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From the Northern Beaches to the Vienna State Opera and beyond – Margaret Plummer on Hansel, green lights, fearless leaps and life on the world’s great stages. Don’t miss her in Hänsel & Gretel with OA. 🎧 listen at bit.ly/InCon224s

Spent an hour with Caroline O’Connor talking Sondheim, Broadway, ballet, Baz Luhrmann & singing to the dog in the ‘good’ lounge room. Funny, fearless, and gloriously honest.
🎧 bit.ly/InCon223
🎭 catch her in Sondheim’s Putting it Together at Foundry Theatre

Yikes… I think I prefer enduring the blackout 😂. But good on you for insisting on it, it’s made the man you are today.

A story which is key in my development as a totally obsessive fanboy… and it shows in our discussion! It made me the man I am today!

Love this story and loved discussing it. So much class, so little time!

There was a lot to say about Horror of Fang Rock as there is just so much to love about it. We also talk about how Terrence Dicks’s Target novelizations were so important to our reading and development. And so great having @melvinpena.bsky.social on this one!

Mark Kilmurry and I chatted about everything from directing Dial M for Murder to new Australian writing, onstage mishaps, and the art of running the Ensemble Theatre. A generous, funny, deeply thoughtful guest. 🎭
🎧 Apple: bit.ly/InCon218a or Spotify: bit.ly/InCon218s

It was great fun! As the smiles in the screenshot demonstrates! So much to discuss and so little time!

Yes… yes… we talk about The War Games. And have no quiz at all about songs with the word ‘war’ or ‘games’ in the title.

Excited to have guested on the fabulous @aotas.bsky.social to chat about this story which I’ve always loved. Such a shame I’m a quiz ignoramus…! 😬

Lovely to see Mark and Iain back in action… and excited to be joining them for next week’s ep covering The War Games!

I’ve known Brett Weymark for 20+ years - still funny, thoughtful & just a little cheeky. In this week’s In Conversation, he shares his journey from school singalongs to the Opera House stage.
🎧 bit.ly/InCon205 | 🎵 A Child of Our Time, Sep 13, Sydney Pholharmonia Choirs @sydneyoperahouse.bsky.social

Toby Schmitz @tobyschmitz.bsky.social adding some lovely colour to his nostalgic reminiscences of working on Broadway. 🎧 Hear our whole chat at bit.ly/InCon200s and don’t miss him @belvoirst.bsky.social for Grief is the Thing with Feathers 🎭

Why thank you!!!

Toby Schmitz: The play's the thing In Conversation · Episode

@tobyschmitz.bsky.social is one of those guests who makes you laugh, think & want to re-read Hamlet. Actor, playwright, novelist, Shakespeare tragic, Stoppard obsessive, don’t miss him in Grief is the Thing with Feathers at Belvoir.
🎧 bit.ly/InCon200s

Our final 500 Yr Diary for this season was a surprising addition - as I suspect was the fact The Well ended up being a return to Midnight. Our musings below. Looking forward to a return later in the year…

What a lovely thing to say. You don’t look too bad yourself. 😊

To my mind, #doctorwho took a massive step backwards for S23. Our look at Mindwarp below, where I also wax lyrical about the brilliance of Sil’s first outing, too. There’s a lot crammed into this one!

A story whose promise is let down by a succession of poor choices in its realisation and execution, is where I ended up landing in this, our take on the Season 21 opener Warriors of the Deep. Commence ignition Scibus!

Getting into the nitty gritty with this story which has much to commend it but doesn’t quite live up to its potential

Tegan sits in the hall of mirrors. Behind her, out of focus, is the showman. She looks distressed and anxious.

This week, the people of the planet Manussa are about to discover that all their ancient myths are true, and that their own thirst and dissatisfaction are rearing up to strike them in rubbery serpentine form. @kateorman.bsky.social joins us.

#DoctorWho #Snakedance

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Our warmish take below on the latest #doctorwho installment. Light hearted and light weight but the brilliant Freddie Fox does his best to add some gravitas (sorry, mavitas).

An honour to spend an hour with the legendary @mrmichaelball.bsky.social, in Aus for the #LesMiserables arena tour. 🎧 Apple: bit.ly/InCon190a & Spotify: bit.ly/InCon190s. He’s a generous and gregarious guy and we had a lot of laughs.

Peter Gregson: Everything we hear In Conversation · Episode

Fascinating to spend an hour with cellist and composer Peter Gregson. Thanks to a fortuitous encounter with Alan Rickman, Peter has been composing music for film & TV, including Bridgerton. Peter has written a new work for the Omega Ensemble for their upcoming tour.
🎧 listen at bit.ly/InCon182s

No, the sideboob merely provided yet more evidence I wasn’t straight.

Is Orbit the episode which the entire existence of Blake’s 7 was working its way towards all along? Well, yes, of course it was. Hear why, below!

Eddie Perfect: The best of all possible worlds In Conversation · Episode

In a feature length (yes, really) edition of In Conversation this week, I had a long and in-depth discussion with Tony nominee Eddie Perfect, one of this country’s most eclectic, respected and prolific artists. If you have any interest in how musicals are created, listen to this! 🎧 bit.ly/InCon179s

In which we discuss an episode where the sum is less than its fabulous parts. Sand. And a romantic dinner for two.

It does feel like ages ago doesn’t it! And as you say we can listen afresh :)

Stephen Johnson: Discovering music between the lines In Conversation · Episode

UK broadcaster, writer and composer Stephen Johnson is exactly the kind of presenter I idolised as a child (and still do). Some might call it “old school" presenting but I would call it "actual" presenting. Stephen talks candidly about mental health, music’s healing power, and more bit.ly/InCon177s