Fran Kelly and Sally Sara do us proud as hosts of prestige interview show covering world of issues

South Australians, let us all be proud that two of the state’s products, Fran Kelly and Sally Sara, are hosting the two bookending news/current affairs interview programmes on the agenda setting ABC Radio National network (on729AM in South Australia),  Fran Kelly, who hosts the Radio National Hour  6pm to 7om and also podcast, led the Radio National Breakfast programme from 2005 to 2021, following another long-time South Australian presenter Pru Goward. 

Andrew Ford digs music – at its deepest and most wide-ranging level on his ABC Radio National show

Andrew Ford’s breathtaking range of knowledge and feats of music is showcased in The Music Show (729 ABC Radio National on the AM band and podcasted). This programme, most deeply worthy of its name, has only been going for more than 30 years. Ford, also an award (including Order of Australia medal) winner as a composer and writer, was born in Liverpool and studied music at Lancaster University with eclectic British/Australia composer Edward Cowrie before eventually leaving England to lecture at the school of creative arts at Wollongong University, New South Wales.