Benjamin Clementine isn't a jazz musician
To mark Andy’s departure from the show at the end of this year, we’re bringing you some of his favourite conversations from 32 years on air....
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Hear the interview of the week from the Music Show, where composer Andrew Ford entertains and informs a wide audience each week, providing two hours of essential listening from the world of...
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20 of 287 episodesJohn Farnham: The voice behind The Voice
You’re The Voice remains a favourite for generations of Australians and the album it's on, Whispering Jack, has sold more than 1.5 million c...
Robert Forster's Swedish Strawberries and the Red Spirit Singers let their voices ring out
Recorded (largely) as-live in Sweden, with a group of that country's indie luminaries, Robert Forster's latest album Strawberries shows the...
Camp Cope's Kelly-Dawn Hellmrich on the artists rewriting the rules of the Australian music scene
Kelly-Dawn Hellmrich, or 'Kelso', of the great all-woman Australian rock band Camp Cope, is also a phenomenal writer. Her new book It's Not...
Belinda Webster and Tall Poppies Records: a life's work
Belinda Webster, the producer, engineer and singular force behind Australia's art music label Tall Poppies died this month at the age of 74....
A concerto for accordion and orchestra & the Persian tar gets Comfortable with jazz
With a recent concerto for amplified accordion and orchestra and another for more than 60 recorders Holly Harrison clearly loves a challenge...
Dolly Parton (1946-2026)
Dolly Parton said she wrote over three thousand songs, so we can barely begin to honour her extraordinary songwriting in just one hour. From...
The poetry of aja monet and Thomas Meadowcroft on composing for sound effects and orchestra
"I think if we saw every conversation as music, we would drastically shift the course of history." So says the poet and performer aja monet....
James Ellis Ford made a Mercury Prize nominated record in a chemotherapy ward
James Ellis Ford is better known as James Ford, producer for artists like Pulp, Arctic Monkeys, Florence and the Machine and Fontaines D.C....
Kate Miller-Heidke on Handel and planning for the apocalypse
Kate Miller-Heidke's new album, the first since 2020's Child In Reverse a a very theatrical and sometimes funny slice of gothic-folk called...
Grace Cummings' Bloodhorse! and the legacy of Vivaldi's star orphan
Grace Cummings ’ latest album is called Bloodhorse! and it's fantastic and fantastically strange. Her ragged, bluesy voice floats through a...
Tom Service on the classical music that shapes us
Can you tell the history of the world in fifty pieces of music? No, but BBC Radio 3 presenter and writer Tom Service has given it a red hot...
The travelling community of the Grateful Dead, Don Walker's Love Songs, and a performance lasting 639 years
All The Grateful Dead are one of the iconic bands of the last century, not just for their music, but for their extended tours, which saw the...
The dangerous jazz life of Anita O'Day
Anita O'Day was a jazz singer who lived 'the jazz life'. She's been compared to people like Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald: an incredibl...
William Basinski hosts a sleepover, Will Swenson plays Neil Diamond, and vale Glen Hansard
American composer William Basinski's very long and much celebrated avant-garde electronic work The Disintegration Loops was born from the gr...
Music Now & Then: Liza Lim
The latest in our Music Now & Then series with composer Liza Lim, who first appeared on The Music Show in its early years when she was in he...
Music for winter stillness and electromagnetic storms
The Veils frontman Finn Andrews joins Andy to talk about love, death, and Sinead O'Connor, all features of their latest and aptly named albu...
Middle of the Air: The Music Show at Sydney Writers' Festival
Ziggy Ramo , Leah Senior , and Kate Fagan join Andy to talk about the art of turning poetry into song. Recorded live at the 2026 Sydney Writ...
Songs about fish, divorce, and moth DNA: Montaigne, Gin Wigmore, and Elissa Goodrich
Electropop singer, songwriter and producer Montaigne took the plunge into the world of independent music after over a decade with a big labe...
ELISION Ensemble turn 40 and Rosie McDonald on The Go Twos and Nigel Lever
ELISION Ensemble began as a Melbourne new music ensemble, but have gone on to become international in both focus and reputation, building en...