Overnights

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Welcome to Overnights with Trevor Chappell and Rod Quinn

There's great music and interesting guests from Australia and all parts of the globe. You'll hear conversations about food, travel, science, music, books, personal finance, sport, film, astronomy, fashion, gardening, relationships, collectables and much more.

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Monday 2nd August with Trevor Chappell

Australian History travels back 130 years to the committal hearing of our most famous bushranger, Ned Kelly ....Whereabouts & Whatabouts...and the latest news from the US with Liz Dolan

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  • A while ago actress Miranda Otto popped into the studio for a chat with Rod on Overnights. They talked about her career in film TV and the stage and her latest movie South Solitary.
  • In this week's musical extravaganza Rod and Pete Timmerman from the ABC Sound Library delve into songs by famous brothers and sisters. here is a list of the tunes they played: The Knife- Silent Shout The Springfields - Island of Dreams Nino Tempo and April Stevens - Stardust Donny and Marie Osmond - Deep Purple The Carpenters - For All We Know Killing Heidi - Astral Boy The Verses - Teeth George - Release The Numbers - The Modern Song Maybe Dolls - Propaganda Song The Fiery Furnaces - Pricked In The Heart Sallyangie - Love In Ice Crystals Renaissance...
  • Can you imagine being scared to go out your front door? Or scared of getting out of bed in the morning? What about having to shower 20 times in the morning in case you contaminate your family? At least one in ten people are living with an anxiety disorder at any one time, but there are ways to help treat and reduce these symptoms. Trevor spoke this morning with Louise Cooper, Program Co-ordinator with the Anxiety Recovery Centre, (Victoria). For more details, check the website: Anxiety Recovery Centre
  • Every fortnight many listeners enjoy the company of our TV FREAK, Scott Goodings. Scott and Trevor are known for some great Television debates but the latest of all is 'TV Worlds you'd love to live in'. Maybe it's the Planet of the Apes? Maybe you'd like to get lost on the 'Land of the Lost', or hang out with Jimmy and his talking flute Freddie, on HR Pufnstuf.....Perhaps you'd like to travel in the Tardis to one of the planets in Dr Who..... Have a listen to the very humourous discussion, and find out which TV World Trevor and Scott...

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Recent discussions on the message board:

  • Well Trevor has done it again. A program dedicated to ghosts and dead people on the TV. If the ABC cannot afford to employ someone with an emotional age greater then his shoe size, could you just play music.
  • I think all of the Overnight listeners should receive a "ABC Overnight Listener" car sticker to place on the rear window or bumper bar. We could all see each other then and give a secret wave or something like that!! So what about it Trev, Rod or Pav! What do you think. PS Day people must not be allowed to have one...Ncteman
  • The news breakfast cross-promotion is really annoying.  It's something you'd expect from commercial radio, i'm trying to get away from all that stuff by listening to abc.  It's even more annoying when it cuts into the gardening talkback.

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