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.
Latest episodes
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58 min
Take 5 with Pia Miranda
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 br…
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5 min
Take 5 with Sampa The Great, The Presets, Pia Miranda, Dan Sultan and John Butler
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 con…
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56 min
Take 5 with Vika & Linda
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…
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60 min
Take 5 with Genesis Owusu
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 h…
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53 min
Take 5 with country music superstar Lainey Wilson
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 gen…
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1 h 00
Take 5 with Jacinda Ardern
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 sty…
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38 min
Take 5 with David Byrne
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…
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1 h 00
Take 5 with Darren Hayes from Savage Garden
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, cr…
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44 min
Take 5 with Shania Twain
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 bor…
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57 min
Take 5 with Peter Garrett
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'…
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4 min
INTRODUCING: Brand new TV episodes of Take 5 with Zan Rowe
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…
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13 min
Best Bits: Paul McCartney on The Beatles and writing a song
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 greate…
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8 min
Best Bits: Kacey Musgraves on Tame Impala and Dolly Parton!
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…
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10 min
Best Bits: Blink 182’s Tom DeLonge on the 80’s songs that changed his life
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 countr…
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11 min
Best Bits: The songs that renew Emily Wurramara
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…
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41 min
Poh Ling Yeow's five sides
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 poppe…
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33 min
Hot Chip jubilant songs from the archive
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 mar…
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28 min
Gotye Takes 5 from the archives
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 talen…
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19 min
Tool's unexpected finds in their music library
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…
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40 min
Emma Louise Takes 5 with before and after
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, Emm…