Time To Talk with Sean Sennett

Tim Finn and Andy White are Sean Sennett’s specials guests today as they talk about Tim and Andy’s new album, AT. This is a follow up, of sorts, to Tim and Andy’s earlier collaboration with Hothouse Flowers’ Liam Ó Maonlaí called, ALT. This time around the album was recorded with Andy in Melbourne and Tim in New Zealand. The work was mixed by John Leckie (Radiohead/George Harrison). 

This week Sean Sennett chats to the Angels founding guitarist and songwriter, John Brewster. A new documentary, The Angels: Kicking Down The Door has just opened around Australia. The film tells the story of one of Australia’s finest bands. Directed by Madeleine Perry, the film charts the Angels progress from an Adelaide jug band to selling out venues here and overseas, delving into the Brewster Brothers often tempestuous relationship and their relationship with mercurial frontman Doc Neeson.

Thomas Keneally is one of Australia’s literary giants. Tom - as it says on the inside flap of A Bloody Good Rant - has been 'observing, reflecting on and writing about Australia and the human condition for well over 50 years’. He’s published a number of histories on Australia. His novels include The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, Schindler’s Ark and he has won the Miles Franklin Award, The Booker Prize … we hardly need to go on. We recorded this chat when A Bloody Good Rant was first released … as he says it’s a book about his ‘passions, memories and demons’. We talk about all that here … as well as everything from Cook landing to his Father returning from the war to Gough Whitlam … Napoleon and beyond. 

Pakistan cricket great Wasim Akram is Sean Sennett's guest this week. Wasim has just released a memoir 'Sultan' which was written in collaboration with the journalist Gideon Haigh. Wasim took 414 test wickets at 22 runs a piece between 1984 and 2003 and another 502 in one day internationals … but it’s how he took them. He scored 100’s too, so he’s a genuine allrounder ... here Wasim talks about why he wrote the book,  his heroes, his early life … he gets riled up about match fixing and tells a great Viv Richards story. Enjoy!

Singer/songwriter Meg Mac is Sean Sennett’s guest on this week’s episode of Time To Talk. Meg has just released a terrific new album, Matter of Time. Already hitting #1 on the ARIA Charts, the album follows her earlier work Low Blows and Hope. The story behind the recording is fascinating. Meg talks of working with new collaborators, recording between continents and how she came up with a body of work that represented where she was at. 

This week Sean Sennett talks with the founder of Oz Harvest, Ronni Kahn. Recorded as part of a fundraiser for Oz Harvest at QPAC, the conversation was taped before an audience. Ronni talks about her life and her life’s work and her memoir A Repurposed Life: where she discusses everything from her early life in apartheid South Africa to what set her on a course to run an organisation that has provided 170 million plus meals to those in need of them.

Join your host Sean Sennett as he chats this week to the great Colin Hay. You may Colin know from Men At Work - alongside his many fine solo albums. Colin has just released a new record Now & The Evermore. Here Colin talks about the new album, his previous record (I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself), Men At Work and touring with Ringo Starr.