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 February 04, 2017 15:41:01

    This week on The Mix: the 25th anniversary of John Waters’ acclaimed John Lennon show; the sights, sounds and scents of the Sydney Festival; and our pub critics look at Oscars contenders La La Land, Lion and Moonlight.

    Topics: arts-and-entertainment

  • The Mix Video

    Video The Mix

    Posted December 17, 2016 16:44:12

    This week on The Mix: The sights, and smells, of the National Gallery of Australia’s Versailles exhibition, Zan Rowe picks up some jazz lingo from BadBadNotGood, and the epic BBQ pubchat look back at arts in 2016

    Topics: arts-and-entertainment

  • The Mix Video

    Video The Mix

    Posted December 03, 2016 20:37:23

    This week on The Mix: Zan Rowe sits down with Flume to discuss music, touring, and surfing 150 kilometres from the nearest beach, photography group The Light Collective captures the vast beauty of Lake Eyre, and we profile pop artist and Catholic nun Sister Corita Kent.

    Topics: arts-and-entertainment

  • The Mix Video

    Video The Mix

    Posted November 19, 2016 19:24:24

    This week on The Mix: Artist David Hockney takes us through his new show at Melbourne’s NGV, Nick Cave unleashes his wild, vibrant horses, The Mix picks 5 great performance art pieces from the 20th Century, and scientists at MONA ponder evolution, sex and art!

    Topics: arts-and-entertainment

  • The Mix Video

    Video The Mix

    Posted November 12, 2016 15:27:17

    This week, The Mix is going nude! We take a long, hard look at the art of nude figurative painting, and count down the top 5 most controversial nudes of all time. Plus, a look back at Georgia O’Keefe and the matrons of Modernism, the weird and beautiful world of glitch art, and an artwork called ‘Mega Death’ that will take years off your life.

    Topics: arts-and-entertainment

  • The Mix Video

    Video The Mix

    Posted October 29, 2016 19:36:55

    This week on The Mix: Bill Bailey talks comedy, music and what an old teacher thinks of his career choice; we take a look at the cult film craze; plus the gravity-defying fashions of Viktor and Rolf.

    Topics: arts-and-entertainment

  • The Mix Video

    Video The Mix

    Posted October 22, 2016 15:40:42

    This week on The Mix: We meet the rock’n’rollers making kids music cool again, get a sneak peak at the unauthorised Banksy retrospective, and look at the colourful career of pianist Allan Zavod. Plus we chat regional art at the pub, and scope out a few Nobel Prize literature controversies.

    Topics: arts-and-entertainment

  • The Mix Video

    Video The Mix

    Posted October 15, 2016 17:22:44

    This week on The Mix: rediscovering Frederick Kelly, Australia’s lost WWI composer; raucous Scottish schoolgirls hit the stage at Melbourne Festival; we take a look at some terrible TV;
    and performance artist Liz Aggiss talks mature moves and aging disgracefully.

    Topics: arts-and-entertainment

  • The Mix Video

    Video The Mix

    Posted October 08, 2016 19:06:18

    We take Oscar-winning singer/songwriter Glen Hansard back to his busking roots, visit the festival of light in Alice Springs, and look at the iconic photographs of Walker Evans. Plus, we chat narrative non-fiction at the pub.

    Topics: arts-and-entertainment

  • The Mix Video

    Video The Mix

    Posted October 01, 2016 14:23:27

    This week on The Mix: Eight double basses headline the Australian World Orchestra, Zan Rowe gets deep and meaningful with rapper L-Fresh the Lion, we talk disruptive architecture at the pub, and the Australian Ballet brings a mad toymaker to the stage.

    Topics: arts-and-entertainment