Surf Town
Episodes
CORKY CARROLL
21 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
CORKY CARROLL ... CORKY CARROLL is a name many older surfers will easily recognize. Accepted as one of the first professional surfers rising out of th...
DAVID PARKES
28 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
DAVID PARKES ... Kneeboard maestro (six Australian Titles and one World Masters Title) and renowned kneeboard shaper (forty plus years experience)...
JOHN ODGEN Part 2
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
JOHN ODGEN Part 2 ...Want to know about surfing's dark subculture in the late 60s and early 70's? Then John Odgen's new book STONE FREE...
THE AUDACIOUS SURF TALES OF VLADIMIR BORIS WAXANOV. Story # 9
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
THE AUDACIOUS SURF TALES OF VLADIMIR BORIS WAXANOV. Story # 9 ... Vladimir has surfaced! But unfortunately, only very briefly. Keith confirms that...
2025 SURF TOWN WRAP
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
2025 SURF TOWN WRAP Whilst the listening base of SURF TOWN has grown this year, reaching 42 countries across 174 cities/locations, the real thrill...
MICK BERRIDGE
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
MICK BERRIDGE ... Not many Aussie surfers can say they have surfed in the deep, frigid north of the Atlantic Ocean. We’re mainly warm water crea...
DAVID BELL
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
DAVID BELL - David is the producer and presenter of the surf-themed CRESCENT SWELLS surf radio. With over 174 shows, David digs deep to produ...
BEAU YOUNG's tribute to JOHN PECK .
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
BEAU YOUNG's tribute to JOHN PECK ... Beau Young, 2000 & 2023 World Longboard champion, joins Keith to share his heartfelt tribute to Joh...
STEPHEN COONEY
18 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
STEPHEN COONEY -... Stephen Cooney was introduced to the surfing world as Steve Cooney, the very young surfer who mesmerized us all in the seminal sur...
DEREK CRISP
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
DEREK CRISP - ... Not many surfers have been caught trying to hijack a submarine for a joyride. Nor be counted amongst the first surfboard manufac...
JOHN BRASEN
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
JOHN BRASEN -... John is the editor and publisher of Australia's premier longboard magazine, PACIFIC LONGBOARDER. The long-standing magazine&apos...
Untitled THE AUDACIOUS SURF TALES OF VLADIMIR BORIS WAXANOV - Stories 7 & 8
24 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
THE AUDACIOUS SURF TALES OF VLADIMIR BORIS WAXANOV - Stories 7 & 8 ...Finally, some good news, Vladimir has surfaced - well, sort of. He has bee...
DEREK HYND
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
DEREK HYND -... Any sit-down chat with Derek Hynd is guaranteed to be thoughtful and original. No surprise that this interview was conducted under tre...
JOHN ODGEN
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
JOHN ODGEN - ... This SURF TOWN episode's guest is John "Oggy" Odgen, a Sydney-based photographer, cinematographer, writer and the own...
TERRY RICHARDSON
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
TERRY RICHARDSON ... - 1988 Australian Surfing Champion, World Masters Surfing champion, former ASP World number 7, two-time Aussie Masters champion,...
DISCUSSION TABLE 101 with Tim Baker. Topic: SURF CULTURE ...
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
DISCUSSION TABLE 101 with Tim Baker. Topic: SURF CULTURE ...- Who better to have a free-flowing conversation about surf culture than the three-time wi...
TIM BAKER
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
TIM BAKER... Tim is the renowned former editor of TRACKS and AUSTRALIAN SURFING LIFE magazines. He is also the author of ten books, which include biog...
THE AUDACIOUS SURF TALES OF VLADIMIR BORIS WAXANOV - Story 6
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
THE AUDACIOUS SURF TALES OF VLADIMIR BORIS WAXANOV - Story 6 ... That international surfer of mystery, Mr Waxanov, has failed his arranged rendezvous...
ZION POY
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
ZION POY... 17 year old Noosa filmmaker Zion Poy comes into the SURF TOWN studio to talk about his film that has been accepted into this year's N...
JESCA MAAS
31 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
JESCA MAAS -... Some people surf and that's about it. Some surf and do other stuff as well - and then there are those who don't surf ... or ...
KIRRA MOLNAR
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
KIRRA MOLNAR -... Women's longboarding today, and indeed women's all-around surfing in general, is in full flower. Its presence is marked wi...
STUART CAMPBELL
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
STUART CAMPBELL -... Stuart, a well-known Noosa surfboard shaper, is Keith's guest on this episode of SURF TOWN. Stuart is a much sought-after sh...
THE AUDACIOUS SURF TALES OF VLADIMIR BORIS WAXANOV ... Story 5 - BYRON BAY
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
THE AUDACIOUS SURF TALES OF VLADIMIR BORIS WAXANOV ... Story 5 - BYRON BAY PARENTS DISOWN SON FOR CHOOSING A MEDICAL CAREER OVER BECOMING A YOGA INSTR...
DAVID "MEX" SUMPTER
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
DAVID "MEX" SUMPTER -... Many surfers grew up virtually right on the beach, making their surfing life almost inevitable. David, and his brot...
THE AUDACIOUS SURF TALES OF VLADIMIR BORIS WAXANOV ... Story 4 - SEX WAX SAGA
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
THE AUDACIOUS SURF TALES OF VLADIMIR BORIS WAXANOV ... Story 4 - SEX WAX SAGA - While the current whereabouts of Vladimir B. Waxanov remains a mys...
DISCUSSION TABLE 101. Topic: John "JC" Charlton's favourite surfers. - Part 2
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
DISCUSSION TABLE 101. Topic: John "JC" Charlton's favourite surfers.... JC mentioned, when he was in the studio previously, that he&a...
JOHN 'JC' CHARLTON - Part 1
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
JOHN 'JC' CHARLTON JC doesn't need too big an introduction to Queensland surfers as he has been a familiar face talking about sur...
DIAN HADIANI
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
DIAN HADIANI... Phoning in from Bali, East Java local Dian Hadiani chats with Keith concerning her book, "The Chronicles of G'land" whi...
DISCUSSION TABLE 101. Topic: SURFING WORLD Magazine's 50 Most Interesting Surfers
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
DISCUSSION TABLE 101. Topic: SURFING WORLD Magazine's 50 Most Interesting Surfers... Richard Wallace joins Keith in the studio to discuss SURFING...
CHANNA SENARATNE
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
CHANNA SENARATNE - ... It's not every day you get to chat with a man who is a restauranteur, a chef, a commercial fisherman, a surf charter boat...
RICHARD von WILDEMANN
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
RICHARD von WILDEMANN -... It was a pleasure for Keith to welcome Richard onto SURF TOWN as his first international phone-in guest. Richard is an all-...
JOHN FINLAY - NOOSA FESTIVAL OF SURFING ...
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
JOHN FINLAY - NOOSA FESTIVAL OF SURFING ...- John Finlay, Chairman of Noosa's Festival of Surfing, certainly has an unusual story concerning how ...
DAMIEN KING
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
DAMIEN KING -... Three-time World Bodyboarding Champion Damien King had an unusual introduction to surfing. It's quite common for surfing champio...
THE AUDACIOUS SURF TALES OF VLADIMIR BORIS WAXANOV - Story 3
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
THE AUDACIOUS SURF TALES OF VLADIMIR BORIS WAXANOV ... Story 3 - THE MERMAID'S DREAM... A few friends had contacted Keith stating they weren&apo...
PHIL JARRATT - Part 2
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
PHIL JARRATT - Part 2... One interview with Phil Jarratt left this interviewer with a desire to hear more of his wide-ranging surfing life and stories...
PHIL JARRATT - Part 1
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
PHIL JARRATT - Part 1... Phil Jarratt has probably lived the surfing life as fully and richly as humanly possible. With a working life as an author, a...
PETER HUDSON
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Hudson... With three Australian shortboard and three Australian longboard titles, three New South Wales State shortboard and six New South Wales...
THE AUDACIOUS SURF TALES OF VLADIMIR BORIS WAXANOV - Story 2
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
THE AUDACIOUS SURF TALES OF VLADIMIR BORIS WAXANOV... Story 2 - CHINESE BUSINESSMAN PROPOSES ALTERNATE WORLD PROFESSIONAL SURFING WAVE POOL CIRCUIT ...
CHAD WHATLEY
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
CHAD WHATLEY... Chad Whatley represents a new breed of young surf entrepreneurs. There was a day when surf shops only sold surfboards that were constr...
BOBBY ATKINS - Part Two
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
BOBBY ATKINS - Part Two... Bobby Atkins is back in the studio to recount more of his surfing life. A lot is personal about his surfboards, his surfing...
BOBBY ATKINS - Part One
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
BOBBY ATKINS - Part One ... Bobby (Bobby Barrel or Bobby Beach - depending on who you talk to) Atkins is a unique Noosa original. Really .. as he was...
THE AUDACIOUS SURF TALES OF VLADIMIR BORIS WAXANOV - Story 1
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
THE AUDACIOUS SURF TALES OF VLADIMIR BORIS WAXANOV ... Story 1 - THE BALLARD OF OWEN ROBERTS ... Once us Aussies discovered the surf in Bali we inva...
DANE WILSON - Part two
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
DANE WILSON - Part two... Dane has more surf stories that we can fit into a thirty-five-minute podcast. Yet somehow he manages to tell quite a few, pa...
DANE WILSON - Part one
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
DANE WILSON - Part one... Cronulla boy Dane was born into a surfing family with deep roots in the local surf scene and industry. As long as he can rem...
MIKE DAVIS Part 2
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
MIKE DAVIS Part 2Part 2 sees Mike in the studio to share a free-ranging conversation about his surfing life. He talks of a lap-over between California...
MIKE DAVIS - Part 1
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
MIKE DAVIS - Part 1Mike is one of the first Californian surfers to immigrate to Australia in the 1970s, arriving about the same time as fellow America...
PETER WHITE PART 2
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peter White Part 2Picking up from where he finished last time, Peter is back in the studio to talk more about his surfing life - particularly as a sur...
PETER WHITE – Part 1
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
PETER WHITE – Part 1Our Surf Town guest today is Peter White. Peter is the Noosa-based, internationally respected shaper and owner of Classic Malibu...