about them. Australia Today will open up national conversations around what’s in the news and happening in the world of politics and current affairs with balanced opinion, shaped by the common sense approach I pride myself on. We won’t be wedded to the left or right side of any issue but we will take a position and argue the case. You won’t ever hear us sitting on the fence!”
Co-host and newsreader, Natarsha Belling, added: “I’m so thrilled to be part of this exciting new venture in delivering breaking news, but also dissecting and discussing the major issues that shape and change our lives. Born and raised in country NSW, I’m a passionate advocate for rural Australia. After recent events there are lots of Australians hurting right now from fires, floods and COVID devastated businesses. This program is about giving all Australians a voice.
“I’ve had the great pleasure of working with Steve before, he’s an excellent broadcaster with a great sense of humour. Sometimes we disagree, but we both love a chat! I cannot wait for the many great discussions and laughs ahead!”
SCA Chief Content Officer, Dave Cameron, said: “We are thrilled to have secured a broadcaster and journalist of Steve’s calibre to lead our bold foray in to live streamed, daily news and talkback on LiSTNR. Steve isn’t afraid to call a spade a spade and cuts through so much of the propaganda Australians have to navigate when consuming their daily news; it’s the reason he dominated the AM airwaves for as long as he did.
“ Australia Today with Steve Price will give real people from across the country a voice and platform to be heard, unfiltered. Every single Australian can listen and contribute to this show wherever they are across the country exclusively via the LiSTNR app. We are excited to continue to make LiSTNR the ultimate audio destination for both live streaming and podcast premium content in Australia.”
Australia Today with Steve Price will be produced by Thomas Blake who has been a talkback radio producer for 14 years at 2UE and 2GB where he worked closely with Steve for nearly five years.
Australia Today with Steve Price will include a news update from Natarsha Belling on the half hour across the morning and the pair will discuss and debate the issues of the day alongside listener calls. Australia Today with Steve Price kicks off Wednesday 7 April live via the LiSTNR app at 7am. Highlights from the show will be available to podcast after 10am each day.
For someone who has never been popular in his own right, he sure does get a lot of chances.
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Surprised they’re getting Tarsh on board with this, what about her other news podcast Your Morning Agenda? She’ll probably do both I assume.
This surely will limit her opportunities to work on or appear on The Morning Show too if she’s based at SCA’s Sydney studio and it’s going out live each day from 7-10am.
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Herald Sun is launching a new 6-part podcast Class Act tomorrow (April 8), about 72-year-old Neil Lennie, who lied about his qualifications and faked his way through a 24-year teaching career, including a stint as a headmaster at Melbourne’s Caulfield Grammar School through the 1980s and 1990s. Last month in the Victorian County Court, Lennie was handed a suspended three-month sentence and year-long community correction order, after he admitted obtaining $843,567 in renumeration by deception.
New episodes will be posted each Thursday and Sunday.
Lilly today launched a new weekly 15-minute podcast series, Ja’miezing, presented in character as now-20-year-old uni student Ja’mie.
Hugh interviews Malcolm Turnbull about being dumped from the climate change board.
Presented as a Professor and the Hack podcast, and posted to YouTube also.
Leila McKinnon interviews inspiring women in Future Women’s Drive Podcast
Future Women’s Drive podcast returns for a second season on 21 April, hosted by 9 journalist and presenter, Leila McKinnon.
The season features interviews with a range of diverse women including author and Aminata Maternal Foundation CEO and Founder, Aminata Conteh-Biger; Director of Neurosurgery at The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Professor Kate Drummond; Code Like a Girl Founder and CEO, Ally Watson; Hon Linda Burney MP; Head of Restaurants for Uber Eats Australia and New Zealand, Bec Nyst; and writer, presenter and media diversity professional, Lisa Cox.
In the season’s launch episode, Leila speaks to retired NSW detective Deborah Wallace about her ascension in the force and her career-defining moments – re-enacting Anita Cobby’s final hours, cracking down on the seedy underworld of organised crime, and how a legal stoush with Alan Jones helped fulfil a lifelong dream.
“What a thrill to speak to women who think around corners, disrupt their industries, thrive after trauma and make real and positive changes in the lives of others. I hope others will feel as inspired and entertained as I do by what they have to say. Celebrating what we’ve achieved and envisioning a world in which women have more say is something special, and of course what fun would smashing the patriarchy be without a good laugh too?” says McKinnon.
Future Women founder Helen McCabe says: “Leila McKinnon is one of the funniest and most loved TV hosts. We wanted to showcase her quirky irreverence and the depth of her knowledge on all aspects of life. But we have continued the Drive legacy of interviewing women from wildly different fields and life experiences. Drive is both entertaining and informative and Lelia never takes things too seriously.”
This is the second season of Drive where Uber Eats has partnered with Future Women. “Over the last two years the Drive podcast has led the way, bringing to light incredible stories from a diverse range of women who are making an impact in their chosen fields. Uber Eats is proud to continue our support of quality Australian journalism by again partnering to bring to life this inspiring series,” says Head of Communications, Uber ANZ, Peta Fitzgerald.
Drive is just one of the podcasts in Future Women’s growing podcast portfolio. The fifth season of Next Generation Innovators is now underway and season four of Anonymous Was a Woman launches on 3 May.
Podcast Day 24, the 24-hour global podcast event being held on June 7, has announced that the Australian leg of the event will be presented live in an in-person event overlooking Sydney Harbour.
The Australian leg is one of 3 days worth of content in 24 hours happening around the world. It will be followed by legs in Europe and North America. Each leg has over 30 speakers talking about a variety of podcast topics.