Radical Radio: Recent Episodes
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3CR has a number of special broadcasts each year to celebrate important community activist events. These broadcasts are staged at live events around Melbourne or in the studios of 3CR in Fitzroy.
Vivien Langford brings you recordings from the People for Peace and Justice Concert, an afternoon of music and stories on May 3rd 2026, hosted by the Pitt St Uniting Church in Sydney.You will hear one of the best welcomes to country by Uncle Brendan Keren and ecstatic music in Turkish, Farsi and Spanish by these musicians: Aisha Goknoroshinal; Tariq Hussein; Asariq Tarajo; Kim Cunio; Heather Lee.And these speakers : Dr Munther Emad on being a child in a refugee camp; Dr Jamal Rifi OAM on working together.Recorded by Geoff Maddox and Orange Kao. Edited and presented by Vivien Langford.
Presenter James Harkness interviews two sex workers, Kai and Pixie, about the NDIS changes which occurred in October 2024, which now prevent people with disabilities from using their NDIS funds to pay for sex workers.Transcript Here
Kick Your Fence. Guest Charlie Bear (they/them) interviews Melinah Viking (she/her) about autonomy and belonging as an ably diverse sex worker. Melinah is an award winning porn, cam and full service sex worker, and advocate. Charlie is a hands on sex worker who specialises in working with neurodivergent, disabled and queer clients.Transcript Here
s lived journey of living with complex trauma, the tools that have worked for her in navigating living and relating with the condition, and her advocacy work. Blue Knot advocates for and provides support to people who have experience of complex trauma, and those who support them.
Kaitlyn Blythe explores the challenges and benefits of friendship while disabled. Social isolation is a common experience for chronically ill and disabled people, especially when we face ableism from our immediate family and non-disabled friends. Friendship between disabled folks becomes essential to our mental health. This one-hour program explores the importance of online communities to disabled people, and how disabled people use social media to make space for each other. Kaitlyn is the host of the Just A Spoonful podcast, where she hosts conversations with other disabled and chronically ill creatives. Find more of her work at patreon.com/blythebyname.Transcript Here
s largest conference for people with disabilities, it is a platform to speak up, be heard and respected. The next Having a Say Conference is coming up early 2026.Transcript Here
inclusive community facilitator) and Natasha Peiris (Bi-Cultural Disability Support worker, Ayurvedic Practitioner and Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula, Decolonial Alchemist and Well-being Advocate and Educator). They talk to Pauline (Disability Day worker) about their arts practice, healing modalities, and cultural humility. Program also features music by BIPOC artists with chronic illness or disability.Transcript Here
s Fire), and featuring the voices of Renay Barker-Mulholland, Gi Brown, and Aunty Sue Coleman-Haseldine.Presented by Disability Day Worker Pauline Vetuna.Transcript Here
South Sudanese community carers and clients share stories of great NDIS care supporting people with disabilities.Transcript Here
Shev get together for a chat about late diagnosis, privilege, getting services from an inadequate system, stigma and disability inclusion in activist spaces.Transcript Here
The Raising Our Voices Team interview Janet from the Victorian Self Advocacy Network (VSAN) and talk about the work VSAN have been doing in regards to safety for people with disability. They share their lived experiences and explore who can help make the community a safer place. The team also share what a happier safer more inclusive world means to them and how we can get there.Transcript here
Innovations’. Featuring music by ICONYX, the Our Stories Our Flats podcast, an interview with Lebanese and Palestinian scholar Dr Lina Koleilat on resisting the erasure of the Palestinian people, part of the late great Alice Wong’s future tech talk ‘The Last Disabled Oracle’, an excerpt of yillamin episode on right relationship with Country and the responsibility of settler accomplices, and documentary features from Audio Ability mentorship graduates.Download Transcript
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Stawell St), broadcast live on 3CR between 4-6am on Wednesday 3 December 2025.We hear the voices of Dr Joseph Toscano, Angela McCarthy, Ross Kenna, Dr Jacob Rumbiak, Kevin Bracken, Stephanie Cooper, Gaz, Ian, Joe Malignaggi, Ted, Louise Byrne, Peter Rice, Rev Dr Robert Stringer, Zoe, Martyr 3CR Broadcasters, and others in attendance.
Live Outside Broadcast at the Dawn Ceremony at the site of the Eureka Stockade for the 170th Anniversary commemoration. This event was held at the Eureka Stockade Gardens in Ballarat, from 4-6am on Tuesday 3rd December 2024, and was organised by Reclaim the Radical Spirit of the Eureka Rebellion and Ballarat Regional Trades & Labour Council.The on-site recording features the voices of Dr. Joseph Toscano (Anarchist World This Week), Brett Edgington (Ballarat Trades Hall), and other community members in attendance, finishing with a collective recitation of the Eureka Oath: "We swear by the Southern Crossto stand by each otherand fight to defendour rights and liberties."Special thanks to 3CR volunteers managing the cross in-studio (Joe Malignaggi, Marty Boulton & Zoe), and those managing tech on-site (Annie McLoughlin and Tobia Severi).
Pat and Joe bring the attitude again this week with their tongue-in-cheek takes on Talkback With Attitude this Thursday 12th September. Listeners and community members share their varied opinions, poems, first-hand observations, and thoughts about the Festival of the Merchants of Death, and VicPol testing out their free samples on protesters yesterday. Check out our full Disrupt Land Forces 2024 programming throughout the week at 3cr.org.au/DLF2024
We bring you interviews from the community picket of the opening day of the Land Forces 2024 weapons expo at the Melbourne Convention Centre on Wednesday 11 September. Features recordings from our onsite reporters Priya, Leila and Annie with attendees and an interview with Priya and our production team Tilde and Amy reflecting on the morning.Check out our full Disrupt Land Forces 2024 programming throughout the week at 3cr.org.au/DLF2024
- Content warning: military violence, atrocities of war, sexual assault, transphobia, suicide.Frontline community members and activists spoke of their experiences at the hands of the global military industrial complex, and the importance of international solidarity against imperialist structures, at the first planning meeting for Disrupt Land Forces 2024, held at Black Spark Cultural Centre in Northcote on Friday 21st June 2024. Visit 3cr.org.au/dlf2024 for 3CR's full coverage of events to disrupt the Land Forces expo, which will be held in September 2024.Speakers:Jasper Coen-Hunter, member of the Black Peoples Union; Mai Saif, longtime Palestinian activist and organiser and member of Free Palestine Melbourne and the Palestinian Community Association of Victoria;Gaby Alamin, Sahrawi educator and member of the Australia Western Sahara Association; Marcelo Villalobos, former member of the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front, a guerrilla organisation fighting against Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile;Geril, Secretary-General of Anakbayan Melbourne and member of BAYAN Australia, representing the fighting Filipino masses and their struggles;Adolf Mora, West Papuan community member and activist;Marisol Salinas Caicheo, proud Mapuche Huilliche Indigenous activist from Wallmapu and Puelmapu (Chile and Argentina), long time3CR volunteer programmer (Mujeres Latinoamericanas) and coordinator of the Latin American Solidarity Network. Facilitated by Nathalie Farah, community organiser and campaigner with Disrupt Land Forces.Check out our full Disrupt Land Forces 2024 programming throughout the week at 3cr.org.au/DLF2024
This special episode of Talkback with Attitude was broadcast live and direct from the Barak Beacon Public Housing Estate in Port Melbourne on 27 July 2023, where the last remaining resident Margaret Kelly continues to resist eviction while the surrounding residences are demolished. Highlighting the current situation at Barak Beacon, why we should retain, repair and reinvest in public housing (NOT privately-run "social" housing), we have an open discussion on housing issues and solutions — with Margaret, her supporters, and other public housing activists and advocates on-site on the day. Join the Vigil: Mon-Fri 3-5pm, at the corner of Beacon Rd/The Boulevard, all welcome. Check out Save Barak Beacon & Defend and Extend Public Housing for more info, updates and events. For full access to links and previous podcasts, head to 3cr.org.au/radicalradio/
How are comorbid mental health conditions "officially" recognised when we need government assistance? And how the heck do we navigate not-so-mutual obligations when there's so much else going on? Karina chats with Shy (aka swanbird(link is external), aka swanny b) about the diversity in neurodiversity, creativity, and the ebbs and flows of life in the system. It's hard out here when you're turbo. Transcript coming soon.
Self advocates Chris, Heather, Shona and James (Raising Our Voices), speak up about their experiences as people with intellectual disability with bullying and discrimination. Sharing their experiences and ideas about what they think should change in the community, and why disability awareness continues to be so important. Transcript coming soon.
Three years on from the 2019/20 Black Summer Bushfires, Chronically Chilled speaks with award-winning journalist and disability advocate Zoe Simmons on her first-hand experiences of watching Batemans Bay burn, and the under-acknowledged intersection of disability and climate change.Presented by Bridget McArthur & Marijo Pozega (Chronically Chilled)Transcript coming soon.
First up, Marisa speaks to June Riemer, First Nations woman and Deputy CEO of First Peoples Disability Network, and Kelly Cox, Amabassdor of First Peoples Disability Network. She then catches up with Peta MacGillivray, a Kalkutungu and South Sea Islander lawyer and researcher, who has specialised in the legal needs of children and young people, particularly those experiencing social and economic disadvantage.Presented by Marisa Sposaro from the Doin' Time show.Transcript coming soon.
We hurt the same, we smile the same. As minority groups, Black, Indigenous, people of colour and people with a disability, we all face the assumptions, racism and ableism of society - but we're here! 'This is What We've Got' will bring you two hours of conversation and music with Ajak Kwai and Wild at Heart guests Anna Dang, Jen Frank and Edward Roussac.Presented by Ajak Kwai (Ubuntu Voices) Transcript coming soon.
'Join me, as they talk about the concept of rest as it pertains to the chronically sick and disabled; from neurotransmitters to mental health, ableism, to how workplaces benefit from our rest skills. I consider us to be experts at maintaining and sustaining in a world that tries so often to silence, ignore and get rid of us. Our skills in the art of REST should be the gold standard to which others look to. I will share some of the rest techniques I use to maintain my quality of life, and I share why they are relevant to all human beings.'Presented by Flic Manning (Brainwaves)Transcript coming soon.
Pauline caught up with Diaspora Blues presenter, Ayan Shirwa, to discuss life at the moment and the Disability Day theme.Transcript coming soon.
This episode from the 2022 Disability Day Broadcast is presented is by Mini aka Racerage (Satellite Skies).Mini speaks with three members of Inkrewsive the inclusive Hip Hop crew, LGM, Andrew and Leigh.We also hear some words and thoughts from Astrid, a disabled trans woman, about the theme of "Rest".
A program on the connections between Long COVID and ME/CFS. Featuring a conversation with Alexa, an artist, former sex worker and ME patient who has been rejected from the NDIS multiple times despite worsening health and high support needs.Transcript coming soon.
This episode from the 2022 Disability Day Broadcast is presented is by Pauline Vetuna and Leilani FuamonoRecentering Disabled REST in labour rights and movements for liberation. A wide ranging discussion on the joys of, necessity of and imminent collapse of Twitter, Indigneous anti-capitalist futures, and rest as central to Disability Justice.
Sharing some words from a few of the late great Vivian Podesser Malo’s staunch speeches. With some reflections on Viv’s time at 3CR from broadcaster Nicky Stott.Transcript coming soon.
Interviews and readings with the creator of and contributors to Sick/Sovereign, a powerful collection of written and visual artwork by disabled Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people about their experiences of COVID-19. You can download and read the SICK / SOVEREIGN Zine here. Transcript coming soon.
Tori Hobbs discusses critical health worker-led campaigns this year for better staff conditions and conditions for patients, what the conditions currently are like for both workers and patients in the public health system, how you can support them, and their current relationship with rest as a disabled nurse and disability justice advocate. Senior disability advocate Tricia Malowney updates us on her recovery from COVID and talks about getting rest for the first time in years.Transcript coming soon.
This episode from the 2022 Disability Day Broadcast is presented is by Iris Lee (Women on the Line & Queering the Air).Around 300,000 disabled people have to navigate the Disability Employment Services (DES) stream of the paltry Jobseeker payment.DES is controversial as the state spends $1.3 billion creating a profitable private market for providers who compete for disabled clients, with very poor job outcomes and negative experiences for many disabled people. We hear from Catherine Caine and Jael about their experiences, and look beyond the current DES to what we actually need.
In this episode, Raphael presents Disability News and Events, with updates on submissions to the Royal Commission on Disability. The Boldness is a Disability current affairs program aired on the third and fifth Wednesdays of the month at 6 pm on 3CR.Presented by Raphael Kaleb.Transcript coming soon.
El Gibbs is an award-winning writer with a focus on disability and social issues. 3CR’s Disability Day worker Pauline talks to El in great detail about the recently announced NDIS Review, what’s at stake, and how our disabled community can fight to save the NDIS. El also reflects on the theme of the 2022 Disability Day Broadcast, Rest is Survival.Transcript coming soon.
Stirring performances and readings from Blak and Indigenous writers recorded at this years’ Emerging Writers Festival. Image credit: Renay Barker-MulhollandArtist statement: Flowers grow, the world revolves, and we make it through another day. While the sun sets, the diminishing rays ignite our own introspection on the status quo and our part in that. As we take stock of where we are, intertwined is a wealth of knowledge and strength. This is the destination, and now is the journey. This work was created in response to my first outing on Country with my new powered 4wd wheelchair, I was finally able to engage in something so integral to my culture. I came across a giant bush covered in spectacular flowers, and was awestruck by the beauty of it. I finally felt in that moment that I could see what true justice for everyone meant, while noting the solid and intricate branches that grew these magnificent specimens. We've had the world stop, and the looming of the unknown has forced us through space and time to reflect on the kind of world it is we're trying to save. Now is the time to be brave, the revolution is here. Just like that beautiful bush, we needed to make sure every branch supports a magnificent display of us.
Gavin Moore (Billabong Beats) speaks with Uncle Geoff Maher to look at police harrassment of First Nations people with mental health issues and the need for a community response rather than state violence. Image credit: Renay Barker-MulhollandArtist statement: Flowers grow, the world revolves, and we make it through another day. While the sun sets, the diminishing rays ignite our own introspection on the status quo and our part in that. As we take stock of where we are, intertwined is a wealth of knowledge and strength. This is the destination, and now is the journey. This work was created in response to my first outing on Country with my new powered 4wd wheelchair, I was finally able to engage in something so integral to my culture. I came across a giant bush covered in spectacular flowers, and was awestruck by the beauty of it. I finally felt in that moment that I could see what true justice for everyone meant, while noting the solid and intricate branches that grew these magnificent specimens. We've had the world stop, and the looming of the unknown has forced us through space and time to reflect on the kind of world it is we're trying to save. Now is the time to be brave, the revolution is here. Just like that beautiful bush, we needed to make sure every branch supports a magnificent display of us.
Disabled and ill Mob yarn on the realities of illness and disability within the colony. Elena Macdonald is joined by Mali, Samia, Renay, Nay and Tabitha. An excerpt of this show, recorded in 2020 as part of 'Imagining Disability Justice'. Image credit: Renay Barker-MulhollandArtist statement: Flowers grow, the world revolves, and we make it through another day. While the sun sets, the diminishing rays ignite our own introspection on the status quo and our part in that. As we take stock of where we are, intertwined is a wealth of knowledge and strength. This is the destination, and now is the journey. This work was created in response to my first outing on Country with my new powered 4wd wheelchair, I was finally able to engage in something so integral to my culture. I came across a giant bush covered in spectacular flowers, and was awestruck by the beauty of it. I finally felt in that moment that I could see what true justice for everyone meant, while noting the solid and intricate branches that grew these magnificent specimens. We've had the world stop, and the looming of the unknown has forced us through space and time to reflect on the kind of world it is we're trying to save. Now is the time to be brave, the revolution is here. Just like that beautiful bush, we needed to make sure every branch supports a magnificent display of us.
Spend some time with Jane Rosengrave (Yorta Yorta) from 3CR's Raising Our Voices program. Jane talks about the intersection of ableism and racism against Blackfullas, surviving (and thriving after) violent institutions, strength in culture and self advocacy, and Jane’s chapter in the highly acclaimed anthology, Growing Up Disabled In Australia. Image credit: Renay Barker-MulhollandArtist statement: Flowers grow, the world revolves, and we make it through another day. While the sun sets, the diminishing rays ignite our own introspection on the status quo and our part in that. As we take stock of where we are, intertwined is a wealth of knowledge and strength. This is the destination, and now is the journey. This work was created in response to my first outing on Country with my new powered 4wd wheelchair, I was finally able to engage in something so integral to my culture. I came across a giant bush covered in spectacular flowers, and was awestruck by the beauty of it. I finally felt in that moment that I could see what true justice for everyone meant, while noting the solid and intricate branches that grew these magnificent specimens. We've had the world stop, and the looming of the unknown has forced us through space and time to reflect on the kind of world it is we're trying to save. Now is the time to be brave, the revolution is here. Just like that beautiful bush, we needed to make sure every branch supports a magnificent display of us.
This is sick-form, blak-yarn, crip-space, deep-place. Elena (Paredarerme Nation) explores disability justice and its meaning when grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing. A decolonial approach to disability, and the collective networks of rest, care and resistance that underpin it. Also featuring Tabitha Lean and music by E Fishpool and Alice Skye. Image credit: Renay Barker-MulhollandArtist statement: Flowers grow, the world revolves, and we make it through another day. While the sun sets, the diminishing rays ignite our own introspection on the status quo and our part in that. As we take stock of where we are, intertwined is a wealth of knowledge and strength. This is the destination, and now is the journey. This work was created in response to my first outing on Country with my new powered 4wd wheelchair, I was finally able to engage in something so integral to my culture. I came across a giant bush covered in spectacular flowers, and was awestruck by the beauty of it. I finally felt in that moment that I could see what true justice for everyone meant, while noting the solid and intricate branches that grew these magnificent specimens. We've had the world stop, and the looming of the unknown has forced us through space and time to reflect on the kind of world it is we're trying to save. Now is the time to be brave, the revolution is here. Just like that beautiful bush, we needed to make sure every branch supports a magnificent display of us.
It's 30 years since the Royal Commission released its final report into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Since then, the deaths have continued, and there’s still no justice. Legendary broadcasters Robbie Thorpe & Viv Malo hosted a live broadcast from the National Day of Action – Stop Aboriginal Deaths in Custody – Black Lives Matter rally on the steps of Victorian Parliament between 1-2pm, Saturday 10 April.