Arch D Radio
by Arch D Radio & Podcasting
Catholic radio, from Adelaide, South Australia, broadcast on 107.9 Life FM every Wednesday and Saturday night. Featuring all the best interviews & news about what's going in the Archdiocese of Adelaide. Produced by Arch D Radio & Podcasting, and hosted/produced by James Meston.
Episodes
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Footsteps of Faith: A Celtic Pilgrimage - Episode 2
** WINNER ** of THREE New York City Podcast Awards!!! - Best Editing - Best Education Podcast - Best Personal Growth & Spirituality Podcast In June 2025, on the 180th anniversary of the first Catholic school in SA, 18 pilgrims, leaders within the sector, travelled to Ireland to learn about and...
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Footsteps of Faith: A Celtic Pilgrimage - Episode 1
** WINNER ** of THREE New York City Podcast Awards!!! - Best Editing - Best Education Podcast - Best Personal Growth & Spirituality Podcast In June 2025, on the 180th anniversary of the first Catholic school in SA, 18 pilgrims, leaders within the sector, travelled to Ireland to learn about and...
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Footsteps of Faith: A Celtic Pilgrimage - Episode 3
** WINNER ** of THREE New York City Podcast Awards!!! - Best Editing - Best Education Podcast - Best Personal Growth & Spirituality Podcast In June 2025, on the 180th anniversary of the first Catholic school in SA, 18 pilgrims, leaders within the sector, travelled to Ireland to learn about and...
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Footsteps of Faith: A Celtic Pilgrimage - Episode 4
** WINNER ** of THREE New York City Podcast Awards!!! - Best Editing - Best Education Podcast - Best Personal Growth & Spirituality Podcast In June 2025, on the 180th anniversary of the first Catholic school in SA, 18 pilgrims, leaders within the sector, travelled to Ireland to learn about and...
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The Arch D Radio Show - The Finale
With a cast of your Arch D favourite announcers, all former students for whom Arch D has been a deeply influential part of their lives, we bid goodbye to the Life FM radio show as it reaches 15 years on-air and 654 episodes.
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The 2nd to last EVER show??
Yes... it's true! :( As Arch D goes 100% into the podcasting space, the radio show comes to an end!! Hear all about the "hows and whys", and Michaela and James share their favourite all-time Arch D moment... and discover it's EXACTLY THE SAME ONE. Also a sneak preview of next week's EPIC finale...
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With James & Michaela
James & Michaela catch up at the beginning of 2026 and talk about all the biggest issues: Queensland Themed Restaurants, A.I.'s worst (best?) impressions of our hosts... and why does coffee, TikTok and James doing bad accents always seem to be at the heart of every conversation, no matter where…
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WHAT IS DIALOGUE WEEK? with special guests Peter Bierer, Tahlia Sully and Marcia Burgess
Discover the heart behind Dialogue Week, a groundbreaking initiative inviting thousands of voices from Catholic schools and communities across South Australia to shape the future of the Church. James sits down with Peter Bierer, Marcia Burgess, and Tahlia Sully to unpack what synodality means and...
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With special guests Jane and Belinda (St Thomas School Goodwood)
St Thomas School, Goodwood is about to celebrate its 130th Anniversary next year... or is it? Principal Belinda and long-standing teacher Jane came into the Arch D studio to discuss a discovery they've made, that there is a gap in the school's (and public!) records between the believed opening…
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With special guest Madison Finlay
Former Arch D Podcaster of the Year and St Mary's old scholar Madison has just arrived back in SA after almost 3 years working on rural properties and parks in the deepest outback of WA. She's evacuated a holiday park due to bushfire, drowned her ute in a river, and rocked the front bar of the...
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With special guest Bekk Shaw (Hopestreet)
In 2015, former high school chaplain Bekk Shaw, founded Hopestreet, an organization that has created safe, fun, and inclusive spaces that understand the unique needs of the youth of Playford, where the youth unemployment rate is 61% (eight times higher than the Adelaide average). She chats with...
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With special guest Brooke Lovett (Cardijn College - Galilee)
Our special guest Brooke chats with James about her faith journey, becoming a Mission Captain in her final year of high school at Cardijn College, to then returning as Youth Ministry at Cardijn's R-9 Campus.
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With special guest Kaitlyn Davey
Arch D Awards Hall of Fame recipient Kaitlyn Davey returns to the show to talk about her faith journey, all the way from her early childhood to where she finds herself now in her early 20's. It's an incredible story with lots of challenging and inspirational twists and turns along the way!
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With special guest Alkira Prior - James's pilgrimage to Ireland
When Alkira came into the Arch D studio to record this show, James had returned from the Catholic Education Ireland pilgrimage only a couple of days beforehand.... all the experiences for him were still sinking in, and this is a fantastic conversation covering all aspects of it .. and a bit of a...
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With special guests Andreas, Erin and Aoife (St Mark's Catholic School - London)
Arch D's final show in London, this time visiting St Mark's Catholic School, with James chatting with his student co-hosts all about their experiences at the school, why it has such a strong Catholic culture, and the impact that St Mark's has had on each of their own faith journeys.
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With special guests Roxy, Betty, Irepoayo, Breanna and Marietta (St Claudine's School - London)
Arch D is in London, this time visiting St Claudine's School for Girls, with James chatting with his student co-hosts all about their experiences at the school, why it has such a strong Catholic culture, and the impact that St Claudine's has had on each of their own faith journeys.
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With special guests Maya, Lawrence and Greater (St Joseph's School - London)
Arch D is still in London UK, and this show comes from St Joseph's Catholic Primary School. James chats with co-hosts (and Head Girl, and Head Boy and Deputy Head Girl respectively) Maya, Lawrence and Greater about their amazing school mission statement "St Joseph's Way", co-created by teachers,...
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With special guests Catherine, Chisom and Keziah (St Michael's College - London)
For the first of our special shows from London UK, James chats with three inspirational Year 11 students from St Michael's Catholic College about their involvement in the school's Chaplaincy Program, their very first memories of school, and how the college's commitment to meaningful Catholic...
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With special guest Aden Croser
Aden's faith journey and commitment to being a "leader for the world god desires" has been a dedicated adventure across his time as a youth leader at Seeds Church, as Mission Engagement Officer at Cardijn College, and stretches back through his school days and early family memories.
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With special guest Kim Nguyen (Vietnamese Eucharistic Youth Movement)
Kim has been a part of her Vietnamese Catholic Community since she was born, her parents were in the choir! James and Alkira talk with her about her faith journey, what makes the Vietnamese Catholic Community so unique, and so much more.
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With special guest Sienna White-Cline
Cardijn College's Podcasting Captain Sienna was at Arch D last week for Work Experience, so it seemed like the perfect time to have her on the show! Michaela and James chat with her about her experiences with Arch D (including winning 3 Awards!) and Cardijn's incredible YCS (Young Christian...
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With special guest Rose Valenti
Rose's faith journey stretches back to Day 1! Arch D Award winning student Alkira Prior chats with Rose about growing up in a big Italian Catholic family in Port Pirie, moving to Adelaide after finishing school and living at Aquinas College, and all the roles she's had leading students through...
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With special guest Lisa Clark
Lisa grew up as part of a big (understatement!) family in Mt Gambier before moving to Adelaide in her late teens to study. For her faith journey, it's been one that started with her family in the (multiple!) pews at church, through to working as an Assistant Principal of Religious Identity and...
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With special guest Catie Engelhardt
Cabra old scholar Catie Engelhardt started in Arch D as a Year 11 student, since then she has won multiple awards, earned the praises of radio industry legends, and is now fully primed for a promising career. Catie and James chat about her time in Arch D, the Australian Radio School and TONS…
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With special guest Anneliese PIttman
Anneliese has graduated from Year 12 and is going to start studying Speech Pathology at Uni in about a month's time, something that she's been planning for since she was in Year 9. However, Anneliese has been doing radio & podcasting with Arch D since she was in Year 6. Lots of radio shows,...
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With special guest Tahlia Sully
Tahlia has, for the last 3 months, been working on big Catholic projects Adelaide-wide around Student Voice and Youth Ministry... and she wants to talk all about it. And of course, as this is Tahlia, there's also a lot of great stories, insights and wisdom as part of this chat too!
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With special guest Alkira Prior (January 2025)
Alkira (formerly of Compass Catholic Community and winner of Arch D’s Podcaster of the Year Award) returns to Arch D to fill James in on the hugely successful “WonderFULL Christmas Festival” that she and her church community hosted at the end of last year. They chat about the gospel reading of…
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With special guest Scotty Curtis (Life FM)
For the first time ever (VERY overdue!!) Life FM content director Scotty is the special guest on Arch D, talking all about his journey of faith, his beginnings in radio as a teenager, and his career highlight of travelling to the Philippines helping to restore sight to people in need.
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With special guest Sylvia Nguyen (Catholic Office for Youth)
Michaela chats with Sylvia about her early memories of church, the moment in her life where she chose faith for herself, and her first impressions and hopes in her new role as part of the Catholic Office for Youth and Young Adults in Adelaide.
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With special guest Alkira Prior
Award winning podcaster Alkira Prior has been very busy since graduating from Compass Catholic Community, between post-school study and being as involved as possible in her church community she barely has a spare minute, but fortunately for us she found some time to drop into the Arch D studio…
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With special guest Dale Oria
Dale Oria's Catholic journey has been unique. Moving with his large family from the Philippines to Adelaide when he was 14 years old, Dale and his family got used to an entirely new culture, and made a new spiritual home at the Salisbury parish. From there, Dale's journey has taken him...
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With special guest Heather Frahn
Heather's life journey has taken her down many roads; prominent singer/songwriter, sound healer, meditation leader, as well as working with patients at Flinders Medical Centre as part of "Arts in Health" for 13 years. Throughout, Heather's relationship with God and her own evolving spirituality…
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With special guest Lilli Fulwood (The Takeover)
Radio announcer, singer/songwriter.. Lilli's journey from kid at church to emerging artist has been one full of great stories! Also on this podcast we feature Lilli's new single "Nostalgia".
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With special guest Michaela Howard-Jones (Catholic Office for Youth)
Michaela is back in the Arch D studio, but this time as part of her new role as Diocesan Youth Ministry Officer in the Catholic Office For Youth. She talks about her first 6 months in the role; the surprises, and the most inspirational moments.
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With special guest Madison Gurney-White
OLSH College Captain and inaugural member of the OLSH "PodSquad" joins James to chat about her journey through podcasting from Year 8 to 12, and the importance of the community that it's built at the school.
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With special guest Jessie Wagas
James chats with one of the hardest working Catholic Youth Ministers in Adelaide, Jessie Wagas, as part of the Adelaide University Catholic Society and Oblate Youth. Jessie is passionate about his faith, how it defines the direction of his life, and talks about his early formational experiences,...
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With special guest Sanjay Mohanaraj
James and Cailin chat with Sanjay from the Archdiocese of Adelaide about his family experiences of church growing up in Malaysia, through to his experiences as part of Oblate Youth, as a teacher at Xavier College, memories of 3 different World Youth Days, and how he has witnessed this week's…
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With special guest Karla Sparapani
Growing up in Southern California, Karla's faith and life journey has been one filled with inspiration, dedication, challenges and deep connections with community.
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With special guest Andrew Kirkbride
Deacon Andrew has certainly not travelled a conventional path on his faith journey, from his early family beginnings at his parish in Whyalla, through to youth ministry in Antioch, becoming a Deacon... and founding an architecture firm along the way in his spare time!
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With special guest Kelly Spencer
Although she didn't grow up in a religious family, Kelly felt her calling to faith while she was still in primary school. She's gone on to be an experienced teacher, leader, Catholic formation advisor and academic, and her passion for teaching remains at the very centre of her life. In this...
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With special guest Talia Yates (Catholic Office for Youth)
Talia grew up going to church with family, and attending Kildare College as a teenager, but it wasn't until she unexpectedly saw a video promoting Australia's National Evangelisation Team (NET) on YouTube that she realised that Youth Ministry and working with the church would, from that moment…
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With special guest Katie Spain (The Southern Cross)
Award winning journalist Katie Spain has just started as the new journalist with Adelaide's "The Southern Cross", and chats with James about her life growing up in rural SA (and what that taught her about storytelling), her university days and early career in Europe, and her incredible…
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With special guest Anneliese Pittman
Anneliese has had a big holiday break, first joining her school on an immersion and outreach trip to Fiji and then as a leader for a school holiday program at her church. Anneliese is an award winning podcaster (so her storytelling is seriously on point), so understandably she tells riveting...
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With special guest Lauren Bierer
Lauren Bierer grew up in two very different kinds of Christian churches, became a prominent music minister in Minnesota, before returning home to Adelaide, where she now works in Pastoral Support, community life, worship and liturgy (that's a lot of hats!) for the Archdiocese of Adelaide. Also,...
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With special guest Maz Maio (The Takeover, Life FM)
Arch D Radio alumni, now a very experienced and familiar voice on the radio, Mary-Anne "Maz" Maio, chats about her family beginnings in Catholic faith, her experiences in youth ministry and her current work every weeknight from 7pm-9pm as anchor of Life FM's "The Takeover" show.
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With Special Guest Sarah Moffatt
James chats with Arch D co-founder and former Catholic Officer for Youth Coordinator, who is now the Director of Pastoral Life for the Archdiocese of Adelaide. They chat about Sarah’s beginnings in the Catholic youth movement, and the highlights and challenges she’s encountered along the way.
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With Special Guest Dan Ryan
Youth Minister, teacher, musician, husband & dad, Dan chats with Michaela about his early faith journey experiences, his beginnings in youth ministry, the richest highlights in his working career, and thoughts on how this week’s gospel speaks to him.
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With special guest Peter Bierer
Assistant Director of Pastoral Life and Mission at the Archdiocese of Adelaide, and former Coordinator of the Catholic Office for Youth, Peter chats with Michaela about his early faith journey experiences, his beginnings in youth ministry, the richest highlights in his working career, and…
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With special guest Juliana Kittel
Project officer with the Catholic Office for Youth & Young Adults, and highly experienced Youth Minister and advocate for young people chats with Michaela about her early faith journey experiences, her beginnings in youth ministry, the richest highlights for her work, and thoughts on how this...
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With special guest Sharina Rabusic
St Michael’s College youth minister Sharina is our special guest this week, talking about her journey from Henley Antioch in her teens through to her current role at St Michael’s, and everything in between.
About this show
Catholic radio, from Adelaide, South Australia, broadcast on 107.9 Life FM every Wednesday and Saturday night. Featuring all the best interviews & news about what's going in the Archdiocese of Adelaide. Produced by Arch D Radio & Podcasting, and hosted/produced by James Meston.
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