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Take 5
The Take 5 is a music podcast 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 flip them to fan mode, often giving a rare insight into their creative heart. Hosted by Zan Rowe.
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Best of Take 5: Aaron Chen
It's been a stratospheric rise for comedian, Aaron Chen.
Getting his start in stand-up, he won a heap of fans starring in Fisk, and his charming...
Best of Take 5: Dannii Minogue
If you grew up in Australia in the 1980s then you probably grew up with Young Talent Time.
It was a springboard for so much talent, and one of i...
Best of Take 5: Jack Antonoff
What do Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey and Kendrick Lamar have in common?
Jack Antonoff.
The decorated producer has made a name for himself s...
Best of Take 5: CMAT
Irish artist CMAT has got it all: the voice, the songwriting talent, the charm.
Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, (aka CMAT), has been shortlisted for...
Best Of Take 5: 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 shar...
Best of Take 5: Angie McMahon
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...
Best of 2025: Lorde, Gordi, Trent Dalton + more
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 t...
Take 5 with TV On The Radio
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...
Alex Kapranos from Franz Ferdinand
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...
Trent Dalton's own story in five songs
Trent Dalton is a master storyteller. His debut novel Boy Swallows Universe is an international bestseller, it was turned into a Netflix series and re...
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.
Documenting the end...
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 a...
Noel Gallagher's 'escape' songs
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...
Mother and Son: Denise Scott and Matt Okine
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...
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 ex...
Jarvis Cocker from Pulp
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 emba...
Take 5 with Lorde
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.
Kevin Bacon Takes 5 with songs of joy
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 p...
Take 5 with comedian and TV star Aaron Chen
You’re about to see a side to Aaron Chen you’ve never seen before.
You might know him as George in Fisk, or Guy Montgomery’s sidekick on Spelli...
Melanie C's songs she 'feels in her bones'
As one-fifth of the Spice Girls, she's one of the most famous people on the planet. But you wouldn’t know it. The Liverpudlian's down to earth beginni...
Take 5 with Peaches
The transgressive trailblazer celebrates 25 years since The Teaches of Peaches. A boundary-blurring blend of electroclash, sex-positive feminist theme...
INTRODUCING: Brand new TV episodes of Take 5 with Zan Rowe
Take 5 with Zan Rowe is back on your screens from Tuesday 9 September, and Season 4 is our biggest yet.
Across this new season, you’ll hear reve...
Mac DeMarco shares 5 essential songs
Mac DeMarco has long been loved for his laid-back guitar noodlings and so called “slacker” rock. He sometimes calls it "jizz jazz", but whatever it is...
Bert McCracken from The Used
Bert McCracken from The Used shares 5 songs that 'got him through'.
The frontman and founding member of The Used found his tribe through music,...
Meg Washington's 'oasis' songs
It’s been five years since Meg Washington released an album of original songs, but that time hasn’t been wasted.
Starring in Bluey as Calypso,...
Gordi Takes 5 with 'transformation' songs
Sophie Payten has had a wild five years. Better known as Gordi, she’s been living all over, put music on hold to work her day job as a doctor during t...
Patience Hodgson's Hottest 100 pre-party songs
Patience Hodgson is no stranger to the Hottest 100.
As lead singer of The Grates, she is certified alumni – with 8 entries and plenty of memori...
Howlin' Pelle Takes 5 with blockbuster songs
Howlin’ Pelle is a joy to be around. As the longtime lead singer for Swedish garage rock legends The Hives, he brings big energy on stage and off. The...
Outback Tom's songs for the generations
Yorta Yorta man Tom Forrest knows how to spin a yarn. Better known as Outback Tom, he’s amassed hundreds of thousands of fans on social media with his...
Zan revisits a special Take 5 with Ngaiire
This week, I’ve pulled out a special Take 5 from the archives, when Ngaiire joined me to explore songs without boundaries.
Ngaiire has long been...
Eddie Perfect Takes 5 with his 'source material' songs
Eddie Perfect has been entertaining us for years.
A star of stage and screen, he’s a writer of Broadway musicals, played Mick Holland on Offspr...
5 songs that have fused to Richard Fidler's 'history'
If you’re an avid podcast listener, you’ve likely heard one of Richard Fidler’s Conversations.
For 20 years he’s been chatting with people from...
Little Birdy's Katy Steele Takes 5 with 'breakout' songs
Katy Steele has always been surrounded by music.
Her brothers came up with the Sleepy Jackson and Empire of the Sun, and her dad Rick Steele wa...
Ball Park Music's Sam Cromack Takes 5 with 'departures'
It's been a big year for Sam Cromack and his band Ball Park Music. A sold out tour, a #1 album, and a step away from their jaunty indie tunes into a m...
Izzi Manfredi from The Preatures goes full circle
Isabella 'Izzi' Manfredi was born to be a frontwoman. As lead singer for The Preatures, she brought rock n roll swagger and brilliant pop songwriting...
Kumi Taguchi: 5 songs she’s deeply bonded to
Kumi Taguchi is freshly minted author. Long known to us as a journo with ABC News and the current host of Insight on SBS, she’s just put out a beautif...
Holy Holy's Tim Carroll shares his songs of place
Tim Carroll has got stories. One half of Holy Holy, he’s been adventuring around the world for most of his adult life, and place is key to his story w...
The Kooks' Luke Pritchard on Dylan, Bowie and Lykke Li
It was 2006 when UK band The Kooks burst onto the scene with their debut record Inside In / Inside Out.
Six albums later, they're returning to t...
Antony Green's song preferences
You’re about to hear a side of Antony Green you’ve never heard before.
The longtime Chief Election Analyst for the ABC is about to hang up his...
Zan returns to Slowdive's girls to the front songs
Back in the early '90s, a little band called Slowdive were making waves in the UK. With wall of sound, they dwelled in the same realm as My Bloody Val...