10.12.2024 - To kick off Human Rights Day on FREIRAD, we are taking you on a literary, musical and multilingual journey into the diversity of human rights.

08.03.2024 - Sandra and Andrew Milne-Skinner combine their usual two shows to create a special edition for this years Women's Day and present poems and literature by and about women.

19.12.2022 - Poetry Cafe: Human Rights Keep up the fight....for Iranian women and elsewhere!

16.03.2022 - Molly Bloom's inner monologue on her womanhood, femininity, and sexuality....emancipated as she is! Her soliloquy is racy, raunchy....and even beautifully obscene in places.

05.03.2021 - French Chanson singer ‘Barbara’ (1930 – 1997) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Charles Trenet: Que reste-t-il de nos amours? 2. Barbara: Mon Enfance 3. Barbara: Au Coeur de la Nuit 4. Barbara: Nantes 5. Barbara:...

01.12.2020 - from Scotland via Australia to the Somme Playlist: texts read and music played 1. Simon Armitage: ‘The Bed’ (Armistice Day, 2020) 2. Hymn: ‘Abide with Me’ 3. Frederick Delius: ‘In a Summer Garden’ (1912) 4. Leon...

01.12.2020 - Playlist: Texts read and music played:- 1. John Donne, ‘No man is an island…’ 2. John Muir: ‘Climb the mountains…’ 3. Melody: ‘Over the Hills and Far Away’ 4. Daniel Defoe: Journey Thro’ the...

09.11.2020 - Australia (4) Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Quiz on Ned Kelly 2. Ballad on the Kelly Gang 3. Ballad, ‘The Kellys’ 4. Douglas Stewart, ‘Australia’s the violent country…’ 5. Peter Carey, from...

09.11.2020 - Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Voices in the Wind, from Spirit Alive, Christian Benton 2. George Crabbe, ‘The Borough’ 3. Mary Gilmore, ‘Old Botany Bay’ 4. Instructions form King George III’s Government to...

30.09.2020 - Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Percy Grainger: Gumsuckers’ March 2. Dorothea MacKellar: My Country (1911) 3. Peter Sculthorpe: Sonatina, 1st movement 4. James Vance Marshall: Walkabout 5. A.E. Housman: The Land of Lost Content 6....