In recent weeks, there has been an incredible outpouring of emotion from ABC Radio Sydney listeners sending their “Messages from Lockdown” to fellow Sydneysiders. You might have heard them being played back across the programs throughout the day and we’ve launched a video to share the uplifting messages with the rest of the country. Check out the video here, and make sure you have your box of tissues on hand!
Thank you everyone who took the time to call in. Hang in there Sydney and NSW, all of Australia is cheering us on.

It’s National Science Week! And instead of creating a cosmological, paradoxical event where all space, time and matter ceases to exist, just go on an online adventure. The Sydney Science Trail, full of Interactive games, activities, virtual tours and fascinating science talks. Watch ABC Radio Nightlife host Suzanne Hill talk with scientists for The Great Space Debate and catch ABC Radio Sydney's Evenings’ presenter Sarah Macdonald tomorrow for Forensic Friday.
It’s free and, compared to existential annihilation, safe! Join the mission to save the planet! Follow the Sydney Science Trail.

The 2021 Radio Today Podcast Awards have crowned Josh Szeps the Podcast Host or Presenter of the Year for his hit interview show Uncomfortable Conversations.
Josh is a television and radio broadcaster and is a familiar voice to ABC Sydney listeners, regularly filling in on Breakfast, Focus, Afternoons, Drive and Evenings throughout the year.

A NSW health care worker says COVID-positive children who are separated from their parents are frightened and overwhelmed. The nurse at Sydney's Westmead Children's Hospital has shared her difficult experience caring for infected paediatric patients amid the worsening Delta outbreak in Sydney.

To celebrate the State Library of NSW National Biography Awards, we’re asking you to write in 50 words or less, the blurb to your own life story. Up for grabs is a complete pack of this year’s six shortlisted biographies. ABC Sydney host Cassie McCullagh will be announcing the winning entry from 10am on Thursday 26 August on Focus alongside this year’s National Biography Award winners.
To enter submit your blurb before midday on Wednesday 25 August by emailing cassie@abc.net.au. When submitting your entry please include your name, phone number and home address. Happy writing!
For more information click here.

This irresistible dish is part way between a curry and a noodle soup. It's the best of both worlds — a rich, aromatic soup base redolent of Thai curries, fortified with rice noodles, making this a wonderful, satisfying one-bowl meal.