The Mix

The Mix

The Mix

The Mix is ABC News 24's new weekly arts, entertainment and culture program. Hosted by popular radio and television host James Valentine, The Mix gives you the latest on art, television, movies, books, games, apps, festivals, gigs, events, celebrities, theatre and all things showbiz. Get the full picture with The Mix.

Each week James and some of the ABC's best arts reporters and other contributors will be the eyes and ears for anything new and upcoming in arts and entertainment.

On-air on ABC News 24:

Saturdays 2.30pm and 7.30pm (AEDT)

Repeated on Sundays 4.30pm and 10.30pm (AEDT)

ABC1:

Sundays 1.30pm (AEDT)

Repeated on Tuesdays 11:30am (AEDT)

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The Mix is available on iview


For more on what's going on in the Arts, visit abc.net.au/arts

Previous Episodes

  • The Mix Video

    Video The Mix

    Posted May 14, 2016 15:55:06

    On this week’s show- The arts community reels in the wake of funding cuts, we look at what it takes to stage a new musical, and a Melbourne artist makes fine art with sticky plastic.

    Topics: arts-and-entertainment

  • The Mix Video

    Video The Mix

    Posted May 07, 2016 19:36:38

    This week on The Mix: James gets a street photography masterclass with three internationally acclaimed photojournalists; a gender-bending cabaret show that’s not for the faint-hearted; Jason Di Rosso and Kate Jinx drop by the pub to talk film, and Katie Noonan recruits the world’s hottest string quartet to interpret the poetry of Judith Wright.

    Topics: arts-and-entertainment

  • The Mix Video

    Video The Mix

    Posted April 30, 2016 16:06:01

    This week on The Mix: Lindsay McDougall uncovers the secret to comedy longevity with the Umbilical Brothers and Tripod, a Hong Kong art gallery that’s defying Beijing (and getting away with it), Zan Rowe and Marc Fennell take a big gulp of Beyoncé’s Lemonade at the pub, and country music legend Steve Earle shares some hard-earned wisdom.

    Topics: arts-and-entertainment

  • The Mix Video

    Video The Mix

    Posted April 23, 2016 18:26:38

    This week on The Mix: Triple J’s magic formula, the local animation house building Hollywood blockbusters, The Drones frontman Gareth Liddiard takes aim at Australian politics, and we head to the pub to discuss the art of reading with Stella Prize winner, Charlotte Wood.

    Topics: arts-and-entertainment

  • The Mix Video

    Video The Mix

    Posted April 16, 2016 17:58:31

    This week on The Mix: James hits the red carpet for The Seekers new musical, we find some Magic Objects at the Adelaide Biennial, Hollywood superhero adaptations get the pub test, and a new exhibition about a golden era of Australian TV.

    Topics: arts-and-entertainment

  • The Mix Video

    Video The Mix

    Posted April 09, 2016 15:47:27

    This week on The Mix: we follow an Australian artist all the way to Art Basel Hong Kong, we follow an Australian band to the SXSW Festival in Austin Texas, James sits down for a beer with outgoing ABC Managing Director Mark Scott, and Zan Rowe meets creative wunderkind Grimes.

    Topics: arts-and-entertainment

  • The Mix Episode Video

    Video The Mix Episode

    Posted April 02, 2016 16:34:05

    In this week’s show, re-inventing Bluesfest for a new generation, James meets some poets at the pub and the riddle wrapped in mystery that is Whistler's Mother.

    Topics: arts-and-entertainment

  • The Mix Video

    Video The Mix

    Posted March 26, 2016 17:10:30

    On this week’s show, we meet the woman at helm of virtual reality, robot or the real thing? Art comes to life in the uncanny valley, and the prestigious photographic portraiture prize that anyone can enter.

    Topics: arts-and-entertainment

  • The Mix Video

    Video The Mix

    Posted March 20, 2016 06:19:36

    On this week's show- Myf Warhurst experiences the truly disturbing Theatre of the Mind by Roger Ballen, Rachel Robinson meets art superstar Chiharu Shiota at the Sydney Biennale and Eloise Fuss checks out two very difference dance performances in Adelaide.

    Topics: arts-and-entertainment

  • The Mix Video

    Video The Mix

    Posted March 05, 2016 19:30:00 | Updated March 05, 2016 22:38:35

    This week on The Mix: we take a look at Adelaide’s season of festivals, meet a Hollywood screenwriting legend, and take a walk around Australia’s national portrait gallery.

    Topics: arts-and-entertainment, comedy-humour, contemporary-art, film-movies, music, visual-art, library-museum-and-gallery, theatre, australia, united-states