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The Music Show — 50 episodes

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1

Benjamin Clementine isn't a jazz musician

2

John Farnham: The voice behind The Voice

3

Robert Forster's Swedish Strawberries and the Red Spirit Singers let their voices ring out

4

Camp Cope's Kelly-Dawn Hellmrich on the artists rewriting the rules of the Australian music scene

5

Belinda Webster and Tall Poppies Records: a life's work

6

A concerto for accordion and orchestra & the Persian tar gets Comfortable with jazz

7

Dolly Parton (1946-2026)

8

The poetry of aja monet and Thomas Meadowcroft on composing for sound effects and orchestra

9

James Ellis Ford made a Mercury Prize nominated record in a chemotherapy ward

10

Kate Miller-Heidke on Handel and planning for the apocalypse

11

Grace Cummings' Bloodhorse! and the legacy of Vivaldi's star orphan

12

Tom Service on the classical music that shapes us

13

The travelling community of the Grateful Dead, Don Walker's Love Songs, and a performance lasting 639 years

14

The dangerous jazz life of Anita O'Day

15

William Basinski hosts a sleepover, Will Swenson plays Neil Diamond, and vale Glen Hansard

16

Music Now & Then: Liza Lim

17

Music for winter stillness and electromagnetic storms

18

Middle of the Air: The Music Show at Sydney Writers' Festival

19

Songs about fish, divorce, and moth DNA: Montaigne, Gin Wigmore, and Elissa Goodrich

20

"An ecosystem for song people": 25 years of Koori Radio

21

ELISION Ensemble turn 40 and Rosie McDonald on The Go Twos and Nigel Lever

22

Cover Story: Can’t Buy Me Love

23

Stephen Foster: The bicentenary of the father of American music

24

Cover Story: Never Tear Us Apart

25

Embracing the choir: Alina Pash returns to Ukraine and Kristina Olsen takes up choral composition

26

Cover Story: Wonderwall

27

A solo debut from Trials and Isobel D'Cruz Barnes is working In Shadows

28

Cover Story: Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow

29

David Mills' glamour and despair and Lawrence Power shines a light on British music

30

Different versions of Daniel Avery and clipping's experimental approach to hip-hop

31

Cover Story: Jolene

32

Miles Davis: a centenary

33

A tribute to Sonny Rollins, Mahalia Barnes sings The Rose, and Cass McCombs live in the studio

34

Hilary Geddes' Redleaf and Kae Tempest's Self Titled

35

Barry Conyngham's rarely performed classic & Mogwai and Tortoise both celebrate new music and big anniversaries

36

Folk fixtures: Judy Small's Swansongs, and the National Folk Festival at 60

37

Xiu Xiu take on Eraserhead and Pinchgut Opera's first murder

38

The mystery and music of Connie Converse

39

Raven Chacon's Pulitzer Prize-winning Voiceless Mass and Cam Butler takes on the grand organ

40

The prodigy and the piano: Ruth Slenczynska 1925-2026

41

Anna Meredith wants her music loud and the musicality of Dorothy Porter

42

Pits, picket lines and pop music: the 1984-5 UK miners' strike

43

"I have seen rock and roll's future and its name is Bruce Springsteen": Born To Run at 50

44

The violin in the colony

45

Innovation and imitation: Maurice Ravel at 150

46

Deep Inside the Blues

47

Remembering Ruby Hunter, with Emily Wurramara and Dan Sultan

48

Folk singers and the FBI

49

Becoming Ella Fitzgerald

50

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