10.30am-11am Stories of the unemployed
Telling the stories of unemployed people’s lives, focused on humanising welfare recipients by telling their stories. Each episode would be an in-depth conversation with someone on a centrelink payment about their lives, the circumstances that led to their unemployment, their experience with the welfare system, and their hopes for the future. Presented by Antimony.
Episode One: Tilde
After a strict religious upbringing, Tilde worked as a musician, academic, printer, and union organiser before becoming too sick to work.
22 December LISTEN
Episode Two: Kaitlyn
Kaitlyn knew her career vocation from a young age, but illness in her childhood made her path much harder.
29 December LISTEN
Episode Three: 'Jane' and the challenges of being a carer
Jane was on track for an academic career, but the lack of opportunities in her field and the illness of her loved ones quickly derailed her plans.
5 January LISTEN
Episode Four: James and finding your path later in life
Growing up in a conservative religious household, James had no support after being cut off from their family for being queer, and struggled with finding the right path.
12 January LISTEN
Episode Five: Nikki and the joy of unemployment
A survivor of the gig economy, Nikki held a dozen jobs in retail and hospitality before finding her calling in mutual aid and activism
19 January LISTEN
2-3pm Writing Home
Madhvi (Satellite Skies) will be airing a 3-episode audio series produced at Race Matters FBI radio, that documents the experiences of migrant sex workers in the adult industry. Followed by two episodes featuring readings of sex work literature, articles discussing them and an interview with the migrant support worker Bee Charikha from Vixen about their experience and ongoing advocacy and projects.
22 December - 19 January
11-12pm 'Right Relations & Innovations' Disability Day 2025 Revisited
This year’s theme was about disabled people’s visions of a safe future for everyone, and the relationships and innovations that can get us there. We bring you four programs that first aired on International Day of People with Disability 3 December, 2025.
22 December - 12 January
4-6pm Tuesday Hometime Summer Light
Tuesday Hometime Summer Light will be a magazine style program mixing interviews on current social issues, with music and poetry. Features will include Cohealth crisis updates, voices from the western suburbs, a Koorie Korner with reminiscences of Archie Roach and Lisa Bellear, Friends of the Earth campaign reports, some original international content, some whinges about admin failures in public institutions, and a brief What’s On for your politically engaged Summer.
23 December - 13 January
6-6.30pm 'Right Relations & Innovations' Disability Day 2025 Revisited
This year’s theme was about disabled people’s visions of a safe future for everyone, and the relationships and innovations that can get us there. We bring you five programs that first aired on International Day of People with Disability 3 December, 2025.
23 December - 20 January
6.30-7.30pm Music is Medicine
With thanks to the Saltwater Radio team and 8CCC.
23 December - 20 January
10-11pm People's History of Australia podcast.
People’s History of Australia is a podcast and blog aiming to amplify those moments when ordinary people across Australia have made history – by coming together, overcoming the barriers and divisions that keep us isolated and atomised, and struggling collectively for justice.
23 December - 20 January
9-10am Three Towers Podcast
Izzy Brown (Satellite Skies, Resident Frequency Radio) brings us voices from the high rise towers scheduled for demolition by the Victorian Government.
24 December - 14 January
Theatre of the Air
21 - 28 January
2-3pm Prima Donna Season 8
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.
24 December - 7 January
3-4pm Meet The International Day of Disability Ambassadors
Presented by Raphael Kaleb (The Boldness).
24 December: Santiago Velasquez and Olivia Sidhu. LISTEN
31 December: Rohan Soussa and James Parr. LISTEN
7 January: Isabella Choate and Maree Jenner. LISTEN
9-10am Community Centromere
Presented by Hank (Breadline).
1 January - 22 January
1 January LISTEN
8 January LISTEN
2-3pm Saltwater Sip
With thanks to the Saltwater Radio team and 8CCC.
25 December - 22 January
5-6pm The Wait
Mozhgan Moarefizadeh is stuck in Jakarta, living without rights—but with a yappy dog named Bella. With journalist Nicole Curby, she brings you into the lives of refugees like her, who are trapped on Australia’s new borderline, in Indonesia.
25 December - 22 January
6-7pm Race Matters
Race Matters is an anti-racist show that explores the values and complexities of race, culture and identity. In-depth interviews and unique story telling and spanning arts, music, politics, global and local events, plus experimental audio and community takeovers. Shared via the Community Radio Network.
25 December - 22 January
10-11.30pm Budget Rock Showcase
Focusing on garage/low budget rock, including 60s no hit wonders, Back from the Grave, Peebles, Australian, etc. Brought to you by Matt Ryan (Planet X).
18 December - 29 January
9-10am Saturday Kick On
Just when you thought you knew all you needed to know about the ever-increasing influence of the military industrial complex in Australian society, the A Friday Rave team Jacob and Mercedes bring you an hour more each Saturday over summer! To listen back you can find all the shows podcast on the A Friday Rave webpage.
27 December - 17 January
10.30-11am Our Stories, Our Flats
'Our Stories, Our Flats' captures the vibrancy and richness of the residents who call the Carlton Flats home. We wanted to document our lives as authentically as possible and create an intimate listening experience that resonates with everyone. 'Our Stories, Our Flats' is written, produced, and edited by Ayan Shirwa—narration by Raven.
27 December - 17 January
11am-12pm Westside Stories: a podcast dedicated to the voices of Melbourne’s west.
In this series, Grace Ernestine speaks with people who live, work, and create in the western suburbs community members, change makers, and artists who are shaping the culture and identity of the west.
27 December - 17 January
27 December LISTEN
3 January LISTEN
1-2pm Commons Conversations
Commons Conversations is a summer series in which campaigners share their experiences and insights into activism, learning in movements, radical history and more. The program is produced by the Commons Social Change Library. Listen back at www.3cr.org.au/actingup.
20 December - 31 January.
5.30-7pm Interpreting Traditional Songs
We revisit a special collaboration between 3CR and the Emerging Writers Festival, first broadcast on 11 September, when Jahan Xanlü hosted a special panel discussion about radical messages within folk music with a focus on the SWANACA/Greater Middle East region. They are joined by Astghik Lusaryan and Damoon Jehani, and together they will be digging into questions around the democratisation of sound through folk music, comparisons of local experiences and three live performances from each member...of course featuring some esoteric humour.
20 December
5.30-7pm She Oscillates: Femmes in Electronic Music
The joy of music oscillating through our lives. Fighting off the lows, bringing on the highs, celebrating music and women in music. Presented by Lou.
27 December - 90s Boston Indie music scene. LISTEN
3 January - Japanese indie music from Shibuya Kei, to acoustic pop, to electronic experimental. LISTEN
10 January - The Muffs - Focus on Kim Shattuck.
17 January - Just good stuff from around the world!
11.30am-12pm 'Right Relations & Innovations' Disability Day 2025 Revisited
This year’s theme was about disabled people’s visions of a safe future for everyone, and the relationships and innovations that can get us there. We bring you four programs that first aired on International Day of People with Disability 3 December, 2025.
28 December - 18 January
4-5pm You can’t get lost in Cape Town
Discussion of the spectrum of experience of what it means to be South African diaspora, and how that can be for people who have been born and live in the diaspora and for those who have immigrated after having being born and lived in their home.
Mymoena will be speaking with Roberta Joy Rich, who is an educator, curator and multi-disciplinary artist. Her arts practice utilises historical archives, storytelling, photo-media, text and sometimes satire in her video, sound, installation and mixed media practice. Often referencing her diaspora southern African identity and experiences, Roberta engages in a process of re-contextualising materials to unearth silenced narratives and the possibilities they conjure. Drawing from various epistemologies, she is interested in notions of ‘authenticity’ and challenging singularity in constructs of history, race and gender identity, with hope to deconstruct colonial modalities and propose sites of self-determination within her practice.
18 January LISTEN
6-7pm Summer Vinyl
As a lover of the vinyl format, John Tait (The Sporting Record) invites other vinyl lovers to come in as guests and share some records that are important to us.
21 December: The Harry Vanda Special. My brand new Harry Vanda single (Devil Loose) arrived in the post this week. So we look back at the amazing career of the last Easybeat standing.
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28 December: The Circus Oz Special. Jesse Jensen-Kohl has just released a beautiful book called 'Circus Oz - From the Pram to the World Stage' (Melbourne Books). I chat with Jesse and play a few relevant songs.
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4 January: The Greg Champion Special. I invited Champs in to talk about his non-football, non-cricket, non-sporting songs. He played live to air four songs: Mystery to Me; I Long for You; Red Heart; & Earth Beat. After discovering we are both Easybeats fans, he performed for me a little known Easybeats song.
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18 January: My special guest tonight was Graeme Howie, one half of the Howie Brothers. Identical twins John and Graeme Howie have been singing harmonies together all their lives, making over 50 albums and winning Golden Guitar awards along the way. Listen for his entry for the Tassie Devils team anthem.
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