JOY Drive with Warren

Associate Professor Lauren Rosewarne explores why dinner parties and spontaneous visits are disappearing, from cost and exhaustion to social media perfection and digital entertainment, and whether lowering our expectations could help bring informal friendship back into our homes.

Guest: Dr Lauren Rosewarne, Associate Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne

Presenter: Warren Andrew

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Jye Marshall explores where inspiration ends and copying begins as Adidas takes White Fox to court, and whether fashion could even exist without designers constantly borrowing, recycling and reinventing ideas that came before them.

Guest: Jye Marshall, Lecturer in Fashion Design at Swinburne University of Technology

Presenter: Warren Andrew

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Yvonne Sillett reflects on losing the Army career she loved because she was gay, finding others who endured similar treatment and the decades-long fight to have LGBT veterans’ service, harm and history formally recognised.

Guest: Yvonne Sillett, Australian Army veteran and LGBT veterans’ advocate

Presenter: Warren Andrew

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Associate Professor Evangeline Mantzioris explains what eating late can do to our sleep, metabolism, blood pressure and gut, and whether moving dinner earlier could make a meaningful difference even when we eat the same food.

Guest: Associate Professor Evangeline Mantzioris, Program Director of the Bachelor of Human Nutrition at Adelaide University

Presenter: Warren Andrew

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Associate Professor Vincent Ho explains what new research suggests about sugar, antibiotics and our gut bacteria; what the findings do and don’t mean for everyday antibiotic use; and how food may help our microbiome recover afterwards.

Guest: Dr Vincent Ho, Associate Professor of Medicine and Academic Gastroenterologist at Western Sydney University

Presenter: Warren Andrew

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Amelie Peters explores why so many of us happily belt out songs in the car or shower but freeze when someone is listening, and how Sink or SING! turns that fear into a joyful room full of strangers singing together.

Guest: Amelie Peters, award-winning vocalist and international vocal coach

Presenter: Warren Andrew

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Associate Professor Theresa Larkin explains what hours in the air do to our circulation, hydration, ears, gut and body clock, and the simple things we can do to make a long-haul flight easier on our bodies.

Guest: Dr Theresa Larkin, Associate Professor of Medical Sciences at the University of Wollongong

Presenter: Warren Andrew

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Suzy Wrong explores ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ through desire, self-consciousness and our habit of watching and analysing ourselves, asking whether overthinking an experience can stop us from ever fully feeling it.

Guest: Suzy Wrong

Presenter: Warren Andrew

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Troy-Anthony Baylis reflects on three decades of art bringing queerness, Aboriginality, humour, pop culture and politics together, and what seeing that complex creative life gathered in Let it bleed revealed about the artist he has been and is still becoming.

Guest: Troy-Anthony Baylis, artist, curator and writer

Presenter: Warren Andrew

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Fiona Kelly McGregor explores the real police scandal and hidden queer lives behind The Trap, bringing 1940s Sydney’s drag performers, nightlife and targeted men back into a history shaped by persecution, class, survival and joy.

Guest: Fiona Kelly McGregor, author of The Trap

Presenter: Warren Andrew

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