From Pets-A-Loud: Heroic Animals

Often we see stories of animals being rescued by compassionate humans, however, from time to time we see stories where it is actually our animals who do the rescuing. On this edition of Pets-A-Loud the team celebrates the heroic acts of our companion animals.

From Lunchbox: Justin Bieber and the ARIAs

Each week, hear some of the best bits of JOY’s breakfast and drive teams on the Lunchbox. If you listen to Little Pod of JOY, you’ll enjoy the Lunchbox with Bas and BJ on Wednesdays 12PM!

From Jax and Greta: The Update

Greta gives directions while on a journey to becoming mayor of Melbourne or at least somewhere, Jax talks about her weekend pastime of attending weddings, and they discuss the update we’ve all been waiting for. What has been going on with Jax’s neighbour’s stripper pole?

From Second Breakfast: Helen Pankhurst

Sonja has the great honour to interview Dr Helen Pankhurst, a direct descendant of Emmeline Pankhurst, the steely Edwardian matriarch famously photographed being hoisted away from a protest at the gates of Buckingham Palace by a policeman. Emmeline was Helen’s great-grandmother.  Dr Helen Pankhurst is senior advisor for the Water Team of CARE USA and ambassador for CARE International. She is in Australia to travel with the very first screening previews of Suffragette, the new movie based on the suffragette feminist movement in the UK from the early 20th century.

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From Cheap Seats: LGBTIQ on YouTube

Summer in the City is the UK’s largest YouTube convention.  Each year it brings together YouTube creators and fans in a celebration of online video and the community that surrounds it. Dean is in the Cheap Seats for a panel discussion from the 2014 event about LGBTQ community representation on YouTube.

From Word for Word: The Doherty Institute

Dean puts the spotlight on two of Australia’s greatest scientists, Laureate Professor Peter Doherty and Professor Sharon Lewin, and focuses on the work conducted at the Doherty Institute which hosted the World AIDS Day 2015 activities and events in Melbourne on December 1.

From Her Voice: Jay Power

AnneLoise and Barbara were joined in the studio by Adelaide musician Jay Power who released her fourth studio album The Missing this year. We chatted to the Soul and RnB singer about her career and how she changed directions to get back to do the music she really wants to play.

From SciFi & Squeam: Bianca Bradey

Sonja “The Squeamer” Hammer talks to actress Bianca Bradey, whose breakout role was Brooke from WYRMWOOD and who stars in Australian cult lesbian webseries STARTING FROM…NOW, about being a special guest at the A Night of Horror International Film Festival opening Thursday the 26th of November in Sydney.

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From Driving You Mad: Hitting Home

David and Sue speak with Sarah Ferguson about her new doco that aired on the ABC, Hitting Home. Sarah talks about knowing the warning signs of domestic violence; little creepy bits of controlling behaviour come first.

From Well Well Well: World AIDS Day

In this second part of a World AIDS Day series Jack and Adam continue with some important events for World AIDS Day 2015 in a discussion with Max Niggl from Living Positive Victoria.

From Is Nothing Sacred: All of My People

Tonight’s show is all about human rights with Jim and Steph talking to Samantha Betts who worked in the detention center in Nauru and became a whistle-blower and advocate, speaking publicly about what she saw there. Also the meaning of My People by The Presets (covered by the Basement Boys) is revealed.

From Hide and Seek: The Media and HIV

Following the announcement by Charlie Sheen that he is HIV positive, Dean and Andrew chat with Joel Murray, a self-described libertarian writer who is HIV+, about the mainstream media’s coverage of HIV, safer sex, and the broader impacts that HIV impacts individuals.

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From the QNN: Queer Network News

News and Information for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex communities.

From Babble POP!: Award-Winningly Classic

Babble POP! celebrates our diverse communities with the newest pop and dance music from around the world, in languages other than English. This week focuses on huge, classic tracks – and the show has just won a major radio award!

From Counter Cultured: Stings Most Definitely Attached

DJ Tamara is Victoria’s next killer electronic act and if you don’t believe Dylan now, listen to this chat and get lost in her set as she takes the stage as a Counter Cultured special guest DJ.

From On the Line: Brent Allan

Living Positive Victoria’s Executive Officer, Brent Allan, joins Dean to discuss the recent developments in community activation of PrEP, the activities of World AIDS Day 2015, his organisations call for new Board members, the HIV Justice Film Festival and much more.

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From Que(e)ries: Is Poetry Queer?

This week Lana is talking about what poetry is, the history of poetry from Sappho to Mary Oliver to Sonya Renee, and the role poetry has played in the lesbian and feminist movements to explore the question, “is poetry queer”?

From Sound Museum: Tina Arena

In this extended podcast exclusive Leo chats with the sensational Tina Arena. Tina reflects on her career, from a young girl in Young Talent Time to a multi-million selling recording artist about to celebrate forty years in the music industry.

From Cute: Katie from Listen

Hanna is joined by Katie from LISTEN, which was originally started by Evelyn Morris. LISTEN exists to spark and cultivate a conversation from a feminist perspective around the experiences of marginalized people in Australian music.

From Saturday Magazine: Full As A Goog

Pete and Tas have a very cerebral and jam-packed show, joined for the first hour by ‘Dolly’ Doyle, to cover the news. Pauline Cramery, a researcher, community liaison officer and coordinator, comes in to share her findings on a report about how older LGBT people were and are treated.

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From Spirit Lounge: Halloween

Holy days of the week are Halloween, All Saints’ and All Souls’. Rachel and Claudine discuss the cultural context, histories and ceremonies for these holidays, through to the modern adaptations.

From Hide and Seek: International Fisting Day

Club 80’s ZONE:RED recently celebrated its first anniversary and organiser Warrick Emanuel joins Dean to discuss this increasingly popular monthly event. By sheer coincidence this conversation aired on 21st of October, International Fisting Day, now in its fifth year.

From Jax and Greta: Hens’ Nights and Stripper Poles

Greta talks the Hens’ she attended on the weekend and Jackie talks about being diddled – she’s now further away from her free coffee. There’s also Jackie’s realisation that most elevators have mirrors, a great opportunity to correct her VPL. But elevators have cameras, do people watch the video footage? Jackie also gives us an update on her neighbour’s stripper pole.

From LA Spinz: Adele’s Back!

This is your Hollywood goss fix for another week thanks to Peter Reynolds, coming to you from Los Angeles. Adele addresses her legion of fans via Facebook and says that while her massively popular album “21” was a breakup record, the upcoming “25” will be a makeup record. Plus a hundred other Hollywood things are happening right now!

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From Driving You Mad: Bloody Hard Work

Dracula as queer hero? David and Sue chat with Stephen Nicolazzo, director of a new, high camp, production of Bram Stoker’s Dracula to be presented silent cinema style at Theatre Works Oct.29-Nov.14.

From Scifi & Squeam: This is Halloween!

In the studio Mitch and Sonja have Tara Judah as a guest from The Astor Theatre and Triple RRR’s Plato’s Cave Podcast lending a bloodied hand as we celebrate Samhain..Hallow Eve…Halloween…and all it’s incarnations! We discuss Horror movies, Halloween origins, Paganism, Superstition, and Flying Serpents that abduct Dean Acuri from Guy Fi Podcast !!

From Ad-lib to Fade: Wiccaween

Halloween: A magical time of year.
The balmy wind, the ominous thunderstorms, the simultaneous heat and cold.
This is a whimsical collection of songs and spoken word about Halloween and its magical history.

From The Royal Daltons: Halloween Sparkles

It’s Halloween, and you know what that means: COSTUME PARTY!

From Pets-A-Loud: Howl-o-ween!

We chose treat on this edition of Pets-A-Loud where we look at ways to treat yourself and your pet to a fun day out and how to avoid your pet wrongly treating on Halloween sweets or decorations.

Spooky Podcast Playlist:

• I Put a Spell on You  Mojo Juju
• Monster Mash  Bobby “Boris” Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers
• Cannibal  Ke$ha
• Theme from The Munsters

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From Rise Up: Margot Fink

Michelle, Dee and Adam talk to Margot Fink who is Communications Manager for Minus18. Margot is also the Victorian State Finalist for Young Australian of the Year!

From Ad-lib to Fade: Witches, Wizards & Warlocks

With Halloween, All Saints Day and the Day of the Dead 2015 upon us, this show looks at the portrayals of Witches, Wizards and Warlocks in popular culture including the camp and bizarre.

From Driving You Mad: Melbourne Music Week

David and Sue chat with Cr Rohan Leppert, Chair, Arts Melbourne. More music than you can poke a stick at – that’s Melbourne Music Week! Over eight days 13-20 Nov, more than 100 events – half of which are free – will take place during the day and night in Melbourne’s live music venues, on the streets, in laneways and other unique spaces in the city.

From Well, Well, Well: Mental Health

Jessie and Carlos join with VAC counsellor Guy Campbell in an important follow up to Mental Heath Week. Together they discuss strategies and available services in response to anxiety and depression in our community including the Calming Anxiety Group.

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From The Woods: Mental Health

Mark and Dene, along with new intern Robbie, put their emphasis on Mental Health Week and World Mental Health Day. They’re joined by Craig Ingrey to discuss mindfulness, triggers, life experience of mental illness, and more.

From Saturday Magazine: Totally On Board

This week, Pete is joined by Tas and Ian in the midst of a vote for new board members at JOY. Martin Foley, minister for everything, is asked for his thoughts on how same sex couples could now adopt legally.

From On The Line: Swinburne Uni Celebrates Pride 

Recently Swinburne University celebrated diversity with a day of Pride.  Vice Chancellor Linda Kristjanson also announced the Uni will sponsor the 2015 Midsumma Festival, becoming the first uni in the country to financially support an LGBTI festival. Dean was there and caught up with Jeffrey Smart, Vice-President (International and Students) to find out why Swinburne considered the LGBTI community so important. 

From Been There Done That: The Calendar

Happening this week are Mental Health Week, Seniors Festival, Lesbian Day on 08/10/2015 which was first celebrated in 1980 in NZ and on 10/10/2015 is the big Northside Bizarre at the Laird Hotel. In 7/10/1798 Bass and Flinders set off to find out if Van Diemen’s land was part of the mainland. Bass was rumoured to be one of us!  Captain Cook landed on NZ this week on 08/10/1769 and mapped both islands.

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From Rise Up: Let’s Hakuna Our Matatas!

Re-joining the cast of The Lion King Musical as Pumbaa, Tasmanian actor, performer and radio jock John X joins the cast live in studio to chat about reclaiming his role after 10 years as the beloved “flatulent warthog” and life in the Lion King.

From Trans*Positions: Boys’ Night In

Ruben joins Kurt and Nate to tell his unique transition story. The boys expose FTM toilet secrets. That’s right! Things you never knew you wished you never knew!

From Is Nothing Sacred: A Dirty Second Birthday

104 shows; that’s two years on air and still going! This week, James, Jim, Clair and Steph are joined by former co-host Pat for this momentous occasion, starting with an interview with Jen Wiltshire about phytoremediation and the universe of dirt.

From Triple Threat: Toilet Etiquette

Hear James’ discovery of some new toilet etiquette that took him by surprise. Then hear Jess’ entrepreneurial ideas to curb that awful toilet stage fright.

From Interview Highlights: Toilets – Personal or Political?

Lana Woolf explores whether there is a bathroom debate in Australia, by talking to the Australian Human Rights Commissioner, Tim Wilson.

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