Late Lunch with Bridget Backhaus and Ellie Freeman

Bridget Backhaus and Ellie Freeman serve up a range of news, features and interviews by women about women from community radio programs around Australia. Celebrate the diversity of the sector with our show broadcast from 4EB in Brisbane;  and stories coming from programs The Wire, Fair Comment, All the Best and Where Are You From? and from 8CCC and CAAMA in Alice Springs, Noongar Radio in Perth, FBi Radio in Sydney and 3MBS, JOY 94.9 and SYN in Melbourne.

The program profiles a wide variety of women from diverse backgrounds, as well as some familiar voices across sport, journalism, performance, and feminism in Australia today. Hear from Jess Hill, Eva Cox, Ellyse Perry, Candy Bowers, Saba Abraham, Mish Grigor of POST, Steph Hughes of Dick Diver and Boomgates, Josie Jones and more.

The program will also feature vox pops from ethnic broadcasters explaining their programs in English and wishing us a "Happy International Women's Day" in their own language.

As part of our interview with Steph Hughes, producer Tess Lawley made us a mixtape of Steph's influences. You can hear it in full here.

Presented by Bridget Backhaus and Ellie Freeman.
Produced at 4EB, Brisbane.