Enjoy summer radio on-air and online wherever you are with spokenword and music summer specials to keep you going through the long days. Remember to also catch up on many of the specials from our busy 40th birthday year - Black Gold, Beyond the Bars, Disability Day and 40 days. It's been a radical year, and we look forward to an even better 2017! 

Black Gold is a 5-part series that digs deep through the 3CR archive to present ... Black Gold. We take listeners from the 1970s right through to the present day with a look at how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander broadcasters at 3CR covered some incredible community events and significant political struggles. We’ll attend a land rights meeting in 1978, celebrate the life of broadcaster Lisa Bellear, and hear about the successes of the campaign to save Northlands Secondary College. We’ll also reflect back on the anti-Bicentenary actions in 1988 and get up-to-date with the ongoing struggle for sovereignty and treaty. Tune in each Wednesday from 7-8am for Black Gold.

This Thursday 17 November, 6-6.30pm, 3CR's newest program Communication Mixdown casts a critical eye on the myriad ways in which we communicate with each other in our increasingly interconnected, multi-media platform world. Each week Jennifer Martin and John Langer will mix down the who, the what, the where, and the how of particular communication events, messages, trends and technologies, and then consider: what impacts and what consequences?

We have more t-shirts in stock! This is a special short run 3CR birthday t-shirt, created to celebrate 40 years of Radical Radio designed by Emily Floyd. For those people who missed out on our first run, there are a bunch more available from our online shop, or drop in to our 21 Smith Street, Fitzroy, studios and say hi and buy one during business hours. Get in quick!

It's Music Matters' 3rd birthday and 3CR's 40th, so we're celebrating with a music benefit featuring Rya Park, Rough River and Masco Sound System. Thursday 3 November, Bella Union, doors open at 7pm. All funds go toward keeping Radical Radio on air.

THIS Sunday 9 October from 12-4pm the station opens up its doors to the community and invites you to come in and celebrate 40 years of radical radio. Join us for an awesome afternoon tea, roving musicians, special on-air broadcasts and the opportunity to step into the studio and get behind the mic. Face painting for the kids, stalls, rolling station tours and the launch of the 3CR 40th birthday t-shirt. There'll be something for everyone! Getting to the station is easy, but parking around 21 Smith Street, Fitzroy, is very difficult and we strongly recommend that you walk, cycle or catch public transport to the day. See you there!

Done By Law is the Federation of Community Legal Centres’ radio show on 3CR 855AM and it's time once again for our sell out amazingly awesome trivia night extravaganza to raise funds for our mother station, which is celebrating its 40th year on air! This year our quizmaster is none other than the hilarious Jill Prior. Enough said! Date: Friday 9 September 2016. Time: 6.30pm for dinner, trivia starts at 7.30pm on the dot!
(Dancing with DJ Parky from 10.30PM to 1.00AM) Venue: Fitzroy Town Hall. Tickets are only $25 per person online plus dinner option for an additional $15.

We have a position available as the Station Manager at 3CR. The Station Manager is responsible for the overall day to day management of the station, including the coordination of staff and ensuring access and equity for 3CR’s volunteer workers and affiliates. The Station Manager also acts as the Executive Officer to the 3CR Committee of Management and to Community Radio Federation. This is a permanent, full-time position (35 hours per week, nine day fortnight with an RDO). Applications close 9am Monday 5 September.

3CR's Radiothon is over for another year - did you pledge but haven't yet paid? It's not too late. You can pay online, at the station during business hours with card or cash, or post a check or money order to PO Box 1277 Collingwood VIC 3066. Honour your pledge and help keep Radical Radio on the airwaves.

ON TOMORROW! 'Fallout' is the stunning Lawrence Johnston documentary about Neville Shute's end of the world nuclear holocaust film 'On the Beach' shot in 1959 in Melbourne. See Melbourne before the skyscrapers, see Ava Gardner and Gregory Peck gambolling on Brighton Beach, and remember the frightening feeling of Nuclear War that is still ever-present. Special film screening for Showreel Thursday 28 July at 7pm upstairs at 3CR Community Radio, 21 Smith Street Fitzroy.