Breakfasters

This week on Breakfasters Dr Jen discusses echolocation, the team reminisce on their favourite subjects at school and the art of making friends when drunk, and Professor Michael Ibbotson comes by ahead of his Melbourne Knowledge Week event to talk about machines that can read your mind.

This week on the show breakfasters talk to Dr. Amy Webster from Women's Health Victoria about their groundbreaking project The Labia Library. British comedian Phil Jupitus returns to Triple R 18 years after his first visit to chat about his show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and band names that you can indeed say on air. Plus, the team talks through hangover cures and prevention, nodding at strangers and how to tell if a reptile is happy.

This week on the show, the Breakfasters spoke with acclaimed Dublin comedian Jason Byrne ahead of his comedy festival show Propped Up, plus Sean 'the Birdman' Dooley dropped by for the regular Feature Creatures segment to talk about parrots and playfulness.

Sarah, Jeff and Geraldine also looked into the many ways to entertain children and what they'd do if they had lots of money to buy expensive stuff.

This week on the Breakfasters podcast Jeff, Geraldine & Sarah chat with comedians Judith Lucy & Denise Scott about their forthcoming Melbourne International Comedy Festival show Disappointments. Plus Director Alex Peterson and Alec Doomadgee jumped into the studio for a chat about the making of documentary film Zach's Ceremony. Also on the show, the age at which you 'do stuff' and when kids blurt out stuff at you.

Highlights this week include -

We kick off with 'The Dinner Review' then roll into an interview with David Stratton about A Cinematic Life, meet Debra Zimmerman, modern champion of women in film and discuss the burden of authority of being elected high school sports captain.

On this week's podcast The Breakfasters talk to Arthur Bolkas about youth prisons in crisis, Geraldine lets us know about her experiences learning about alternative farming in Seymour, the team talks about how they could improve the sport of golf, and we have a chat with our Friday Funnybugger Nick Capper.

On this week's podcast Rosie Jones (Writer and Director) and Chris Johnston (Writer) come in to discuss Book/Documentary "The Family", Geraldine shares her contemplative nephew's 10 wishes, a Feature Creatures with Simon Hinkley from Museums Victoria about Gordian worms and the Breakfasters chat about things your partner likes that you don't.

On this week's podcast the Breakfasters talk to activist and hip hop artist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez ahead of his talk at the Sustainable Living Festival entitled "Why I sued the U.S. Government" and Geraldine explains her trip to Scenic World. Hayley Inch comes in straight from Sundance Film Festival to talk film and Geraldine tells the others about the childhood goods her parents returned to her over the summer including school books followed by a chat about dream houses.

On this week's podcast - a chat about Christmas and the spirit of giving, Offa Foatu from Hot Brown Honey talks about their new show, Amy Mullins joins the breakfasters to discuss a new report on Women in the Media and a conversation about Air Force One.

On this week's podcast - journalist Masha Gesdon comes in to talk about Donald Trump, the Breakfasters chat about the concept of Comaneci Day, an interview with Comedian/Actor Hannibal Buress and the Breakfasters share the things they are secretly good at.