Summer Specials 2024-2025

Monday, 16 December 2024 - 9:00am
Summer Specials on 3CR

Grab your radio, phone or listening device and check out 3CR's great programming over Summer. 
 

Mondays 

10.30-11am: Embodied Solidarities revisited 
We bring you some of the incredible content created for Disability Day 2024.   
Three weeks starting on 23 December whilst She Bop takes a break. 

2-3pm: Embodied Solidarities revisited 
Three weeks starting on 23 December. 

3-4pm Race Matters 
Race Matters features conversations between people of colour about the ways we understand and value our racial and cultural identities; race, culture, arts and current affairs. Hosted by Sara Khan and Darren Lesaguis, produced at FBI radio and shared via the Community Radio Network. 
Four weeks starting on 16 December whilst Urban Voices is on a summer break.
 

Tuesdays

9-10am Rockin’ Wheels:  Interviews and tunes from musician with a disability.  
Presented by Raphael Kaleb (The Boldness).  
Four weeks starting 24 December. 

4-6pm Pulse of Palestine & Disrupt Land Forces 2024 revisited
Pulse of Palestine delves into life under occupation and the global Palestinian resistance, produced at Radio Skid Row on unceded Gadigal and Wangal land by Palestinian activist Ahmed Alabadla. In 2024 the largest land based weapons expo in the Southern Hemisphere was held at the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre and a coalition of community groups working for a world free of war organised Disrupt Land Forces - a festival of resistance from 8-14 September.  3CR reporters were on the ground and in the studio bringing in depth coverage of the many Disrupt Land Forces 2024 events.
Five weeks starting on 24 December whilst Tuesday Hometime is on a summer break.

6-6.30pm Indigenous Rights Radio: Transitions Minerals
Recent years have seen a troubling escalation in threats against Indigenous Peoples. Beyond the relentless encroachment of real estate, oil, tourism, and monoculture companies on our ancestral territories, we are now facing a significant increase in assaults from mining corporations eager to exploit our lands for lithium, copper, cobalt, and other critical transition minerals. These minerals are deemed essential for the global shift toward renewable energy, yet their extraction comes at a severe cost to our communities and ecosystems. 
Five weeks starting on 17 December whilst Done By Law is on a summer break.
 

Wednesdays

9-10am: Commons Conversations 
Commons Conversations is a summer series in which campaigners share their experiences and insights into activism, learning in movements, radical history and more. The program is produced by the Commons Social Change Library. Listen back at www.3cr.org.au/actingup.
Seven weeks starting on 18 December whilst City Limits are on a summer break.

2-4pm: She Oscillates: Femmes in Electronic Music 
Electronic indie music by Australian and International femme identifying artists from the 70’s to now.  Presented by Lou. 
Three weeks starting 18 December. 

The Whole SHEbang 
Featuring songs and bands that have a female songwriter or front person and how integral female artists have been in the development of popular and alternative music, changed the landscape and paved the way for others.   Presented by Tanya-Lee Davies.
Four weeks starting 8 January. 

6.30-7.30pm After School Special  
A music show that will focus on garage/punk/powerpop, some standup and a few stories in between. Presented by Matt Ryan (Planet X). 
Four weeks starting on 18 December. 


Thursdays

12-1pm  3 Towers Podcast
Izzy Brown (Satellite Skies) bring you voices from the high rise towers scheduled for demolition by the Victorian Government.
Three weeks starting 19 December.
 

Saturdays 

10.30-11am: Embodied Solidarities revisited 
Four weeks starting on 21 December whilst Unitarian Half Hour takes a break. 

9-10am Writing Home 
This summer Writing Home, a show about migrant writers takes us through important feminist readings from the global south. We read feminist thinkers such as Dr. BR Ambedkar, Fatima Bhutto, Bhagat Singh, Rafia Zakaria, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and so many more. Feminism isn’t a created concept by the west for the west, feminism has always existed in our communities. Feminism is for everyone.   Presented by Madhvi (Satellite Skies)
Five weeks starting 28 December whilst Asia Pacific Currents and Palestine Remembered are on a summer break. 

1-2pm Untold Stories 
Untold Stories of Injustice is a five-part podcast series that features a collection of interviews, discussions and events highlighting the experiences of folks who have been incarcerated in so-called Victoria, Australia.   
Five weeks starting on 14 December 

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Wednesday
A feast of radical summer radio featuring shorts, documentaries, music, and highlights from across the years.

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Summer Specials
Thursday 9:30am to 10:00am
A feast of shorts, docos, features and specialist music from 3CR broadcasters and our community radio family.

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Episodes

Summer Specials 2024-2025

16 Dec 2024
Relax and reflect on the year gone by with a radical array of special series, musical delights, short documentaries and great new summer surprises. Get listening, get informed and get ready for 2025. 

Summer Specials 2023-2024

18 Dec 2023
3CR brings you a fabulous mix of highlights from 2023, critical conversations, short documentary series, unique content and live music specials over summer.

Summer Specials 2022-2023

19 Dec 2022
Check out some of our great summer specials - docos, features, highlights from the year. There's something for everyone.

Summer Special 2021-2022

22 Dec 2021
Check out our great Summer listening line-up with radical radio content to inspire you for the year ahead.