Community radio with a wide front door.
Radio Carrum gathers several conversational strands under one community station voice. Architecture interviews, creative careers, live music visits, surfing chat, family life, and Mornington Peninsula details all sit together without much polish or distance.
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Radio Carrum is a broad community-radio feed with a strong local heartbeat. It does not behave like one tightly packaged program. It sounds more like a station where different conversations keep opening onto the same place: Bunurong Country, Carrum, the Mornington Peninsula, Melbourne music, architecture, creative work, and domestic life. The architecture strand gives the feed its clearest taxonomy, with Ilana Razbash hosting careful conversations about design philosophy, practice, collaboration, public benefit, community buildings, and the social life of places. These episodes can move from a hilltop house or an athletes village to RMIT, adaptive design, and what good architecture should be able to hold. The tone stays human rather than sealed off in professional language. Guests talk about trust, friendship, stakeholders, education, changing buildings, and the long work of making something useful. The Creative Pod brings in another register. Leah Mackis talks with artists and performers about singing, teaching, musical theatre, dramaturgy, composition, touring, and the practical shape of creative careers. Those conversations make art feel like work, habit, collaboration, and identity, not just finished performance. Wavesound Radio adds surf-club energy, Victorian music talk, studio returns, roadwork complaints, and Peninsula geography. It is loose and immediate. Not So FKN Typical brings a more intimate domestic strand, with Amy, Steph, and guests moving through tattoos, family, school reports, hyperfixations, paperwork, shame, and the relief of saying things plainly. The station can be funny, messy, affectionate, and serious within a few minutes. Live music visits and How Soon Is Now segments keep the feed close to Melbourne artists and studio banter. The through-line is not topic purity. It is proximity. Radio Carrum makes culture sound local, embodied, and a bit improvised, with enough room for both architectural theory and a parrot named Brock.
Made for: Radio Carrum suits listeners who like local community radio, creative people talking at human speed, and conversations that wander through place, work, memory, family, and scenes. It is especially good for anyone drawn to Melbourne-area arts, architecture, music, surfing, and candid everyday talk.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the station texture: polished architecture interviews, artist profiles, surf-and-music banter, and blunt personal conversations all share one feed. Few shows make design theory, school reports, roadworks, musical theatre, and local studio energy feel this connected.
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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Radio Carrum makes creative practice tangible through candid conversations about architecture, music, collaboration, and the lives surrounding the work.
Radio Carrum lets its programs keep distinct voices while returning often to the people who make things. Its Arts coverage moves from Radio Architecture's focused practitioner interviews to live music sessions and conversations about songwriting, recording, and performance.
This is where your curiosity roams from adaptive buildings to tattoo-chair confessions.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A calm architecture conversation about place, trust, and the slow work of making projects hold.
Radio Architecture and Michael Vialek, SJB's founding director, keep the focus on family houses, precinct-scale work, and a design outlook shaped by simplicity and a strong sense of place.
A warm, loose chat about ADHD, parenting, and how school reports can miss the point.
Radio Karim centers Holly of Holly's Tattoo from Hastings in a frank conversation about ADHD in family life, and it lands best when it stays close to the ordinary tensions of school reports, home routines, and the mismatch between what looks fine outside and what is actually…
A loose live session turns a casual check-in into a sharper question about who actually cares.
Radio Karam's live session with Roscoe, introduced as Slim Krusty and Shania Payne, starts in a loose drift of station IDs, laughter, and cloud watching over the footy oval.
A thoughtful architecture conversation on design that can absorb change without losing its core value.
Radio Architecture frames good design as something tested by real buildings, shifting decisions, and the people who inherit them. Dr. John Doyle describes architecture that can accept additions or lose parts without giving up its central value, then brings that idea into…
Gary Gray links French releases, remote recording, rehearsal-room testing, and the ideas that hold albums together.
Gary Gray's Radio Carrum appearance follows the working trail behind a record, from a Saturday night show at the Bird to labels, rehearsal rooms, lyric changes, and music made between Melbourne and Sydney.
Architecture talk from inside the studio.
Design conversations with cultural consequence.
Portrait craft from inside the working week.
Architecture as argument, archive, and lived space.
Architecture, patiently thought through aloud.
Architecture practice, told from the working side.
Holly finally gets the guest chair, and it does not feel like a first meeting.
Radio Architecture starts on Bunurong Country.
Host Leah Mackis interviews Caitlyn Burt and Amir Shoenfeld, two UK-based musical theatre creators, discussing their backgrounds, collaborative work including 'When We Strike' and 'Otto Veit's Brush and Broom Workshop for the Blind', and their contributions to the arts.
The hosts discuss traffic delays caused by Penlink Roadworks on the Mornington Peninsula while introducing their show about Victorian surfing and live music.
The hosts of the How Soon Is Now podcast introduce their special guest Jib in a live episode at Radio Karam, discussing music in Melbourne.
Gary Gray arrives on Radio Carrum, and the chat takes the scenic route: Binnick, France, Torn and Frayed, Beast Records, and the two-home life of In the Manifesto on vinyl and CD.
Dark and wintry already.
A live session begins loose, with Amy and Tina welcoming Roscoe as Slim Krusty and Shania Payne while AC Saunders gets spun back in like an old mate at the door.
This episode features an interview with Liz Violi, a vocalist, musician, teacher, and performer, discussing her creative journey, work in music and education, and the importance of arts.
This episode features an interview with architect Daniel Wolkenberg about his firm Polystudio's focus on sustainable design, passive house construction, and the role of architecture in shaping relationships between buildings, materials, and spaces.
Ilana Razbash interviews architect Dan Szwaj about his collaborative work, social and environmental consciousness, and projects ranging from affordable housing to workplace design.
This episode features an interview with Keith Westbrook and Maddie Sewall, founders of Emerging Architecture Studio, discussing their practice across Victoria and Tasmania.
This episode features an interview with Christian Hampson, CEO of Yerro Bingen, discussing Indigenous-led architecture and integrating First Nations knowledge into built environment projects.