Climate change is real. Many governments are doing nothing. Guess who’ll pay the price.
Is ‘clean nuclear’ the answer? We find out from Adelaide University’s Ben Heard just before he flies out to London to address the World Nuclear Summit.
In IS IT NEWS, Nigel tests us on the theme, Nuclear Weapons Testing.
The Royal Adelaide Show opens this week and we have the SA Goodies bag to preview tonight.
Our SA Drink of the week is a Gramps drop from the Barossa.
We hear about an SA author who has a number of books on Audible, our audio book sponsor. You can get a free audio book by going to audible.com.au/adelaide. We explain it in the first part of the show.
In music, we hear a song written for a Mumpsimus production called Money (our guest from last week Andy Packer, is one of the three members of Mumpsimus).
In the Adelaide Visa Council, slim pickings this week, but a blimp is involved.
But first, David Washington from In Daily presents his midweek news wrap, Talk Of The Town.
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| TIME | SEGMENT |
| 00:01:00 | Outtake |
| Twist my nob | |
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Theme |
| Theme and introduction. Our original theme song in full is here, Adelaidey-hoo. | |
| 00:03:52 | Talk Of The Town |
| David Washington, editor of In Daily, gives us a midweek wrap of the news we’ve been talking about in South Australia this week. | |
| 00:07:26 | SA Drink Of The Week |
| Gramps 2010 Shiraz, Barossa Valley. Tasting notes. | |
| 00:11:23 | Free audio books from Audible |
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Audible, the Amazon company that makes buying and listening to audible books easy, now has an Australian division and it has thrown its support behind The Adelaide Show podcast by giving you a free book and a free month of access, free. There are over 150,000 audiobooks available for you to choose from. Choose from an edge of your seat thriller like The Girl on the Train, laugh out loud with famous comedians, or discover the newest releases from Harper Lee, E.L. James and many more. Get your first month free at http://www.audible.com.au/adelaide Steve is about to read Teach Me: A Victorian Era Romance by Cassandra Dean. Coming close to a romance edition. Cassandra is busy with another book due to launch and another in production. |
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| 00:14:00 |
Spotlight on SA |
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A few things to mention. 1 Royal Adelaide Show. The great people at Tuckers Natural have rounded up the SA Gourmet Goodies Showbag again this year. I have some inside info too. The bags come with a Golden North frozen yoghurt but I learned today that Golden North will be previewing some new products this year: Giant Twins – Toffee Hazelnut and Good n Creamy range which is low GI (suitable for diabetics) Vanilla, Lemoncello, Wild Berries I also hear that Kytons have a fun display with little Larry Lamington dolls. Bazinga Burlesque is holding a show this Friday night called Immoral Kombat. Yes, 8 burlesque performers will be doing a computer game character playoff to the nude. |
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| 00:00:00 | Made To Move Minute |
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Max Martin and/or Dr Nathan Harten from iNform Health and Fitness Solutions, Norwood, present a thoughtful minute for pondering more ways and reasons to get moving and improve your health. This week: Max was busy practicing what he preaches. He’ll return next week. |
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| 00:22:07 | Ben Heard |
| I little while ago on Facebook, I saw that Leesa Vlahos, a former guest on this program, had Ben Heard as a guest speaker at one of her events. Ben is from DecarboniseSA and he was speaking about climate change and the role that clean tech nuclear reactors could play in helping South Australia become a world leader in environmentally sustainable, economically positive and ethical energy for our future. | |
| 01:27:00 | Time To Think |
| George Inglis reflects on life, usually while riding public transport around Adelaide. | |
| 01:30:19 | Is It News? |
| The news history quiz with Nigel Dobson-Keeffe. | |
| 01:53:57 | Adelaide Visa Council |
| Alexander Jacobs @ALcobsy @A_Scholefield I feel like Adelaide is too boring to have strange things like this happen.Maria @Maria_Stack When will Adelaide stop being boring |
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| 02:03:18 | Musical Pilgrimage |
| And our song this week, is a piece Quincy Grant and Cam Goodall wrote for the show, You, Me and the Bloody Sea by a company called Mumpsimus (Cam, Quincy and Andy Packer) and was shared with us by our guest curator this week, Andy Packer. | |
| 00:00:00 | Outtake |
| No out take this week. We ran a little long :-0 | |
Here is this week’s preview video:
SFX: Throughout the podcast we use free sfx from freesfx.co.uk for the harp, the visa stamp, the silent movie music, the stylus, the radio signal sfx, the wine pouring and cork pulling sfx, and the swooshes around Siri.