August 2024

SPECIAL BROADCAST – A STORY OF RAGTIME The New Holland Honey Eaters (Stan Gottschalk, Rebecca Gottschalk, Steve Ray and Jane Ray) have been performing together since 1988. The Honey Eaters specialise in traditional music from the south-eastern United States...

April 2024

SPECIAL – The 36th JOHN WEST LECTURE  A Good Riddance: The Inception of Criminal Deportation in Colonial Australia Over the past decade, many Australians have become familiar with the concept of criminal deportation. Since December 2014, more than 3,000 people...

November 2023

OUR STATION PROJECT – SIDE1TRACK1 OK… we are about to get started on this City Park Radio community project. The response has been overwhelming and I wish to thank all for the commitment .To refresh program guidelines – One or two albums per presenter (double...

August 2022

A CLASSICAL ENCOUNTER Recently Launceston had the opportunity to hear one of its own in concert. On a visit back to Launceston in June, Sarah Cabrol-Douat presented a free piano recital of Bach, Hayden, Beethoven and Brahms pieces. Having grown up in Tasmania, Sarah...

Friends of FM – October 2019

CITY PARK RADIO DOING OUR BIT Earlier this year, a day-long music festival was held along the North-west Coast at Turner’s Beach, featuring several Tasmanian artists. One such artist was Claire Anne Taylor, who travelled down from her home near Wynyard to play, and...