407 – Knitting Renaissance Meets Nostalgic Sips: Adelaide’s Love Of Tradition
Tanya Keen from Yarn Trader Port Adelaide reveals the radical underbelly of modern knitting culture, from secret cinema crafting sessions to the politics of being “knit-worthy,” while we taste Bickford’s new adult soft drinks and wrap up with Dr. D and Fergus Maximus’s summertime ode to Somerton Beach. In an episode celebrating South Australian innovation in unexpected places, Bickford’s Group Marketing Director Chris Illman shares how a 150-year-old drinks maker is modernising adult soft drinks while preserving quirky local traditions like our distinctive brown lime cordial. Between sips of their sophisticated new Pineapple Passion Fruit and Cloudy Lemonade soft drinks, we discover why South Australians developed different taste preferences from the rest of the nation. Port Adelaide’s Tanya Keen then unravels the surprisingly radical world of contemporary knitting from her Yarn Trader sanctuary, where cinema crafters work their magic in the flickering dark and being “knit-worthy” separates the appreciative from the