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The 9pm Sweet Times with Carol Duncan OAM

Two white people mug for the camera, the image full of orange tones as the afternoon sunlight streams into a pub’s front bar. On the left is a bloke with short greying hair and glasses. That’s Stilgherrian. On the right, looking taller because she’s standing, is a smiling woman with kind, intelligent eyes. That’s Carol Duncan. Behind them, a poster says there’s Joker Poker on Fridays.
Stilgherrian and Carol Duncan enjoy a Saturday afternoon at The Grand Hotel, Newcastle, on 4 July 2026. (Photo: Carol Duncan).

A few weeks ago I went to Newcastle, the Australian one, and spent some time chatting with the voice of Newcastle herself, Carol Duncan OAM. She was ABC Radio’s morning presenter for quite some years, then she was a city councillor, and she does a lot of other things too.

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The 9pm National Plan to Plan to Have a COVID-19 Plan with Upulie Divisekera and Dr Trent Yarwood

Upulie Divisekera (left) and Dr Trent Yarwood. (Photos: Supplied, digital processing by Stilgherrian)

The Late Winter Series 2021 of the Edict continues with a look at how Australia is handling the COVID-19 pandemic. Our guests are science communicator and medical researcher Upulie Divisekera and infectious diseases physician Dr Trent Yarwood.

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The 9pm Happy Birthday Coronavirus Space Karen Christmas with Upulie Divisekera

Upulie Divisekera and a science machine. (Photo: Nathan Fulton / Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade used under a Creative Commons CC BY 2.0 license)

Upulie Divisekera joins me once again for the third episode in the End of Spring Series 2020. She’s a molecular biologist, nanotechnologist, science communicator, and dinosaur evangelist.

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