Footprints

Tuesdays 11 - 12 noon.

In English.

Well known musician and activist on Indigenous issues Kutcha Edwards presents Koori music and current affairs in his signature laid back and warm way.

Email Kutcha and visit his website.

CRAM Guide June 2008

Well-known Melbourne musician Kutcha Edwards first came to 3CR around 1995. In January of this year he launched a new 3CR program, Footprints, after hosting Thursday’s Songlines for a number of years (Songlines is now hosted by Grant Hansen).

With his signature laidback, warm style, Footprints finds Kutcha presenting Koori music and current affairs on Tuesdays from 11am - 12noon.

Kutcha’s got The Answers at 3CR…

I came to 3CR because…
3CR is inclusive.

What is the best thing about being a radio broadcaster?
You have a voice and you can control it. You are not listening to something edited like TV. With radio you can control the medium.

What is the hardest thing about producing and presenting radio?
Media law – you have to control your tongue when you don’t necessarily want to!

If you were ruler for the day what would be the one thing you would change?
The amount of disrespect that is thrust upon Indigenous people, and their communities, across Australia. I would also question what true wealth is – is it the amount of dollars you have in your pocket or it is to control your country?

If you were cleaner of the world where would you start?
I would start in the USA, sweeping the world clean of overzealous terrorists. The USA are the colonial terrorists of our time – before that there was Britian.

What were you like when you were ten?
I was a good kid. I was skinny, tall with an afro. My mother described me and my cousins once as ’The Jackson 5’.

What is your favourite sound?
A baby giggling.

Where do you escape to?
Sleep.

What makes you happy to be alive?
Sleep!

If 3CR was a meal what would it be like?
It would be tasty, it would be savoury, with a tinge of sweetness – like Mee Goreng noodles. I love Mee Goreng noodles!!

Why should listeners tune into your program?
They don’t have to – it’s their decision.