Happy new year and welcome to our first regular show for 2023…  hope you enjoyed our summer specials and, of course, if you missed them you can catch up with the podcasts here online.

So, here we go with another year… and what would the start of the year be like without the Midsumma Festival? And this year it’s HUGE! How huge? We ask the festival’s Artist Development Manager Harriet Devlin and Access Consultant, Francois Jacobs who are both hanging on the line…

After that, we’ll find out about just one of those Midsumma shows… Theatre Works Executive Director Diane Toulson is here to tell us about The Milf and the Mistress… and hiow she came to be directing that show…

Then we’re hitting the Geelong Road and checking out the final days of the current exhibition at Geelong Gallery… we’ll chat with the galley’s Director, Jason Smith about Mandy Martin – A Persistent Vision…

And finally, ahead of January 26 we’ll have a listen to This Is Australia, a new song by Marrugeku in Broome with rapper Beni Bjah that offers its own version of Childish Gambino’s 2018 global sensation, This Is America…  but before we hear it, we’ll meet Rachael Swain, the Co-Director of its excellent, powerful video clip that challenges us with a view of our country that some might find a little challenging…

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