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Are You Still Working?!The GOLD on courage and confidenceSend us a textWelcome to our 'between seasons' offering. We're re-listening to episodes past and digging out the GOLD.Support the show2025-02-1209 min
RSK XFM RemasteredBEST OF ROCKBUSTERS BY KARL PILKINGOTN ON XFM - Part 2PART 2 of a 2-part BEST OF compilation of Karl Pilkington's ROCKBUSTERS (a cheap knockoff of Blockbusters) from the Xfm Ricky Gervais Show with Stephen Merchant. Not only was this one of Karl's longest running features (along with Monkey News), but it was also voted by fans as his greatest XFM feature of all time. Karl Pilkington gives a cryptic clue (it's usually nonsense) and the initials of a famous band or artist (he sometimes gets the initials wrong), and listeners either call, or as the feature developed (unless they were experiencing technical difficulties), email in t...2025-01-061h 11
Are You Still Working?!Courtney Collins - Writer and ProducerSend us a textIn this special episode, our usual presenter, Courtney Collins, is interviewed by our Producer Lisa Madden.Courtney talks about her novel writing process and her PhD 'Working against whiteness in creative literary production'. She shares insights from living in the remote Northern Territory in Ngukurr, working amongst the indigenous community, and how what she learnt in that time has influenced her work and her life.Many thanks to Hattie Dalton for allowing us to use her outrageous but immediately understandable quote in this episode.This is the...2024-12-1630 min
Are You Still Working?!Mirandi Riwoe and Laura Elvery - AuthorsSend us a textIn this episode of Are You Still Working?! writers Mirandi Riwoe and Laura Elvery chat to Courtney Collins about becoming published authors and what they've learnt along the way.Recorded in front of a live audience at Avid Reader, an independent bookstore in West End, Brisbane, this episode is packed with tips and tricks for emerging writers - from getting noticed by publishers by entering competitions, to establishing your own writers group and setting up your own writers residencies.Support the show2024-12-1030 min
Are You Still Working?!Clare Murphy - StorytellerSend us a textClare Murphy is a Storyteller by trade. In this episode she talks about the long history of storytelling in Ireland, her birth country, and how storytelling culture differs around the world but is ultimately essential to humanity.Clare lives in Bristol, England now, but she has worked with organisations across the globe as diverse as NASA, the NHS and the New Zealand All Blacks. She realised early on in her career that Storytelling was going to be an isolating and lonely road if she didn't cultivate connection with like-minded people. She...2024-12-0333 min
Are You Still Working?!Jasmin Tarasin - FilmmakerSend us a textJasmin Tarasin has been a filmmaker her entire career. She's never had any other job. She's worked all over the world directing documentaries, short films, commercials and video art installations. Most recently she’s been creating a series of artists retreats called Muse Maker, to feed creative souls and she has just directed her first feature film LIFE CAN BE A DREAM.So what does it take for a person, a woman, a mother to multiple children (and a dog), to commit to a working life that offers no security, little po...2024-11-2529 min
Are You Still Working?!Ruth Maddison - Photographer and visual artistSend us a textRuth Maddison's visual work spans 5 decades. Her first photography exhibition was in Melbourne in 1979 and the collection was purchased complete by the National Gallery of Victoria.Self-taught, Ruth was introduced to the camera and photo processing at the age of 30 by her house-mate Ponch Hawkes. She photographed people that she knew, processing the film and she quickly began getting paid work. Subsequent commissions and exhibitions replicated her success. Ruth moved to Eden on the south coast of NSW in the mid-90s and the location has influenced her work p...2024-11-1930 min
Are You Still Working?!Toni Jordan - AuthorSend us a textOriginally a science writer by profession, Toni Jordan talks through the catalyst and the process that put her on track to being the acclaimed novelist she is today. She describes herself as someone who thought she 'didn't have a creative bone in her body', but now the discipline and process of working on intensive scientific dossiers for 12 months or more has transferred to her creative process as a full time writer.Support the show2024-11-1130 min
Are You Still Working?!Judith Crispin - Poet and visual artistSend us a textJudith Nangala Crispin discusses in bold and simple terms what it takes for her to call herself an artist - the joys and the sacrifices.Beginning her creative journey as a musician, Judith worked as an opera singer and a composer before arriving at poetry and visual art. One of her current projects is using dead animals (roadkill), and transforming them into ethereal works of art. Judith talks about her commitment to and inspiration from the land - the country she lives and works on, and about searching for h...2024-11-0431 min
Are You Still Working?!Sarah Lambert - Writer and showrunnerSend us a textSarah Lambert is a writer, director, producer and showrunner, creating television series' such as The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, The Messenger, Lambs of God and many more. In this episode Sarah talks about how as a child, she always preferred the imagined world to reality, how she'll never feel able to rest on her laurels (no matter how successful she is or how many projects she has on the go), why she wasn't satisfied being 'just' a writer, and why she loves them but doesn't think she should be the o...2024-10-3031 min
Are You Still Working?!Lo Carmen - Singer/songwriter, writer and actorSend us a textLo Carmen is a singer/songwriter, writer and actor. Lo first came to public attention starring as Freya in the 1987 classic Australian film The Year My Voice Broke. She's just released a new album called 'Transatlantic Light', her first album since the Nashville recorded Lovers, Dreamers, Fighters in 2017. Her book, published in 2022 by HarperCollins (the book is also titled 'Lovers, Dreamers, Fighters'), with its accompanying playlist should be compulsory reading for anyone interested in the history of Australian music.In this episode, Lo tells stories of the brutal reality of life...2024-10-2830 min
Are You Still Working?!Winnie Dunn - Author/editorSend us a textWinnie Dunn is a Tongan-Australian writer and editor. Her debut novel titled 'Dirt Poor Islanders', is the first novel to be published about the Tongan-Australian community.In this episode, Winnie talk about how she honed her craft at Sweatshop, a literacy movement in Western Sydney, how self-insert fan fiction was her gateway to writing, and how working solidly as a writer and editor has allowed her to move out of the cramped family home she grew up in, to a place of her own. Support the show2024-10-2829 min
Published...Or NotAmy Doak and Courtney CollinsA small town but with a dark history and when an old woman tells a secret from the past, there is a mystery to unravel and a crime to solve in Amy Doak’s YA novel ‘Eleanor Jones Can’t Keep a Secret’.Courtney Collins explores the universal connection between women that transcends time, cultures and countries in her novel, 'Bird'.2024-08-2200 min
CovertitlánCovertitlán 483 - John Martyn1.- May You Never
Eric Clapton
Rod Stewart
John Martyn
2.- Don't Want to Know
John Martyn
Richie Havens (live)
Beth Orton
3.- Solid Air
John Martyn
Sarah Jane Morris, Tony Remy
Shaun Escoffery
4.- Head and Heart
John Martyn
Leslie Mendelson
America
5.- Cry Me a River
Dinah Washington
Leslie Gore
John Martyn
6.- Couldn't Love You More
John Martyn
Lisa Hannigan
John Martyn, Phil Collins
7.- The Man in the Station
John Martyn
Ian Matthews
Claire Martin
8.- Bless the Weather
John Martyn
The Emperors of Wyoming
Courtney Pine, David McAltmont2024-02-011h 21
Are You Still Working?!Karen Rogers - Multidisciplinary artistSend us a textArtist and author Karen Rogers is a Ngalakan woman from Ngukurr, a remote community in southeast Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. Her artwork comes from cultural knowledge and her feelings for the land. She studied visual art at Batchelor Institute.Karen works across textiles, glass, painting, and animation. Wanmari, written and illustrated by Karen and directed by Jake Duczynski, was a finalist in the NATSIA Awards. Karen's also an author of a picture book called Main Abija about her grandfather.In this episode, Karen talks about how her...2023-12-0527 min
Are You Still Working?!Lottie Consalvo – Multidisciplinary artistSend us a textMultidisciplinary artist Lottie Consalvo lives and works on Awabakal Country in Newcastle, Australia. She works across painting, sculpture, performance art, photography and video.She is represented by https://dominikmerschgallery.com/ in Sydney and https://www.janmurphygallery.com.au/ in Brisbane.In this interview, Lottie talks about how she finds agency and autonomy in her studio, how she creates the headspace for little epiphanies, and the people and practices that sustain her and her international career.We HEART Lottie Consalvo.2023-11-2830 min
Are You Still Working?!Joy Mei En Lai - PhotographerSend us a textPhotographer Joy Mai En Lai has worked in Sydney's leading cultural institutions for more than a decade, including the Library of NSW. Her photographs regularly appear in print, exhibitions and on the facades of prominent public buildings. Born in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Joy has also lived in Asia and Australia. Based on Gadigal Country in Sydney, she creates work from her own explorations and commissioned assignments.Joy discusses the rewards of leaving the comfort of her city apartment for the discoveries she makes – about herself and her environment.2023-11-2026 min