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Are there any ghosts in The Opera House? Today we're joined by Supervisor of Stage Management and Events, Annette Dale to help us answer this very mysterious question and tell us all about the spookiest theatre traditions.

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Why is the Opera House shaped so weirdly? Today Caroline Grandjean-Thomsen from the Building Team joins us to tell us about Jorn Utzon, the architect who designed The Sydney Opera House, the competition to design the building and how important creativity

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Have you ever seen a dinosaur at The Sydney Opera House? In this episode, Scott Wright, the artistic director of a company called Erth, joins us to tell us just how many dinosaurs have been released into Our House! Scott's company specialise in huge prehi

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In this episode we're joined by Anthony Carthew, the executive assistant to the CEO of The Opera House to answer the question "What is the strangest thing that's ever sailed past the Sydney Opera House?". Anthony is an expert in lots of the strange and ex

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What was there before The Opera House was there? In this episode we are joined by Rhoda Roberts, the Head of First Nations programming who will tell us all about The Gadigal people, who are the original custodians of the land on which the Opera House sits

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How big is Earth? A really big question that requires a really big answer, and we know just the person to help us! The super clever Jacqui Dark is not only an Opera Singer but also a physicist so she is the perfect person to help us work out the size of t

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This is the question we all want answered - Have you ever had to make huge robot animals and were those huge robot animals ever too big to fit on stage? Today were going to meet John Lavery who built sets at The Sydney Opera House for many years, to learn

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Join the hilarious children's author and illustrator of The Turners trilogy and Squidge Dibley series, Mick Elliott as he talks about creativity and his passion for reading, drawing and developing unique characters.

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Henry Naylor is an British comedy writer, producer, director, performer, and playwright. More recently, he has written plays that deal with difficult global and political issues.  Find out what inspires Henry to write plays and why he thinks it’s important to tell the stories that he does. 

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Alan Brough is a writer, comedian, broadcaster, musician and star of the ABC music trivia show Spicks and Specks. In this talk Alan discusses his broad career with a focus on the two children’s books he’s written as well as the process of turning one of them - Charlie and the War Against the Grannies into a stage show.

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