Breakfasters

The team chat with Stuart Daulman about his show "Death of a Daulman" happening at Melbourne Fringe Festival; the team did some improvising about writing prompts; Birdman shares some information about magpies on this week's feature creatures and Mike McRae comes onto the show to have a chat about his latest book "Unwell: What makes a disease a disease?".

With presenters Sarah Smith, Jeff Sparrow and Geraldine Hickey.

This week Mia Timpano speaks about her show "Speaking Of Which: The Science Of Conversation" that will playing at Melbourne FRINGE festival; Sarah is the centre of attention on Trauma Tuesday; Michael Harden talks about food interlude; director Ben Lawrence chats about his latest film "Ghosthunter"; and the team chat about airport phone dramas.

With presenters Sarah Smith, Jeff Sparrow and Geraldine Hickey.

The team welcome back John Safran who will be performing "Jew Detective: Sarcasm is not a crime" at Yarraville Laughs; Zoe Coombs Marr and Mish Grigor chat about "Ich Nibber Dibber"; Wednesdare is back, the team have a discussion about being scared; long time Breakfaster friend, George Megalogenis chats about his book "The Football Solution: How Richmond's premiership can save Australia"; and the team are introduced to the Disdain Game.

With presenters Sarah Smith, Jeff Sparrow and Geraldine Hickey.

The team chat about things you don't have to like as you grow older; Wednesdare is back; Jackson Castiglione comes onto the show who is an artist from Field Theory "ICON" which will be appearing at Melbourne Fringe Festival; Mark Triffitt will be chatting about "The West's Age Of Retreat" Piece in Pursuit; Sisonke Msimang who is appearing at MWF will be chatting about her book "Always Another Country".

With presenters Sarah Smith, Jeff Sparrow and Geraldine Hickey.

The team chat with Juha Kaakinen about homelessness week and Finland's approach to homelessness; Geraldine shares her experience with helping someone become a captain; writer Carey Gillam comes onto the show to talk about her latest book "Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science"; AFL footballer Bob Murphy chats about his book "Leather Soul: A half-back flanker's rhythm and blues"; the team chats about curating film marathons and finally director Catherine Scott chats about her latest film "Backtrack Boys" which will be appearing at MIFF.

With presenters Sarah Smith, Jeff Sparrow and Geraldine Hickey.

Jeff and Sarah speak with Jill Stark about her book "Happy Never After: Why the happiness fairytale is driving us mad"; Matt chats with the team about problematic 90's TV shows; Geraldine talks about being forced to become a comedian in the least expected place; 'Feature Creatures' sees Simon Hinkley exploring botflies; director Debra Granik talks about her film "Leave No Trace" which will be screening locally at MIFF; and Matt is the centre of attention as our Friday Funnybugger. With presenters Sarah Smith, Jeff Sparrow, Geraldine Hickey, and Matt Stewart.

On this week's Breakfasters podcast, Geraldine, Jeff and Sarah speak with Sami, Madeline and Jacki Van Beek who are the writers, directors and actors of the hit new film "The Breaker Upperers"; Wednesdare is back; the team chat with comedians "Rhett & Link"; the team share thoughts about reinventing themselves; Dr. Tristan Rich comes onto the show to chat about pets and desexing and reproduction on this week's Feature Creatures; and finally the team chat about Helpy Helperson at Melbourne University.

On this week's Breakfasters podcast, Geraldine, Jeff and Sarah speak to Dr. Peter Thorne about CSIRAC, Australia's first computer; Melbourne Writers Festival 2018 Artistic Director Marieke Hardy stops by to discuss this years program; comedian Laura Dunemann gets the team to read her new script about Trump meeting the Queen; and the tea, share their thoughts on being smug at the gym, online shopping, Muppets VHS's and Geraldine has someone opening her old mail.

This week, the Breakfasters team chat with writer and perfomer Amer Hlehel, who has a show called "TAHA" at the Arts Centre; the team chat about terot cards and spirts; Geraldine speaks about her holiday break and how she pretended to be an Australian wildlife expert in LA; Ricky-Lee Erickson chats about gaint spider crabs on this week's Feature Creatures; and Steve Ellen and Catherine Deveney come onto the show to chat about their upcoming book "MENTAL".

This week, the Breakfasters team chat with card magician Woody Aragon, who has a show at Melbourne Magic Festival called "A Bald Faced Liar"; the team chat about what they got up to over their holiday break; Simon Hinkley comes back onto the show to talk about exploding ants from South-East Asia; Matt Stewart features on Friday Funnybugger; and the team chat about their weekend celebrations.