The Adelaide Show

230 - The Adelaide Show 2017 Retrospective: Science and Nature

18 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Adelaide Show 2017 Retrospective: Science and Nature, is our reflection upon our relationship with the world around us and the creatures who share...

229 - The Adelaide Show 2017 Retrospective: Politics

11 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Adelaide Show 2017 Retrospective: Politics, is our review of question time on The Adelaide Show podcast, in which we held hearings into the politi...

228 - The Adelaide Show 2017 Retrospective: Passion

04 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Adelaide Show 2017 Retrospective: Passion, is a brief fling with some of the discussions we had with people who are driven by passion a lot more t...

227 - The Adelaide Show 2017 Retrospective: Food and Wine

28 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Adelaide Show 2017 Retrospective: Food, is a bite-sized recap of three of the tastiest slithers of food discussion held this year on the podcast. ...

226 - From India To You

20 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week's episode of The Adelaide Show comes from India to you, courtesy of Kapil and Jo Gupta from the India To You restaurant in Rostrevor. We wi...

225 - Ecotourism Over Yondah

13 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

At the bottom of Yorke Peninsula, there is ecotourism over yondah, thanks to Michele and Nick who run Yondah Beach House which just won them entry int...

224 - Adelaide Hills Cherries

06 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

With Adelaide Hills cherries all about us, we entered Ceravolo's Cherry Orchard to interview Joseph Ceravolo, about running a family empire of fruit t...

223 - In The Shadows of The Phoenix Files

29 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we chat with Benjamin Maio Mackay and Jennifer Barry, who are behind a new, audio drama, The Phoenix Files, Man In The Shadows. We last ha...

222 - Adelaide Costume Hire HQ

22 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we chat with Juliet from the Theatre Costume Shop aka Adelaide Costume Hire HQ, about dressing up. This week, the SA Drink Of The Week is ...

221 - Outspoken entrepreneur Shane Yeend

15 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we chat with outspoken entrepreneur Shane Yeend. Well, at least that's how InDaily and other media outlets refer to him. Shane has put his ...

220 - Vic Gostin on time, rocks, and space

08 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we chat with Associate Professor, Vic Gostin on time, rocks, and space. Victor is from the University of Adelaide's Earth Sciences departme...

219 - Arkaroola Rocks

01 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we sit among the Arkaroola rocks with Doug (on the episode's cover shot) and Mark Sprigg, the father and son of the family that runs the Ar...

218 - Yeh Goodboy Brad Hollis

25 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we align our chakras with Yeh Goodboy Brad Hollis, a comedian of Yeh Goodby Goodboy Good Footy Engeries fame. This week, the SA Drink Of T...

217 - Of love and reason

18 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Leila Henderson about love and Lawrence Leung about reason. This week, the SA Drink Of The Week is from Reschke. Nigel will try to stump ...

216 - The Don Dunstan Foundation

11 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, David Pearson joins us from the Don Dunstan Foundation to talk about our former premier and his legacy that lives on through his foundation...

215 - The food bug and the social media bug

03 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we talk about two topics that should start bugging us - the food bug and the social media bug. On the food front, Jeannine Malcolm will eva...

214 The Bay To Birdwood Experience

27 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, with give you the Bay To Birdwood experience, from the front seat of a 1978 Mazda 121 and then from within an old MTT bus with the National...

213 - Royal Adelaide Wine Show Masterclass

20 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

South Australia is Australia's home of wine so it is little wonder that the Royal Adelaide Wine Show bestows the most prestigious award each year, The...

212 - Sampling Adelaide

13 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

If you've ever wondered how modern beats are made, Tim Whitt's approach to sample Adelaide sounds will be a real ear opener. Tim has a new album out i...

211 - EXPLICIT Decriminalising Sex Work in SA

06 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

PLEASE NOTE: Our content this week is explicit in some sections, so you might not want to listen to this in the car on school drop off or via loudspea...

210 - Understanding risk in a scary world

30 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We hear about danger in news bulletins every day so this week we have set the goal of understanding risk in a scary world with Chris Ruff from Insight...

209 - The Adelaide Show At The Royal Adelaide Show

23 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It's showtime again so The Adelaide Show Podcast went to spend time with The Royal Adelaide Show team to dig into more stories of the past and get ins...

208 - Understanding food waste

16 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We round off our food trilogy this week by understanding food waste. Is such waste inevitable in our foodie culture, or are other forces at play? Hayl...

207 - Understanding meat

09 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Spend an evening with Sophie from Wakefield Grange Butchery and Grocer in Yankalilla to start understanding meat, especially the cheaper cuts! This w...

206 - Understanding almonds

02 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

They are loved by naturopaths and vegans, sought after by confectioners and chocolatiers, and now cognitive scientists might be hot on their trail - w...

205 - Ghosts Amongst Us

27 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Are there ghosts amongst us. Alison Oborn from Adelaide Haunted Horizons would argue yes. Or, at least, she would argue there are many occurrences tha...

204 - Dinosaurs Amongst Us

19 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We roam where there are and were dinosaurs amongst us. From prehistoric kangaroos, emus, and koalas, we now must make do with the birds. There is so m...

203 - Animals Amongst Us

12 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

While most of us spend life bustling about in the city and suburbs, there are animals amongst us that we rarely see. Tonight, Adrian from Animals Anon...

202 - Rostrevor Pizza Podcast With The Lot

05 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

For 30 years, Gaetano Lepore has been standing behind his bench at Rostrevor Pizza Bar, serving up great pizzas while the industry went thick and thin...

201 - Post Apocalyptic South Australia

28 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Woman still don't get great roles in film, especially in the post apocalyptic genre. But Adelaide-based company, Middle Ground Productions, is about t...

200 - Making Salami At Home

21 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Don Violi has appeared on The Adelaide Show twice before, once covering history and trivia of South Australia and then giving us an insight into the w...

199 - Life In Your Backyard

14 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Thomson is one of those important human beings who devotes time to making sure we don't forget our pasts or the skills that got us here. As resea...

198 - Never A True Word

07 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Michael McGuire is a journalist with many years experience at The Australian and The Advertiser, where he is now senior writer, and formerly a "spin d...

197 - Those Wild Rabbits

31 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Steve and Michael hop along to Bruce Munday's place to learn how "those wild rabbits" have thumped their way through Australia's history. W...

196 - Bush Mechanics In Our Backyard

24 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Steve and Nigel get into gear with the Bush Mechanics exhibition at the National Motor Museum, Birdwood. Senior Curator for the National Mo...

195 - Pulling the Social Revolution Leaver

17 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We are pulling the social revolution leaver tonight because Adelaide artist, Nick Leaver, has an exhibition at Hughes Gallery, Fullarton, at the momen...

194 - Media and Mental Health with Mark Aiston

10 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Aiston is a famous sports presenter on TV and radio and tonight we discuss media and mental health with Mark Aiston because he is about to launch...

193 - MS and Stem Cells

03 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

MS and Stem Cells refers to our guest, Ainsley Maconochie who has Multiple Sclerosis but who has also had HSCT stem cell treatment to halt the disease...

192 - Tinder and the spark of love

26 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Tinder and the spark of love engulf our cast tonight as we explore the challenge of finding love in 2017. Delilah is a young woman who is single and c...

191 - Is There Chocolate After Easter?

19 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We've just had a long weekend and many have gorged themselves on all forms of cacao, which begs the question, is there chocolate after Easter? To answ...

190 - Show Within A Show

12 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Shakespeare made the Play Within A Play famous so we are developing that notion into the Show Within A Show. Tonight, WE are the guests of Amelia Veal...

189 - Game On South Australia Level Two

05 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Robin Potanin has spent two decades in the world of games and entertainment while being based here in Adelaide. Tonight, we continue working our way t...

188 - Game On South Australia Level One

29 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Robin Potanin has spent two decades in the world of games and entertainment while being based here in Adelaide. Tonight, we start working our way thro...

187 - Thriller Romance Brooke Sivendra Style

22 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

When standard romance and standard thrillers fail to get your heart racing, the obvious solution is to combine them and try thriller romance Brooke Si...

186 - Pub Scrabble in SA

15 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

From the longest, weekly podcast in South Australia to a game that rewards the shortest words on the planet, this week we explore Pub Scrabble in SA. ...

185 - The Adelaide Podcast Festival Part 2

08 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the second of two live versions of The Adelaide Show Podcast, as part of the Adelaide Podcast Festival. This is NOT our usual format but t...

184 - The Adelaide Podcast Festival Part 1

01 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the first of two live versions of The Adelaide Show Podcast, as part of the Adelaide Podcast Festival. This is NOT our usual format but th...

183 - Paging Dr Bill Griggs

22 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The old song goes, I'll put you together, again. Dr Bill Griggs has spent his life perfecting the skills and the art of putting people back together a...

182 - Steve Davis vs Andrew Sincock OAM

15 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In the history of South Australian cricket, it appears there has been a minor grudge known as Steve Davis vs Andrew Sincock. And even then, it's possi...

181 - The Unbearable Challenge Of Ageing

08 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We all get old but tonight we explore the unbearable challenge of ageing. We have gathered some knowledgeable guests to help share the wisdom of the a...

180 - Richard's Riverland Part Two

01 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Steve and Nigel spent the weekend before last at Renmark to produce Richard's Riverland Part Two. In this episode, you get to meet Eric Semmler from 9...

179 - Richard's Riverland Part One

25 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Steve and Nigel spent the weekend at Renmark to produce Richard's Riverland Part One. In this episode, you get to meet Graham Buller and Erica Babbage...

178 - Peddle Power and Pedal Power

18 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In South Australia, this month, you can choose peddle power or pedal power, depending on your needs and desires. Our main guest and co-host is Joy Whi...

177 - Maximum Health with Max Martin

11 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Please vote for us in the national podcasting awards in Australia. Go to theadelaideshow.com.au/vote, sign up to vote, no spam will follow. We need yo...

176 - The Adelaide Show 2016 Retrospective Part Two

04 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

During this episode and the next, Steve and Nigel continue randomly drawing 2016 show titles from a hat and pairing them with randomly selected questi...

175 - The Adelaide Show 2016 Retrospective Part One

28 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

During this episode and the next, Steve and Nigel will randomly draw a 2016 show title from a hat and pair it with a randomly selected question, to se...

174 - A Family Christmas

21 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Family by family. That is how communities are built and it's also how they crumble. We have become so used to building and managing communities at sca...

173 – The Beer Game (Growler Edition)

15 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Life as we know it began with a little bang. Well, a big bang, but it was quite little, apparently. Little Bang Brewing Company began as a small opera...

172 - Fritz and Sauciness

07 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

They don't have fritz in Sydney, went the old Bank SA ad many years ago. Yes, our humble sausage mix is indeed, South Australian, and therefore has be...

171: Symphony For The Deaf

30 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Can we have a symphony for the deaf? Can you hear music without the sense of hearing? Inspired by a true story, Maurice's Symphony is a new film that ...

170: The Irish Rose of South Australia

23 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The Irish Rose of South Australia is an episode about the Rose Of Tralee festival which links Tralee in Ireland with Star Wars and Adelaide. Intrigued...

169: From music to Mexico

16 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

South Australia has sung the praises of its musicians while writer, Ann Deslandes, has sung the praises of South Australia from Mexico City, which is ...

168: Radio 5MU Style

09 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we go back to where the Adelaide Show really began, with Steve's introduction to radio in Murray Bridge in the 1980s; a story we'll call Ra...

167: Streaming Adelaide theatre to the globe

02 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we are streaming Adelaide theatre to the world from YOU WANNA BIT OF THIS NOW, Michael Allen Productions's live streaming theatre project i...

166: Red Army At Home

26 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we are with the Red Army at home for a game day experience at the soccer. Join Steve Davis, Nigel Dobson-Keeffe, Damien Lewandowski, Josh ...

165: Adelaide Fashion Festival Collection

19 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the Adelaide Fashion Festival Collection, a special recording of The Adelaide Show Podcast. It will never be argued that Nigel and I are t...

164: Bay To Birdwood and Beyond

12 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The Bay To Birdwood and Beyond is a fitting title for a show all about the motor car and our roads. The motor car is one of those things many of us h...

163: The podcast of illusion

05 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The Podcast of Illusion is all about the great traditions of circus entertainment. Why do most of us love illusion? I think it is because most of us ...

162: The Great Detective Episode

28 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The Great Detective Episode opens with a bunch of people crammed into a small office late at night, when there is a knock at the door and a beautiful ...

161: A night at the Manchen

21 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Tonight, we are recording in an actual Man Cave, where we will be exploring the myth, the energy and the creativity that evolves in such places.. You'...

160: Adelaide photography masterclass

14 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Close your eyes and imagine a documentary about a rock star. Imagine the way they pan across still photos while the narrator shares stories about the ...

159: Game Obsession Mannum

07 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Pokemon GO has dominated the collective imagination for three months now, rekindling memories of youth for children of the 90s and reawakening the spi...

158: The Adelaide Show Royal Adelaide Show Episode

31 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Half a million show goers can't be wrong! One of the world's most successful Shows, the Royal Adelaide Show, opens its gates this Friday and will run ...

157: Life and death in Adelaide

24 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

It is our 3rd anniversary episode, as calculated by Nigel Dobson-Keeffe. When Steve had a major birthday milestone this year, he asked a handful of c...

156: Of gardens and treehouses

17 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The shortest route from paddock to plate is when you grow food in your own garden. Tonight's guest, Kate Punshon, is a former restaurateur who is now ...

155: The case for gender equity

10 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

If you work for or run an organisation, do you know what percentage of your leadership team needs to be female for you to boost your financial perform...

154: Adelaide Guitar Festival Junior

03 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The Adelaide Guitar Festival is the largest of its kind in Australia and it runs next weekend, August 11 to 14. The Festival will celebrate the high a...

153: Adelaide Food Bloggers Central

27 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Adelaide is blessed by all things food and wine and that means we are home to quite a few food bloggers. While most are earnest and driven by passion,...

152: Adelaide's Go Getter Gals

20 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Adelaide's Go Getter Gals are Caitlin Harvey and Chloe Reschke-Maguire. They are both known to this program because both of them are proactive in purs...

151: 3-person Nuclear Fuel Cycle citizens' jury

13 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Heard is an environmental professional. He was once a strong opponent of nuclear power until he underwent a Road To Evidence-Based Damascus experi...

150: Diary of an Adelaide DJ

06 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

DJ Gex is a man about town. You hear him on Fresh FM and you dance to him at various venues around town and tonight he turns the tables on us and talk...

149: Adelaide Crows in the Rooster Coop

29 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

InDaily is a media outlet that appears to seek out stories from wherever they might come, whether they are from celebrities, academics, politicians, o...

148 - The Hounded Author Simon Butters

22 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Adelaide author and screenwriter, Simon Butters, has a book being launched this Saturday at Carclew. It is called The Hounded. it is about a 15 year o...

147: Adelaide - City of coffee

15 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Adelaide - City of coffee could easily be a new name for our town, or at least one we aspire to. And one of the cafes that really seized on the zeitg...

146: Hairdresser Adelaide: Behind the salon door

08 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

In June 2014, Adelaide hairdresser, Don Violi, from Khrome Hair Studio, joined our podcast to take us through the history of hair and haunts in Adelai...

145: Things I know to be true about Adelaide

01 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Georgia Adamason is an Adelaide gal who's travelled the world plying her stagecraft. A year after winning a Sydney Theatre Award, Georgia is back in S...

144: Deconstructing sex in Adelaide

25 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Shakespeare said if music be the food of love, play on, but the truth is more likely to be that love is the food of music. As Leonard Cohen wrote, lov...

143: Can soccer make Adelaide United?

18 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Damien Lewandowski is a man who writes about soccer aka football 'from the stands' and has been a faithful scribe of reigning champions, Adelaide Unit...

142: Searching for Abbey Road in Adelaide

11 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The Beatles album cover for Abbey Road, is iconic. As is Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon, Nirvana's Nevermind and the Velvet Underground and Nico's...

141: May the fourth be with South Australia

04 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

On Star Wars Day, May The Fourth, we welcome Sumen Rai back to The Adelaide Show to talk all things Space in South Australia Sumen tells us about the...

140: Uncloaking depression for Capril in Adelaide

27 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Tonight, we will send off the month of Capril by discussing how people live with depression, how people can die from depression and how we might all j...

139: Mount Gambier is noyce ployce: Stories from Caffe Belgiorno

20 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

So just how do you cook the perfect lasagna? Would you believe it involves BURNING it? These and many other gems and stories about life as Italian r...

138: Glenn Gale - From breakfast radio to the cancer shift

13 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Glenn Gale ruled the airwaves on 5MU for many, many years. Before that he was at 5KA and before that he was at most hit stations up and down the easte...

137: InDaily - Adelaide news provocateurs

06 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

News should be about what's important, about what 'sticks', so says David Washington, editor of InDaily and our guest this week on The Adelaide Show p...

136: Restyling the Adelaide Fringe

30 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Goodbye, Mad March, I knew him, Horatio. Another year, another Adelaide Fringe has passed us by. But this time, instead of fanfare and much backslap...

135: The Irish Side Of South Australia

23 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Somewhere over the rainbow is a leprechaun waiting with a big pot of gold. Or not. However, South Australia was like that proverbial pot of gold when...

134: Why natural cosmetics from South Australia?

16 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Organic Orschmanic is a useful approach to many of the fads in life. For example, 'organic' farming actually uses some hideous poisons in production a...

133: Adelaide Enemies - The South Australian Iced Coffee Showdown

09 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Is it an iced coffee or it's nothing? And must that be a Farmers Union or can it be a Nippys or some other brand? In one of the markets that surprise...

132: Adelaide Striptease

02 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

**PARENTAL ADVISORY - You might want to listen to this week's episode without children around. It is not tacky, it is just a frank, adult discussion w...

131: Adelaide Party People - Becky and Ian Blake from Chunky Custard

24 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Tonight we dive into the history and hysterics of Chunky Custard, one of Australia's most loved and longest running party bands. Ian and Becky Blake ...