Summer Specials 2023-2024

Monday, 18 December 2023 - 12:01am to Sunday, 14 January 2024 - 11:59am

Monday

9am-4pm, December 25: Tamil Christmas Appeal
Tamil Voice is holding our annual Radiothon on Christmas Day, to raise funds for disadvantaged Victorian Tamil students in need for Higher Education.  Students who are in pending visa approval such as humanitarian or refugee visas  do not have any support for education even if they had high VCE results for further studies.  Victorian Tamil Association with the 3CR support running this special Christmas radiothon.

2-3pm: Around the Arts (1 - 22 January)
Presented by Raphael 'The Beurologist' Kaleb (The Boldness).  

5-6pm: Saltgrass  (1 - 29 January)
Saltgrass highlights and celebrates what people are doing about the climate crisis in their own communities.  This show was born out of frustration at watching the Australian government consistently make decisions that favoured the fossil fuel industry, even as the majority of Australians said that they were worried about climate change. It became more and more apparent that the answer would have to come from the ground up, that is, every day people doing what they could in their region to make a change.  Created on Jaara country in Castlemaine, Central Victoria, Australia and shared nationally via the Community Radio Network.

11pm - midnight:  Health Sovereignty (18 December - 22 January)
We bring you repeat shows from 3CR's Health Sovereignty special programming for International Day of People with a Disability on December 3, 2023.   Talking about what Health, Wellbeing and Body Sovereignty mean, for multiply-marginalised disabled people, their kin and communities, living on unceded Indigenous lands.

Wednesday

9am Commons Conversations
A summer series of radio programs in which campaigners share their experiences and insights into activism, learning in movements, radical history and more. The 2023-2024 shows will include interviews and discussions with Judy Lambert (Womens Environmental Leadership Australia), Ned Howey (Tectonica), Te Raukura O’Connell Rapira (The Pod: Centre for Healing Justice), Laniyuk (poet, visual artist, performer), Winnifred Lewis (School of Psychology, University of Queensland), and more.

Thursday

6.30-7am:  Heart of the Storm (December 21 - January 25)
An original six-part series documenting one community’s experience of the Black Summer Bushfires. (Produced by Braidwood FM 88.9, via the Community Radio Network)

12-1pm: GECO 30 Years
A series that looks back on the wins, losses and lessons of a thirty year campaign to protect the forests of East Gippsland in Victoria. 

4.30-5pm Health Sovereignty 2023.
We bring you repeat shows from 3CR's Health Sovereignty special programming for International Day of People with a Disability on December 3, 2023.   Talking about what Health, Wellbeing and Body Sovereignty mean, for multiply-marginalised disabled people, their kin and communities, living on unceded Indigenous lands.

Friday

8.30-9am:  Prima Donna Season Seven (December 22 - January 5)
Prima Donna is a series of sonic portraits of Australian artists. Composer Nat Grant captures interviews with practitioners from all disciplines. The portraits comprise  interview recordings collaged with Nat’s original compositions: telling these artists’ stories, in their own words. They are both oral history and sonic artwork.

Saturday

10-11am Get Your Armies off our Bodies (December 23 - January 13)
A podcast series produced by Wage Peace featuring the stories, passions and insights of some of their most treasured collaborators.
Immerse yourself in the journeys of artists, activists and academics campaigning for peace on the stolen lands of this continent and further afield.

11am-12pm: Queerbrood (December 23 - January 27)
Queerbrood is a show about all the beautiful ways queer people make families. Across seven episodes, we discuss topics such as surrogacy, First Nations kinship structures, trans sisterhood, blended families and much more.

1-2pm:  Out! in the Outback (December 23 - January 13)
A celebration of queer people and culture in the outback! Out in the Outback is about building visibility, community and understanding with regular discussions of Queer topics, disco & pop. We welcome local and LGBTIQA+ guests and answer your queeries!  Hosted by Megan Williams and Tom Henderson (Aka Amanda Screetly) with guest hosts Jack Simmonds and Verity Nunan.

5.30-7pm: Summer Vinyl.
Presented by John Tait (The Sporting Record).

Sunday

9.15-9.30am COP 28 (December 24 - January 28)
Indigenous Rights Radio report backs from COP 28.

6-7pm Death to music
Stu Burns (Lost in Science) presents a show focused on music history on a year by year basis (or other themes potentially like Christmas songs), looking at the popularity of music at the time and the influence of music that was not necessarily popular. Music that was played to death and music that died an untimely death (or was resurrected).

Wednesday
A feast of radical summer radio featuring shorts, documentaries, music, and highlights from across the years.

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Summer Specials
Thursday 9:30am to 10:00am
A feast of shorts, docos, features and specialist music from 3CR broadcasters and our community radio family.

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Episodes

Summer Specials 2024-2025

16 Dec 2024
Relax and reflect on the year gone by with a radical array of special series, musical delights, short documentaries and great new summer surprises. Get listening, get informed and get ready for 2025. 

Summer Specials 2023-2024

18 Dec 2023
3CR brings you a fabulous mix of highlights from 2023, critical conversations, short documentary series, unique content and live music specials over summer.

Summer Specials 2022-2023

19 Dec 2022
Check out some of our great summer specials - docos, features, highlights from the year. There's something for everyone.

Summer Special 2021-2022

22 Dec 2021
Check out our great Summer listening line-up with radical radio content to inspire you for the year ahead.