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The Big F
Weekdays February 25 – 14 March
3 – 5.30pm

Adelaide’s most comprehensive coverage of the Adelaide Bank Festival of the Arts, Fringe Festival, WOMAD, Artists’ Week, Writers’ Week, Deadly Funny Awards, High Beam Festival, Fuse Festival, Future Music Festival and more..

Presented by Cath Kenneally and David Jobling, aided by Producer Nikki Marcel and the review team: Logan Bold, Jonathon Brown, Michelle Smith, Myk Mykyta, Ewart Shaw, Clair Knight, Jane Brownrigg, Christine Brown, Clemmie Wetherall, Graham Dudley, Stephen Boffa, Don Balaz, Christine Gamble, Max Hicks 

Listen online to Radio Adelaide 101.5FM at www.radio.adelaide.edu.au

Cath Kenneally

Arts Producer & Big F Co-host

Cath Kenneally has been a staff member at Radio Adelaide right through the ’90s, and was a volunteer at the station for a year or two before that.

As Arts Producer, she makes Arts Breakfast, broadcast in Adelaide each Saturday morning. She’s also the producer of Writers’ Radio; a nationally-distributed weekly books and writing program for the Community Broadcasting Network. In 1999, Writers’ Radio won Best Regularly Broadcast Spoken Word Program at the CBAA’s national conference.

Cath is herself a critic, novelist and poet, with four poetry books, Harmers Haven, Around Here, All Day All Night and Ci Vediamo, a novel, Room Temperature. She won the Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship for writers in 1998, and spent January to July 2000 at the Australia Council studio in Rome. Around Here won the John Bray National Poetry Award at the 2002 Adelaide Festival. She writes regularly for The Weekend Australian and the Sydney Morning Herald.

Cath Kenneally can be contacted at catherine.kenneally@adelaide.edu.au. 

David Jobling

David graduated from the NIDA Playwrights Studio in 1999. He wrote, directed and produced the long running ‘Files From My Cabinet’ at 2SER FM in Sydney where he was also the Casual Station Supervisor and hosted a variety of programs including The Daily, Stages and Artichoke and contributed to The Wire.

His work on stage has led him to act and direct for Sydney Theatre Company, Adelaide Festival Centre Trust, Griffin Theatre and ANTHILL Theatre.  He has also appeared in Home & Away, Water Rats, Far Scape and All Saints.

Currently David is the part time Manager of KneeHigh Giants, Spectacle, Events an international touring company based in Adelaide. He has been a volunteer at Radio Adelaide since 2006, contributing to The Wire, hosting Welcome Release, The Next Gig Thing and The Range.