Big Little Small Talk
Megan O'Hara Sullivan has interviewed countless Toowoomba region locals. Megan feels that everyone has their own story to tell and every one is worth listening to and you'll hear it all on Big Little Small Talk.
Episodes
Recently Megan visited the Toowoomba Parkinson’s Support Group for their yearly check in to see how things are travelling for the group.
This year Megan chats with Carol and Janette whose husbands both have Parkinson’s. The women describe what has happened with their husbands facial expressions, projection of voice and changes in handwriting.
Megan finishes her interview with a chat to Associate Professor of Music Melissa Forbe...
Richard Edwards is the Labor candidate for Groom in the 2025 Federal election.Richard has a deep connection to Groom, with family roots in the region dating back to the 1860s. His great-great-great-grandparents chose Pittsworth as the place to settle and raise their family. Richard works with disaffected youth and their families. He has a big heart and a sensibility well beyond his years. He is a thoughtful and caring man.
Peter Mullins is one of life’s quiet achievers. As a boy growing up in South Africa, he sailed with his father occasionally, he feels at home and peaceful on the water.
When he moved to inland Toowoomba, he wasn’t sure he could with continue his passion for sailing. Fortunately he was and furthermore, he became the President of an organisation called “Sailability” - Sailing for people with a disability.
Peter’s story is told with in...
Robert Ketton is a consummate story teller. Whether it’s using his knowledge of the mining men in Northern England who became painters and called themselves “Pitmen Painters” to tales about train spotting with his grandfather as a boy, every story is mesmerising.
Robert lectured in Theatre at UniSq until his retirement. He has written and directed dozens of plays, written several books and together with his artist wife Catherine, s...
Daniel Erbacher is a singer, dancer, choreographer, voice artist and an actor.
He knew when he chose the performing arts as a career, life was not always going to be easy.
Fingers crossed, life so far has been full of opportunity for this talented young artist. His powerful performances and undeniable stage presence in The Rocky Horror Show, A Very Naughty Christmas and most recently Grease The Musical, make this interview “electrify...
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Toowoomba’s Christmas Wonderland has been bringing joy to the community since 2003. With over $1.5 million dollars raised and over 1 million people attending, it’s a logistical challenge and someone needs to pull it together.Marshall Cox and his team of volunteers work tirelessly to ensure this incredible event happens every year, no matter what the weather forecast. One such volunteer describes Marshall like this “he is a man with...
Belinda Keats, Georgie Keats and Felicity Burton had a dream. They dreamt that if you were a rural person and you required medical help “in town”, you could go to a warm,safe home at night and close the door.And so they went about making it happen. They own 3x2 bedroom units in Toowoomba that share a common back yard for children to run around.
'Common Ground' is a lifesaving project that enables the families of regional and...
Julz McBain is a surprise package from start to finish. She moved to Toowoomba in 2023 after her marriage ended. During this time she completed a full-time fashion marketing degree (with high distinctions!) and continued to raise her two small children.Julz is now the co-founder and creative director of the Toowoomba Fashion Festival. It’s a high end event, sure to put Toowoomba on the design map.Julz has also just launched Fashion...
Mick Metcalfe joined the Queensland Ambulance Service in 1991. He has held various roles from Union Delegate to Deputy Assistant Commissioner, all the while dipping in and out of the job of a first responder.
Mick is sanguine about his work “people die all the time” he says. “Sometimes the most important thing you can do is be there in their hour of need”.
Mick speaks candidly about his upbringing; his family of origin and his family...
Mark O’Brien is a man of many talents. He’s an accomplished businessman and entrepreneur, he’s a former mayor and aspirational State Member. Inconceivably, Mark has been the Commissioner of both Drought and Wild Dogs. He was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia in 2019. Mark is a direct descendant of the O’Brien family of Defiance Flouring Milling Company fame and on top of all of that….an excellent musician! Tired alread...
From a young child Cassie Carson loved cars and four wheel driving. But she recognised that it wasn’t a safe space for women.
She decided to create a business that would teach women how to be outside in their cars and allow them the freedom of adventure.
A lot of Cassie’s ideas revolve around empowering women to believe in themselves and to celebrate their healthy bodies with healthy minds.
John Elliott has lived a rich and varied life; from radio DJ to tourism officer. However John’s greatest love has always been photography.
He’s photographed everyone from Chad Morgan to Dame Edna Everage and Slim Dusty (arm in arm).
John describes his photography as “social documentary making”. His photographs are beautiful and evocative, his story compelling.
His exhibition 'Almost A True Story' is now on display at the Toowoomb...
In a fair life, nobody should have to sit beside a hospital bed with their loved one on life support. Mel Lancaster has had to do it twice.
In May 2009 Mel’s 16 year old son Henry was involved in a tragic car accident. Her loving husband Gary helped her grieve and remember Henry with grace.
Fast forward 15 years and Mel is sitting beside Gary’s hospital bed. Mel says this of Henry and Gary “speak their name, when you speak of the...
When 143 graves were vandalised in the Drayton and Toowoomba cemetery in August 2024, local columnist Greg Johnson wrote a call to arms. He expressed his sadness that the forebears of this region had been disrespected. Who could help? What could you offer in terms of reparation? A group of over 30 people came together and project “Headstone Healing Project” was underway.
Today Megan chats with four members of the group; Founder’s...
Jeremy Rhode own a place where “you can find books that are looking for you”. Jeremy’s Book Exchange is his life, work and passion.
He went from being a dyslexic child to writing and publishing children’s books and owning a bookstore. His love of reading runs deep, but he won’t finish a book if it doesn’t grab him.
Life is too short and there’s too many good books to read.
Reverend Yvonne McRostie’s signature tune is “I am Women”. She’s an independent woman who loves to preach. She brings her unique perspective to her ministry.
The self confessed city girl has spent the last few years travelling into Queensland’s western country, caring for community.
Yvonne’s journey is a fascinating one and makes for interesting listening.
She’s a Director, an Advisor, a Speaker and an honorary Toowoomba-ite.
Kylie Sprott is all this and so much more. She is a professional woman who is going places….fast.
But where Kylie really likes to go is a small village in Scotland where her grandmother hails from. Kylie revels in her Scottish history and shares her incredible life’s journey thus far.
Local novelist Ali Trimper is just about to launch her second book “Search for Elise”. Like her first novel, this is a murder mystery.
Ali loves murder mysteries. She loves reading them and she loves writing them, she’s currently writing her third. From an idyllic childhood reading books to a career as a special education teacher, Ali has seen and done a lot.
Ali shares he adventurous life with us today.
Mitch Schoemaker got hooked on wrestling when he was a young boy. He had missed the heyday of 70’s and 80’s WWE but when he saw wrestling on TV in New York on a family holiday, he was hooked. Now he wrestles all over the world with the moniker One Shot Ryder. Megan describes herself as a wrestling tragic and so it was a very good thing that they got together to talk all things wrestling.
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