From the Northern Beaches to the Vienna State Opera and beyond – Margaret Plummer on Hansel, green lights, fearless leaps and life on the world’s great stages. Don’t miss her in Hänsel & Gretel with OA. 🎧 listen at bit.ly/InCon224s

Spent an hour with Caroline O’Connor talking Sondheim, Broadway, ballet, Baz Luhrmann & singing to the dog in the ‘good’ lounge room. Funny, fearless, and gloriously honest. 🎧 bit.ly/InCon223 🎭 catch her in Sondheim’s Putting it Together at Foundry Theatre

A story which is key in my development as a totally obsessive fanboy… and it shows in our discussion! It made me the man I am today!

Love this story and loved discussing it. So much class, so little time!

There was a lot to say about Horror of Fang Rock as there is just so much to love about it. We also talk about how Terrence Dicks’s Target novelizations were so important to our reading and development. And so great having @melvinpena.bsky.social on this one!

Mark Kilmurry and I chatted about everything from directing Dial M for Murder to new Australian writing, onstage mishaps, and the art of running the Ensemble Theatre. A generous, funny, deeply thoughtful guest. 🎭 🎧 Apple: bit.ly/InCon218a or Spotify: bit.ly/InCon218s

Excited to have guested on the fabulous @aotas.bsky.social to chat about this story which I’ve always loved. Such a shame I’m a quiz ignoramus…! 😬

Lovely to see Mark and Iain back in action… and excited to be joining them for next week’s ep covering The War Games!

I’ve known Brett Weymark for 20+ years - still funny, thoughtful & just a little cheeky. In this week’s In Conversation, he shares his journey from school singalongs to the Opera House stage. 🎧 bit.ly/InCon205 | 🎵 A Child of Our Time, Sep 13, Sydney Pholharmonia Choirs @sydneyoperahouse.bsky.social

Toby Schmitz @tobyschmitz.bsky.social adding some lovely colour to his nostalgic reminiscences of working on Broadway. 🎧 Hear our whole chat at bit.ly/InCon200s and don’t miss him @belvoirst.bsky.social for Grief is the Thing with Feathers 🎭

@tobyschmitz.bsky.social is one of those guests who makes you laugh, think & want to re-read Hamlet. Actor, playwright, novelist, Shakespeare tragic, Stoppard obsessive, don’t miss him in Grief is the Thing with Feathers at Belvoir. 🎧 bit.ly/InCon200s

Our final 500 Yr Diary for this season was a surprising addition - as I suspect was the fact The Well ended up being a return to Midnight. Our musings below. Looking forward to a return later in the year…

To my mind, #doctorwho took a massive step backwards for S23. Our look at Mindwarp below, where I also wax lyrical about the brilliance of Sil’s first outing, too. There’s a lot crammed into this one!

A story whose promise is let down by a succession of poor choices in its realisation and execution, is where I ended up landing in this, our take on the Season 21 opener Warriors of the Deep. Commence ignition Scibus!

Getting into the nitty gritty with this story which has much to commend it but doesn’t quite live up to its potential

This week, the people of the planet Manussa are about to discover that all their ancient myths are true, and that their own thirst and dissatisfaction are rearing up to strike them in rubbery serpentine form. @kateorman.bsky.social joins us. #DoctorWho #Snakedance 500yeardiary.com/s2/e5

Our warmish take below on the latest #doctorwho installment. Light hearted and light weight but the brilliant Freddie Fox does his best to add some gravitas (sorry, mavitas).

An honour to spend an hour with the legendary @mrmichaelball.bsky.social, in Aus for the #LesMiserables arena tour. 🎧 Apple: bit.ly/InCon190a & Spotify: bit.ly/InCon190s. He’s a generous and gregarious guy and we had a lot of laughs.

Fascinating to spend an hour with cellist and composer Peter Gregson. Thanks to a fortuitous encounter with Alan Rickman, Peter has been composing music for film & TV, including Bridgerton. Peter has written a new work for the Omega Ensemble for their upcoming tour. 🎧 listen at bit.ly/InCon182s

Is Orbit the episode which the entire existence of Blake’s 7 was working its way towards all along? Well, yes, of course it was. Hear why, below!

In a feature length (yes, really) edition of In Conversation this week, I had a long and in-depth discussion with Tony nominee Eddie Perfect, one of this country’s most eclectic, respected and prolific artists. If you have any interest in how musicals are created, listen to this! 🎧 bit.ly/InCon179s

In which we discuss an episode where the sum is less than its fabulous parts. Sand. And a romantic dinner for two.

UK broadcaster, writer and composer Stephen Johnson is exactly the kind of presenter I idolised as a child (and still do). Some might call it “old school" presenting but I would call it "actual" presenting. Stephen talks candidly about mental health, music’s healing power, and more bit.ly/InCon177s

Lovely to catch up with Amy Manford for this week’s In Conversation. A successful soprano, actress AND producer (and ex-gymnast and pole vaulter! 😱), she has loads of talent plus ‘get up and go’ - and the drive to make sure the fireworks happen no matter what! 🎧 bit.ly/InCon175s

🧵 1. Watched the 90min colorised War Games. Was interesting to see a condensed edit even if I don’t think a lot of it worked. It’s edited like a long trailer rather than a tv movie. The ubiquitous presence of loud music is overwhelming and detracts…

Daniel Smith was the perfect guest to kick off In Conversation for 2025. His career path to conducting is the definition of tenacity and persistence - and a lot of talent! What’s more, he grew up only a few streets (and a few years!) from me - in Carlingford! 🎧 bit.ly/InCon173a

New year, new me. Lots to do in 2025 in all the myriad parts to my life. This upgrade is overdue!

A discussion about the underrated episode Traitor where I think we all sort of agree it’s underrated. There are some wonderful moment, not to mention large shoulder epaulettes and plenty of black feathers.

Such a pleasure and honour to be part of this team. Here are our thoughts on the Moffat and Capaldi eras. To paraphrase the ABC continuity announcers of yore: ‘that’s the final episode of FTE for the time being… but they’ll be back!’

Welcome to the second quarter of the 21st Century (ie, the distant future). It won’t be long now before I’ve lived longer in the 21st than the 20th. Yikes.

My lukewarm reaction to a less than lukewarm episode, this year’s Christmas special - some great ideas and good moments but overall for me it just doesn’t come together. My full diatribe on the subject is below…

The flight through entirety is about to go into a temporary stasis, but before it does here’s our take on Twice Upon a Time… which was much better than I recalled it being!

We’re back for the final series of Blake’s 7. Rescue is a great episode, and Geoffrey Burridge gives a stellar performance as Dorian. Listen to our musings below!

After not using @bsky.app for a bit I forgot my p/word. No amount of ‘forgot password’ clicks sent me a reset (and yes I checked my junk) & emails to support went unanswered. I’ve now found the password, no thanks to BlueSky. Something for them to consider improving if they want to take over from X?

Thrilled to be part of this new podcast revisiting old favourites. I love this story, and it pains me more than any other that it’s missing, but despite that status there is so much we can enjoy and close our eyes to imagine more.

In this week’s @maximumpowerpod.bsky.social we discuss this most Blake’s 7 of Blake’s 7 episodes, perhaps the best of the entire series.

One of my favourite interviews from the year is with the phenomenal Ray Chen, which we revisit in today’s In Conversation Summer Series. We cover a lot of ground incl #playwithray and his new #tonicmusicapp 🎧Listen in at 1pm on 2MBS or anytime at bit.ly/InConRC

It’s around about now on Xmas Day that I should be explaining the rules to a board game to a family incapable of taking on simple instructions, or assembling a new Lego police station or perhaps diving into a freshly acquired novelization of The Web of Fear. #ChristmasMemories

Catch our @ftepodcast.bsky.social hot takes on #DoctorWho The Giggle below. I might gush about Neil Patrick Harris. Ncuti’s thighs may also get a mention.

Our latest Maximum Power, in which I take the host’s chair so that I may have my fingers poised on kill switches for each of our panel. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/m...

How great is Neil Patrick Harris in #DoctorWho #TheGiggle. Such a superb actor, he’s obviously having a great time and there are so many little touches he gives it which are so well placed in a performance so perfectly judged. I just want to be him.

After a somewhat silly (but I suspect highly relevant for next week) start, I thoroughly enjoyed this week’s episode and it demonstrates how interesting the series is capable of being. I hope we get more like this from RTD2. Hear the @ftepodcast.bsky.social crew’s first takes on it below!

A great B7 episode, an even better Villa episode, and a spectacular Michael Keating episode. Listen to our take on it below! maximumpowerpodcast.com/37/

Gosh I love Day of the Daleks. I remember seeing it for the first time on its 1983 repeat after S20. It was my first Pertwee since seeing Planet of the Spiders as my first ever DW some years earlier. Such a shock when those red credits started. I was expecting a Jon Pertwee shaped time tunnel!

An amateur theatre troupe where a murder takes place, but the show must go on, is the setting for a new comedy at The Ensemble Theatre starring and co-written by my guest for this week's In Conversation, Jamie Oxenbould. 🎧Apple: bit.ly/InConJOa 🎧Spotify: bit.ly/InConJOs

So much fun talking about my first ever Blakes 7 episode - how fabulous is Harvest of Kairos! Fabulous with a Capital F, that’s what!! The perfect episode to introduce me to this splendid series. Love it to bits. Listen to our blather below! podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/m...

Because being in one #DoctorWho podcast this weekend was woefully inadequate, here we are in a brand new one - The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire - and like all good fans I obsess over things like credits and console rooms rather then, you know, the episode.

So does being hyper excited by the fact the Tardis console room is clean and white rather than dingy and grotty make me a bad person, or does it just make me right all along? #DoctorWho

On this week’s @ftepodcast.bsky.social we praise one of the best eps of #DoctorWho ever made, and I wonder why the modern show doesn’t produce more eps with this tone & maturity (yes I know I’m an outlier but proud of it). And lovely to (virtually) meet @mrrobvalentine.bsky.social for this one

So I was trying to post an audiogram preview of my fabulous interview with the ever gorgeous Katy Manning but it seems you can’t post videos yet to Bluesky so you’ll just have the listen to the whole episode. Links below! So proud of this one! 🎧Apple: bit.ly/InConKMa 🎧Spotify: bit.ly/InConKMs