Weekend Nights with Joel Helmes

Joel Helmes

Weekend Nights

Agatha Christie Radio

For many years, the source of nightly entertainment was radio serials; there is now a theatre production that pays tribute to the golden days of radio by recreating the Agatha Christie Radio plays in front of a live audience. Joel caught up to talk about the dying art of the radio serial and the history of this classic performing style of yesteryear.

Sam Cutler

Best known as the tour manager for the Rolling Stones, Sam Cutler joined Joel to talk about life on the road with Keith Richard, Mick Jagger, Life on the tour and of course that fateful night at Altamont. His biography “You can’t always get what you want” was released this week so we take a look into the life of the man behind the band.

Paul Greene

Once representing Australia as a sprinter at the Olympic and Commonwealth games, Paul Greene’s sideline hobby has turned into his most loved profession. One of Australia’s best kept secrets in the music industry, Paul talks to Joel Helmes about the road to his current destination.

Bellamy Brothers

The Bellamy Brothers stormed to the top of the charts in 60 countries in 1976 with “Let Your Love Flow”, they followed it up with a string of country hits including “If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me”. The Bellamy Brothers have toured Australia three times and remain much loved among audiences around the world.

Cesia and Abe Goldberg

A special Valentines Day interview – They grew up in Poland just three blocks apart… yet they didn’t know each other. They met in the shadows of war and fell deeply in love. Now half a world away and 60 years later, they are still very much in love. We look at their remarkable life together and find out what makes a happy and love filled life.

Melinda Gainsford-Taylor

Australia’s track darling of the 1990’s share her life experiences and talks about her career starting in little athletics and now she’s returning the favor working with kids chasing the Olympic dreams.

Professor Andreas Obermair

Director of Research, Queensland Centre for Gynaecological Cancer – Every 11 hours an Australian woman dies of ovarian cancer, and unfortunately there is no early detection screening test. Joel and Professor Obermair discuss how important it is for women to watch for early detection signs in the lead up to Ovarian Cancer Awareness Week.

Social Butterflies

CITY worker Sabrina Martin has launched a social networking website with a difference. Rather than whiling away their Friday and Saturday nights facing a computer screen, Social Butterflies encourages people to rediscover nights out on the town and press the flesh with friends.

Dracula's at the Gold Coast

Joel is joined by some really creepy vampires in the studio! Straight from 'Dracula's' at the Gold Coast, which is rapidly approaching 30 years of business, are Richard and Rudi who divulge the experience to be had at their venue. Can Joel come out of this interview alive?

Peter Alexander

A real Aussie success story, Peter Alexander started his mail order pyjama business on his living room floor and turned it into one of Australia’s most recognised fashion labels. Joel caught up with Peter and discussed his fascinating life.

Mike Love

Joel had a career altering moment when he got the opportunity to talk to one of the founding members of The Beach Boys, Mike Love, one on one. Here all about his career, the rivalry with the Beatles and the fascinating story of what seems to be an everlasting career.

Ian Hewitson

Australia’s Original Master Chef shares his tales of cooking and life. From humble beginnings as a Melbourne restaurateur, to one of the most recognisable faces in Australia. Joel and Ian look back on the life of a born Kiwi that still calls Australia home.

Craig Mathieson

The musical voice of three generations, Craig Mathieson, music journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Rolling Stone magazine gives us an insight into the world behind the Australia music industry and introduces his new book ‘Playlisted’. From Australian Crawl to The Cockroaches, the Australian Music Industry is unplugged in the in depth interview.

Rebecca Gilling

Her face has graces our television screens for almost 30 years and in this in depth interview her voice graces our airwaves as Rebecca Gilling, star of Glenview High, Young Doctors and later the lifestyle program Our House, tells us her tales of a long and successful career and her current work as the national spokesperson for Planet Ark.

Vanessa Amorosi

Vanessa Amorosi sits down with Joel Helmes in an intimate interview where he explores the life of the enigmatic entertainer from her childhood through to the Sydney Olympics and to her latest album “This is who I am”. With a beautiful, live acoustic rendition of latest single, Vanessa shines throughout this interview and gives a better understanding of this incredibly talented young singer.

Red Bubble

This open forum for this artist within started as a simple printing business and has fast become one of the most renowned international art forums for buying, selling and coming together. Peter Styles, Paul Van Zella and Martin Hoskin, the founders of this juggernaut sit down with Joel to discuss there friendship and how there small idea become a phenomenon.

John Blackman

This iconic Australian entertainer sits down with Joel Helmes to discuss his long running career in both radio and television. Going from early childhood right through to the reunion of Hey Hey It’s Saturday. John is as always an entertainer and a fascinating man with an even ore fascinating story.

On Air Now 4BC

Your latest comments