Best Andrew Hickey Podcasts (2025)

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TGIF with Kirsty Webeck, Geraldine Hickey and Claire Hooper 52:59

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Start your weekend right with TGIF, hosted by Charlie Pickering. This show features special guests including TGIF with Kirsty Webeck, Geraldine Hickey and Claire Hooper.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Song 180: “Dazed and Confused” by Led Zeppelin, Part One, The Song Remains the Same

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For those who haven’t heard the announcement I posted, songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the first part of a two-episode look at the song “Dazed and Confused” by Led Zeppelin, although this episode doesn’t get as far as Led Zeppelin’s formation, and is mostly about the intertwining session careers …

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TGIF with Tom Ballard, Urvi Majumdar and Ivan Aristeguieta 52:08

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Start your weekend right with TGIF, hosted by Charlie Pickering. This show features special guests including TGIF with Tom Ballard, Urvi Majumdar and Ivan Aristeguieta Plus a ‘poetry performance’ by Mitch McTaggart, Ambassador of Australian Poetry Month.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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TGIF with Wil Anderson, Sarah O’Neil and Heath Franklin 54:06

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Start your weekend right with TGIF, hosted by Charlie Pickering. This show features special guests including TGIF with Wil Anderson, Sarah O’Neil and Heath Franklin. Plus a musical performance from the cast of Tarzan: The Musical.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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TGIF with Kirsty Webeck, Dave Thornton and Dave O’Neil 53:11

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Start your weekend right with TGIF, hosted by Charlie Pickering. This show features special guests including TGIF with Kirsty Webeck, Dave Thornton and Dave O’Neil. And a performance by Christie Whelan-Browne from the Kimberley Akimbo musical.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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58: Alan Milburn on the 10-Year Health Plan 20:54

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Is the government’s 10-Year Health Plan the medicine the NHS needs? We ask two former health secretaries. In the second of two special episodes, we speak to Alan Milburn about the future of the NHS and his thoughts on the government’s 10-Year Health Plan. Alan was Secretary of State for Health from 1999 to 2003, during the Blair governments, with h…

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Art, Empathy & Resilience with CADY McCLAIN, Actor, Director, Writer, Artist, Musician - Highlights 11:20

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“I had to become the father of my family very young because my parents divorced when I was 12. My situation was a little bit unusual in that my father kind of disappeared, and I had been making a fair amount of money as a kid, doing commercials and television and film. We needed money, and I kind of became the breadwinner. But I had this amazing wo…

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TGIF with Claire Hooper, Suren Jayemanne and Danny McGinlay 53:19

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Start your weekend right with TGIF, hosted by Charlie Pickering. This show features special guests including TGIF with Claire Hooper, Suren Jayemanne and Danny McGinlay And a performance by pianist Josh Cohen ahead of an appearance at next week’s BLEACH festival on the Gold Coast.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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A Life in Acting with Emmy Award-winning Actor, Director, Writer CADY McCLAIN 1:06:02

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“I won my first Emmy when I was 21, which was the result of absolutely devoting myself day and night for two years to doing all the scene work. I attended classes simultaneously and did plays until my mother died. I studied with Michael Howard for eight years. Even when I was so tired I couldn't get up to do a scene, he would say, "Get up and do a …

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57: Jeremy Hunt on the 10-Year Health Plan 18:47

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Is the government’s 10-Year Health Plan the medicine the NHS needs? We ask two former health secretaries. In the first of two special episodes, we speak to Jeremy Hunt about the state of the NHS and his reaction to the government’s 10-Year Health Plan. Jeremy was Secretary of State for Health and Social Care between 2012 and 2018, in the Cameron an…

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PLEDGE WEEK: “Light Flight” by Pentangle

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Erratum: At one point here I say “Cannonball Adderley” when I mean “Nat Adderley”.This episode is part of Pledge Week 2025. For five days this week, I will be posting old Patreon bonus episodes to the main feed to encourage people to subscribe to my Patreon. If you want more of these, and only if you can afford it, subscribe for $1 a month at patre…

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PLEDGE WEEK: “Fruit Tree” by Nick Drake

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This episode is part of Pledge Week 2025. For five days this week, I will be posting old Patreon bonus episodes to the main feed to encourage people to subscribe to my Patreon. If you want more of these, and only if you can afford it, subscribe for $1 a month at patreon.com/andrewhickey . Whether you do or not, I hope you enjoy this one. (more…)…

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TGIF with Dilruk Jayasinha, Alex Ward and Tom Gleeson 53:31

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Start your weekend right with TGIF, hosted by Charlie Pickering. This show features special guests including TGIF with Dilruk Jayasinha, Alex Ward and Tom Gleeson. Plus a performance from the cast of musical ‘In The Heights’.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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PLEDGE WEEK: “Living in the Past” by Jethro Tull

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This episode is part of Pledge Week 2025. For five days this week, I will be posting old Patreon bonus episodes to the main feed to encourage people to subscribe to my Patreon. If you want more of these, and only if you can afford it, subscribe for $1 a month at patreon.com/andrewhickey . Whether you do or not, I hope you enjoy this one. (more…)…

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PLEDGE WEEK: “Pictures of Matchstick Men” by The Status Quo

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This episode is part of Pledge Week 2025. For five days this week, I will be posting old Patreon bonus episodes to the main feed to encourage people to subscribe to my Patreon. If you want more of these, and only if you can afford it, subscribe for $1 a month at patreon.com/andrewhickey . Whether you do or not, I hope you enjoy this one. (more…)…

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PLEDGE WEEK: “La conferencia secreta del Toto’s Bar” by Los Shakers

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This episode is part of Pledge Week 2025. For five days this week, I will be posting old Patreon bonus episodes to the main feed to encourage people to subscribe to my Patreon. If you want more of these, and only if you can afford it, subscribe for $1 a month at patreon.com/andrewhickey . Whether you do or not, I hope you enjoy this one. (more…)…

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Announcing Pledge Week 2025

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Transcript It’s that time of year again, the time that regular listeners have come to know as Pledge Week, where for five days (this time from Tuesday through Saturday, because I had a migraine yesterday when I should have been recording this intro) I post five old Patreon bonus episodes to the main feed as a way of persuading some of you to sign u…

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TGIF with Kirsty Webeck, Rafa Manajem and David Correos (NZ) 53:08

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Start your weekend right with TGIF, Charlie Pickering is on a gap week. So the fabulous Brian Nankervis steps up to host. This show features special guests including TGIF with Kirsty Webeck, Rafa Manajem and David Correos (NZ). Local comedian Callum Straford will be playing a tune on the piano.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Song 179: “Kick Out the Jams” by the MC5 (Public Clean Version)

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This episode, we look at the song “Kick Out the Jams” by the MC5, and the brief career of the most revolutionary guitar band of the sixties. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. As explained in the episode itself, it would be impossible to do this episode without using one particular O…

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TGIF with Lizzy Hoo, Andrew Hansen and Rowan Thambar

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Start your weekend right with TGIF, hosted by Charlie Pickering. This show features special guests including TGIF with Lizzy Hoo, Andrew Hansen and Rowan Thambar. Andrew Hansen will also be tickling the ivories on the TGIF grand piano.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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56: Are neighbourhoods the real answer to better health? – with Hilary Armstrong and Andrew O’Brien 33:10

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Our surroundings play a big role in shaping our health. And some neighbourhoods – including so-called ‘left behind areas’ – can be tough places to live, with limited economic opportunity, low levels of social mobility and social capital, and poorer health. All this contributes to people in the most deprived areas on average living 19 fewer years in…

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TGIF with Eddie Perfect, Nikki Britton and Lewis Hobba 53:12

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Start your weekend right with TGIF, hosted by Charlie Pickering. This show features special guests including TGIF with Eddie Perfect, Nikki Britton and Lewis Hobba.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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TGIF with Nath Valvo, Jordan Barr and Gillian Cosgriff 52:46

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Start your weekend right with TGIF, hosted by Brian Nankervis. This show features special guests including TGIF with Nath Valvo, Jordan Barr and Gillian Cosgriff. Plus live music by Gillian Cosgriff.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Song 178: “Who Knows Where the Time Goes?” by Fairport Convention, Part Two: “I Have no Thought of Time”

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For those who haven’t heard the announcement I posted, songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the second part of a two-episode look at the song “Who Knows Where The Time Goes?” by Fairport Convention, and the intertwining careers of Joe Boyd, Sandy Denny, and Richard Thompson. Click the full post to rea…

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TGIF with Dave Thornton, Nikki Britton and Alex Ward 52:04

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Start your weekend right with TGIF, hosted by Charlie Pickering. This show features special guests including TGIF with Dave Thornton, Nikki Britton and Alex Ward. Plus live music by the Hedwig & the Angry Inch.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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TGIF with Colin Lane, Urvi Majumdar and Josh Burton 50:44

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Start your weekend right with TGIF, hosted by Charlie Pickering. This show features special guests including TGIF with Colin Lane, Urvi Majumdar and Josh Burton. Plus live music by Josh Burton.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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An Actor Prepares - SHARON LAWRENCE on Crafting Complex Characters - Highlights 20:42

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“I would encourage you, as I do if you're an actor, to know your own equipment, know your own psychology, and use the great teachers that are synthesized in my favorite teacher's book, Moss, who I studied with later. There is a book called Intent to Live that distills down Uta Hagen, Stella Adler, Bobby Lewis, and Stanislavski. The great teachers a…

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SHARON LAWRENCE on Acting, Activism & The Art of Transformation 1:02:31

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“That transformation was key to my next step as an artist, to knowing that's what acting is. It isn't just posing; it isn't just being a version of yourself in a way that was free. Performing wasn't just performing; it was transforming. I think that artists find that in many different ways, and as actors, there are many ways into that. I would enco…

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TGIF with Bron Lewis, Ivan Aristeguieta and Bron Kuss. 52:13

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Start your weekend right with TGIF, hosted by Charlie Pickering. This show features special guests including TGIF with Bron Lewis, Ivan Aristeguieta and Bron Kuss. Plus live music by Ezra Lee and Henri Herbert.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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TGIF with Gillian Cosgriff, Lewis Hobba and Geraldine Hickey. 53:21

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Start your weekend right with TGIF, hosted by Charlie Pickering. This show features special guests including TGIF with Gillian Cosgriff, Lewis Hobba and Geraldine Hickey. Plus live music by Gillian Cosgriff.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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55: When work isn’t working: tackling the UK’s sickness problem – with Jon Ashworth and Sacha Romanovitch 36:44

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8.2 million working-age people report having a long-term health condition that limits their ability to work. 1.7 million say that work itself is making them ill or creating challenges. In addition to causing personal hardships, this decline in working-age health is causing concern among employers, politicians and policymakers. With the benefits bil…

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TGIF the sickie edition 20:09

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Just wanted to let you know that Charlie isn't feeling well today. Instead of a new episode of TGIF, we've put together a compilation of one of our favourite segments, The News from Nowhere. We hope you enjoy this special "sickie edition" of Thank God It's Friday!By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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TGIF with Tom Ballard, Annie Louey and Oliver Coleman 53:36

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Start your weekend right with TGIF, hosted by Charlie Pickering. This show features special guests including TGIF with Tom Ballard, Annie Louey and Oliver Coleman. Plus live music by Mick Thomas.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Song 178: “Who Knows Where The Time Goes?” by Fairport Convention, Part One, Going Electric

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For those who haven’t heard the announcement I posted, songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the first part of a two-episode look at the song “Who Knows Where The Time Goes?” by Fairport Convention, and the intertwining careers of Joe Boyd, Sandy Denny, and Richard Thompson. Click the full post to read…

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TGIF with Tommy Dean, Rebecca De Unamuno, Michael Hing and Jackie Loeb 53:47

4M ago53:47

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Start your weekend right with TGIF, hosted by Charlie Pickering. LIVE from the Sydney comedy festival, featuring special guests including Tommy Dean, Rebecca De Unamuno, Michael Hing and Jackie Loeb. Plus live music by Bob Downe.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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54: Abolishing NHS England: a chat with outgoing chair Richard Meddings 36:17

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‘Today we are abolishing the biggest quango in the world,’ – Wes Streeting, 13 March 2025 Many people were surprised by the government’s decision to abolish NHS England and fold its functions into the Department of Health and Social Care. Not least Richard Meddings, Chair of NHS England since 2022. Having formally completed his term in March, Richa…

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TGIF with Reuben Kaye, Kirsty Webeck and Gabbi Bolt 53:00

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Start your weekend right with TGIF, hosted by Charlie Pickering. This show features special guests including Reuben Kaye, Kirsty Webeck and Gabbi Bolt. Plus live music on piano by Gabbi Bolt.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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TGIF ANZAC day edition 22:25

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Thank god it's Friday the ANZAC day edition, hosted by Charlie Pickering. A look back at the very best bits of TGIF so far. Featuring guest like Tom Gleeson, Zoe Coombs Marr, Denise Scott, Andrew Hanson and music by Sammy J.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation