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Take 5

ABC Australia

300 episodes

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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  1. Powderfinger on their sold out reunion tour, adding extra shows & epic support acts

    · 47 min

    Legendary Brisbane band Powderfinger broke the internet when they announced a long-awaited reunion tour. The band sold out 26 shows across the country, and today announced extra shows, new cities, and an epic line-up…

  2. 20th anniversary special: Calvin Harris, Annie Mac, Aloe Blacc & more

    · 49 min

    Take 5 is turning 20! It started back in 2006 as a weekly radio segment on triple j, and since then it's grown into an award-winning podcast, and a beloved TV show in its sixth season. The list of people who have…

  3. Take 5 with Pia Miranda

    · 58 min

    Pia Miranda is joy personified. From her first TV gig on Neighbours, where her character Karen dated Toadie and made a dramatic final exit from the show holding a pavlova, to her breakthrough turn as Josie in Looking…

  4. Take 5 with Sampa The Great, The Presets, Pia Miranda, Dan Sultan and John Butler

    · 4:45

    Take 5 is celebrating 20 years, and we're marking the milestone with something special. Zan Rowe is bringing the show to record stores around the country for four intimate, live conversations with some of Australia's…

  5. Take 5 with Vika & Linda

    · 56 min

    Vika and Linda Bull are national treasures. From their early days singing backing vocals with Joe Camilleri and The Black Sorrows to breaking out on their own with acclaimed records, they're part of the very fabric of…

  6. Take 5 with Genesis Owusu

    · 1 h 00 min

    Genesis Owusu is one of Australia's most thrilling new artists. Born Kofi Owusu-Ansah, he immigrated to Canberra with his family when he was just two years old. Almost immediately he felt like an odd one out. And he…

  7. Take 5 with country music superstar Lainey Wilson

    · 53 min

    Lainey Wilson is a force of nature. Raised in the tiny farming town of Baskin, Louisiana (population 170) she grew up between corn fields and country radio, where music wasn't a genre but a way of life. From writing…

  8. Take 5 with Jacinda Ardern

    · 1 h 01 min

    Jacinda Ardern is a history-maker. As Prime Minister of New Zealand at 37, she became only the second woman in the world to give birth while in office. But it was her leadership style that defined her time at the top,…

  9. Take 5 with David Byrne

    · 38 min

    David Byrne is a music icon. With Talking Heads, or his many wild collaborations, and as an acclaimed solo artist, he's continually pushed the boundaries of sound, crafting some of the most iconic live performances of…

  10. Take 5 with Darren Hayes from Savage Garden

    · 1 h 00 min

    When you look back at the Australian artists who've made their mark internationally, Savage Garden are right up there. Two guys from Brisbane who went Number 1 around the world, cracked the notoriously tough U.S.…

  11. Take 5 with Shania Twain

    · 44 min

    Shania Twain holds the record for the biggest selling country album of all time: Come On Over. Growing up poor in a Canadian mining town, who could have foreseen that the woman born Eileen Regina Twain would go on to…

  12. Take 5 with Peter Garrett

    · 57 min

    Peter Garrett has been an unstoppable force of Australian music for decades. As the iconic frontman of Midnight Oil, a grassroots activist, and a former Federal Parliamentarian, he's spent a lifetime driving change:…

  13. INTRODUCING: Brand new TV episodes of Take 5 with Zan Rowe

    · 4:03

    Take 5 with Zan Rowe is back on your screens from Thursday August 20, and Season 5 is the biggest yet! What song makes Peter Garrett cry? What was the tune that woke David Byrne up to the full body physicality of…

  14. Best Bits: Paul McCartney on The Beatles and writing a song

    · 13 min

    This is one of the best bits from Take 5. One of the greatest songwriters of all time sat down with Zan Rowe to open his songbook and dive deep into the making of five of his greatest. Paul McCartney has provided the…

  15. Best Bits: Kacey Musgraves on Tame Impala and Dolly Parton!

    · 7:41

    This is one of the best bits from Take 5. Kacey Musgraves is a straight shooter, a woman of conviction. In person and in song, the bridge she creates with her fans is something else, and it’s made her one of the most…

  16. Best Bits: Blink 182’s Tom DeLonge on the 80’s songs that changed his life

    · 9:57

    This is one of the best bits from Take 5. Founding member of Blink-182, Angels and Airwaves, and UFO enthusiast, Tom DeLonge hung out with Zan Rowe back in 2012, while in the country to play Soundwave Festival. You…

  17. Best Bits: The songs that renew Emily Wurramara

    · 11 min

    This is one of the best bits from Take 5. In 2024 Emily Wurramara released her second album NARA and cemented herself as a powerful indigenous storyteller. The Warnindhilyagwa woman joined Zan Rowe to Take 5 on the…

  18. Poh Ling Yeow's five sides

    · 41 min

    Poh Ling Yeow has been part of our lives for two decades. As a TV chef, a gourmet stall owner, a celebrity in the jungle, and a cookbook author. Poh is a painter and has even popped up an actor, describing herself as…

  19. Hot Chip jubilant songs from the archive

    · 33 min

    2026 marks 20 years since Hot Chip released The Warning. Their second album leapt from the quiet, reflective electro of their debut and catapulted us all onto the dancefloor. To mark the occasion, we share an episode…

  20. Gotye Takes 5 from the archives

    · 28 min

    This month, Gotye's breakthrough album Like Drawing Blood, turns 20. It was the record that took him from bedroom producer to Hottest 100 favourite, showcasing his incredible talent at sewing sounds. The man behind…

  21. Tool's unexpected finds in their music library

    · 19 min

    This week marks the 20th anniversary of Tool's huge album 10,000 Days. Back in 2013, Tool were in the country playing massive shows when drummer Danny Carey and bass player Justin Chancellor came into the triple j…

  22. Emma Louise Takes 5 with before and after

    · 40 min

    In the fifteen years since Emma Louise wowed us with her debut single 'Jungle', she’s shown all sides of herself, singing her story with vulnerability and reflection. Last year, Emma released the collaborative album…

  23. Billy Corgan's songs that make him feel good

    · 31 min

    35 years ago, we met a band called Smashing Pumpkins. Rising in the wave of American grunge, the Chicago band were led by the iconic voice of Billy Corgan and would rise and rise like all their contemporaries, over the…

  24. Alexei Toliopoulos shares the soundtrack to his life

    · 49 min

    Alexei Toliopoulos is a lifelong cinephile. Known for his excellent podcasts including The Last Video Store, he’s a writer, comedian, filmmaker and loves talking about the movies that made us who we are today. The way…

  25. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings Take 5 with time

    · 53 min

    Thirty years ago the world met Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. Their debut album Revival introduced us to two incredible storytellers, singers and guitarists, and in the three decades since they’ve swept us away in…

  26. Ed Le Brocq's songs on the road

    · 47 min

    Are you ready for some incredible stories? Take 5 always gifts us with some cracking yarns, but this week’s episode takes the cake. In fact, I’ve had more responses to Ed Le Brocq’s Take 5 than any other, in ages. Ed…

  27. Tim Rogers Takes 5 with "a living"

    · 50 min

    Where do you begin with Tim Rogers? For more than 30 years he has been the soundtrack to our lives. As frontman for You Am I, an acclaimed solo artist and keen collaborator, an actor, author and once even a Double J…

  28. Lizzy Hoo's life escapades

    · 52 min

    Comedian Lizzy Hoo has been everywhere the past few years. When she’s not doing stand up, she’s popping up on Have You Been Paying Attention?, and hosting her own podcast The Lizzy Hoo Show. Lizzy has made travel…

  29. Sophie Ellis-Bextor's Liberation

    · 41 min

    Sophie Ellis-Bextor knows how to fill a dancefloor. Across 8 albums, and a double indemnity hit in "Murder on the Dancefloor", she's made a name for herself as a pop-disco queen. When she’s not on stage or in a…

  30. Take 5 returns with a bumper new season

    · 2:52

    From bucket list guests to Australian rock royalty and a disco queen, find out who Zan will be Taking 5 with in 2026.

  31. A little update for Take 5

    · 1:31

    Zan lets you know what's in store for 2026...

  32. Best of Take 5: Aaron Chen

    · 12 min

    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 stint on Taskmaster. But at the top of his game, he left Australia to…

  33. Best of Take 5: Dannii Minogue

    · 9:58

    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 its biggest stars was Dannii Minogue. For her Take 5, Dannii shared the…

  34. Best of Take 5: Jack Antonoff

    · 10 min

    What do Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey and Kendrick Lamar have in common? Jack Antonoff. The decorated producer has made a name for himself shaping some of the biggest albums in the world. For his Take 5, Jack Antonoff…

  35. Best of Take 5: CMAT

    · 11 min

    Irish artist CMAT has got it all: the voice, the songwriting talent, the charm. Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, (aka CMAT), has been shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize and counts Elton John as a fan. Her Euro-Country…

  36. Best Of Take 5: Darren Hayes

    · 11 min

    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…

  37. Best of Take 5: Angie McMahon

    · 11 min

    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…

  38. Best of 2025: Lorde, Gordi, Trent Dalton + more

    · 56 min

    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. Gordi's brilliant third album Like Plasticine…

  39. Take 5 with TV On The Radio

    · 36 min

    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.…

  40. Alex Kapranos from Franz Ferdinand

    · 46 min

    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. Six…

  41. Trent Dalton's own story in five songs

    · 55 min

    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…

  42. Stella Donnelly's radical honesty

    · 38 min

    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 of a friendship, it’s a brutally honest, heartbreaking, and hopeful record…

  43. Justine Clarke's Australian songbook

    · 37 min

    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. For the last 20 years she’s…

  44. Noel Gallagher's 'escape' songs

    · 46 min

    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…

  45. Mother and Son: Denise Scott and Matt Okine

    · 41 min

    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,…

  46. Paul Kelly's songs of 'place'

    · 58 min

    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. But who are…

  47. Jarvis Cocker from Pulp

    · 1 h 03 min

    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. A few years ago…

  48. Take 5 with Lorde

    · 1 h 00 min

    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. 12 years and four albums later, she's continued to defy expectations…

  49. Kevin Bacon Takes 5 with songs of joy

    · 47 min

    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…

  50. Take 5 with comedian and TV star Aaron Chen

    · 56 min

    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 Spelling Bee. Maybe you cheered his win on Taskmaster Australia season 3. He’s…

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