Kiama Community Radio's Podcast
Kiama Community Radio is a 24 hour streaming service dedicated to communities in the Kiama Local Government Area. Our goal is to be the voice of the community from Minnamurra in the north to Gerroa in the south and Jamberoo in the west. You can listen live via our website www.kcr.org.au, via I Heart Radio or the Kiama Community Radio App.
Episodes
607 episodes
Grow and Sow: Narelle Happ
Joe Carter and Fiona Mackie talk to Narelle Happ, a horticulturalist, landscape- and permaculture-designer, and educator who specialises in native gardens, edible native/bush-food gardening, and permaculture design.Narelle runs
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Season 2025
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Episode 619
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47:07
50 Years of the Kiama Historical Society
The Kiama Historical Society has turned 50, and secretary Dr Tony Gilmour has written a book to commemorate the occasion: Celebrating History, Defending Heritage; Fifty Years of Kiama Historical Society. The book was launc...
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Season 2025
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Episode 618
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Michelle Springett and Expressive Art Experience
Michelle Springett from Expressive Art Experience talks to Gabriela Cabral as part of Gabi’s weekly program on KCR supporting local businesses: The Shop Around the Corner, Tuesday ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 617
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Dr Kathleen Lawson from Life Rhythm Integrated Healthcare
Gabriela Cabral talks to Dr Kathleen Lawson from Life Rhythm Integrated Healthcare about music therapy, its uses, and its healing benefits, as part of Gabi’s weekly program on KCR supporting local businesses: Living Local, Tuesday morn...
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Season 2025
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Episode 616
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Living Local: Katelin McInerney
Gabriela Cabral chats to recently elected Katelin McInerney MP, member for Kiama, about Arts funding. This is part of Gabi's weekly program Living Local, on KCR, Tuesday mornings at 9am. Recorded 26.11.25
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Season 2025
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Episode 615
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Jacqui Webster - Two Bugs on Bikes
Felicity Leitch talks to Jacqui Webster, author of the acclaimed travel memoir Two Bugs on Bikes: Our middle-aged gap year cycling across Europe and Africa.Jacqui’s story is about an unexpected adventure that became a life-chang...
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Season 2025
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Episode 614
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39:04
The end of Folk by the Sea
Neil McCann from the Illawarra Folk Club talks to Gabriela Cabral about the decision to stop running the Folk Festival Folk By the Sea in Kiama. This is part of Gabi’s weekly program on KCR Living Local , Tuesday morning...
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Season 2025
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Episode 613
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Nashla Chikhani and Ola Chola
Nashla Chikhani from the Latin American food truck Ola Chola talks to Gabriela Cabral as part of Gabi’s weekly program on KCR supporting local businesses: The Shop Around the Corner, Tuesday mornings at 9am. Recorded 19th N...
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Season 2025
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Episode 612
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Morgan Lewis and Finding Fillmores
Public submissions to Kiama Council on the latest Finding Fillmore’s development application have now closed, but the conversation certainly hasn’t.This week on Chat Tuesday, host Bernie Hems speaks with Fillmore’s owner Morgan Lewis ab...
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Season 2025
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Episode 611
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38:52
Grow and Sow: Tye Purnell
Hosts Jane Parbury and Joe Carter talk to Tye Purnell of the Backyard Habitat Project. Tye is a qualified horticulturalist and long-time native plant enthusiast with a deep passion for Australian biodiversity. His goal is to create ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 610
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48:31
Teresa Nguyan & Joe McElroy from Specsavers
Teresa Nguyan & Joe McElroy from Specsavers talk to Gabriela Cabral as part of Gabi’s weekly program on KCR supporting local businesses: Living Local, Tuesday mornings at 9.30am.
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Season 2025
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Episode 609
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Taite Arney - Loan Market
Taite Arney from mortgage broking company Loan Market Kiama talks to Gabriela Cabral as part of Gabi’s weekly program on KCR supporting local businesses: The Shop Around the Corner,...
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Season 2025
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Episode 608
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Chat Tuesday: Paul Field
Bernie Hems talks to Paul Field; the voice of The Cockroaches, the former Managing Director of The Wiggles, and now a solo artist, producer and storyteller.Paul is coming to Wollongong with a new show,
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Season 2025
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Episode 607
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45:36
Melanie Pearce: eMerge Business Support
Gabriela Cabral talks to Melanie Pearce from eMerge Business Support, which offers tailor-made administrative services to local businesses, to help them empty their overflowing too...
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Season 2025
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Episode 606
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Headspace: Mat King and Emily Neild
Headspace opened in Kiama to much fanfare in October 2024. Headspace is run by Australia’s National Youth Mental Health Foundation, providing early intervention mental health servi...
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Season 2025
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Episode 605
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Tim Ayliffe and James Dunbar at Kiama Library
Kiama Library hosted an evening of crime recently with writers James Dunbar and Tim Ayliffe discussing their new books with Kiama author, Ryan Butta. James's previous novel Mole Creek was shortlisted in the Danger Awards, 2024 and his ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 604
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1:03:59
Tony Gilmour and the Kiama Historical Socety
Bernie Hems chats with historian Dr Tony Gilmour about the
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Season 2025
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Episode 603
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36:05
Chat Tuesday: Deirdre Backhouse
Bernie Hems chats to Deirdre Backhouse, co-ordinator of the Illawarra ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and Long COVID Support Group. Bernie and Deirdre are joined by Councillor Yasmin Tatrai. This is part of Bernie’s weekly program Ch...
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Season 2025
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Episode 602
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36:20
Grow and Sow: Sarah Anderson
Felicity Leitch and Joe Carter chat with Sarah Anderson, head grower of the urban market garden at Popes Produce in Woonona, a suburban oasis that Sarah started in 2015. This is part of KCR's regular gardening program, Grow and...
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Season 2025
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Episode 601
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49:00
Mornings: Tatiana Williams
Felicity Leitch talks to Tatiana Williams, a Kiama menopause and strength coach who advocates that menopause isn’t the end – it’s the beginning of a powerful new chapter! Through her TW Wellness Coaching, Tatiana helps women in perimeno...
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Season 2025
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Episode 600
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40:11
Grow and Sow: Nadiah Roslan
Joe Carter and Fiona Mackie talk to Nadiah Roslan as part of their weekly gardening show on KCR; grow and Sow at 9am Fridays. Originally from Canberra, biologist Nadiah has nearly a decade of experience coordinating Australian citiz...
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Season 2025
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Episode 599
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43:06
Kiama Community Garden- Happy 15th Birthday!
Kiama Community Garden had an Open Day on October 25th 2025 to celebrate their 15th Birthday and Berni Hems spent the morning their chatting to Gabriella, Liama, Cathy, Marta and Pete...
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Season 2025
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Episode 598
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44:41
Vesna Cvjeticanin: An Unexpected Life
Writer and poet Vesna Cvjeticanin migrated to Australia from Serbia 35 years ago. Her book, An Unexpected Life, shares the inspiring journey of twelve migrant women who left their homelands as adults to start a new life in Australia. T...
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Season 2025
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Episode 597
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57:58
