DeAnne Smith

Thursday on The Campervan, Canadian comedian DeAnne Smith, will be on board with Bridget. She's in town for a couple of shows this week that are coincidentally on at the same time as the Melbourne Comedy Festival.

Earlier in the day Paul Anthony will take your calls on The Conch, he'll also be joined by Tracy Harvey to talk about Call Girl the Musical, Dr Caroline Symons about the Come Out and Play survey and comedian Janet A McLeod about her comedy tour of the Melbourne Museum.

Podcasts to listen to: The Fool and The Opera episode 16 including an interview with Coloratura soprano Lorina Gore, Technogaze talks New Media.

What's on Tuesday

It's a Comedy Festival bonanza. This time of year all of Melbourne seems to be taken over by the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and here at JOY things are equally influenced.

On Straight Up! with Taryn, Asher Treleaven will drop by at 8:40am to talk about his Comedy Festival show, Open Door.

Gary will have two interviews during his show Tuesday morning, Dave Bloustein will talk about his show, The Social Contract at 9:20am. At 11:20am, The Hounds will talk about their show The Last Bucket of Water.

In the afternoon, Chris will get a visit from Damian Callinan at 1:20pm who has a show at the Comedy Festival called Is This Thing On? The Dave Berry Story.

Podcasts worth a listen: Allegro Non Troppo does Part 1 of its ANZAC Day special, and Saturday Magazine has a discussion about GLBTI community.