Andrew Harrison
My show showcases local talent, community groups, community events and issues that effect us all. I like to bring forward local talent that is earthy and real. I’m all about positive stories that help bring flavour to this great place of Alice Springs.
Kate Lyons-Dawson
Mark Bensted
Ilse Pickerd
Tune into the Big Brekky for a serving of interviews, music and banter with Andy, kate, Mark & Ilse
7am to 9am Weekdays live on 8CCC 102.1FM streaming 8ccc.com.au
The Big Brekky Podcast
23 Apr 2025, 2:16pm Bindi Enterprises Digital Textile Design – Maggie and Liesl Bindi Enterprises visited the Big Brekky Show to announce the launch of their exciting new Digital Textile Design program an innovative extension of our Bindi Digital Art department. Entering its third year, Bindi Digital Art is evolving with this new offering, which begins 3 May, designed to give participants the opportunity to explore digital drawing and design, with an additional focus on turning their artwork into fabric repeats.
22 Apr 2025, 3:35pm Volunteering NT nominations 2025 – Mona Ulak Last year's recipient of the Chief Minister's Volunteer of the Year Award, Mona Ulak spoke with Big Brekky Show's Kate Lyons-Dawson about what it has meant to be recognised for her volunteering and what that work gifts back. The nominations were extended until 22 April and are now in the selection process.
19 Apr 2025, 10:19am Desert Park Easter and Mother's Day 2025 What are your Easter plans this week? Alice Springs Desert Park has their Black Breasted buzzard cracking open Easter eggs during the bird shows and baby bilbies are keeping their mother and aunts very busy. A great place for the family – find out the program. A great idea for Mother's Day too!
17 Apr 2025, 11:52am Food insecurity, Candidates on environment, New date variety with Centralian Today Charles Geary dropped in to cover the headlines and highlights of this week's Centralian Today with the Big Brekky Show. Great photos from Parrtjima 2025 and Cup Day, the Plaza upgrade, food insecurity in remote communities and a new date variety in Alice Springs. Get your copy today!
17 Apr 2025, 11:07am Oceans Roar – Katie Harder Katie Harder chatted with Kate Lyons-Dawson on the release day of her new single Oceans Roar. Encouraged by the word pictures of Aslan roaring a new world to life in her family's favourite books of C.S Lewis, Katie captures these ideas perfectly, and brings them to life with bold high melodies, mirrored in her unique fingerpicking guitar style and held together with deep rumbles of long bowed cello. She'll be playing live tonight at the Watertank Cafe with Gleny Rae, supporting Sally Balfour on tour.
16 Apr 2025, 11:37am Sally Balfour tour 2025 – Gleny Rae Virus Tickets selling fast for Sally Balfour tour, Katie Harder single launch at Watertank Cafe Some of Mbantua’s favourite folk musicians will be joining forces as part of an intimate finale of Sally Balfour’s first Territory-wide tour and the launch of a fresh single from Katie Harder at the Watertank Cafe in Alice Springs tomorrow night from 6pm, with live music from 7pm. 8CCC’s Kate Lyons-Dawson spoke to Gleny Rae Virus on Big Brekky today ahead of the dinner, folk music and story-telling show at the home of the Alice Springs Folk Club. Along with Gleny Rae Virus, the show features the last gig of Sally Balfour's tour, the launch of the latest soulful tunes from soulful songstress Katie Harder, who is also launching her new single Oceans Roar on the night, as well as a special guest appearance by cellist Xavia. Tickets are selling fast for the show at the Watertank Cafe on Thursday night, at $50 for the general public and $40 for Alice Springs Folk Club members.
15 Apr 2025, 6:58pm Volunteering NT Awards 2025 nomination extended – Megan Saltmarsh Executive Manager NT Megan Saltmarsh took time with the Big Brekky Show to update Alice Springs with the new date for the Volunteering NT Awards. You now have extra time to nominate those important people and groups in our community for the Volunteering NT Awards, extended now until 22 April 2025 and the big night is now 20 May 2025. Check out all the categories, especially the new one for grassroots organisations.
15 Apr 2025, 11:48am Heritage Festival 2025 – Unearthed from the Archives – Eleanor Hogan Libraries and Archives NT's Eleanor Hogan talks to 8CCC's Kate Lyons-Dawson about a special event, Unearthed from the Archives, being held tomorrow night (Wednesday April 16) from 6.30pm at Witchetty's at the Araluen Arts Centre, as part of the NT Heritage Festival. The event features an open discussion with filmmaker Penny McDonald and ABC broadcaster Alex Barwick about how they used the Territory's archives to tell the stories of indigenous artist Audrey Napanangka through film and investigate the mysteries surrounding desert spy base Pine Gap through Barwick's podcast, as well as the deep history waiting to be rediscovered, with LANT's curator Luke Scholes. Head along early to get a seat for Unearthed from the Archives at Witchetty's, tomorrow night, from 6.30pm.
12 Apr 2025, 1:50am Desert Diva Catherine Satour to play Parrtjima 2025 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.
12 Apr 2025, 1:37am Dobby takes the stage at Parrtjima 2025 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.
10 Apr 2025, 11:21pm Weekly news headlines with the Centralian Today: Federal election; Eid celebrations; a Ronald McDonald homestay in Central Aus 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.
8 Apr 2025, 12:59pm DSO NT Tour 2025 – Jonathan Tooby Darwin Symphony Orchestra Artistic Director and Chief Conductor Jonathan Tooby, took some time out before leaving on the DSO NT Tour, to speak with the Big Brekky Show about the itinerary. Arriving in Tennant Creek on 10 April with Dr Shellie Morris AO, in a debut performance of new songs in language from a collaboration with Warumungu women Rosemary Plummer, Marlene Plummer and Miriam Frank with new arrangements by DSO Composer in Residence Netanela Mizrahi and the input of a local children’s choir. On Saturday they're joined at Parrtjima by local Desert Divas Catherine Satour, Casii Williams and Bronwyn Stuart. If that's not enough, a more intimate DSO deconstructed is on at Araluen 2pm Sunday with ASWCO.
8 Apr 2025, 12:37pm Flickerfest 2025 – Bronwyn Kidd The Flickerfest Festival Director Bronwyn Kidd was on hand to unpack this year's Flickerfest offerings in Mparntwe Alice Springs on Friday and Saturday 11 & 12 April on the Araluen Circus Lawns from 7.30pm. The Big Brekky Show heard all about the selection process and this year's local inclusion – award-winning film The Fix-It-Man And The Fix-It-Wooman, directed by Cornelius Ebatarinja & Nelson Armstrong and written by Rhonda Sharpe & Courtney Collins
5 Apr 2025, 3:22pm Beanie Festival, Bush Foods, Hospital Donations – The Centralian Today headlines with Charles Geary Charles Geary from The Centralian Today discussed some of the big news stories this week on the Big Brekky Show, including the announcement that the Beanie festival will end in 2026. Rayleen Brown adds her voice to the Love Letters to Alice campaign, Reptile Centre celebrates 25 years and Humpty Dumpty Foundation visits Alice Springs and Tennant Creek hospitals.
