The Adelaide Show

430 - Small Winemaker, Big Wines, Zero Power Bill

29 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Joe Evans was last on the show in 2018, picking grapes and talking about his craft. A lot has changed at Ballycroft Vineyard & Cellars since then....

Kadina Lawyers And The Real World Of Rural Law

06 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Kadina, the commercial heart of South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula, farming families have been trusting the same lawyers with their most impor...

428 - Adelaide Writers' Week In Absentia

28 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The white marquees are not going up in the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden this year. Adelaide Writers’ Week, a festival that has graced t...

427 - This Adelaide Fringe Don't Die Wondering

09 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

After 25+ years of reviewing Adelaide Fringe shows, Steve takes a sabbatical this year. But there’s one show he can’t help spotlighting: R...

426 - Is The ALP Guaranteed Victory In The 2026 South Australian Election?

24 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

As the March 21st, 2026 South Australian state election approaches, the Malinauskas Labor government maintains polling numbers that would make most in...

425 - A Slingsby Life Of Wonder With Andy Packer

05 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When a South Australian theatre company that began with The Tragical Life of Cheese Boy – performed more than 800 times worldwide &nda...

424 - Steve Davis Talks Cricket With Former Umpire Steve Davis

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Indian cricket fans unleash fury on Twitter about disputed LBW calls, host Steve Davis fields the abuse meant for someone else. This episode brin...

423 - Do The Liberals Have No Chance Of Winning This Forthcoming South Australian Election?

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Political commentator Robert Godden returns to The Adelaide Show with a thesis that cuts to the bone: The South Australian Liberal Party has no r...

422 - Algal Bloom Beach Witness Johanna Williams

25 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For months, as an algal bloom wreaked havoc on the South Australian coast, most residents steered clear but not Johanna Williams. She’s been dow...

421 - Semaphore Workers Strike Up The Music

20 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The red stage of the Semaphore Workers Club provides the backdrop for conversations that capture the essence of community-driven music culture. Festiv...

420 - Photographing Australian Icons With Robin Sellick

06 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Robin Sellick arrived at Don Dunstan’s Norwood home in the early 1990s having accidentally addressed his letter to “Sir Donald Dunstan&rdq...

419 - A Deep Drive Into The SA Variety Bash

31 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Steve Davis survived his first SA Variety Bash and lived to tell the tale. More importantly, he brings two bash stalwarts into the studio to share wha...

418 - The AI Rant: A Nuanced Rebellion Against Digital Sleepwalking

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when a passionate South Australian journalist takes on the biggest technological shift of our time? Steve Davis transforms episode 418 in...

417 - Bomb Plot At Adelaide Oval With Michael Ball And Zoe Baird

27 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a conversation that peels back layers of both fiction and reality, Michael Ball demonstrates why Adelaide sits at the heart of Australia’s in...

416 - Never Never Underestimate Sean Baxter

26 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From the moment Sean Baxter arrives with glassware and botanicals for a proper gin education, this episode becomes something special. The co-owner of ...

415 - Surrealism In Wine And Life With Chester Osborn

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When a winemaker builds a giant Rubik’s cube in McLaren Vale, fills it with Salvador Dali sculptures and art, and creates wines that pair with s...

From Trump to Two Wells - SA's Political Crossroads In AusVotes 2025

19 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Political commentator Robert Godden returns to examine how Trump's policies ripple through South Australian vineyards and shipyards, while introducing...

413 - Making De-extinction Claims Extinct

11 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Adelaide’s scientific community wades into the global conversation about de-extinction as Associate Professor Bastien Llamas from the University...

412 - SA Matters This Election

23 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Robert Godden joined us in 2018 for Episode 235, we read tea leaves to predict Steven Marshall’s election victory. Today, Robert returns wi...

411 - From South Africa And Belarus With Love This Adelaide Fringe

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How’s it, indeed! Episode 411 of The Adelaide Show takes us on a remarkable journey with Ben Voss, a South African performer who’s recentl...

410 - We Will Discover Destroying UniSA Magill Matters When The Green Has Gone And Temperatures And Tempers Rise

02 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The battle lines are drawn over UniSA’s Magill campus site, where a proposal to rezone from community use to residential threatens to replace a ...

409 - Snake Whisky And Symphony Herald Adelaide’s Chinese New Year

19 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a special episode themed around Chinese New Year, we explore how Adelaide embraces cultural connections through three distinct lenses. The centerpi...

408 - Small-Batch Coffee Revolution At Fleurieu Roast Aldinga

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alison Pilborough bridges two worlds often seen as incompatible - artisanal coffee roasting and premium loose leaf tea blending - offering insights fr...

407 - Knitting Renaissance Meets Nostalgic Sips

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In an episode celebrating South Australian innovation in unexpected places, Bickford’s Group Marketing Director Chris Illman shares how a 150-ye...

406 - Bowerbird Design Market 2024: A Guide to Meaningful Gift-Giving

17 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our main interview, Peggy Byrne discusses the 15th anniversary of Bowerbird Design Market, exploring the tension between consumerism and thoughtful...

405 - Triggered By Cancel Culture And Political Pairing

03 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

First up, we're joined by Robert Godden to dissect the centuries-old tradition of 'pairing' in politics, a practice where MPs offset each other's abse...

404 - Polish Those Bay To Birdwood Cars And Polish Off That Australian Whisky With A Dash Of Blues

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to episode 404 of The Adelaide Show, and today we’re celebrating craft, both in whisky and in cars, with a touch of blues to finish off. Ou...

403 - Those Dry Stone Walls Revisited

07 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we take apart the story of South Australia’s iconic dry stone walls, stone by stone. Our guest, Bruce Munday, take us on a captivat...

402 - Pleasing You Was Important At John Martin's

15 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Most South Australian's of a certain age, remember John Martin's Department Stores with great fondness. And now, 26 years after the doors closed, Paul...

401 - The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Theatre

07 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It takes a family to raise a theatre company, so we gathered Stirling Players family members, Erik Strauts, Bronwyn Chapple, Anita Zamberlan Canala, a...

400 - Balancing Heritage And Progress With The Adelaide Lord Mayor

24 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the landmark 400th episode of The Adelaide Show! This week, we’re celebrating a significant milestone with a special guest, Lord Mayor, D...

399 - The Inaugural South Australian Gin Showdown

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to episode 399 of “The Adelaide Show”, where spirits soar as high as our conversations dive deep! This episode is a playful showdown betwe...

398 - Baking a Difference: Car 13 The Bakers on the SA Variety Bash Trail

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hello and welcome to the episode we are referring to, internally, as "Rolling Dough and Raising Spirits" or should that be "Raising Dough and Rolling ...

397 - Chris Pitman On Shore Break

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we explore the textured life and inspirations of Chris Pitman, a South Australian actor and playwright. Chris discusses the upcoming ...

396 - South Australian Storytellers

10 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We’re thrilled to bring you a unique blend of conversation and music. Uncle Ken Jones from the Boandik community is here to talk about his deep conn...

395 - Redgum-flavoured Mid Year South Australian Politics Pulse Check

23 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You'll be sitting in on a unique and eclectic political analysis with our in-house pollster, Robert Godden. Inspired by the poignant lyrics of Redgum,...

394 - Sherlock Holmes And His Adelaide Connections

11 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do you find someone to talk about Sherlock Holmes and his Adelaide connections? You talk to ABC Adelaide – it’s elementary, Dear Watson, and i...

393 - All Aboard The South Australian Tourism Bus With Craig Haslam

20 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Come on a journey into the world of sustainable tourism with Craig Haslam, a pioneer in enhancing South Australia's environmental and tourist landscap...

392 - Leadership Drought: A Call to Wine Australia Amid Small And Family Winery Despair

06 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Whether you drink a little bit of South Australian wine, or a lot, your decisions about what you buy and where you buy it from, make a big difference....

391 - Navigating Adelaide with Disabilities Amid Well-Intentioned Interventions

23 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this important episode, we delve into the complexities of living with disabilities in Adelaide, set against the backdrop of the city's ongoing effo...

390 - Protecting Native Plants From Kangaroos In The Adelaide Hills

10 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

James Rolevink and his wife, Rai, received just under $30,000 to look after vegetation on their Forreston property. That money was a small slice of th...

389 - The Economic Weather Forecast For Adelaide

24 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s estimated that half of all Australians are now living from payday to payday, with no money saved up for emergencies. And yet last weekend’s o...

388 - Not Her Last Christmas: Calling On Men To Call Out Domestic Violence

22 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

WARNING: This episode covers the disturbing topic of domestic violence. If you need help immediately, call 000.Don’t Be That Guy, Monday-Friday, 2p...

387 - Sweet Home Adelaide Songs

12 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sweet Songs is a collaboration between Doctor D and Fergus Maximus, multi-award-winning songwriters based in Adelaide. They first worked together in t...

386 - Remembering Beyond Remembrance Day

30 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We have two Australian Army veterans as our special guests this episode. The first is the Vice President of the RSL in South Australia, and President ...

385 - Davine Intervention In Adelaide Theatre

08 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This year, Davine Productions turns 10 years old and is celebrating with a production of the musical, A New Brain. The brain, heart, and sould behind ...

384 - The Voice And The Voices: From The Referendum To Community Friday Nights At Kanmantoo

23 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's interesting that Australia is poised to vote on giving First Nationsl people a voice to parliament, but for many of us we are not familiar with t...

383 - Adelaide Remembers With Don Violi

20 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We round off our month of Tuesdays to mark 10 years of The Adelaide Show with a nostalgia panel, featuring Colin Richard, Brett Monten, and one of our...

382 - The Adelaide Show Nigel Style With John Schumann

12 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

During the second year of The Adelaide Show podcast, the lineup transitions from a trio of hosts to an interview format with one main guest and two ho...

381 - Another Boring Thursday Night In Adelaide 10th Birthday

05 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Adelaide Show podcast began in 2013 with a mission: to challenge the notion that Adelaide is boring. This special episode is a reunion of the thre...

380 - Reflecting On 10 Years Of Adelaide Show Podcast Community With Owen Eastwood

29 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Adelaide Show Podcast began life as Another Boring Thursday Night In Adelaide 10 Years Ago Tonight, to mark our 10th birthday, we chat with specia...

Rainer Jozeps In The House With No Books

21 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you have books in your home or workplace? And, perhaps more importantly, do you read any of them? Our guest today, Rainer Jozeps, says the presence...

378 - Trevor Pomery Retires With Golden North 100 Not Out

11 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Trevor Pomery has put plenty of snap, crackle, and pop, into the world of FMCG or Fast Moving Consumer Goods - the kinds of products we buy regularly ...

377 - Unearthing Opal Live From Coober Pedy

27 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Unearthed Australian Opal is set to make opal industry history with an unprecedented event, Unearthing Opal Live. This groundbreaking occasion brings ...

376 - From Adelaide To The USA With Love And America Josh

08 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

America celebrated Independence Day earlier this week, on the Fourth of July, so while the spotlight was on the US we thought it would be the perfect ...

375 - Loss, Grief, And Forgiveness: Rosemary Wanganeen On How Indigenous And Non-Indigenous Australians Can Thrive

17 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How has your understanding of and relationship with Australia Day changed over time? What goes through your mind when you hear a Welcome to Country or...

374 - This Medical Life And The Andrew Wakefield Fraud

03 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When Steve Davis is not recording The Adelaide Show Podcast, he's sitting in the co-pilot's chair with Dr Travis Brown as they create This Medical Lif...

373 - Cunnos, Comedy, and Micallef with David M Green

21 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When Shaun Micallef pulled up stumps after 10 years of Mad As Hell last year, the writers in the team had to start looking for work. One of those writ...

372 - How A Green South Australia Can Thrive

07 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine if we had enough housing in South Australia. It is possible, according to entrepreneur and developer, Barrie Harrop, our special guest this we...

371 - Not For Glory - Australian Women At War With Susan Neuhaus

18 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

From the trenches of the Western Front to the ricefields and jungles of South-east Asia, Australian women have served and doctors and medical speciali...

370 - Can Wellness Tourism Heal The World?

25 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

More than 60 bespoke wellness experiences and events are headlining the 2023 Wellness wander three-day weekend in the Adelaide Hills this coming weeke...

369 - The World Of Adelaide Music From Atlas Genius To Hayli

18 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Steven Jeffery from Atlas Genius asked us to listen to music from a new artist, Hayli, who he's convinced will take the world by storm, so Steve agree...

368 - Adelaide Fringe MBA VS Wankernomics: What's Plagiarism Between Professors?

06 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 2021, Professor Sebastian Longsword debuted with his Adelaide Fringe MBA in a show called, Lunchtime MBA, in which he promised attendees could come...

367 - Greg Fleet Is Torn At The Adelaide Fringe

20 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Greg Fleet returns to the Adelaide Fringe with a new play, A Star Is Torn, so it was a perfect opportunity to spend a little time with him, digging th...

366 - Of Droughts And Flooding Rains

18 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Dorothea Mackellar's poem, My Country, she refers to Australia being a land of droughts and flooding rains. With the River Murray currently floodin...

Y Natural. Why Local?

07 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Recently, in an article entitled, Y Natural: The Inner Beauty Of Buying Local When You Say You Will, on his Talked About Marketing website, Steve wrot...

2022 South Australian Music Awards

13 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The South Australian Music Awards is an entirely locally run Awards ceremony, facilitated by not-for-profit Music SA. This is all broken down into thr...

363 - Farming Through Drought

30 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When the opportunity arose to interview Chris Thomas about his time of farming in the mid-north of South Australia during the great drought of 1982, n...

362 - Bay To Birdwood Fringe

16 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When Steve was invited by Don Violi to go for a nice Sunday drive, he had no idea he was about to create the Bay To Birdwood Fringe episode of The Ade...

361 - The High Tide And Low Tide Of Mental Health

01 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Adelaide podcaster, Leesa Scanlan, is shining the spotlight on mental health Anxiety and depression get talked about a lot but it's taking a South Aus...

360 - Horse Riding And Horse Loving Around Adelaide

19 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

According to one of our guests in this episode, Andy Ide, there are 1.5 million horses in Australia and about 5,000 horse businesses. So the question ...

359 - Showtime for Palaeo Jam

01 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Mills of Heaps Good Productions has crafted a new podcast about palaeontology and we hear episode one in this episode. The SA Drink Of The Wee...

358 - War Torn Adelaide In Ukrainian Solidarity

24 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Adelaide commercial photographer, Drew Lenman, has created a realistic rendering of an Adelaide panorama in which our city has been ravaged by war. Dr...

357 - Magic In Adelaide

07 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever found yourself in awe of magic tricks being performed right under your nose? Steve has been, which is why he invited Adelaide-based magi...

356 - Lest We Forget Ukraine

24 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Our media outlets have amnesia when it comes to stories that "drag on" for longer than a few days and the Russian invasion of Ukraine is one of them. ...

355 - Pitch-black Podcast From Our Dark Sky Reserve

09 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we stay very still to let our eyes adjust before recording interviews at night time in the River Murray International Dark Sky Reserv...

354 - Beer & BBQ Festival 2022

28 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we get ready for the 2022 Adelaide Beer & BBQ Festival, which has been stopped twice before by Covid but this time is all set to ...

353 - Radar Reminder App By SA Firefighter Turns Hose On Speeding

19 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Our special guest in this episode is inventor and firefighter, Steve Grealy. What attracted us to Steve is the way he encounters problems or challenge...

352 - Empathy: Where Sex Meets Science Fiction

11 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we explore the creation of worlds within science fiction with Fay Lee, author of Empathy, and Matthew R Davis, literary horror author...

351 - Meet your NFT (non-fungible token) Muse on your NFP (non-fungible podcast)

22 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to your non-fungible podcast as we hear about the Muse Frame. If you move in technology circles, you would have heard the term "NFT" (or Non-F...

350 - Eggs In A Days Work

02 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Every day, Days Eggs produces thousands of eggs to feed families in South Australia and beyond, thanks to their very clever and hen-friendly farms and...

349 - The Violets rise again

16 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Violets, the darlings of Triple J and Music SA in the 90s return with a new album This is a bumper Easter edition full of audio easter eggs! It wa...

348 - Opera everywhere, music in a park

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Opera everywhere, including the beach, and world music in a park This is a very special episode if you enjoy music in manifold ways. We're covering op...

347 - Music from the soul to the screen

09 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Exploring music from the soul to the screen in South Australia Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners and readers are advised that this episo...

346 - Adelaide Fringe at home and about

13 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Adelaide Fringe at home, in a park, or in a theatre? Take your pick! The Covid-19 pandemic and ever-changing response protocols have prompted Hartston...

345 - Writing Wedding Vows

01 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I choose you: Writing wedding vows with Tim and Jade Weddings have been disrupted during Covid, but despite the hurdles, many couples have still been ...

344 - True Crime SA Style

20 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

True crime - why is there such a hunger for it? I have no idea but I suspect tonight's guests will. Dr Samantha Battams returns to the podcast to talk...

343 - Peter Greste on Journalism and Press Freedom

04 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Talking with Peter Greste on journalism and press freedom has been one of the highlights of producing The Adelaide Show. This esteemed journalist bega...

342 - Heave away, haul away, bound for SA in 2022

21 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What does South Australia have in store for 2022? Well, primarily, this will be determined by what we've done in 2021, along with new policies and pra...

341 - Let's Talk About Sex, Baby

05 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Salt 'N Pepa song, Let's Talk About Sex, Baby, could well be the theme song for this week's episode because that's exactly what we're talking abou...

340 - Hospitality In A Time Of Covid

22 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Simone Douglas wears many hats but this time we are going to interview her as proprieter of the Duke Of Brunswick Hotel and as a representative of the...

339 - Eudunda 150 Not Out

14 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Eudunda is the birthplace of one of South Australia's most famous authors, the late Colin Thiele, and this week we celebrate the Eudunda 150 celebrati...

338 - Sugar vs Dr James Muecke

28 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

They say a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down but maybe they should say it brings us closer to diabetes. Our special guest in this episode i...

A Minnie History Of Andamooka

28 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Not many South Australians have visited Andamooka, way up in the outback. But, as it turns out, people who have grown up in the town have also missed ...

336 - I wouldn't be a baker if I couldn't eat the cakes

09 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We like to cook up a delicious serving of thought and insight and this week, you get a triple helping! Oh, and the reference to the title of the show ...

335 - What is POTS?

22 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Do you know what POTS is? If not, consider yourself lucky. POTS is a syndrome that affects women of child-bearing age but can be experienced by b...

334 - Coaching Kids Sport

05 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What's involved in coaching kids' sport? What effort is needed and what is the payoff? In this episode, we chat with two parents who have risen to the...

333 - John Schumann on protest songs in times like these

09 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

John Schumann of Redgum fame joins us to reflect on the role of protest songs, especially in times like these, given that protest songs are often root...

332 - Alex Frayne on framing Adelaide and South Australia

23 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Frayne first came to public attention with his release of a stunning coffee table, photography book, Adelaide Noir. He's back with a new book of ...

331 - Vale Jim Manning

14 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jim Manning has been well known to The Adelaide Show audience. The former chair of WOW-FM collaborated with us for election coverage specials, and sup...