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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Best Of Take 5: Savage Garden's Darren Hayes

Savage Garden frontman Darren Hayes has lived quite the life. Hitting Number 1 around the world in 1997 with their debut album, he recently shared what was going on behind the scenes at that time, in his beautiful and devastating memoir, Unlovable.

Published: MonMon 22 Dec 2025 at 11:00pmwith Zan Rowe

Duration: 11 minutes 25 seconds

Best of Take 5: Angie McMahon on Joni Mitchell

Angie McMahon is the kind of songwriter who stops you in your tracks. With two albums under her belt, her most recent record Light, Dark, Light Again is about cycles and the patterns that repeat and renew throughout life.

Published: 15 Dec 2025Mon 15 Dec 2025 at 11:00pmwith Zan Rowe

Angie is seen leaning over her legs as she bends down and looks to the camera with a soft expression.

Duration: 10 minutes 30 seconds

The Best Take 5 Moments of 2025

It's not definitive, but here are some of the best moments from Take 5 this year: The legendary Richard Fidler threw back to the early days of the Doug Anthony All Stars.

Published: 11 Dec 2025Thu 11 Dec 2025 at 11:00pmwith Zan Rowe

Lorde and Zan Rowe standing together arm in arm

Duration: 55 minutes 37 seconds

TV On the Radio's 'future sounds from the past'

Hearing TV On The Radio talk about music is as fun as it sounds. When the New York band first emerged they were like nothing we’d heard before. A mash of genres and sounds and for many, the sound of tomorrow, today.

Published: 4 Dec 2025Thu 4 Dec 2025 at 11:00pmwith Zan Rowe

Tunde Adebimpe, Kyp Malone and Jaleel Bunton from TV On The Radio

Duration: 36 minutes 28 seconds

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

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