Out Of The Box

Andrew Denton on love, life, death and tongue kissing.

Alice Fraser on Buddhism, her late mother, and making deep comedy.

A.H.Cayley on The Troubles in Ireland, the feeling of home in music, the rigours of life as a young creative, running FBi's politics and current affairs show with a sleep disorder, and finding family in Gooddod Small Club.

When Yassmin Abdel-Magied isn't binge watching Netflix, she's working on oil and gas rigs, running initiatives like Youth Without Borders, frothing over race cars, and just generally defying expectations placed on young muslim women.

In the lead up to Mardi Gras, Walkley Award nominated journalist Patrick Abboud talks about coming out to Arabic parents, loving Icelandic music, finding long lost family, enjoying bus breakdowns and making beautiful documentaries.

Yaryna Kvitka and Volodymyr Muliar rolled into Sydney on bikes, all the way from Ukraine! They are Folknery; a Ukrainian modern folk band, and they've been on the road for 16 months, collecting traditional folk songs from communities along the way. They were also part of the massive months-long revolution in Maidan, for which they maed a bit of an anthem against the government at the time. In this episode, hear that song, plus two others played live in the studio.

Kelli Jean Drinkwater's creative practice critiques society's perceptions of people of size and encourages a diverse, body positive visibility.

The man who brought FBi radio 5 years' worth of 'Sociologic' Professor James Arvanitakis, on his life as a former banker, miracle child and social justice activist.

Warren Roberts started YARN to create a space for non-Indigenous and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians to connect and discuss the past 200 years of shared history.

Norrie May-Welby defies categorisation with delight and spreads joy with bubbles. Norrie is a social justice activist, anarchist, political cartoonist, and the first person in the world to be declared 'gender non-specific' by the courts.

Anna supports Ghanaian garment makers through Yevu, by bringing their clothes to people who want to look loud and fabulous. She brought some loud and fabulous tracks on Out of the Box.

Ben Marshall talks about his journey from promoting events via snail mail to being Head of Contemporary Music at the Opera House.

Lawrence Leung on delivering a real baby as a TV Doctor, making bad David Lynchian films in high school, & his new film Sucker. All to a TV and film themed soundtrack. See 'Sucker' at Hoyts Broadway (Dec 3) or Hoyts Blacktown (Dec 4).

Daniel Robins on freeing refugees from Woomera Detention Centre, the wrath of ASIO and fighting unsafe mining with Lock the Gate.

Comedy writer & producer Kara Schlegl on interviewing her exes, growing up in a house made of billboards and diversity in comedy.

Atong Atem was born in Ethiopia, her family is from South Sudan but she grew up as a proud bogan on the Central Coast of NSW. She acknowledges that she's somewhere in the middle, a Third Culture Kid. This extends into her photography work, exploring the ideas of colonialism and migrant narratives, and also extends into her motley taste in music.

Matt Baker is a bionanotechnologist, a spoken word poet enthusiast, a player of the gentlemanly sport of fencing and a DJ in the not-so-gentlemanly music genre dancehall. He also hosts a radio show every week on Bondi Beach Radio, has lived in New Zealand, California and England as well as travelled around to many other countries in the name of science and sport. His many and varied interests rarely intersect, but this week we spoke about most of them on Out of the Box as well as exploring the music with which he playlists his life.

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Have you ever been to a gig in Sydney? If you have, then you've more than likely spent time in the same room with David James Young, our guest on Out of the Box this week. He's THAT guy, the one that everyone recognises because he really loves music and REALLY loves seeing it live. He does other things with his time too though. He's a writer, a musician, podcast creator, among many other fab activities. This week he brought in a cracker majority Aussie playlist to give us a taste of what he feeds into his ears on the daily.

Juan Francisco Salazar is an anthropologist and film maker who came to Australia from Chile to become a doctor in Communication and Media at Western Sydney University. His speculative documentary, Nightfall on Gaia, was shot over 4 summers in Antarctica, and through the hour he spoke a bit about what it was like growing up around Pinochet's dictatorship.