Overview
Podcasting is a convenient way of automatically downloading audio or video files to your computer. You can then play this audio or video on your computer or transfer the files to a portable MP3 or video player.
'Podcast' generally refers to audio. 'Video Podcast' (or 'Vodcast') refers to the distribution of video files in the same manner.
Use the navigation to the left to browse all ABC podcasts, or check out the highlights below. For technical assistance and further information, visit the FAQs section.
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Subject: Arts & Entertainment
2010 with Richard Kingsmill, triple j
(Duration: 10-20 mins, filesize: 5-10 MB, Updated weekly)
triple j Music Director Richard Kingsmill presents the latest music releases and interviews with the artists that matter every Sunday from 6pm. Subscribe to the podcast and get all the best bits delivered straight to you.
abc.net.au/triplej/kingsmill/rss/podcast.xml
702 Thank God it's Friday, Local Radio
(Duration: 30 min, filesize: 15 MB, Updated weekly)
Looking forward to the end of the week? Thank God it's Friday with Richard Glover and friends
abc.net.au/sydney/features/podcasttgifsydney.xml
ABC Identity of the Month, Local Radio
(Duration: 30 min, filesize: 10 MB, Updated monthly)
Each month, Late Afternoons gives you the chance to pry into the off-screen and off-air lives of your favourite ABC personalities
abc.net.au/sa/features/idofthemonth.xml
Artworks, Radio National
(Duration: 55 min, filesize: 23 MB, Updated weekly)
Amanda Smith converses with people in the visual and performing arts and presents features on artists' lives and work. An edgy new look at the arts in relation to history, society and ideas.
abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/aks.xml
Artworks - separate stories, Radio National
(Duration: 3 min, filesize: 3 MB, Updated daily)
Amanda Smith converses with people in the visual and performing arts and presents features on artists' lives and work. An edgy new look at the arts in relation to history, society and ideas.
abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/ak1.xml
Australian Music Podcast, Classic FM
(Duration: various, filesize: various MB, Updated regularly)
The Australian Music Unit is a special unit within ABC Classic FM that produces the Australian Music website, plus the program New Music Up Late and numerous in-house discs of Australian music for broadcast. The unit also funds Australian music recordings and deals with international program exchanges and numerous other related public and in-house inquiries. For listeners interested in Australian music culture and the contemporary music scene, the Australian Music podcast delivers downloads of diverse ABC-exclusive music recordings and related interviews to your computer. Stay connected.
abc.net.au/classic/podcasts/feeds/amu.xml
AWAYE!, Radio National
(Duration: 55 min, filesize: 23 MB, Updated weekly)
Awaye! means 'listen up' in the Arrernte language of central Australia. It is produced and presented by Aboriginal broadcasters and is Australia's only national Indigenous arts and culture program. It covers music (from the yidaki and gumleaf to techno), arts, spirituality, politics, dance, literature and theatre. Awaye! is also a showcase for features and documentaries produced by indigenous people overseas, including Maori, Polynesian, native American and South African broadcasters.
abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/aye.xml
Birdbrain, Local Radio
(Duration: 10-18 min, filesize: 5-9 MB, Updated weekly)
A 50-something man is searching for some meaning and passion in his life. Could birdwatching be the answer?
abc.net.au/local/podcasts/birdbrain.xml
Books, Radio National
(Duration: 3 min, filesize: 3 MB, Updated daily)
Explore the worlds of reader and writer, publisher and bookseller, playwright and lyricist, blogger and journalist, illustrator, type designer and linguist. The Book Show and Lingua Franca are our specialist programs, with books and writers contributing to Radio National in all subject areas.
abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/boo.xml
Breakfast Club, Radio Australia
(Duration: 20 min, filesize: 9 MB, Updated daily)
Phil Kafcaloudes and Adelaine Ng bring you all the things you need to have across the day - the most interesting interviews, lively music entertainment news, sport, art, finance and weather.
abc.net.au/ra/podcast/breakfastclub/podcast.xml
By Design, Radio National
(Duration: 50 min, filesize: 22 MB, Updated weekly)
Alan Saunders looks at how we shape our world, from the ground up.
abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/bdn.xml
Design, Radio National
(Duration: 3 min, filesize: 3 MB, Updated daily)
Radio National's By Design explores the way things look, feel and function, how design reflects social change and how architecture influences who we are-and Artworks takes note when architecture and design affects the nation's cultural and artistic life.
abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/des.xml
dig Radio, dig
(Duration: 8-25 min, filesize: 10-25 MB, Updated weekly)
A series of music features from the Australian Broadcasting Corporations dig Radio - Roots, Pop, Jazz, Country and more.
abc.net.au/dig/podcast/dig_rss.xml
Enough Rope, Television
(Duration: 15-60 min, filesize: 3-12 MB, Updated weekly)
We all have stories to tell. Some of us aren't famous yet.
abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/podcast.xml
Film Guide with Marc Fennell, triple j
(Duration: 2 mins, filesize: 1 MB, Updated weekly)
triple j's film and dvd podcast.
abc.net.au/triplej/review/film/podcast/podcast.xml
First Person, Radio National
(Duration: 15 min, filesize: 8 MB, Updated daily)
First Person is ABC Radio National's serialised reading of published autobiography, broadcast every weekday. The program brings you the best of current and classic personal narrative including memoir, travel writing, diaries and letters. Here you'll find fine writing that will keep you enthralled and deeply involved in some remarkable lives. Readings are by either the authors themselves or by well-known Australian actors.
abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/fpn.xml
Hack (radio and TV), triple j
(Duration: 25-30 mins, filesize: 15 MB, Updated daily)
Shoving the J into journalism, Hack covers current affairs, music, politics and culture with youth in mind. Get our half-hour radio program sent directly to you each weekday.
abc.net.au/triplej/hack/podcast/hack_daily.xml
Jonathan Dawson, Local Radio
(Duration: 15 min, filesize: 5 MB, Updated weekly)
Jonathan Dawson brings you the latest reviews of films screening in Australia
abc.net.au/tasmania/features/films.xml
Lingua Franca, Radio National
(Duration: 15 min, filesize: 7 MB, Updated weekly)
Lingua Franca, presented by Richard Buckham, looks at all aspects of language: language old, modern, and even invented. Through interviews and prepared talks, the program features experts who analyse a single topic of interest to users and lovers of language. Examples of the sort of linguistic territory they traverse are: bi-lingual education, ebonics, the language of pornography, and the political use of words. Lingua Franca is published every Saturday.
abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/lin.xml
Mornings with Zan Rowe, triple j
(Duration: 5 mins, filesize: 2 MB, Updated weekly)
Zan Rowe offers up a super-cool selection of music and culture for your mornings.
abc.net.au/triplej/zan/podcast/podcast.xml
Movie Time, Radio National
(Duration: 30 min, filesize: 14 MB, Updated weekly)
MovieTime is a program for everyone who loves movies. It's a lively, entertaining and comprehensive wrap of movie reviews, interviews and behind-the-scenes information. Presenter Julie Rigg has covered film for ABC Radio National as a broadcaster and critic since 1991. Her respected interview style and deep knowledge of film have secured her interviews with many of the world's leading film-makers. MovieTime is published every Thursday.
abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/mme.xml
MovieTime - separate stories, Radio National
(Duration: 9 min, filesize: 7 MB, Updated weekly)
The MovieTime separate stories podcast lets you go straight to a particular film review or interview. For a lively, entertaining and comprehensive wrap of movie reviews, interviews and behind-the-scenes information, MovieTime's Julie Rigg and Jason Di Rosso are there for you every Thursday.
abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/mm1.xml
Music, Radio National
(Duration: 3 min, filesize: 3 MB, Updated daily)
Dive into the music and experience Radio National's diverse range of music programming. Select from our deli of audio and online features, interviews, concerts, recordings and CD selections to explore music from all pockets of the planet. Updated daily, our music shows let you traverse different styles and genres or snuggle down into a quiet listening space of your own.
abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/mus.xml
Music News, triple j
(Duration: 2 mins, filesize: 1 MB, Updated twice weekly)
triple j keeps you up to date with what's happening in the music scene in Australia and overseas. This podcast is updated several times a week with new bulletins.
abc.net.au/triplej/musicnews/music_news_podcast.xml
Music Show, The, Radio National
(Duration: 8 min, filesize: 7 MB, Updated weekly)
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 music. Guests on the Music Show have included Emmylou Harris, Philip Glass, k.d. lang, Baaba Maal, Paul Kelly, and Bryn Terfel.
abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/msw.xml
New Music, triple j
(Duration: 5 mins, filesize: 4 MB, Updated fortnightly)
Love the tunes you're hearing on the triple j? Get a selection of your favourite tracks home-delivered every week.
abc.net.au/triplej/listen/free_mp3s.xml
Night Air, Radio National
(Duration: 60 min, filesize: 22 MB, Updated weekly)
The Night Air: listening for pleasure; an audio adventure in ideas, sounds and music remixed around a theme. It's a listening experience animated by dub versions of ABC Radio National's distinctive programming.Obliquely connected material is re-assembled with sonic glue, letting the listener's imagination build a new story. It's a space to find the music in speech and the poetry in ideas, a show that invites you to take time to unravel the usual media tangle.
abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/night.xml
Philosopher's Zone, Radio National
(Duration: 23 min, filesize: 11 MB, Updated weekly)
The Philosopher's Zone with Alan Saunders looks at the world of philosophy and at the world through philosophy. The program addresses the big philosophical questions and arguments. It also explores what philosophical analysis can contribute to our understanding of some of the fundamental and perplexing issues that face the world today. The Philosopher's Zone is published every Saturday.
abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/pze.xml
Radio National Breakfast, Radio National
(Duration: 30 min, filesize: 8 MB, Updated daily)
Radio National Breakfast brings you the most comprehensive coverage and analysis of national and international events -- serious, fun, topical and diverse without being overwhelming. This 'RN Breakfast-individual stories' podcast is for listeners who want all of Breakfast, plus the ability to skip easily from story to story.
abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/breakfast.xml
Rear Vision, Radio National
(Duration: 30 min, filesize: 12 MB, Updated weekly)
We tease out the complex history behind those baffling events in the news.
abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/rvn.xml
Saturday Night Country, Local Radio
(Duration: 40 min, filesize: 20 MB, Updated weekly)
John Nutting brings you interviews with great Country Music stars
abc.net.au/snc/sncpodcast.xml
Science on Mornings, triple j
(Duration: 20-30 mins, filesize: 25-30 MB, Updated weekly)
Join Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, Zan Rowe and their scientific guests, with a bunch of curious triplej listeners for a weekly injection of science, myth-bashing and answers! Thursdays from 11am EST.
abc.net.au/science/k2/podcast/drk_rss.xml
Sunday Night Safran, triple j
(Duration: 1 hour 20 mins, filesize: 30 MB, Updated weekly)
John Safran and Father Bob Maguire are back with their own take on religion, politics and all things ethnic. This duo can talk-up a storm, so we've taken the program, cut out the music to produce a 60-70min program.
abc.net.au/triplej/safran/podcast/safran.xml
The Book Show, Radio National
(Duration: 45 min, filesize: 18 MB, Updated daily)
The Book Show is ABC Radio National's home for the discussion of everything relating to the written word. This daily program will explore the many worlds in which we find readers and writers, publishers and booksellers, playwrights and lyricists, bloggers and journalists, book illustrators and type designers -- all working with words and the medium of language.
abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/bsw.xml
The Book Show - separate stories, Radio National
(Duration: 3 min, filesize: 3 MB, Updated daily)
The Book Show separate stories podcast makes it easy to find your favourite parts of the program each weekday. Ramona Koval presents ABC Radio National's daily discussion of everything relating to the written word.
abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/bw1.xml
The Doctor, triple j
(Duration: 30-40 mins, filesize: 15-20 MB, Updated daily)
The good doctor Lindsay McDougall enriches your afternoon every weekday with musical hi-jinks, band interviews, fun and puns.
abc.net.au/triplej/thedoctor/rss/podcast.xml
Tom and Alex, triple j
(Duration: 20-30 mins, filesize: 15-20 MB, Updated daily)
Broken legs have leg casts. Broken arms have arm casts. Broken hearts have the Tom and Alex podcast. Get the daily podcast from triple j breakfast hosts Tom Ballard and Alex Dyson so that it may heal.
abc.net.au/triplej/tomandalex/rss/podcast.xml
Unearthed Podcast, triple j
(Duration: 20-30 mins, filesize: 25-30 MB, Updated weekly)
Suckle on the latest sounds from triplejunearthed.com. Each week triple j's Dom Alessio and Steph Hughes will dish out their favourite tunes from the website for you to listen, download and discover.
abc.net.au/triplej/podcast/unearthed.xml
