Summer Special #1 - Monday January 5, 2026

This week we kick off our Behind the Scenes Summer Specials for 2026. Over January we chat with some remarkable people from the arts world - slightly longer chats about their lives and work. Some will join us for the very first time, and others might be familiar to you if you’re a regular listener.

First up, we meet a mother and daughter from a pretty famous artistic and musical family who both happened to release new albums at the end of last year. Tracey Miller has been a fixture of the music scene for around forty years - some might even say she’s a legend. Maybe she prefers ‘queen’ given that’s the title of her album – Queen of the Creek.

Tracey’s daughter Loretta Miller has also been around for a while, but while you’ll hear her voice on many other artists’ albums, she’s making her solo debut with a self-titled album, Loretta.

They both join Chris Thompson at his kitchen table to talk about their lives, about their music and, of course, about their new albums.

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Screens&Streams Annual Wrap - Monday December 29, 2025

Well, it’s that time of the year again when we look back at what we’ve been seeing on our big and small screens over the past twelve months. Marc Gracie is here for one last go around with our 2025 Screens&Streams Movie Wrap – what were our favourite movies and streamers? What were our biggest disappointments? What surprised us? And what are we looking forward to next year? You’ll get the answers to all these questions on this week’s special edition of the Behind the Scenes Movie Wrap with Chris Thompson and Marc Gracie right here on Vision Australia Radio.

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We kick off this week’s festival season show with a little Christmas song from Sting called Soul Cake… and if we’re starting with a Christmas song then that must mean this is our last regular show for the year. But fear not, there’s plenty of good stuff lined up for our season of Summer Specials…

But first, let’s meet some people who are getting ready to help us kick off 2026 with some really great events.

First up, it’s the Peninsular Summer Music Festival which would explain why Melissa Doecke is back to let us know what she and Ben Opie have got lined up for us this year.

Then, it seems like Adelaide is taking over Arts Centre Melbourne in January when Patch Theatre returns with their sublime work for children – Zooom – and we’ll chat with our former Behind the Scenes Adelaide Correspondent Geoff Cobham, who also happens to be Artistic Director of Patch.

Then once Patch leaves the building, Gravity and Other Myths moves in with their high energy show, Ten Thousand Hours and we catch up with the company’s Co-Founder and Director of this production, Lachlan Binns.

And finally, Arena Theatre Company in Bendigo may not have anything planned for January, except maybe a farewell party for long-serving Artistic Director Christian Leavesley who, true to his name, is leaving.

They’re all on this week’s edition of Behind the Scenes with Chris Thompson right here on Vision Australia Radio.

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