Pop Queers

This week on Pop Queers it’s Jason Om taking on John P Wintle!

Jason Om is a Walkley Award winning reporter who you may recognise from his pieces on ABC’s 7.30 Report or his time on ABC News Breakfast, ABC Life, Lateline, and ABC Radio. Jason’s new memoir, All Mixed Up, is hot off the presses and provides a great insight into his experiences growing up as a gay Asian man in Melbourne.

John P Wintle is one of Joy’s favourite nerds and Joy 94.9’s music coordinator! Will John’s huge wealth of music knowledge and impeccable taste prove to be enough to overcome Jason and his knowledge of current affairs?

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The Radiothon party continues with not 2 but 8 whole Joylebrities as Team Dee takes on Team Gaily for the title of Pop Queers Radiothon Legends!

Over on Team Dee:

Joining Team Gaily:

While you may have missed the opportunity to go into the running for this year’s Radiothon prizes its never too late to donate or subscribe at Joy.org.au!

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Dee and Gail take a trip down memory lane to celebrate this year’s Radiothon at Joy 94.9!

Featuring some of the best snippets from rounds gone by and the reveal of one very lucky key winner who is now in the running to Unlock The Vault and win some very special prizes!

While you may have missed the opportunity to go into the running for this year’s Radiothon prizes its never too late to donate or subscribe at Joy.org.au!

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Sunanda Sachatrakul takes on Candy Bowers!

Sunanda will be familiar to regular Pop Queers listeners as both a returning guest and former producer of the show! They are a comedian, actor, writer, and clown and have graced the comedy scenes of New York, Las Angeles, and Melbourne. They have an upcoming web series as part of the AFTRs Talent Camp called Falamity. But while you’re waiting, you can catch them in their Melbourne Comedy Festival debut, Sunanda Loves Britney, from the 12th of April.

Candy is a writer, creator, actor, director, and lyricist who is currently directing Sunanda in Sunanda Loves Britney. She is the creator and host of Multi-Hypho, a podcast where she talks with creatives who “live, work, and play on the intersection”. She is also currently developing an original television series, writing her first feature film, and artistic director of the VCE Season of Excellence.

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Geraldine Quinn takes on Robbie Latour!

Geraldine Quinn is a rock comedy singer, actor, writer, and director who you may recognise from her many guest appearances on the likes of Spicks and Specks, Adam Hills Tonight, Upper Middle Bogan, and Rockwiz. She’s been knocking it out of the park for years at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival earning herself the Golden Gibbo Award in 2011 with her show You’re the Voice (Songs for the Ordinary by an Anthemaniac). She’s back at it again this year with her new show Broad which debuted at Midsummer 2022 and is returning for this year’s Comedy Festival at Trades Hall from the 31st of March to the 10th of August. For tickets and more information visit the Comedy Festival website.

Robbie Latour returns to Pop Queers yet again to extend his lead as the most frequently returning competitor. You can hear more of Robbie at 8pm on Thursdays hosting the live radio show Robbed! A Joy Drag Race Ruview on Joy. He is also co-host of the fabulous Divas-on-Divas podcast alongside another Pop Queers favourite Tequila Mockingbird, available on all your favourite podcast streaming services. Can Robbie end his drought of four Pop Queers appearances without a win? Or will Geraldine Quinn triumph on her debut?

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Pop star Jack Vidgen takes on returning guest and comedian Annie Louey!

Jack Vidgen won Australia’s Got Talent when he was just a little itty bitty 14 year old boy. Over 10 years later and he is now a fully fledged Pop and TV Star having made appearances on The Voice, America’s Got Talent, I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, Eurovision: Australia Decides, and much much more! He’s now working on breaking into the podcasting world, so keep an ear out for his brand new podcast! You can listen to Jack’s latest hit single PTSD now!

Annie Louey is returning to Pop Queers once again! Lately she has been finding success appearing on ABC Radio and writing and presenting for ABC TV’s China Tonight. For years Annie has been a regular of the Melbourne comedy scene and she recently became a Melbourne Comedy Festival Moosehead Recipient! Tickets for her brand new show Annie Louey is Flirting with Death, debuting at this year’s comedy festival, are available now!

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Dean Arcuri returns to take on special celebrity guest Russell Fletcher!

Russell Fletcher is an actor, comedian, and cabaret performer who will be live at Trades Hall from the 31st of March as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

You can also catch Russell in his preview test run of the improvised musical Spontaneous Broadway at the Mount Avoca Winery on Sunday the 20th of March. Stay tuned to the Mount Avoca Facebook page and Website for tickets and details.

Dean Arcuri is a Joy and Pop Queers favourite! Melbourne’s busiest homosexual, and the man behind the divine Frock Hudson, will be hosting several events at this year’s Sydney Mardi Gras where he will also be performing in his own cabaret, This Show is Gay.

Can Dean continue his unprecedented unbeaten run on Pop Queers? Or will Russell overcome Dean with his specialist knowledge in the fields of Military History and Geography?

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Our guests this week really are the hottest thing in town – starring in Jagged Little Pill!

It gets dirty when Mags McKenna takes on Grace Miell to win a truly unexceptional prize.

Find out more about Jagged Little Pill and buy your tickets now here!

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Joy’s own Ben Hull takes on star of stage and screen Adam Noviello!

On stage Adam Noviello has starred in La Cage aux Folles, Funny Girl, Matilda, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Charlie and the Chocolate Family, and Chess. Soon they will be hitting the stages once again, performing with the Victorian Opera in The Who’s Tommy!

On screen they co-wrote, co-produced, and starred in the feature film Spencer. And if all of that wasn’t enough for you, their hit debut single Heretic reached number 1 in the iTunes dance charts shortly after its release.

Ben Hull is a Joy favourite having had stints on Joy Breakfast and Joy Drive, and having made up one half of the hugely successful duo, Ben and Gabe. Not to be outdone, Ben Hull also has a claim to Pop Stardom having sung several bars of the Nutbush with Tina Turner as a 10 year old concert goer.

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Season 4 of Pop Queers is kicking off with a rematch!

Back by popular demand are Australia’s John O’Hara and the delightfully talented Lucy Maunder who will be facing off in a grudge match for the ages.

John O’Hara has starred in The Boy from Oz, Jesus Christ Superstar, Wicked, School of Rock, and the Rocky Horror Show and you will soon be able to see him in The Who’s Tommy with Victorian Opera. You can also hear John co-hosting Weekend Brekky, Saturdays on Joy 94.9.

Lucy Maunder has graced the stage in Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Into the Woods, and the Rocky Horror Show and you can now catch her performing in Fun Home with the MTC.

Last time these fierce rivals went head to head Lucy pipped John to the post by a single point all the way back in the pre-lockdown world of Round 24. Can John get his revenge? Or will Lucy reassert her dominance and take home the Prize de Jour once again?

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