Centralian Yarns

Alice Springs/Mbantua is the traditional home of the Arrente people and people from many other cultures and language groups also...

  Unlike most Australians for whom the red centre is a tourist destination, Beverley Kegan has called Central Australia home...

  This week we celebrate the history of Central Australia’s oldest Arts organisation, the Alice Springs Theatre Group which took a...

This programme celebrates the origins of Picnic Day, the Northern Territory public holiday which locals say was granted so that...

Robyn Grey-Gardner is a water consultant specialising in water systems for remote communities, and is based in Alice Springs. In...

Kim Petersen was an avid 8CCC listener from the station’s early days, when his mother, Teddy Cairns was a regular...

Over 38 years, Central Craft has acquired over 200 pieces created by notable Territory and Interstate craftspeople, through the Alice...

Polish migrant Alexander Prus-Grzybowski was a truth- seeker, who often got himself into trouble.  Journalist Dave Richards first became aware...

  Paddy Greenfield grew up in South Australia under the watchful and controlling eye of Welfare. All he ever wanted...

Alice Springs scientist Ashley Sparrow is also a serious pianist.  So serious, in fact, that when he moved to Central...

Alice Springs violinist Dian Booth was classically trained; indeed she used to play in the orchestra at London’s Covent Garden....

Maya Cifali grew up in Egypt, the daughter of French and Italian parents. They fitted easily into the cosmopolitan world...