Radioactive Show

Saturday 10 - 10.30 am and repeated the following Tuesday at 6.30 - 7am.

In English.

An anti-nuclear program with up-to-date news and information on nuclear, peace and energy issues.

It features interviews, news updates and on-the-spot action reports, with music breaks and insights from the presenters. The producers of the show are committed anti-nuclear activists with wide national and international experience. The Radioactive Show has been broadcast on Community Radio 3CR at the Saturday morning time slot for over 20 years.

This program is also broadcast to stations around Australia through the Community Radio Network, the satellite service of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia, on Thursday evening at 18:04.

Presented by Madeline Hudson and Jessie.

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The Radioactive Show, from Get to know your 3CR, June 2011

Who are you? 
The Radioactive Show. We focus on anti-nuclear, peace and sustainability issues, with a fundamental human rights perspective.

How long have you been on the air?
The Radioactive Show has been running for 35 years! It started in the late '70s as a response to the growing anti-nuclear movement of that era. Sadly, and rather ironically, the nuclear industry has utilized the issue of climate change as a window of opportunity to attempt to reinvigorate and prolong a dying industry. We are now facing a new generational need for a strong broad-reaching anti-nuclear movement hand in hand with the push for renewable sustainable energy.

What is it about 3CR that rocks your socks off?
Being a part of such a culturally diverse activist community and knowing that 3CR is a powerful tool and vector to create change and to grow grassroots campaigns. Our socks are so often rocked off we are happy barefoot radioactivists, busy keeping our toes toasty! 

What’s your most memorable moment from 3CR? 
Co-programming the show the last few years, one of my [Madeline's] most memorable moments was my first big scoop of a news story. The nuclear industry is so fundamentally based on lies and deceit there is a level of accepted knowledge of this. But for one story I covered I had access to Australian Radiation Laboratory reports for a site just west of Melbourne's CBD (Fishermans Bend) in which uranium was reprocessed in the '70s, and most people didn't know about this. This story was a huge cover-up and I had the privilege to speak to one of the CSIRO employees who subsequently worked on this contamimated site and has been affected long term. His story would not have gotten out there without 3CR.

Why should people donate to 3CR? 
Having a truly independent media voice is rare and precious. 3CR is a jewel that must be nutured and cherished! The 3CR wavelength is vital for the truth to be spoken unfettered by commerial or political influence. Vive la 3CR! 

You’re stranded on a deserted island. What people-powered invention will you create to get past your boredom? 
Musical coconuts! Yes indeed, we would have a whole orchestra of coconut instruments: coconut xylophones, a string section made from palm fibre strung across the hulls of the nuts, and needless to say the percussion options are endless. Madeline, of course, would be the head nut orchestrating and playing them all at the same. Ha!