Ilse Pickerd

Catherine Satour will be performing at Parrtjima -A Festival of Light in Alice Springs this Saturday 12 April with the Darwin Symphony Orchestra. Catherine will be alongside Bronwyn Stuart and Casii Williams, each with an original song. Later in the night they perform together as the Desert Divas. She drops in to 8CCC's Big Brekky program with MusicNT’s Central Australian Manager, Liz Archer, to speak where the Desert Divas program began and how it has grown since 2011.  

Performing this Sunday 13 April at the 2025 Parrtjima - A Festival in Light is DOBBY (AKA Rhyan Clapman), proud Filipino and Murrawarri rapper, drummer, composer, and producer. DOBBY composed the soundscapes for Parrtjima 2021 & 2022 in Alice Springs. He chats with 8CCC's Kate on The Big Brekky program. 

Charles Geary, local journalist for The Centralian Today, Central Australia's independent newspaper, gives the Big Brekky program to taste of the weekly news headlines. Tune in to hear about the federal election, local community Eid al-Fitr celebrations for the end of a month's fasting in Ramadan, the possibility of a Ronald McDonald House homestay facility opening in Alice Springs, and more. 

Jon Rose visits the Big Brekky Show ahead of this weekend's next unique musical adventure 'Corrugations 19'. This latest performance in the Corrugations series features Eric Griswold on keyboard, Jon Rose on violin, and Hollis Taylor with her interspecies collaborative compositions with Pied Butcherbirds. Find out more about Jon and Eric's new album, 'Untamed Roads', which they are launching as part of a national tour.  Sunday 6 April from 5pm - a new time!

Listen back to the Big Brekky chat with Alice Springs Mayor Matt Paterson about the March Town Council meeting. Highlights covered Councillor Gavin Morris' resignation, the Alice Springs Animal Shelter update and the concern around the impact of the new Territory Coordinator Bill on local government.

Darwin Symphony Orchestra is travelling to Tennant Creek to collaboratively launch and celebrate the Warumungu Children's Album titled 'Singing for Our Little Ones' in the Barkly Regional Arts yard. Important Warumungu knowledge and language keepers, Marlene Plummer, Rosemary Plummer and Miriam Frank visit 8CCC's Barkly Studio to tell us about the making of the album. 

Earlier this year Barkly Regional Arts announced they’d received funding through Regional Arts Australia to deliver a series of art workshops for the Tennant Creek public and this weekend it kicks off in fine form with a two-day Batik Workshop.Chris Ng is the multimedia artist from Alice Springs who will be travelling up the Stuart to deliver the workshops and they join us now on the Big Brekky Program.

Strap up your knees and lace up your sneakers—Parkrun, the international weekly timed 5km running phenomenon, is coming to the Barkly! Mary Kingham-Bradley, one of two women working tirelessly behind the scenes to make it happen, joins us on the Big Brekky Program to share the happy news. 

Noah Secomb, the Community Radio Network’s Canberra-based Political Reporter pulled the late shift last night covering the Federal Budget and joins us now on the Big Brekky Program to break down what it means for the everyday Australian. 

The Federal Budget was announced last night and may not bode well for social services and welfare recipients in the NT. Caitlin Perry, Senior Policy Officer for Northern Territory Council of Social Services (NTCOSS), the Territory's peak body for social and community sectors, discusses if the Budget adequately addresses the needs of low income earners and vulnerable Territorians on the Big Brekky Program. 

The Hon Steve Edgington, Minister for Housing joins the Big Brekky Program to discuss last week’s announcement of extensive public housing reforms and talk about the implications for residents of the Barkly Region, his home electorate. 

The Northern Territory’s peak body for housing advocacy, Aboriginal Housing NT has spoken out strongly against the NT Government’s public housing reforms, calling them out for disproportionately impacting Aboriginal tenants. Big Brekky’s Shauna spoke with CEO Leeanne Caton to find out more.