Hear Owl About It: Recent Episodes
The Owl - University of Canberra
Think you know the news? The Owl will be the judge of that. Tune in as our rotating roster of student journalists quiz each other about what’s happening and play some tunes while they Google the answers.
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On this week’s show,Tia Priest-Willimott, Lila Greyling and Tenzing Johnson do crime and delve into local and world news.
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On this week’s show,AJ Benedictos, Alex Croft and Tom O'Halloran battle it out on sport, music and celebrity news.
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On this week’s show,Lila Greyling, Alex Croft and Charlotte Ashe battle it out on crime, world news and entertainment.
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It's our 50th episode! Woooooo! This week, the OG hosts -- Maddi, Ben and Amy -- drop into the studio to share nowhere near enough microphones with Lila, Tia, other Ben, Tom and AJ. There are classic clips, some outright weird quiz rounds, and cake. Happy episodary to us!
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On this week’s show,Lila Greyling, Ben Devlin and Alex Croft do crime, dive into the world of entertainment, and pull the bunsen burner out of storage for our first science segment in ages.
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On this week’s show,Lila Greyling, Ben Devlin and Tom O'Halloran do crime, review the Olympics, and entertain mostly themselves.
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On this week’s show,Lila Greyling, Haidyn Vecera and Tia Priest-Willimott invent a new international unit of measurement and insult the whole population of Canberra (24 people).
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On this week’s show, Joshua Groch, Ben Devlin and Lila Greyling call time on the season by broadcasting LIVE from UCBarx while eating $1 wings (minimum purchase of five). And on The Perch is Senior Lecturer in Sports Media, Mike Craw.
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On this week’s show,Lila Greyling, Ben Devlin and Tia Priest-Willimott bring their best angry-people-in-local-newspapers vibe to the show as they rage against potholes. And joining the team for Real Or Fake Headline? is Friend Of The Pod™, Ben Signor.
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On this week’s show,Tia Priest-Willimott, Joshua Groch and Zac Dowdell confuse Goodberry's with Godfreys (RIP) and have ~feelings~ about light rail.
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On this week’s show,Lila Greyling, Ben Devlin and Zac Dowdell struggle mightily with decimal places. And on The Perch is Friend Of The Pod™, Maddi Green.
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On this week’s show,Ben Devlin, Tia Priest-Willimott and Joshua Groch almost-but-not-quite learn the difference between nuclear fusion and nuclear fission, and discuss the pros and cons of licking batteries.
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On this week’s show, Lila Greyling, Chloe Staples and Natasha Wood (with a little help from Darcy, Isa and Hannah) tell each other to BOOYAH and are told by Bob Katter to SHUT UP.
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On this week’s show, Ben Devlin, Tia Priest-Willimott and Zac Dowdell (with a little help from Chloe Staples and Natasha Wood) get very confused about how cricket numbers work. And on The Perch is Program Core Coordinator for the Arts and SoLT Queen, Dr Rachel Campbell.
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On this week’s show, Zac Dowdell, Lila Greyling and Joshua Groch (with a little help from AJ Benedictos) practice their Donald Trump and Borat impersonations. And on The Perch is UCFM Station Manager, Rach White.
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In this week’s show, Joshua Groch, Ben Devlin and Lila Greyling (with a little help from Zac Dowdell) maybe set a show record for the number of duplicate questions. And on The Perch is Georgia Duck from UCLivex.
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In this week’s show, Lila Greyling, Ben Devlin and Tia Priest-Willimott try to remember how to make radio after a long summer break. And on The Perch is postgraduate student and Tutor in Communications, Ben Signor.
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In this week’s show, the entire Hear Owl About It team broadcasts LIVE from UCBarx to farewell three of The Owl Production Team's OGs. And on The Perch is AmplifyCBR’s News Director, Lewis Haskew.
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In this week’s show, Lila Greyling, Ben Devlin and Haidyn Vecera learn live on air the difference between and state and a territory, and categorise the entire African animal kingdom.
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In this week's show, Maddi Green, Grace Dudley and Molly Shannon throw the rundown out the window just because they can. And LIVE on The Perch is Assistant Professor in Visual Communication, Emma Phillips.
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In this week's show, Ben Signor and Ben Devlin bring you a non-stop block of all Bens all the time. And on The Perch is Lecturer in Communication and Media, Scott Bridges.
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In this week's show, Maddi Green, Ben Signor and Haidyn Vecera battle it out for hosting supremacy (Ben wins). And on The Perch is Journalist at 2CC, Kaitlyn Lewis.
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In this week's show, Haidyn Vecera, Ben Devlin and Ben Signor go on an Elon Musk deep dive (sorry). And on The Perch is Lecturer in Communications and Media, Erin Stapleton.
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In this week's show, Tia Priest-Willimott, Ben Signor and Maddi Green somehow manage to introduce zero out of three songs correctly. And on The Perch is Lecturer in Sport Media, Jessie Wilkie.
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In this week's show, Lila Greyling, Ben Signor and Maddi Green blow each other strawberry kisses. And on The Perch is ABC Canberra producer, Millie Drew.
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In this week's show, Lila Greyling, Haidyn Vecera and Maddi Green talk about endangered Hawaiian monk seals' nostrils. And on The Perch is 2CC journalist, Anthony Dodd.
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In this week's show, Lila Greyling, Haidyn Vecera and Ben Devlin receive the news live on air about Taylor's Version of 1989 (OMG). And on The Perch with Ruby Thomas is UC SRC President, Jacob Webb.
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It's the first show back after the winter break and already Maddi Green and Lila Greyling owe Ben Signor's mum an apology. And on The Perch is Head of School, Arts and Communications, Jen Crawford.
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In this episode, the entire Hear Owl About It team sets up some mics at the campus pub and bids farewell to semester in front of a live audience. And on The Perch is Professor Glen Fuller, Head of School, School of Arts and Communication.
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In this episode, Lila Greyling, Haidyn Vecera and Tia Priest-Willimott (but mostly Haidyn) try really hard to remember that guy's name ... actor dude ... Souths fan ... what was it again? And on The Perch with Ben Signor is the Discipline Lead in Corporate and Public Communication, Prue Robson.
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In this episode, Amy Briggs, Zac Dowdell and Haidyn Vecera inappropriately celebrate gaining free songs at a karaoke bar. And on The Perch is News Director at Capital Radio Network, Brent Ford.
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In this episode, Maddi Green, Amy Briggs and Ben Signor listen to a shopping cart full of rubber chickens screaming and also Ben singing which is basically the same thing. And on The Perch is soon-to-be-ex UC journalism student and soon-to-be amplifyCBR journalist, Hannah Donald.
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In this episode, Lila Greyling, Grace Dudley and Haidyn Vecera talk cookies ... but not the yummy kind. And on The Perch with Anthony Lewsam is amplifyCBR journalist and The Owl alumna, Sammy Rose.
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In this episode, Maddi Green and Ben Signor quiz, and are quizzed by, the editorial team from the mighty Murranji Merganser student magazine at Hawker College. And on The Perch are Jess Pearcey, Year 11 coordinator; and Andrew Campbell, media and photography teacher.
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In this episode, Maddi Green, Ben Signor and Grace Dudley dig through Beethoven's DNA and you won't believe what they discover. And on The Perch is ABC journalist and The Owl alumna, Coquohalla Connor.
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In this episode, Lila Greyling, Zac Dowdell and Ben Signor check in on AI's progress towards The Singularity and argue about whether it's 'soccah' or 'football'. And on The Perch with Maddi Green is Lecturer in Sports Media, Dr Jessie Wilkie.
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In this episode, Ben Signor, Maddi Green and Zac Dowdell talk MAFS, cricket and why Ben was recently detained by campus security. And on The Perch is Professor of Affective Computing at the Faculty of Science & Technology, Roland Goecke.
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In this episode, Lila Greyling, Maddi Green and Ruby Thomas try to work out how both bus tickets and studio headphones work. And on The Perch with Ben Signor is Dr Zeena Alsamarra'i answering questions about digital business transformation.
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In this episode, Amy Briggs, Ben Signor and Jasmine Burns get ChatGPT to write one of their back-announces which is so good it basically makes Ben redundant. And on The Perch is Associate Professor Michael Walsh answering questions about sociology.
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In this episode, Lila Greyling, Amy Briggs and Maddi Green do crime, pack in entertainment, and unpack science. And on The Perch with Anthony Lewsam is the Faculty of Arts and Design's Work Integrated Learning Manager, Jo Washington-King.
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In this episode, Maddi Green, Ben Signor and Amy Briggs are back from summer holidays but in a complete shock to absolutely nobody it seems they left all their good jokes at the beach. And on The Perch with Anthony Lewsam is UCFM's new Station Manager, Rach White.
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In this final episode for 2022, the entire team broadcasts live from The Well to take their tired in-jokes for one last spin. And on The Perch is Manager of The Well, Hamish.
In this episode, Maddi Green, Ben Signor and Lila Greyling forget how to count and forget to play a song. And on The Perch with Anthony Lewsam is Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies, Shara Ranasinghe.
In this episode, Lila Greyling, Ben Signor and Maddi Green double up on some questions and forget to write others. And on The Perch with Amy Briggs is Assistant Professor in Digital Art and Humanities, Denise Thwaites.
In this episode, Amy Briggs, Maddi Green and Ben Signor spend a lot of time discussing reality TV and which show they should audition for. And on The Perchwith Lila Greyling is Faculty of Arts and Design Lecturer, Rachel Campbell.
In this episode, Ben Signor, Liam Mulhall and Maddi Green try to get their brains back in the game after the mid-semester teaching break. And on The Perch with Anthony Lewsam is Lecturer in Sports Media, Simon Brady.
In this episode, Lila Greyling, Maddi Green and Liam Mulhall go live to air for the very first time and don’t even need to use the dump button. (Maybe they’re getting good at this?) And on The Perch is Associate Professor David Nolan.
In this episode, Liam Mulhall, Lila Greyling and Maddi Green talk about their pet peeves, make a prank call, and ask some questions almost as an afterthought. And on The Perch is journalism lecturer, Natalie Larkins.
In this episode, Maddi Green and Lila Greyling try to fit some questions in while Ben Signor isn’t singing or answering his phone on air. And on The Perch is Lecturer in Communication and Media, David Spencer.
In this episode, Ben Signor, Liam Mulhall and Maddi Green compete to see who can tell the worst joke. And on The Perch is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Design, Jason Bainbridge.
In this episode, Maddi Green, Ben Signor and Liam Mulhall spend too much time discussing bubble tea instead of quizzing each other. And on The Perch is Professor Glen Fuller.
In this episode, Amy Briggs, Maddi Green and Ben Signor steal each other’s questions and mourn the passing of Olivia Newton-John. And on The Perch is Associate Professor Caroline Fisher.
In this episode, Ben Signor, Maddi Green and Amy Briggs get stumped about science, entertainment, general news and more. And on The Perch is Lecturer in Communication and Media, Scott Bridges.