Getting to know Paula Kruger

2SER's Managing Director Paula Kruger shares the origins of her interests in radio and storytelling and in doing so tells some of her own personal story. Read More

Futurist and infophile Ross Dawson

We hear about the vocational pathway of futurist Ross Dawson and his interests in systems thinking and feedback loops. Read More

Master Control Operator Julia Beveridge

Television Master Control Operator Julia Beveridge shares some of the technicalities of the role of managing all of the vision and audio for a network and other insights such as communication skills that help in this line of work. Read More

Biotechnology and Plant Science, Associate Professor Tien Huynh

Scientist Tien Huynh is involved in research projects as diverse as developing fire retardant building materials from fungi and exploring the possibilities for planting seedlings on the Moon. Read More

Musical artist, Anarchosophist

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Tea specialist, Katelyn Kent

 Tea specialist Katelyn Kent describes five types of tea (pictured) and shares her knowledge and interest in tea with us.  Read More

Economic historian, Dr Nora Yitong Qiu

Dr Nora Yitong Qiu is an economic historian of East Asia, specialising in the Qing Empire and 20th century China. Read More

Health and wellbeing specialist, Melissa Tenho

A conversation about preventative health and wellbeing practices with wellness leader Melissa Tenho.  Read More

Emeritus Professor Roxanne Doty

Emeritus Professor Roxanne Doty from Arizona State University has transitioned from academic writing as a Politics and Global Studies specialist to creative writing as a published poet and novelist.  Read More

Jake Stone on comedy and music

Jake Stone shares the origins of his vocational interests in comedy and music and the story of how he came to be fronting the band Bluejuice. Read More

50th anniversary World Environment Day

Professor of Environmental Politics, David Schlosberg is Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and joins the Wide Open Air Exchange this week for a discussion of global environmental governance on reflection of 50 years of World Environment Day. Read More

Playwright Alana Valentine on Nellie Small

Send for Nellie is a State Library event that’s part of the ongoing Pride (R)evolution exhibitions which have been taking  a “queer lens” to  the State Library’s collection.  Read More

Heritage Interpretation, Sue Hodges

With 30 years of experience in the heritage sector, and as Managing Director of SHP, Sue Hodges exercises best practices in enabling the rights of Firsts Nations peoples to determine how their histories are told in the design and production of heritage interpretation. Sue is a doctoral researcher at UTS with a PhD project on the ‘Economic and social value of heritage interpretation’. Read More

UTS Queer Officer Sara Chaturvedi

A wide-ranging conversation about gender, race, ethnicity and university student collectives specifically the UTS Ethnocultural Collective and the Queer Collective.  Read More

Martial Arts, Jake Stone

Jake Stone shares his special interest in martial arts and how it relates to his experiences of school bullying. Read More

Internationalism and labour associations

To coincide with International Workers' Day, historian Professor Glenda Sluga kindly participated in a chat about internationalism with attention to how international workers associations and the International Labour Organization fits in the history of the early phase of twentieth century internationalism. Read More