The Music Show
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Pits, picket lines and pop music: the 1984-5 UK miners' strike
54 mins; March 28, 2026
Flinders Quartet and Melody Eötvös plan ahead, Cassie To gets personal, and Mantis shares his award-winning hip-hop
54 mins; March 27, 2026
What Did You Hear: listening to the music of Bob Dylan
54 mins; March 21, 2026
Riccardo Tesi and Giua open their retablos & Rafael Anton Irisarri searches for connection
54 mins; March 20, 2026
Music Now & Then: Andy Irvine
54 mins; March 14, 2026
Violinist María Dueñas and percussionist Claire Edwardes
54 mins; March 13, 2026
Live at WOMADelaide 2026: Ganavya, La Perla and the Zawose Queens
0 secs; March 07, 2026
The magnificent voices of Annahstasia and Ă…kervinda
53 mins; March 06, 2026
Ron Sexsmith and Mary Coughlan
54 mins; February 28, 2026
Marisa Anderson's UnAmerican Folk Music and paying tribute to Éliane Radigue
54 mins; February 27, 2026
György Kurtág at 100
54 mins; February 21, 2026
The surprising and eclectic sounds of Ben Nobuto and Black Country, New Road
54 mins; February 20, 2026
Nairobi comes to Adelaide with Blinky Bill, and the weird and wondrous sacred music of Gesualdo
53 mins; February 14, 2026
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings celebrate new music and a big anniversary; and Raphael Pichon's surprising choice of Orfeo
53 mins; February 13, 2026
Lachlan Skipworth on expanding his compositional palette and Worlds Only embrace the moment
53 mins; February 07, 2026
Andrea Keller's Transients; and Ian Thompson takes us to the French musical underground of 1968
53 mins; February 06, 2026
Neil and Tim Finn unsplit the Enz and Reuben Brown on the music of Arnhem Land
53 mins; January 31, 2026
Lucy Dacus on feelings, bread, and roses; and 'a country trying to sing itself free' in Celtic Utopia
53 mins; January 30, 2026
Ursula Yovich sings NIna Simone and Toshi Maeda on pop-punk and Mach Pelican
54 mins; January 24, 2026
The backbone of Midnight Oil: Rob Hirst (1955 - 2026)
54 mins; January 23, 2026
The bouzouki in Irish folk with DaoirĂ­ Farrell; and The Red Shoes with Meow Meow
54 mins; January 17, 2026
From broken piano to bestseller: Keith Jarrett's The Köln Concert
54 mins; January 16, 2026
Storytelling, beats and soundscapes on Warlpiri Country, and the legacy of the Shangri-Las
54 mins; January 10, 2026
"I have seen rock and roll's future and its name is Bruce Springsteen": Born To Run at 50
54 mins; January 09, 2026
Collecting Scots songs on horseback with Quinie; and The Sex Pistols with Steve Jones
54 mins; January 03, 2026
The violin in the colony
54 mins; January 02, 2026
Chamber music by women with Anna Goldsworthy and Richard Dawson's evocative songwriting
54 mins; December 27, 2025
Innovation and imitation: Maurice Ravel at 150
54 mins; December 26, 2025
Genre-benders: Abel Selaocoe and Bush Gothic
54 mins; December 20, 2025
Ellen Stekert on a full life in folk music
54 mins; December 19, 2025
The "doofy folk" of Brisbane band AmaidĂ­; and Luciano Berio at 100 with his student Kim Williams
54 mins; December 13, 2025
Messiah
54 mins; December 12, 2025
From Mixtapes to MTV: The Music of the 1980s with Tony Wellington
54 mins; December 06, 2025
JJJJJerome Ellis on the musicality of stuttering, and a masterclass in the chromatic harmonica
54 mins; December 05, 2025
Reed and Oak: DOBBY & Cate Kennedy
0 secs; November 29, 2025
The Arbour: Leah Senior & Giles Watson
0 secs; November 29, 2025
Poetry becomes song: Middle of the Air winning songs revealed with DOBBY and Leah Senior
54 mins; November 29, 2025
Leo Sayer is still dancing, and art and song in Warlpiri women's ceremony
54 mins; November 28, 2025
Performing Assyrian-ness with Lolita Emmanuel
54 mins; November 22, 2025
Guzheng, standards, and Yolngu manikay: three very different albums from Paul Grabowsky and friends
54 mins; November 21, 2025
Cover Story: Both Sides Now
54 mins; November 15, 2025
Seckou Keita retunes West African traditional music, and Rowena Wise & Didirri's couples therapy through song
54 mins; November 14, 2025
Cover Story: Reckless
54 mins; November 08, 2025
The sound of County Clare with Martin Hayes; and Piotr Anderszewski connects Bach, Beethoven and Brahms
54 mins; November 07, 2025
Cover Story: Time After Time
54 mins; November 01, 2025
Come to the cabaret with Le Gateau Chocolat, and music from the borderlands of Iran and Afghanistan
54 mins; October 31, 2025
Cover Story: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
54 mins; October 25, 2025
Sorrow and songwriting: Irish musician Inni-K, and Joe Camilleri's The Black Sorrows
54 mins; October 24, 2025
Cover Story: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
54 mins; October 18, 2025
From Mao's Last Dancer to Master and Commander: Christopher Gordon on his film music and beyond, and The Apartments' Peter Milton Walsh
54 mins; October 17, 2025
The Times They Are A-Changin'
54 mins; October 11, 2025
Inside a showtunes sing-along bar, and composer Fritz Hart's unsung career
54 mins; October 10, 2025
Shellie Morris sings for our little ones and Tim Brady composes for 100 electric guitars
54 mins; October 04, 2025
Meow Meow's The Red Shoes and saxophonist Tessie Overmyer's Tidelands
54 mins; October 03, 2025
Red Headed Stranger: how Willie Nelson's obsession spawned a classic country album
54 mins; September 27, 2025
Stormy skies, Bulgarian voices, and Mervyn Peake with Neko Case and remembering legendary bassist Danny Thompson
54 mins; September 26, 2025
Modern monodramas: deconstructing Pierrot Lunaire and unravelling The Big Idea
54 mins; September 20, 2025
Recovering and uncovering: early Black music from America and the Persian music of Afghanistan
54 mins; September 19, 2025
Bleak Squad: a supergroup with DNA from Magic Dirt, the Bad Seeds and Dirty Three; and a striking conversation with percussionist Steven Schick
53 mins; September 13, 2025
Irish trad-punk for the 21st century with the Mary Wallopers, and music for dark times with Deborah Cheetham-Fraillon
53 mins; September 12, 2025
Bold performances in music new and old: Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Havlat
54 mins; September 06, 2025
Music teachers on screen, and how to score a film
54 mins; September 05, 2025
80 years since the end of WWII: the Music of Remembrance with Jeremy Eichler
54 mins; August 30, 2025
A musical portrait of Guinea-Bissau, and pianist Ana-Maria Vera on surviving as a child prodigy
54 mins; August 29, 2025
"I have seen rock and roll's future and its name is Bruce Springsteen": Born To Run at 50
54 mins; August 23, 2025
Beyond bluegrass with Molly Tuttle, and harpist Marshall McGuire on bravery and leadership
54 mins; August 22, 2025
Liz Pelly on the Spotify machine, and remembering jazz greats Judy Bailey and Sheila Jordan
54 mins; August 16, 2025
Leading an orchestra with Jaime MartĂ­n and putting words to music with DOBBY and Leah Senior
54 mins; August 15, 2025
Gregory Porter on his jazz foundations and Michael Collins on the clarinettist-composer relationship
54 mins; August 09, 2025
Jerrah Patston's world in songs, and the music of outback fences and pied butcherbirds
54 mins; August 08, 2025
Legacies and laughs: Tom Lehrer and Dame Cleo Laine
54 mins; August 02, 2025
Storytelling, beats and soundscapes on Warlpiri Country, and Gordon Kerry's new Requiem
54 mins; August 01, 2025
Ozzy Osbourne - the melodic voice of Black Sabbath, and announcing poetry and lyric competition Middle of the Air
54 mins; July 26, 2025
Michael Atherton: A lifetime student of music from ancient Egypt, medieval Europe and beyond
54 mins; July 25, 2025
Together Alone with Crowded House and talking About Ghosts with Mary Halvorson
54 mins; July 19, 2025
Ben Lee on mistakes, longevity and the power of pop music
54 mins; July 18, 2025
Midge Ure on punk, pop and Ultravox and Nina Korbe on opera and advocacy
54 mins; July 12, 2025
Putting together the pieces of Meredith Monk, and Christine Anu wins the 2025 NAIDOC Creative Talent Award
54 mins; July 11, 2025
Listening to Country with composer James Howard, and the Stiff Gins celebrate 25 years
54 mins; July 05, 2025
Remembering Lalo Schifrin, and how an organ can make a town come alive
54 mins; July 04, 2025
Brian Campeau's country-tinged left turn, and Erik Satie—from the sublime to the surreal
54 mins; June 28, 2025
Lorde reborn
54 mins; June 27, 2025
Margret RoadKnight—60 years in the business
54 mins; June 21, 2025
A Plastic Ocean Oratorio from Omar Musa and Mariel Roberts Musa, and a new Chapter for Guy Blackman
54 mins; June 20, 2025
Collecting Scots songs on horseback and remembering The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson
54 mins; June 14, 2025
Singing the Aphrodite myth, and a new take on golden age of Persian contemporary music
54 mins; June 13, 2025
John Luther Adams on earth
54 mins; June 07, 2025
The birth of House, and the rebirth of Lucius
54 mins; June 06, 2025
Gender euphoria and jazz with Elliot Lamb and entering the forest house with Jenny Mitchell
54 mins; May 31, 2025
Bush Gothic on the fine line between pleasure and pain, and director Netia Jones on Purcell's wild semi-opera The Fairy Queen
54 mins; May 30, 2025
From broken piano to bestseller—Keith Jarrett's The Köln Concert
54 mins; May 24, 2025
Tangerine Dream bring order into chaos and Jonathon Crompton maps out the coastline
54 mins; May 23, 2025
Ellen Stekert: a full life in folk music
54 mins; May 17, 2025
Kamasi Washington's Fearless Movement and Gregory Day's Southsightedness
54 mins; May 16, 2025
Pokey LaFarge takes us to Rhumba Country, and the radical spirituality of Sofia Gubaidulina
54 mins; May 10, 2025
Three centuries of chamber music by women with Anna Goldsworthy, and where blues and zydeco meet
54 mins; May 09, 2025
Glass percussion with Shock Lines and campfire storytelling with Mark Atkins
54 mins; May 03, 2025
Music in Motion: Live at the Canberra International Music Festival
55 mins; May 02, 2025
Modernism, Catholicism, and Birdsong: Olivier Messiaen
54 mins; April 26, 2025
Deep Inside the Blues
54 mins; April 25, 2025