Program: Take 5

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The Take 5 podcast is where the people you love, share five songs they love. Each guest has a different theme, and the memories attached to their most beloved songs give us a rare insight into their creative heart.

Listen on Double J each Friday from 10am, with new podcast episodes every Friday morning. You can also watch Take 5 with Zan Rowe on ABC iview.

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Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos shares 5 'thrilling' songs

Do you remember the first time you heard Franz Ferdinand's 'Take Me Out? The way it began, then completely flipped less than a minute in? It was such a thrill, one that has never dulled in the two decades since.

Published: 27 Nov 2025Thu 27 Nov 2025 at 11:00pmwith Zan Rowe

Duration: 46 minutes 8 seconds

Trent Dalton's EPIC Take 5

Trent Dalton is a master storyteller. His debut novel Boy Swallows Universe is an international bestseller, it was turned into a Netflix series and recently voted as Australia’s #1 read of the last quarter century, in Radio National's Top 100 books.

Published: 20 Nov 2025Thu 20 Nov 2025 at 11:00pmwith Zan Rowe

man with brown hair wearing blue shirt smiling in front of blue screen

Duration: 54 minutes 49 seconds

Stella Donnelly's radical honesty

If you’ve ever lost touch with a friend or been heartbroken by a platonic breakup, Stella Donnelly’s new album is for you.

Published: 13 Nov 2025Thu 13 Nov 2025 at 11:00pmwith Zan Rowe

Duration: 37 minutes 45 seconds

Justine Clarke's Australian songbook

Justine Clarke is a legend. For most of her life she’s been in ours; as a child actor who graduated to a lifelong career on the big and small screen and into an acclaimed theatre actor.

Published: 6 Nov 2025Thu 6 Nov 2025 at 11:00pmwith Zan Rowe

Duration: 37 minutes 21 seconds

Take 5 with Noel Gallagher from Oasis

Oasis are undoubtedly the biggest band to rise out of Brit Pop. And it’s hard to describe how massive their return is. For years, the public fighting between the Gallagher brothers suggested they’d never come back. And one day, they did.

Published: 30 Oct 2025Thu 30 Oct 2025 at 11:00pmwith Zan Rowe

Noel Gallagher from Oasis and High Flying Birds in a black polo and dark denim jacket

Duration: 46 minutes 11 seconds

Denise Scott and Matt Okine make a 'Mother and Son' mixtape

Get ready to laugh, cry, and go head-to-head with two of Australia's most loved comedians. Denise Scott and Matt Okine are Mother and Son (the remix). And as the second series comes to a close on ABC TV and ABC iview, I roped them in to Take 5.

Published: 23 Oct 2025Thu 23 Oct 2025 at 11:00pmwith Zan Rowe

Matt Okine and Denise Scott in Mother and Son

Duration: 40 minutes 49 seconds

Paul Kelly's songs of 'place'

Paul Kelly is a national treasure, who's written the soundtrack to our lives. Road trips, first loves, heartbreak, our very sense of identity; he’s explored it all over more than 40 years and 30 albums.

Published: 14 Oct 2025Tue 14 Oct 2025 at 9:30amwith Zan Rowe

Paul Kelly smiling, wearing a blue jacket over a black shirt

Duration: 57 minutes 59 seconds

Jarvis Cocker from Pulp shares 5 'love' songs

Jarvis Cocker has had a dream run. As founding member and lead singer of Pulp, he hit the highest of the highs during Brit Pop in the 90s, before embarking on a solo career that was just as celebrated.

Published: 7 Oct 2025Tue 7 Oct 2025 at 9:30amwith Zan Rowe

Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker wearing black-framed glasses, a grey blazer and collared shirt, smiles at the camera

Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 59 seconds

Lorde shares 5 songs of 'rebirth'

At the age of 16, Lorde went #1 across the world. She was catapulted from the suburbs of Auckland to the Grammy's stage, winning Song of the Year.

Published: 30 Sep 2025Tue 30 Sep 2025 at 10:30amwith Zan Rowe

New Zealand pop singer songwriter Lorde in a white tshirt with her dark hair flowing around her face and shoulders

Duration: 59 minutes 38 seconds

Take 5 with Kevin Bacon

You’re about to learn a whole lot more about Kevin Bacon. The prolific actor has been on our screens for more than 40 years. It was his breakthrough part as Ren in Footloose that got him attention, but he was just getting started.

Published: 23 Sep 2025Tue 23 Sep 2025 at 10:30amwith Zan Rowe

Kevin Spacey sits at a table in a blue chequered flannel shirt

Duration: 47 minutes 11 seconds

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