Been There Done That

Yes – Show number 850 – a good reason to have a bit of a break – for four months at least. In the meantime checkout our back catalogue of podcasts. In this show, Gordon […] http://media.blubrry.com/been_there/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/04/BTDT-2019_04_02-gordon-PODCAST.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:34 — 39.0MB) Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS The post Show Number 850 … give us a break ! appeared first on Been There Done That.

We welcome Will to the program for his second show while Gordon is away on the high seas. Chris tells of two great films from the recent Melbourne Queer Film Festival, which included some scenes […] http://media.blubrry.com/been_there/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/03/BTDT-2019_03_26-will2-PODCAST.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 46:51 — 42.9MB) Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS The post I heard it on the grapevine … appeared first on Been There Done That.

While Gordon is on the high seas, we welcome Will to the program for 2 shows, and he will share his knowledge with us. At this sad time, we offer our sympathies and concern for […] http://media.blubrry.com/been_there/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/03/BTDT-2019_03_19-will1-PODCAST.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:23 — 38.8MB) Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS The post What is reality … ? appeared first on Been There Done That.

In this week’s show, we talk about our Labour Day holiday which has morphed into Moomba. The origins of the 8-hour working day are being forgotten in the modern world of low wages, poor working […] http://media.blubrry.com/been_there/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/03/BTDT-2019_03_12-labour-day-PODCAST.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:52 — 39.3MB) Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS The post Somethings take time … appeared first on Been There Done That.

In this week’s show, we chat about the Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras telecast and what pleased us (as viewers) – and note that the parade was enthusiastically received by the crowds lining the […] http://media.blubrry.com/been_there/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/03/BTDT-2019_03_05-inman-PODCAST.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:52 — 39.3MB) Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS The post Our Rainbow World … appeared first on Been There Done That.

In this week’s show, we discuss how Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is planning to become ‘carbon neutral’ with the reduction of rubbish after the parade, and elimination of glitter (gasp) and balloons.  We […] http://media.blubrry.com/been_there/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/02/BTDT-2019_02_26-PODCAST-mgras.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 43:39 — 40.0MB) Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS The post All that glitters … appeared first on Been There Done That.

In this week’s show, we discuss in broad terms the wonderful program listing of the forthcoming Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and applaud the range of films to be shown and the reflection of positive changes […] http://media.blubrry.com/been_there/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/02/BTDT-2019_02_19-MQFF-PODCAST.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:17 — 38.7MB) Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS The post Eye Candy on the screen and on the streets … appeared first on Been There Done That.

In this week’s show, we honour gay icons who have birthdays around this time, and who have entertained us and widened our horizons of what it means to be gay.  We salute the late Graham Kennedy […] http://media.blubrry.com/been_there/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/02/BTDT-2019_02_12-PODCAST-Gra-Gra.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 40:52 — 18.7MB) Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS The post Still out loud and prod appeared first on Been There Done That.

Once again, Pride March revealed the breadth and depth of our wide community to the general public in a wonderful display of colour and movement, held in fierce morning sunshine in Melbourne, with a gentle breeze […] http://media.blubrry.com/been_there/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/02/BTDT-2019_02_05-Fires-PODCAST.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:46 — 38.2MB) Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS The post Pride – letting the world know that we’re here… appeared first on Been There Done That.

In this week’s show, we wonder whether we Australians look forward to a public holiday but tend to ignore the reasons behind the non-work day. There is now greater interest in the celebration known as […] http://media.blubrry.com/been_there/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/01/BTDT-2019_01_29-PODCAST-public-hols.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:06 — 37.6MB) Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS The post Public Holidays … let’s do away with them? appeared first on Been There Done That.

We attended our community’s ‘midsumma Carnival Day’  on Sunday 20 January 2019 at Alexandra Gardens – All happy and gay – what a great day. In this week’s program, we refer to the ongoing example […] http://media.blubrry.com/been_there/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/01/BTDT-2019_01_22-carnival-PODCAST.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:33 — 39.0MB) Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS The post Midsumma time … and the livin’ is breezy! appeared first on Been There Done That.

It’s our summertime and along with bushfires, the heat and drying rivers, we must prepare and engage in our community’s 23-day festival of ‘midsumma’ and especially next Sunday’s Carnival Day at Alexandra Gardens. In this […] http://media.blubrry.com/been_there/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/01/BTDT-2019_01_15-msumma-PODCAST.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:09 — 38.6MB) Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS The post Summertime … and the livin’ is easy? appeared first on Been There Done That.

Happy New Year to Everyone.  How quickly the years roll around? And have our Resolutions failed already? We express concern at the statistics of dangerous behaviour exhibited at some dance parties, by those wishing to enhance […] http://media.blubrry.com/been_there/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2019/01/BTDT-2019_01_08-PODCAST-NY-Resolutions.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:44 — 38.2MB) Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS The post Let’s get soaking wet … on our Yacht. appeared first on Been There Done That.

“It never rains but it pours” – and we Melbourne-ites freak out when we get tropical downpours. Such is the variability of our weather that we are confused – is it global warming or Pluvius […] http://media.blubrry.com/been_there/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2018/12/BTDT_2018_12_18-C-Eve-PODCAST.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 43:37 — 39.9MB) Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS The post Let’s get soaking wet … appeared first on Been There Done That.

We are getting tired of the pressure to spend money on Christmas gifts, or being approached by charity-muggers (those tin rattlers – although these days they want to sign us for continuing e-donations). There is […] http://media.blubrry.com/been_there/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2018/12/BTDT_2018_12_11-Chuggers-PODCAST.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 40:49 — 37.4MB) Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS The post Soon it will be Easter … appeared first on Been There Done That.

The recent uprising of young students seems to be a positive outcome of social media commentary, referencing the lack of initiative of the central government about climate changes all around Australia this summer season. The […] http://media.blubrry.com/been_there/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2018/12/BTDT_2018_12_04-school-kids-PODCAST-1.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:54 — 38.4MB) Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS The post Out of the mouths of babes … appeared first on Been There Done That.

  As we again come to December, we reflect upon two major interlocked events in the gay history of Melbourne – the unwanted arrival of AIDS in Australia in 1982 and the horror which it […] http://media.blubrry.com/been_there/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2018/11/BTDT_2018_11_27-AIDS-JOY-PODCAST.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 44:21 — 40.6MB) Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS The post Important Anniversaries … World AIDS Day & JOY – our gay radio station appeared first on Been There Done That.

Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) is an annual observance on November 20 that honours the memory of those whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence, and we hope that with education and awareness […] http://media.blubrry.com/been_there/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2018/11/BTDT_2018_11_20-PODCAST-TDoR.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 39:45 — 36.4MB) Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS The post Reality and fantasy … appeared first on Been There Done That.

This episode begins with our thoughts on Remembrance Day 2018, noting that our troops served in France and their memory is still being honoured by those devastated communities. We suggest that maybe Australia is moving […] http://media.blubrry.com/been_there/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2018/11/BTDT_2018_11_13-Remem-PODCAST.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 39:38 — 36.3MB) Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS The post Battles won and lost … appeared first on Been There Done That.

This episode begins with our thoughts on the ‘race that stops the nation’ – the horse races that make up The Melbourne Cup Carnival. We talk about some historical facts, including the 1930 race won […] http://media.blubrry.com/been_there/p/joy.org.au/beentheredonethat/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2018/11/BTDT_2018_11_06-MelbCup-PODCAST.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:17 — 37.8MB) Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS The post Horses and soldiers get muddy boots … appeared first on Been There Done That.