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All kinds of music and all kinds of musicians in conversation with Andrew Ford.

Episode Date
Gregory Porter on his jazz foundations and Michael Collins on the clarinettist-composer relationship
Aug 10, 2025
Jerrah Patston's world in songs, and the music of outback fences and pied butcherbirds
Aug 09, 2025
Legacies and laughs: Tom Lehrer and Dame Cleo Laine
Aug 03, 2025
Storytelling, beats and soundscapes on Warlpiri Country, and Gordon Kerry's new Requiem
Aug 02, 2025
Ozzy Osbourne - the melodic voice of Black Sabbath, and announcing poetry and lyric competition Middle of the Air
Jul 27, 2025
Michael Atherton: A lifetime student of music from ancient Egypt, medieval Europe and beyond
Jul 26, 2025
Together Alone with Crowded House and talking About Ghosts with Mary Halvorson
Jul 20, 2025
Ben Lee on mistakes, longevity and the power of pop music
Jul 19, 2025
Midge Ure on punk, pop and Ultravox and Nina Korbe on opera and advocacy
Jul 13, 2025
Putting together the pieces of Meredith Monk, and Christine Anu wins the 2025 NAIDOC Creative Talent Award
Jul 12, 2025
Listening to Country with composer James Howard, and the Stiff Gins celebrate 25 years
Jul 06, 2025
Remembering Lalo Schifrin, and how an organ can make a town come alive
Jul 05, 2025
Brian Campeau's country-tinged left turn, and Erik Satie—from the sublime to the surreal
Jun 29, 2025
Lorde reborn
Jun 28, 2025
Margret RoadKnight—60 years in the business
Jun 22, 2025
A Plastic Ocean Oratorio from Omar Musa and Mariel Roberts Musa, and a new Chapter for Guy Blackman
Jun 21, 2025
Collecting Scots songs on horseback and remembering The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson
Jun 15, 2025
Singing the Aphrodite myth, and a new take on golden age of Persian contemporary music
Jun 14, 2025
John Luther Adams on earth
Jun 08, 2025
The birth of House, and the rebirth of Lucius
Jun 07, 2025
Gender euphoria and jazz with Elliot Lamb and entering the forest house with Jenny Mitchell
Jun 01, 2025
Bush Gothic on the fine line between pleasure and pain, and director Netia Jones on Purcell's wild semi-opera The Fairy Queen
May 31, 2025
From broken piano to bestseller—Keith Jarrett's The Köln Concert
May 25, 2025
Tangerine Dream bring order into chaos and Jonathon Crompton maps out the coastline
May 24, 2025
Ellen Stekert: a full life in folk music
May 18, 2025
Kamasi Washington's Fearless Movement and Gregory Day's Southsightedness
May 17, 2025
Pokey LaFarge takes us to Rhumba Country, and the radical spirituality of Sofia Gubaidulina
May 11, 2025
Three centuries of chamber music by women with Anna Goldsworthy, and where blues and zydeco meet
May 10, 2025
Glass percussion with Shock Lines and campfire storytelling with Mark Atkins
May 04, 2025
Music in Motion: Live at the Canberra International Music Festival
May 03, 2025
Modernism, Catholicism, and Birdsong: Olivier Messiaen
Apr 27, 2025
Deep Inside the Blues
Apr 26, 2025
Messiah
Apr 20, 2025
Irish music new and old: Fontaines D.C. and Daoirí Farrell
Apr 19, 2025
Gospel meets disco with family band Annie & the Caldwells, and Tenzin Choegyal and Matt Corby team up
Apr 13, 2025
In rehearsal with Zubin Kanga's cyborg piano, and at the art gallery with Julius Eastman's Femenine
Apr 12, 2025
Marlon Williams' te reo Māori album, and canons in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Apr 05, 2025
Genre-defining strings with Abel Selaocoe and Aaron Wyatt
Apr 04, 2025
Stasis, flux and stamina: saxophonist Adam Page can improvise for 24-hours non-stop
Mar 29, 2025
Allison Russell on jamming with Joni Mitchell, Annie Lennox, Hozier and more; and Lucy Sante's Six Sermons for Bob Dylan
Mar 28, 2025
Organised Delirium: Pierre Boulez at 100
Mar 22, 2025
The legacy of the Shangri-Las, and Palestinian band 47SOUL
Mar 21, 2025
From the Bronx to BBQs to Barkaa—the evolution of Australian hip hop
Mar 15, 2025
Anarchy and acoustics: Sex Pistols and Pistols in St. Paul's
Mar 14, 2025
Nana Benz du Togo, Sauljaljui and The Joy live at WOMADelaide
Mar 08, 2025
Eleanor Jawurlngali, Duo Ruut and Ana Carla Maza at WOMADelaide
Mar 07, 2025
Cover Story: The Times They Are A-Changin'
Mar 01, 2025
Innovation and imitation: Maurice Ravel at 150
Feb 28, 2025
Cover Story: Under The Milky Way
Feb 22, 2025
Otherworldly sounds with Charm of Finches and The Cloud Maker
Feb 21, 2025
Cover Story: Running Up That Hill
Feb 15, 2025
Richard Dawson's evocative songwriting, and remembering Vic Simms
Feb 14, 2025
Cover Story: Heart of Gold
Feb 08, 2025
An obscure orchestra and an opera for the dead
Feb 07, 2025
Cover Story: Lay All Your Love On Me
Feb 02, 2025
The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band and remembering Marianne Faithfull
Jan 31, 2025
The Violin in the Colony
Jan 26, 2025
Tamworth's prodigal son Andy Golledge, and Australians in America with Lisa Moore and Lloyd Van't Hoff
Jan 24, 2025
Percussionists and poets in Caroline Shaw's music; David Keenan's Irish Songs
Jan 19, 2025
Remembering Ruby Hunter, with Emily Wurramara and Dan Sultan
Jan 18, 2025
Folk singers and the FBI
Jan 12, 2025
Ziggy Ramo's exploration of dark histories and big questions
Jan 11, 2025
The last violin of Harry Vatiliotis; the exile of Arooj Aftab
Jan 05, 2025
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald
Jan 04, 2025
Polyrhythms and pop music with Tune-Yards; Omar Musa turns poetry into music
Dec 29, 2024
Music for Prime Time
Dec 28, 2024
Víkingur Ólafsson's infinite variety; Angélique Kidjo's re-imagining of a Talking Heads’ classic
Dec 22, 2024
Lisa O'Neill and Cormac Begley live at WOMADelaide
Dec 21, 2024
Experiencing Sound
Dec 15, 2024
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
Dec 14, 2024
Songdreaming with Sam Lee and horn playing with Carla Blackwood
Dec 08, 2024
Bob Geldof 40 years on from Band Aid and CINTA's soul control
Dec 07, 2024
Jim Moginie at the piano and Kultar Ahluwalia on a life in hip hop
Dec 01, 2024
Surveying the Australian music landscape with Paul Kelly and Amanda Brown
Nov 30, 2024
Saturday Night Fever, the Bee Gees and disco in Australia
Nov 24, 2024
JADE Ensemble's intercultural sound world and Ken Murray plays Christopher Sainsbury
Nov 23, 2024
Jerron Paxton's blues and Chloe Kim's basses
Nov 17, 2024
Sharp observations: Bill Bailey and Darren Hanlon
Nov 16, 2024
From Brazil to The Beatles with Esperanza Spalding, and Affinity Quartet live in the studio
Nov 10, 2024
Kankawa Nagarra’s Blues on Country, guitarist Sean Shibe in studio, and remembering Quincy Jones
Nov 09, 2024
Live in the studio with Parvyn and Elana Stone
Nov 03, 2024
Meet this year's Boyer lecturers, and Afghan-American musician Qais Essar performs live
Nov 02, 2024
Folk singers and the FBI
Oct 27, 2024
Experimenting with style: saxophonist Nubya Garcia, and metal trio Black Aleph
Oct 26, 2024
Modernist composer Charles Ives at 150 and countertenor Andreas Scholl returns to Australia
Oct 20, 2024
Music from a turbulent 17th-century England, and violinist Véronique Serret explores her voice
Oct 19, 2024
Ash Wednesday's AfterMATH on the organ, and the musical marriage of Lutyens and Clark
Oct 13, 2024
Listening to Another Noise with Evelyn Glennie and Raymond Antrobus, and in the throes of Ecstasy with Marcus Whale
Oct 12, 2024
Fiddles, folk and finding the light: The Crooked Fiddle Band and Angie McMahon
Oct 06, 2024
The Outlaws: Henry Wagons remembers Kris Kristofferson, and Tami Neilson plays Willie Nelson
Oct 05, 2024
Irish singer songwriter Susan O'Neill, and cellist Steven Isserlis's 'Team Fauré'
Sep 29, 2024
Out front: advocate and songwriter Eliza Hull and conductor Sir Donald Runnicles
Sep 28, 2024
Conductor Sam Weller's rise and songwriter Melody Pool's return
Sep 22, 2024
Queer desire, mortality, and dancing scorpions: Sydney Chamber Opera’s Gilgamesh
Sep 21, 2024
Trainhopping with Hurray For The Riff Raff, and jazz, classical and ambient meet in a Requiem Mass
Sep 15, 2024
Laurie Anderson in the air with Amelia Earhart
Sep 14, 2024
Arnold Schoenberg at 150: a complicated and crucial man
Sep 08, 2024
Sandy Evans the eternal collaborator, and the music of speech
Sep 07, 2024
Larry Sitsky turns 90, and Chloe Rowlands crosses the country with her trumpet
Sep 01, 2024
The last violin of Harry Vatiliotis, and writing for big band and strings
Aug 31, 2024
Turner's Turn: Geraldine Turner
Aug 25, 2024
Kate Fagan’s Song in the Grass, and what makes a perfect News theme
Aug 24, 2024
Polyrhythms, percussion and pop music with Tune-Yards, and how to start a record label
Aug 18, 2024
Herbie Hancock on keys & Tenzin Choegyal on the roof of the world
Aug 17, 2024
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald
Aug 11, 2024
Deep listening in Japan's music cafés, and Finnish fiddler Pekka Kuusisto with US songwriter Gabriel Kahane
Aug 10, 2024
From stage dives to infights: the birth of Australian punk
Aug 04, 2024
Christine Anu weaves her story in music and countertenor Iestyn Davies makes his Australian debut
Aug 03, 2024
How jazz contributed to a Congolese coup, and Rafael Karlen's composition for a lost city
Jul 28, 2024
Baritone and composer Roderick Williams, and remembering activist and singer Bernice Johnson Reagon
Jul 27, 2024
Radical Son on soulful learnings, and the picturesque compositions of Christopher Cerrone
Jul 21, 2024
Brett Dean's Hamlet and Linda May Han Oh's bass
Jul 20, 2024
The music of Australian ballroom: disco, house, and the sounds of Western Sydney
Jul 14, 2024
Andrew Gurruwiwi’s new Yolŋu funk and Louis Armstrong’s last great performance
Jul 13, 2024
Remembering Ruby Hunter, with Emily Wurramara and Dan Sultan
Jul 07, 2024
The power of three: tabla, veena and violin unite and Opera Australia stages Puccini's triptych
Jul 06, 2024
Finding radical newness in tradition with Neal Peres Da Costa's harpsichord and Jenny M Thomas's Welsh choir
Jun 30, 2024
Grace Petrie's protest songs and Mat Schulz's Unsound festival
Jun 29, 2024
The Beatles in Australia
Jun 23, 2024
Caroline Shaw and Nicolas Altstaedt
Jun 22, 2024
Clive James on words and music
Jun 16, 2024
Novelists on music: Margaret Atwood, Andrea Goldsmith and Anna Goldsworthy
Jun 15, 2024
Deep Inside the Blues
Jun 09, 2024
Deerhoof returns to Australia, and soprano Anna Fraser sings through a snorkel
Jun 08, 2024
Ziggy Ramo's Human?
Jun 02, 2024
Jeremy Deller's acid brass, Bach's St John Passion, and Victoria Pham's singing mushrooms
Jun 01, 2024
Becoming a Composer with Errollyn Wallen
May 26, 2024
Kate Mulvany updates Dido & Aeneas and Elefant Traks finishes up after 26 years
May 25, 2024
Omar Musa, turning poetry into music & the music of Jane Austen
May 19, 2024
Stuart Skelton sings the Song of the Earth, and Reuben Lewis and Huda the Goddess meet in the middle of jazz and spoken word
May 18, 2024
Lotte Betts-Dean’s voice, Bram de Looze’s piano, and Roland Peelman’s final year at Canberra International Music Festival
May 12, 2024
Rainbow Chan explores language through lament, and when George Gershwin met Arnold Schoenberg
May 11, 2024
Folk trio Apolline, and Blossom Dearie at 100
May 05, 2024
Maanyung on saltwater, sand, and sound & Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth
May 04, 2024
Pits, picket lines and pop music: the 1984-5 UK miners' strike
Apr 28, 2024
Sir Andrew Davis remembered, and Martha Wainwright returns to Australia
Apr 27, 2024
Beethoven and Webern with Timo-Veikko Valve and Aura Go, and Alison Cotton's Engelchen: how opera-loving sisters helped evacuate Jewish refugees
Apr 21, 2024
Ann Savoy: a life in Cajun music and Wilbur Whitta's Wildfire
Apr 20, 2024
Recorders, Fiddles, Clogs and Swords
Apr 14, 2024
Benjamin Northey on conducting and community & remembering Clarence 'Frogman' Henry
Apr 13, 2024
The Music of Remembrance with Jeremy Eichler
Apr 06, 2024
Sam Anning's earthenware and Beethoven's Missa solemnis at 200
Apr 06, 2024
Víkingur Ólafsson's infinite variety, and remembering Maurizio Pollini
Mar 31, 2024
One Queen of the Cross, two Finnish fiddlers and a century of women composers
Mar 30, 2024
Music for Prime Time
Mar 24, 2024
Peter Garrett's unwavering optimism and Jo Davies' first season at the helm of Opera Australia
Mar 23, 2024
Corinne Bailey Rae on Black resilience and the freedom of a career left turn
Mar 17, 2024
Simone Young conducts Gurrelieder and Eleanor McEvoy hits the road
Mar 16, 2024
Lisa O'Neill and Cormac Begley live at WOMADelaide
Mar 10, 2024
Marta Pereira da Costa, The Good Ones and Katanga Junior live at WOMADelaide
Mar 09, 2024
Polyphony and protest with Windborne, loops and language with Allara
Mar 03, 2024
Dancing across the world with Angélique Kidjo & Maatakitj, and from opera to cabaret with Anna Dowsley
Mar 02, 2024
Jazz Money's poetic ventures into music and Cameron Undy's ghostly rhythms
Feb 25, 2024
Fearless voices: Joseph Keckler and Raehann Bryce-Davis
Feb 24, 2024
The exile of Arooj Aftab and what Alana Valentine built from the fire of Notre-Dame
Feb 18, 2024
Unknown Mortal Orchestra's Ruban Nielson plays his Hawaiian roots and Katharine Dain sings 20th Century desire
Feb 17, 2024
Lonnie Holley is part of the wonder
Feb 11, 2024
Aboard the Arka Kinari, & Frank Yamma live in studio
Feb 10, 2024
Eddie Perfect gets candid about Candide and Forest Collective enter the Labyrinth
Feb 04, 2024
Rivers with Richard Tognetti, oceans with Iran Sanadzadeh, and remembering Chita Rivera
Feb 03, 2024
Cigány Weaver live in studio & Lotte Betts-Dean's distinctly medieval collaboration with Stuart MacRae
Jan 28, 2024
David Keenan's Irish Songs & remembering David Lumsdaine
Jan 27, 2024
From Little Things Big Things Grow on RN Summer
Jan 21, 2024
Electric Fields & Stiff Gins on RN Summer
Jan 20, 2024
The Lives of Noël Coward on RN Summer
Jan 14, 2024
Fred Leone & Marcia Hines on RN Summer
Jan 13, 2024
James Gavin's Ravaged Voices on RN Summer
Jan 07, 2024
ANOHNI & the Johnsons return and we’re In the Moog on RN Summer
Jan 06, 2024
Pop Hooks on RN Summer
Dec 31, 2023
Hozier's Inferno & Benjamin Appl's Forbidden Fruit on RN Summer
Dec 30, 2023
Looking to the skies with Fanny Lumsden & Georgia Mooney on RN Summer
Dec 24, 2023
Don Walker & Rob Hao on RN Summer
Dec 23, 2023
Andy Irvine
Dec 17, 2023
Hill, Higgins, & Cross
Dec 16, 2023
Richard Mills' Galileo; and banjos, violins, vacuum cleaners - the best of our 2023 live sessions
Dec 10, 2023
Getting plucky with harpist Emily Granger & Hank Williams at 100
Dec 09, 2023
Anthony Marwood
Dec 03, 2023
New music from Carla Geneve, live music from Nexus Arts Orchestra, and remembering Shane MacGowan
Dec 02, 2023
100 years of radio in Australia: live from the National Film and Sound Archive
Nov 26, 2023
Australian staples: Bart Willoughby and Ashley Naylor
Nov 25, 2023
Travelling tunes with troubadour Fred Smith and jazz duo Claire Cross & Harry Cook
Nov 19, 2023
Conversations with ZÖJ & conservation with Bowerbird Collective
Nov 18, 2023
Robyn Archer's Australian Songbook
Nov 12, 2023
Holly Moore's Reunion & Katie Yap's Multitudes
Nov 11, 2023
Geraldine Turner
Nov 05, 2023
The Bamboos and Troy Cassar-Daley are keeping it in the family
Nov 04, 2023
Bright Eyes & Big Bands: Conor Oberst and Vanessa Perica
Oct 29, 2023
Finding a common language: Hyoshi in Counterpoint and Hand to Earth
Oct 28, 2023
Annea Lockwood: Tête-à-tête
Oct 22, 2023
Cécile McLorin Salvant
Oct 21, 2023
Music in spaces & places in song: No-No Boy and FUJI||||||||||TA
Oct 15, 2023
New Australian Opera: Panbe Zan and The Visitors
Oct 14, 2023
William Byrd
Oct 08, 2023
Gospels, gryphons, and remembering Jacqueline Dark
Oct 07, 2023
How the 1970s changed music
Oct 01, 2023
Weathering extremes: Sydney Chamber Opera's triple bill and Jim Denley's new albums
Sep 30, 2023
The Lives of Noël Coward
Sep 24, 2023
Legacies: Jarabi Band and the Alma Moodie Quartet
Sep 23, 2023
Dutch-Indian Jugalbandi and Mark Isaacs' Passion for Harmony
Sep 17, 2023
Hildur Guðnadóttir is making music with Kenneth Branagh, and Kate Neal and Rubiks Collective are passing time
Sep 16, 2023
From pillar to podium: Umberto Clerici
Sep 10, 2023
A win-wind situation: Eliza Shephard and Phillippa Murphy-Haste
Sep 09, 2023
Keeping it fresh: completing Schubert's incomplete music, and The Cat Empire's next gen
Sep 03, 2023
Kurt Elling's chops and an Extremely Serious Musical Comedy: The Dismissal
Sep 02, 2023
James Gavin on Ravaged Voices
Aug 27, 2023
Looking to the skies: Fanny Lumsden, Georgia Mooney, and their new albums
Aug 26, 2023
Horns, Voices & Keyboard Fantasies with Stefan Dohr, Meta Cohen and Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Aug 20, 2023
Hozier's Unreal Unearth, and the legacy of Liszt
Aug 19, 2023
Birdsong
Aug 13, 2023
Butchulla beats, Baez on the big screen, and Remembering Robbie Robertson and Rodriguez
Aug 12, 2023
William Barton & Stiff Gins
Aug 06, 2023
Distinctive strings: Tahlia Petrosian and the Gewandhaus musicians, and brother/guitar duo Ziggy & Miles
Aug 05, 2023
György Ligeti at 100
Jul 30, 2023
Jessica Pratt's Mad Scenes, learning Anindilyakwa with Shellie Morris, & remembering Sinéad O'Connor and Tony Bennett
Jul 29, 2023
Hearing Mike Nock
Jul 23, 2023
Benjamin Appl's Forbidden Fruit & Busby Marou's endless optimism
Jul 22, 2023
Chopin's Piano with Aura Go
Jul 16, 2023
Marcia Hines is Still Shining, and Evelyn Ida Morris is extending time
Jul 15, 2023
Unbreakable Bach with Michelle Nicolle
Jul 09, 2023
Riding the waves: cosmic country, saltwater songs, and Gulu City grooves
Jul 08, 2023
From Little Things Big Things Grow
Jul 02, 2023
On the dancefloor with First Nations artists Naretha Williams and Electric Fields
Jul 01, 2023
ANOHNI & the Johnsons reborn, Sydney trio HEKKA get on the Road
Jun 25, 2023
Ragas on modular synth with Arushi Jain; and Freedman Fellow Tom Avgenicos takes us to Stringybark Creek
Jun 24, 2023
Quartet: The musical lives of four British women composers for the Big Weekend of Books
Jun 18, 2023
Pop Hooks for Big Weekend of Books
Jun 17, 2023
Remembering Kaija Saariaho
Jun 11, 2023
Max Richter Sleeps again, and Balinese electro-jazz fusion with Firetail and Gamelan DanAnda
Jun 10, 2023
Chamber music by French trailblazer Louise Farrenc and Leigh Harrold in praise of the vulnerable man
Jun 04, 2023
Little Richard & Joy Oladokun: Blackness, Queerness & faith in America
Jun 03, 2023
Shirley Collins' Octogenarian Folk Trilogy
May 28, 2023
Yazmin Lacey's Voice Notes and Balkan Jazz Fusion with East of West
May 27, 2023
Three countertenors, a sea monster, and the pianist Hania Rani
May 21, 2023
Chinese Opera from the Pear Garden and Cabaret in the Concert Hall
May 20, 2023
Madison McFerrin hopes you can forgive her and music directing 'Once' with Victoria Falconer
May 14, 2023
In The Moog
May 13, 2023
Storytelling in music: David Arden and Andrée Greenwell
May 07, 2023
Don Walker & Cash Savage
May 06, 2023
Traditional Folk and Monk Punk: Music from Japan
Apr 30, 2023
Inside the String Quartet
Apr 29, 2023
Minimal Wave, Acousmatic Waves, & Across the Waves
Apr 23, 2023
The Brodsky Quartet at 50 (+1), and Nashville takes on The Rolling Stones
Apr 22, 2023
Margaret Sutherland's Inner Voice
Apr 16, 2023
Kit Downes at the piano, and Heavy Metal in the Muslim World
Apr 15, 2023
Silent Film, Loud Music
Apr 09, 2023
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Apr 08, 2023
In the Garden of Australian Dreams with Genevieve Lacey; and remembering countertenor James Bowman
Apr 02, 2023
Finding their voices: Jen Cloher and the Gesualdo Six
Apr 01, 2023
Quartet: The musical lives of four British women composers
Mar 26, 2023
An extinct instrument, Pacific Break winner Danielle, and renewal through music in Somaliland
Mar 25, 2023