Sian has been presenting and producing programs on ABC Radio for sixteen years, including Arts Today, Lingua Franca, The Media Report and The Deep End on ABC Radio National, and Sunday Arts on 774 ABC Melbourne. Before that she presented specialist current affairs programs for Public Radio News (PRN) on the Australian community radio network.

She also teaches Writing for Radio modules in the RMIT Professional Writing and Editing Diploma, and for Writers Victoria.

This year Sian will be doing regular theatre reviews on the 774 ABC Melbourne Drive program in the Culture Club segment on Thursday afternoons.

Here are some recent examples of Sian’s radio and podcast work:

Media commentator in the ‘Spin Cycle’ on 774 ABC Melbourne Drive program with Lindy Burns: 30th November, 2011

Co-host of The Conversation Hour on 774 ABC Melbourne with guests writer Colleen McCullough and SXSW director Brent Grulke; 18th November, 2011.

Co-host of The Conversation Hour on 774 ABC Melbourne with guests singer-songwriter Kasey Chambers and New York-based journalism professor Jay Rosen; 25th August, 2011.

Commentator on the media ‘Spin Cycle’ segment on 774 ABC Melbourne Drive program, 20th July 2011.

Co-host of The Conversation Hour on 774 ABC Melbourne, 23rd May 2011, with guests Dr Izzeldin Abueldaish and Italian crooner Patrizio.

Writer and presenter of an essay called Shy Young Thing on ABC Radio National’s First Person program, 21st July 2010.

Host of a forum for the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) about the US TV series ‘Mad Men’, available as a podcast.; 2010.

Presenter of the 2009 Ian Potter Cultural Trust Music Commissions awards night, broadcast on ABC Classic FM’s New Music Up Late , 2nd October 2009.

Writer and presenter of a radio essay on Lingua Franca (Radio National) about the value of platitudes, broadcast in November 2008.

Producer/reporter for a Lingua Franca program (Radio National) about New York artist Nina Katchadourian, broadcast in May 2008,

Producer/presenter of a feature about Black Swan Theatre’s play ‘Jandamarra’ on Radio National’s Artworks program, February 2008.

Presenter of Melbourne University Up Close, a series of indepth interviews with Melbourne University academics, available as podcasts.