For over 20 years the Team has been bringing you the best of the left from Melbourne.

We are Susanna the Anchor, with journalist and presenter ‘The Bagman’ and Glen our resident historian. For more details about us see the links above.

Extract from CRAM article, June 2007

For over 20 years Left After Breakfast has been talking to Melbourne – and for much of that time explaining where the show got its name.

“What else could we be but Left After Breakfast?” explains Susanna Duffy, “We give listeners more to digest than a bowl of cereal. For a start, the historical segment with Glen Davis serves up little publicised stories about the real history, herstory and ourstory of world events. The second course is the Bagman, garnished a little tartly at times, but always a juicy way to start the day.”

Susanna Duffy, with her distinctive, smokey voice, presents Left After Breakfast on Fridays at 9.00 am. Tune in to 855 on your AM dial.

To many listeners, Left After Breakfast is known best for its talkback. When the talkback lines are open, callers set the agenda. “It’s the element of listener participation that keeps the show on the edge,” Susanna explains. ” Listeners who express and debate political opinions provide an immediacy and a high degree of emotionalism. It’s easy to understand why we have had a few close calls.”

Left After Breakfast has weathered the storms of religious fundamentalists, factional disputes in activist groups, Union elections machinations, political party pressure, mass phone-ins from Pauline Hansonites, and assorted outraged conservatives. The Bagman boasts of the number of personal insults and physical attacks he has received for his editorials. “We’ve copped the lot,” he says “and we even survived Jeff Kennett.”

Like any other well-oiled production, there’s plenty of work happening in the background. Listener contributions get to air via the Talkback Producer who has to quickly assess, and monitor, the likely occurrence of defamatory (or worse) comments, provide fast information on the callers’ questions to the On-Air Team, and generally keep the ball bouncing along. It’s not a job for the nervous, and Bill Dellar puts in the hard yakka.

Talkback radio has historically been an important political forum in Australia. Left After Breakfast keeps it going!