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Social Critique and Crass Language. Thursday mornings 9am - 10am, on 4zzz 102.1 fm. (www.4zzzfm.org.au/program/radio-reversal) It's fun!

Radio Reversal is a show that subjects aspects of everyday life to historico-political, theoretical, cheeky, irreverent, high brow, low brow, eye brow, warm-hearted analysis. Our aim is to see the world more clearly, think about what we'd like it to become, and how we can make that happen. We think that discussing these sorts of ideas is one way to ease the lessen the alienation that affects many

of us trying to make sense of a world that so often makes no sense of us. We also play loads of awesome music (sometimes thematic!) with great enthusiasm for requests and an emphasis on supporting local artists. Tune in on 102.1 fm, stream online from 4zzzfm.org.au, or listen to our podcasts:
http://radioreversal.podbean.com/

You can also listen to our more recent shows via 4zzz's on demand page:
http://ondemand.4zzzfm.org.au/radio-reversal

Email us! radio.reversal(at)gmail.com

07/01/2026

Good morning Zedheads, hope the first week of the year has treated you kindly.

Unusually for us, we have a very music-heavy show coming your way this morning, due to some misadventure 😅. However! We will also be bringing you one of the speeches from the snap action in solidarity with Venezuela, held in Magan-djin on Jan 4th. We'll return to this in more depth in future weeks, and keep your eyes peeled for further actions to stand against imperialism in the coming weeks.

Tune in 9-10am to 4ZZZ for way more music than you're used to from us, most of it new, most of it local, all of it great

31/12/2025

Happy New Year Zedly Ones! For our first show of 2026, it's Marissa and Han in the studio bringing you an interview with friend of the show, Sophia, about medical care and care beyond it. Sophia is currently working as a doctor and she is also involved in organising outside formal medical institutions. In this interview, she shares reflections on public health, medical gatekeeping, and the need to build liberatory structures for (medical) care outside the state.

Tune in 9–10am at 102.1FM 4ZZZ or catch up on-demand at https://4zzz.org.au/

Image description: Collective Flourishing by Olly Costello (https://ollycostello.com/shop-pages)

17/12/2025

Good morning Zedheads! Today's show is themed, 'Our Year in Reading', and we called on friends of the show and our mates in the Brisbane Free University Radical Reading Group to give us some short and snappy reviews of books they've read this year, to help you populate your summer reading lists and maybe give you some ideas for any last minute gifts you might be running around for.

We'll also be playing lots of new and local music, so tune in from 9-10am on 4ZZZ for a bit of a low key one for this, our last show of 2025

10/12/2025

Morning Zedlectrics! On today's show, Han is once again joining you in the studio to chat about streaming, spotify, and whether it's time for you to think about divesting, drawing on the research shared in Liz Pelly's book "Mood Machine: The rise of Spotify and the cost of the perfect playlist." They'll talk through some of the most egregious aspects of the streaming giant, as well as the complexities when it comes to finding a straightforward alternative. Basically, one of the best things you can do is tune into your favourite local community radio instead! Like 4ZZZ 102.1FM from 9–10am this morning, or via 4zzz.org.au, for instance...

03/12/2025

Morning Zedalytes! Han in the studio with you this morn to share some of the best and worst of their book stack this year. They read too much so you don't have to! Tune in for reading recommendations and some pointers on what to avoid wasting your precious time on, accompanied by another banging playlist. 9–10am on 102.1FM 4ZZZ, or catch up on-demand via https://4zzz.org.au/

Pic features one of Han n Ari's many bookcases, along with bookcase cat Māra. If you're interested in staying up to date with Han's reading, you can connect with them on Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/bookbanshee

19/11/2025

Wake up Zedheads! It's Thursday morning and Radio Reversal is hitting the airwaves at 9am, and today on the show we are bringing you recordings of some of the speeches at Tuesday evening's Vigil to Remember People Who Died While Experiencing Homelessness. This Vigil, organised by the Anti-Poverty Network QLD and Kindness First - Housing Justice, brought people together in front of City Hall in KGS to remember and grieve the three unhoused people have died in the past few weeks in brisbane and redcliffe. This gathering refused to let this loss of life go unacknowledged and unfelt, and positioned these deaths as outcomes of a deeply unjust housing system, and of policies that fail people, that fail our communities.

We're grateful to have been permitted to record this event and share some of the speeches with you, dear listeners, and we'll be playing them from 9am, alongside lots of new and local music on 4ZZZ. Tune in!

12/11/2025

Good morro Zedpals! On the show today, Han's in the studio, sharing some excerpts from a podcast project that has long been in the works as part of their research alongside Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) at the Centre of Critical Indigenous Studies and the Centre for Global Indigenous Futures (Wallumattagal Campus, MQ), on Dharug Ngurra exploring the work and contributions to the public imaginary by q***r Indigenous creative artists. We've called it Q***R AS.

The Q***R AS podcast features expansive conversations with LGBTIQA+ Indigenous creative practitioners who share their work, lives, and processes of making. Partnering with IndigenousX, Q***R AS explores anti-colonial q***r-centred joy, practice, and the everyday acts of resistance. We’ve spoken with q***r Indigenous people who have challenged and represented across their artmaking, including Ben Graetz, Ellen van Neerven, Peter Waples-Crowe, Charlotte Allingham, Shaz Davis, and more. Q***R AS is hosted by Wiradjuri trans/non-binary creative artist and Professor of Critical Indigenous Studies Sandy O’Sullivan, with settler trans/non-binary researcher, musicker, and radio maker Dr Han Reardon-Smith. Theme music is also by Sandy and Han, and audio editing and podcast production is by Han. Cover art is by Wiradjuri trans/non-binary artist Dylan Barnes.

Two episodes are now available, and we'll play extracts from both of them on the show today: with Wiradjuri poet, writer, artist, and filmmaker Jazz Money, and with UK-based Black trans filmmaker Campbell X. Hear the full episodes, read the transcripts, and dive into all aspects of our research work at https://q***r-as.org/a-podcast/

Catch today's Radio Reversal by tuning in 9–10am on 102.1FM 4ZZZ, or go to https://4zzz.org.au/ to listen live or on-demand.

05/11/2025

Good morning Zedheads!

Today on Radio Reversal Nat and Marissa are in the studio with a couple of things for your listening ears. First up we have an interview with our friend Vi from the Anti Poverty Network - QLD, talking to us about the upcoming Vigil to Remember People Who Died While Experiencing Homelessness. Three unhoused people have died in the past few weeks in brisbane and redcliffe, and the folk at APN QLD and Kindness First - Housing Justice are organising this vigil in their memory, and to not let the death toll of housing policies (at local, state, and federal levels) go unacknowledged or unrecognised. The Vigil is on 18th November (Tuesday), 5pm at King George Square (see you there!).

In the second half of the show, Nat and Marissa will be talking through 'This Week in Moral Panics' - some of the confected outrage and fear-mongering bu****it we've come across in the last couple of weeks, and how these reveal the workings of the settler colony and capitalism.

Tune in on 4ZZZ from 9-10am for this, and lots of new and local music.

Image below is by Vi.

22/10/2025

Good morning Zedheads!

On this already-very-sweaty Thursday morning, Nat and Marissa are joined in the studio by friend-of-the-show and Radio Reversal's very own climate change correspondent, Dr Ed Morgan, to discuss the recent release of the National Climate Risk Assessment. In particular, we dig into what, if anything is new in the report, how we contextualise it alongside the Albanese Government's *many* fossil fuel development approvals and decades of inaction across all levels of government. We will talk a bit about how the report defines and understands 'risk', and what the implications of this are. We're also going to link these conversations back to the chats we've been having on and off all year about about crisis, disasters, and collective futures in the wake of Cyclone Alfred (to catch up on these discussions, find the Radio Reversal Podcast on all the podcasting apps!), and how we work together to build towards climate just futures.

Tune in 9-10am on 4ZZZ, or catch up later on demand. And stay cool!!!

Image of heatwave map from Brisbane Times.

15/10/2025

Morning Zedthreaders, Han in the studio with you today, with a challenging but vital show for you, featuring speakers from last weekend's Justice for Palestine Magan-djin protest gathering as part of the nationwide 12 October March for Palestine. First up is Wangerriburra and Birri Gubba activist Sam Woripa Watson, asserting the need to continue fighting alongside the news of a so-called ceasefire. Next up is Dr Saya Aziz, Australian anaesthetist, describing the horrors she witnessed whilst working at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, on behalf of PANZMA (Palestinian Aust NZ Medical Association). Finally, former Freedom Flotilla participant, Gold Coast grandmother and Uni of Qld educator Helen O'Sullivan, reflects on the Sumud Flotilla and the pause in bombing, along with the ongoing fight that stretches before us.

As always, these words are accompanied by some brilliant tunes by local and international artists. Tune in to 102.1FM 4ZZZ live or catch up on-demand at https://4zzz.org.au, and for more go to our podcast page https://www.radioreversal.org/

08/10/2025

Good morning zedly ones! We hope these summery spring days are treating you well. Today on the show, we are continuing our intermittent series on fascism, and its contemporary expressions and drivers in politics, in media, in the streets, and in pop culture.

In recent weeks, we have seen fascists on the street here in Magan-djin, and that has no doubt been on many people’s minds. We have also witnessed the staunch counter-protests organised and led by First Nations peoples. And, of course, this action on the streets is also all taking place as we pass two years of openly brutal genocide being perpetrated by Israel in Gaza and, in more subtle forms, across Palestine. The ongoing presence on the streets of Magan-djin to demand liberation and justice for Palestine and Palestinians is at the front of our minds as we’re thinking about fascism.

Today we're bringing you a conversation Marissa had earlier this week with Dr Anastasia Kanjere, friend of the show (listeners would have last heard from Anastasia in a series a couple years back on transformative union organising). Anastasia is a settler scholar based in Naarm, an anti-fascist, deep thinker and all-round amazing human. In this conversation, we’re thinking with Anastasia about the links between fascism and the broader political realities in so-called australia. We explore how the academic work about fascism and anti-fascist resistance has been slower to make links across struggles, and discuss some of the affective and intellectual lies that fascism tells about itself, particularly the marginality of fascism in a settler colonial society structured by white supremacist logics and violence, and how fascism weaponises feelings of vulnerability to obfuscate the harm they perpetrate and call for.

This conversation builds on the work that Anastasia has written, and specifically Anastasia’s chapter published in the 2023 book Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia. The text is linked below for anyone who'd like to take a look!

Tune in from 9-10am on 4ZZZ 102.1FM for all this and lots of new, local music. And see you on the streets at the Justice for Palestine Magan-djin Nationwide March for Palestine this Sunday, 1pm, Queens Gardens.

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24/09/2025

Good morning Zedly ones! Hope you're having a beautiful morning.

On last week's show we played a recording of a keynote by Dr Emmy Rākete (Ngāpuhi), co-founder and spokesperson of People Against Prisons Aotearoa (PAPA) and critical Marxist scholar at University of Auckland, whose work bridges activism and academia and is grounded in struggles for liberation for incarcerated Māori and q***r people.

Today we are brining you PART 2 of this excellent event, ‘Organising for Prison Abolition’ held back in June at Trades Hall in Naarm, hosted by Flatout, People Against Prisons Aotearoa (PAPA), and Dr Emma Russell as part of her 'Reconceptualizing Risk' ARC DECRA research project.

Part 2 is a phenomenonal panel discussion chaired by Nina from Flatout, and featuring Kelly Flanagan, who is a proud Wiradjuri woman, lived experience advocate and FIGJAM member, alongside Stacey Stokes, writer and member of the Beyond Bricks and Bars steering committee (see link to her substack below), and founding members of People Against Prisons Aotearoa Dr Emmy Rākete and Dr Ti Lamusse.

This is a rich, warm, informative, transformative conversation about prison abolition, and how we can build safety and care for and with each other, in our communities. It features some topics and language that might not be right today for all listeners, including some discussions of state violence, violence experienced while incarcerated, sexual assault, death by su***de, and the occasional swear word. If you're not in the right place for those topics today but would like to listen back another time, you will be able to listen to this week's show (and Emmy's keynote from last week) via the 4ZZZ website for a few weeks, and (eventually) we will release both parts in full on the Radio Reversal Podcast (available on all good podcast platforms and some bad ones).

It'll be a packed show, tune in to 102.1FM from 9-10am for these big chats alongside some new and local music.

Image below from one of Flatout's campaigns, created by the brilliant Sam Wallman (who else?!)

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