ABBA Museum Opening

May 7, 2013 By 7 Comments
Fireworks for the ABBA Museum Opening

It's late Monday night, my final night in Sweden (sadly), and I've just arrived home from the music, fireworks and celebrity-spotting of the official opening of the long-awaited ABBA Museum. The idea for a permanent ABBA Museum in Stockholm has been around since the end of 2006. The original idea was for the museum to inhabit the space now occupied by the city's Fotografiska Museet. When that didn't prove to be economically viable, the organisers launched a number of short-term exhibition … [Read more...]

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Radio Days Europe 2013 – Day 2

March 20, 2013 By 3 Comments
Valerie Geller and Valerie Weber at Radio Days Europe 2013

As always, Valerie Geller was an inspiration at Radio Days Europe. I first became aware of her work. Even though I've heard her mantra of "tell the truth, make it matter, and never be boring" many, many times over the last decade, it's a message which continues to resonate. "No matter what the platform, story-telling matters", Valerie said today. She was on a panel with another Valerie, Valerie Weber from a commercial music radio station based in Bavaria, Germany. She explained how … [Read more...]

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Radio Days Europe 2013 – Day 1

March 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Sam Cavanagh, Hamish & Andy Show speaks at Radio Days Europe

There was a terrific response in the room to the talk given by fellow Australian, Sam Cavanagh. Sam is the Executive Producer of the Hamish & Andy Show. At the heart of his talk was an idea around how the program team treated their audience. As he spoke, with a great deal of passion, there was a real sense of excitement in the room around the idea of seeing your audience as "fans", not "listeners." Many radio stations, he argued, saw their audience merely as "listeners", whereas the … [Read more...]

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Radio Days Europe 2013 – Presentation

March 18, 2013 By 4 Comments
ABC Radio Australia

This is the presentation I made at Radio Days Europe, March 18, 2013 as part of a session on pop up radio stations. The slide you can see behind you now is a snapshot of the homepage of ABC Radio Australia. ABC is the national public broadcaster in the BBC mould of things, and as you can see, ABC Radio is a comprehensive broadcaster. But today I'll be telling you a little about just one of the stations the ABC operates. But first today, I'd like to begin by asking you think for a … [Read more...]

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Now Hear This

February 27, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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I didn't expect to, but ended up telling a story at the "Now Hear This" story-telling night in Sydney tonight. I told the story of my great-great grandmother who had a relationship with her first cousin (no, I don't have two heads). After the birth of their fourth child together, he married someone else and had four more children. My great-great grandmother then went on to live a somewhat shambolic life, it seems, until she ended her life in the "destitute women's asylum" in Sydney, and was … [Read more...]

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David, James, Andrea in 702 ABC Sydney studio

February 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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I really love this photograph taken yesterday morning in the studio of radio station, 702 ABC Sydney. This is me with Andrea Ho and David Hua who hosted the national morning show on ABC Local Radio celebrating Lunar New Year. … [Read more...]

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