From A to Triple Zed

A music festival, another riot, and the radio station at the centre of Brisbane's punk attitude.

For over 30 years people have been tuning in - some driving just within range of the 4ZZZ signal - every Wednesday evening to be part of an accepting community of queer broadcasters.

Hear the story of how a 4ZZZ listener poll made it's way down the East Coast to a radio station in Sydney, and evolved into a national institution.

In 1986 there were inmate-led riots at the infamous Brisbane prison: the Boggo Road Gaol. Those inside were protesting inhumane conditions at a gaol where in the late 1980s, some cell blocks still did not have any working sewage. 4ZZZ reporters were on th

Billy Bragg talks to 4ZZZ's Kristin Black about the weirdness of 2020, reflects on his first trip to Australia in 1987 and the political climate in which the young artist came of age in the UK.