#CelebratingMen

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1 month ago

Keith Urban With special guest: * Jeff Apter … in conversation with Bill Kable Our own Keith Urban is an enormous success in the biggest music market of all, the United States. Who knew? For some reason Keith Urban has never been really big or even acknowledged in Australia and today we get a few clues as to why that is so. There is a lot more to Keith than the amiable coach we see in The Voice on Australian TV and our guest today can let us in on some surprises. In his new book Keith Urban our special guest Jeff Appter takes us from Keith’s birth in New Zealand to childhood days on the outskirts of Brisbane to being “discovered” while playing at the Bayview Hotel in Sydney and reaching the stage where he is asked to sing at the opening of the Tokyo Olympic Games. On top of that Keith was married to Nicole Kidman for 19 years to add a bit of Hollywood glamour to his life. Podcast (mp3)

Keith Urban #2026 #CelebratingMen #Depression

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Humanising Men

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2 months ago

Nancy Business With special guest: * RWR (Rob) McDonald … in conversation with Bill Kable This story can stand alone. But if you have read the first book in the series, The Nancys, you will be even keener to see what happens in Rob McDonald’s new book Nancy Business. For anyone who loves the British murder mysteries such as Frost, Inspector Linley, Taggart and all the others Nancy Business is a treat. But there are a few twists that you do not often find. The narrator and main character is a young girl in Otago a small town on the South Island of New Zealand whose father died about a year ago. Her name is Tippy Chan and with her uncle Pike and his boyfriend Devon they make a formidable team for solving a mysterious murder mystery. This is a modern family story and the relationships are explored with all the black comedy and snappy dialogue we might hope for. Given that the author is himself in a “rainbow family” he has special insights and we explore with Rob some of how this type of family compares with other families. Podcast (mp3)

Nancy Business #2026 #CelebratingMen #GenderampMasculinities

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Humanising Men

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2 months ago

The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins With special guest: * Peter FitzSimons … in conversation with Bill Kable The title tells it all in the latest book by Peter FitzSimons whom we are excited to welcome back to Dads on the Air. In The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins we hear about the life of a genuine Australian hero with so many adventures that a fraction of them would seem to fill the quota to qualify for that description. This man was decorated in World War 1 while not a combatant, described by another hero, Monash, as the bravest man he had ever had under his command, and yet few Australians had heard of him prior to the release of this book by our guest. Podcast (mp3)

The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins #2026 #BoysRitesofPassage #CelebratingMen

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Humanising Men

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3 months ago

Bad Boy Boogie With special guest: * Jeff Apter in conversation with Bill Kable Bon Scott as his name might suggest was born in Scotland but after his parents signed up to be £10 Poms he arrived in Australia at the age of 6 to a new life. That short life was filled to the brim and Bon provided plenty of his own commentary on his wild adventures before and during his time with the world beating rock band AC/DC. Our guest today is writer Jeff Apter the author of Bad Boy Boogie, a new book published by Allen & Unwin. Jeff is very familiar with the AC/DC story having previously written about other members of the band the Young brothers and original bass player Mark Evans. When we speak with Jeff again today we are able to go behind the scenes to find out how Bon fitted in so quickly and easily with the Young brothers in their closely guarded troupe. We find out more about the real Bon Scott, his wild side where a party could go on for days but also how many women who came into his orbit described his as a real gentleman. Podcast (mp3)

Bad Boy Boogie #2025 #CelebratingMen #InternationalPerspectives

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Humanising Men

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3 months ago

Man Unplugged With special guest: * John Broadbent … in conversation with Bill Kable Our guest today lets us know about secret men’s business. John Broadbent takes us on a journey to discover what we do not know about ourselves. John has written a new book Man Unplugged where he sets out some questions we should be asking ourselves. Surprisingly even elders, that is men who have been on this earth for fifty years or more, may be surprised to find out what is really driving them. Since the first edition of this book came out ten years ago there have been significant changes in John’s life and it became necessary to do an update with many many insights for all of us. One of these insights that could have a major impact on all of us is how relationships can more easily form and be improved. This is by men acknowledging that they have a feminine “aspect” as distinct from the somewhat critical reference to a feminine “side”. Once acknowledged men can take advantage of this in activities such as art and music. A man can learn to live between his masculine and feminine aspects. Wisdom emerges when a man can call on both or either of these principles. Podcast (mp3)

Man Unplugged #2025 #BoysRitesofPassage #CelebratingMen

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All Services Global

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3 months ago

Celebrating the strength, dedication, and leadership of the men who help us build safer, cleaner, and more efficient spaces every day. 😇

👨🏻‍💼 Happy International Men’s Day! 💙

#InternationalMensDay #MensDay2025 #AllServicesGlobal #ASGTeam #CelebratingMen #MensDayCelebration #ASG #MensDay #19thNovember

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Alpha Brackets

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3 months ago

International Men's Day 2025

Here’s to the men who show up.
To the listeners, the doers, and the dreamers.
To the quiet strength and the loud laughter.

Thank you for everything you bring to the table. Today, we celebrate you.

Happy International Men’s Day! 💙

#InternationalMensDay #MensDay2025 #AlphaBrackets #CelebratingMen

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Humanising Men

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4 months ago

The Natural With special guests: * Brendan Morris & Stephan Wellink … in conversation with Bill Kable The Thornetts, a band of brothers as Shakespeare might have called them. Today we explore what makes a champion when we hear about a sporting giant from 1960’s Australia, namely Richard, or as he was more commonly known, Dick Thornett. Dick was the youngest in a family of champions. Dick’s oldest brother was John who became the Captain of the Australian Rugby team, the Wallabies. Under John, the Wallabies had a legendary tour of South Africa. The next brother Ken also played Rugby at a representative level but is best known for his Rugby League abilities. Starting his Rugby League career in England he became known as the Mayor of Leeds before he came back to Australia representing Parramatta and Australia in the Kangaroos. Dick is called “the Natural” because he was so good at any sport he turned his hand to. After representing Australia in water polo at the 1960 Olympics in Rome he went on to represent Australia in two very different sports namely Rugby and Rugby League. Podcast (mp3)

The Natural #2025 #CelebratingMen #RaisingKids

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Humanising Men

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4 months ago

Behind Dark Eyes With special guest: * Jeff Apter … in conversation with Bill Kable Everyone remembers Jon English with those raccoon eyes and tall thin frame contributing to a very distinctive appearance. Jon English had regular appearances in so many different forms of entertainment. He was a rock singer, a star of live musicals, a romantic star of acclaimed television series, and at all times a rascal. In between those activities he wrote sensitive music and became an entrepreneur. But there was a lot more to his fascinating story as revealed by our guest today. Jeff Apter wrote Behind Dark Eyes: The True Story of Jon English. It is the subtitle of the book which gives a clue that all was not sunshine and roses for Jon English. Podcast (mp3)

Behind Dark Eyes #2025 #CelebratingMen #Depression

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Humanising Men

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4 months ago

The Little Book of Cosmic Catastrophes With special guest: * Dr Sara Webb … in conversation with Bill Kable The title of this program may look as though it will make us doom struck or at least a little gloomy but strangely it does not. This might have something to do with our guest who is so bright and cheery talking about these biggest of the biggest of issues. Dr Sara Webb has written The Little Book of Cosmic Catastrophes (That Could End the World) for a general audience who will be able to get a better understanding of where we have come from and where our Earth and humanity itself will go. Today we talk about what has happened in the distant past, in fact when time began. An amazing number of things had to go just right for the universe as we know it to exist. This goes back to the laws of physics as explored in the recent past by Albert Einstein. Who knew that if the forces between the atomic particles were different, the matter of which we are made simply would not have formed? Podcast (mp3)

The Little Book of Cosmic Catastrophes #2025 #CelebratingMen #InternationalPerspectives

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Humanising Men

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5 months ago

Patting the Shark - Prostate Cancer Awareness Month Special With special guest: * Tim Baker … in conversation with Bill Kable Patting the shark? This does not seem to be a good life lesson but when we hear Tim Baker explain the title it all makes sense. Surfers such as Mick Fanning have had to confront their mortality. Mick is an old friend of Tim’s and he faced a shark in front of the world’s cameras. Many of us saw him swimming next to a man eating shark in the shark’s own territory. Tim Baker has had to face a different type of mortal threat, namely a diagnosis of advanced prostate cancer. We do not know how we would react if confronted with this situation but Tim’s new book Patting the Shark takes us right into that world and he gives us a no holds barred account of what it is really like. Podcast (mp3)

Patting the Shark - Prostate Cancer Awareness Month Special #2025 #CelebratingMen #Depression

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Humanising Men

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6 months ago

Fatherhood: Stories about being a Dad With special guest: * William McInnes … in conversation with Bill Kable In today’s program we go behind the public face of William McInnes. We do not speak to Max Connors from SeaChange, we speak to William McInnes the Dad from Queensland about his real life love of being a father to his son and daughter. We get to hear lots of stories as included in William’s new book Fatherhood: Stories about being A Dad. As William tells us, being a Dad is a serious business but it is at the same time a funny, heart-warming and at times scary experience. This is a Father’s Day special that will bring back many memories for all sorts of Dads and for the children and grandchildren of Dads. There are tales here that sound just like a friendly chat over the back fence, or at a backyard BBQ. Podcast (mp3)

Fatherhood: Stories about being a Dad #2025 #CelebratingMen #Grandparents

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Humanising Men

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7 months ago

Saving Lieutenant Kennedy With special guest: * Brett Mason … in conversation with Bill Kable Most Australians have some knowledge of the turning point in the Pacific war when the fear of invasion lessened. Most of us know something of the heroic story of Lieutenant John F Kennedy or JFK as he became known. Brett Mason in his book Saving Lieutenant Kennedy fills in the gaps in this amazing and hugely consequential story. These events literally changed the history of the world because if JFK had not survived it is conceivable that nuclear conflict could have erupted in the years that followed. The story happens to involve an Australian who was also heroic, namely Lieutenant Reg Evans of the RAN. Reg Evans operated behind enemy lines knowing that if they were to be betrayed he would certainly be tortured and killed. Evans relied on his Solomons Islands friends who faced the same threats in what they were doing. Evans and JFK were two very different personalities brought together in August 1943 in a way that echoes the discovery of Dr Livingstone in the African jungle. JFK’s words on being discovered on an uninhabited island of the south Pacific? “Man, am I glad to see you!” Podcast (mp3)

Saving Lieutenant Kennedy #2025 #CelebratingMen #InternationalPerspectives

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Humanising Men

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10 months ago

The Platoon Commander With special guest: * John O’Halloran … in conversation with Bill Kable John O’Halloran was an unlikely war hero. With the assistance of Ric Teague John tells his story for the first time in The Platoon Commander: The extraordinary story of the man who led Australia’s most decorated platoon of the Vietnam War. Coming from Tamworth in country NSW John was called up in the first conscription ballot. But before doing his compulsory medical he was involved in a street accident which badly damaged his foot which should have ruled him out as medically unfit. However with a bit of help from a local medico he got over that first hurdle and soon distinguished himself in training. John was made Platoon Commander and at the age of 21 he was sent to Vietnam. In that war-torn country he now had enemy soldiers shooting at him, trying their best to kill him. And the men under his command were dependent for their lives on his decisions under fire. Podcast (mp3)

The Platoon Commander #2025 #CelebratingMen #InternationalPerspectives

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Humanising Men

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11 months ago

From Little Things Big Things Grow With special guest: * John Stapleton … in conversation with Bill Kable John Stapleton is a legend at Dads on the Air. In the year 2000 while working as a journalist he became involved with a number of fathers who struggled to see their own…

From Little Things Big Things Grow #2025 #CelebratingMen #FamilyLaw

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Let’s Celebrate

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1 year ago

Men Watchers Day – A Fun Twist

Today’s the day to celebrate the men in your life! Whether it’s their style, humor, or kindness, share what you appreciate about them. Tag someone who deserves a shout-out! #MenWatchersDay #AppreciateHim #CelebratingMen

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Humanising Men

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1 year ago