A weekly podcast recorded in Adelaide that puts South Australian passion on centre stage with a featured guest who joins us each week as a co-presenter to share how they're pursuing their passions. We venture across topics as diverse as history, wine, food, art, music, relationships, critical thinking, health, news, interviews, chat and quizzes. Every single interview, every single show, unlocks insights into what drives people to be doing what they're doing and what keeps them striving. The Adelaide Show is produced by Steve Davis and Nigel Dobson-Keeffe. Please subscribe to our In Crowd list; you get an email each Friday (when we have published a new episode) with an overview of that week's show. Plus, consider joining our Inner Circle; a small group of passionate South Aussies who allow us to pick their brains and gain interviewee suggestions. This podcast began life as Another Boring Thursday Night In Adelaide from episodes 1-79.
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052 - Martin Hamilton-Smith gets personal
This week's episode is special for many reasons.
It marks the end of our first year of broadcasting and we are joined by one of South Australia's most accomplished broadcasters as Nigel 8, Keith Conlon.
We also have a military theme tonight, with a guest who was a former SAS commander, before we then take a look at the one and only, South Australian Navy.
Our guest tonight is Martin Hamilton-Smith, the South Australian Minister for Investment and Trade, Defence Industries, and Veterans' Affairs.
When he crossed the floor this year to become an Independent MP and take up his ministerial portfolios in the Labor Government, he not only brought stability to a hung parliament but he incurred the wrath of some very bitter foes.
How does someone survive the full, angry glare of the media? Does SAS training help? What gets you through and what is the cost?
They are just some of the questions we put to Martin Hamilton-Smith in our chat, as we explore the past and the makeup of one of the highest profile South Australians alive today; from the politics of government to the politics of the kitchen.
He says, 'I didn't join to serve a party, I joined to serve the people'.
Ben Pike from Melbourne Street Cellars makes some major contributions this week. He:
answers last week's trivia question about the only town with a German name not Anglicised during World War One
corrects our sinking of South Australia's only naval vessel, the HMS or HMAS Protector
stands up for the profession of wine tasting after last week's criticism
Nigel IV, Charlie Helen Robinson, gives us a tour of the new building at Adelaide High School and announces her run as a ward councillor for Charles Sturt Council.
South Australia's elder statesmen of wine, James Haselgrove, gives us his 2011 The Futures Shiraz from McLaren Vale for toasting Queen Adelaide, Keith Conlon puts his law degree to good use when he sits on the bench of The Adelaide Visa Council for the first time, and our singer this week is a marine biologist!
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