Special Broadcasts

3CR has a number of special broadcasts each year to celebrate important community activist events. These broadcasts are staged at live events around Melbourne or in the studios of 3CR in Fitzroy.

Contact the Programming Coordinator to find out more about our special radio broadcasts.

Shiralee Hood with the women at DPFC
July

Beyond the Bars

3CR Radio's annual live prison broadcasts, held during NAIDOC Week since 2002.
Disability Day 2012
December

Disability Day

Welcome to Our World - 3cr's 12 hour broadcast for International Day of People with a Disability.
Historic Broadcasts
December

Historic Broadcasts

3CR has an amazing history of broadcasting important political and activist events. Here are a few from our archives.
Saro, Jiselle, Sonia and Hsin-Yi
October

Human Rights Day

Join 3CR on 10 December each year for World Human Rights Day - human rights activism and community celebration.
Fadzai IWD 2012
March

International Women's Day

Celebrate 40 years of fabulous feminism on Tuesday 8 March with 3CR's annual International Women's Day broadcast. Tune in from midnight Monday to midnight Tuesday to hear 24 hour of women's voices, archival specials, music, current affairs, and much more.
Occupy Melbourne
January

Protests

3CR has a long history of presenting live coverage of union and social justice protests, blockades and occupations including the Honeymoom Mine occupation, the nurses dispute (including the 2012 nurses dispute), the MUA picket, the S11 World Economic Forum protests, Occupy Melbourne and more recently the TAFE4ALL campaign.
3CR
December

Snapshots

Accent of Women Snapshots is a series of radio features with women who have recently come to Australia from different countries. The Snapshots give voice to women from new and emerging communities as their share stories of arrival and settlement.
Summer Specials
January

Summer Specials

A feast of shorts, docos and features from 3CR broadcasters.
Survival Day 2012
January

Survival Day

This annual broadcast by 3CR's Indigenous broadcasters marks Australia's Invasion Day. Indigenous activists have broadcast at 3CR from the year 3CR began in1976. Tune in on 26 January each year and hear the truth about 3CR's colonial past and the current campaigns to right past wrongs.
Delicious free breakfast at the Sustainable Broadcasts
February

Sustainable Breakfast Series

Together with Friends of the Earth, 3CR Breakfast programmers present a series of live shows with delicious free breakfasts from the FoE Food Coop and Organic Cafe at 312 Smith Street Fitzroy. Each year in March, join us for a week of live, local radio in the City of Yarra, a delicious free breakfast and great local music.
Visioning Justice Team
September

Visioning Justice

Visioning Justice is a vibrant collection of short radio documentaries made by young people about a range of experiences with the law. A partnership between Springvale Monash Legal Service and 3CR Community Radio and funded through the Legal Services Board Grants Program, the project aims to get young people's stories onto the air-waves.
July

World Hepatitis Day

Observed on July 28 every year, World Hepatitis Day aims to raise global awareness of hepatitis — a group of infectious diseases known as Hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E — and encourage prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Hepatitis affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide, causing acute and chronic disease and killing close to 1.4 million people every year
Aunty Georgina Williams
June

Yarra Elders Precious Memories

There are many significant and important elders in the community whose stories are yet to be heard. Yarra Elders Precious Memories documents a portion of these important stories.