Sunfish

A charming early memoir of midlife by the best-selling author of Mayflower and In the Heart of the Sea, recounting his attempt to recapture a national sailing championship he'd won at 22.

We want to know your favourite places in Australia to wake up, and on Friday 28 September Russell Torrance will take you to a spellbinding location in Australia for the ultimate Classic Getaway on Classic Breakfast. Then on Saturday 29 September, Christopher Lawrence presents Weekend Breakfast from his very own idyll on Tasmania's kunanyi / Mount Wellington. Send us your perfect place to wake up so we can pick the perfect Classic Getaway. Listen out on Classic Breakfast, and watch our social media for getaway moments through September. Maybe one of them will be yours!

The Keno Harriehausen Quartet creates a world of sound between dedicated, living jazz improvisation and a musical-compositional language deeply rooted in European culture. From Shostakovich to Jan Johansson; from Ravel to Gabarek.
Originally founded as a classical jazz quartet featuring saxophone, piano, contrabass and drums in Amsterdam, the quartet initially brought together the common enthusiasm for the power and energy that can emerge at the moment of improvised music. With this sound, inspired by John Coltrane and Keith Jarrett, the quartet won several competitions in Belgium and the Netherlands (international Zeeland Jazz Award, Ujazz Award, Mechelen Jazz Contest, Sena Jazzprijs).

Best known as husband and producer of wife Keiko Matsui, Kazu has quietly become one of the genre's most interesting studio craftsmen through his work with Porcupine and others on his own label. His 1991 debut Sign of the Snow Crane was a tender showcase for his haunting shakuhachi playing, but it failed to ignite the fire his other productions offered. In making the far superior, infinitely more rhythmic and melodic Wheels of the Sun, he found the solution: collaborate with David Lindley, the thoughtful blues-rock guitarist who perfectly balances the spiritual beauty of the flute. Lindley adds spark, groove, and unpredictable energy to more cooking tracks like "Red Sea," yet can provide understatement when Matsui focuses on a sweeping symphonic turn. Achieving an effortless cross between different cultures, the Eastern heritage of his flute is complemented by guests like Keiko, Brian Bromberg, Steve Reid, and Porcupine's Bernie Dresel.

Teeming with marine wildlife, our oceans are full of fascinating stories – like that of the sperm whale, the biggest predator on earth that lives in the Mediterranean alongside the elusive monk seal. Underwater filmmaker Thomas Behrend takes us to the habitat of the ocean sunfish with the help of a high-tech submarine camera. And while giant octopuses and manatees are the heroes of another story, a marine biologist tells us about her unique friendship with a dolphin on the Irish coast.

The Ocean Sunfishes: Evolution, Biology and Conservation is the first book to gather into one comprehensive volume our fundamental knowledge of the world-record holding, charismatic ocean behemoths in the family Molidae. From evolution and phylogeny to biotoxins, biomechanics, parasites, husbandry and popular culture, it outlines recent and future research from leading sunfish experts worldwide