Weekly Wrap 777: The music podcast has finally appeared so let’s look at an old railway station

The view from a bridge looking down over Mount Victoria station, a classic Victorian-era sandstone building with, for the most part, a slate roof. On the platform nearest the viewer stands a NSW TrainLink V-set train, with fluted stainless steel sides, and its distinctive two-deck layout. The fluter silver texture of the train’s roof contrasts nicely with the fluted and relatively new corrugated iron roof of the opposite platform.

Yes, in my week of Monday 14 to Sunday 20 April 2025 the first pilot episode of Another Untitled Music Podcast was finally posted, and people seem to be liking it? And this season’s crowdfunder hit its first target, thank you. I am a happy little boy.

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The 9pm Curiously Circular Ham and Potato with John Birmingham

John Birmingham is loomed over by a chicken parmigiana, for reasons which are explained in the podcast. (Photo: Supplied; schnitzel photo and digital imaging: Stilgherrian)

The spring series of The 9pm Edict continues with another visit from author, columnist, and man of words in so many, many dubious contexts, John Birmingham.

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