How many stories can you consume in a 21-hour, 37-minute flight from Sydney to London? Now you can find out, with more than 50 hours of original Sydney Opera House available to the 18 million passengers who travel Etihad Airways worldwide each year.
Two of the Sydney Opera
House’s most popular podcasts, This Kid
Life and It’s A Long Story, are
now available on all Etihad Airways’ E-BOX inflight entertainment programming. It’s
A Long Story unpacks the influences and ‘big’ moments that formed some
of the Opera House’s most acclaimed and influential guests. Hosted by
award-winning international affairs journalist and ABC TV Foreign Correspondent’s Hamish
Macdonald, the first two seasons feature
interviews recorded at last year’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas and BINGEFEST. Guests
include Henry Rollins, Lionel Shriver,
Gretel Killeen, Jad Abumrad (Radiolab)
and Julie Snyder (Serial, S-Town).
Putting kids front and
centre – and behind the microphone – This Kid Life is made for children aged
eight to thirteen and features young people discussing life, the environment,
education, creativity, social media and more. Hosted by Australian radio maker Jennifer Macey, the series delves into
what matters most to kids, how they see the world and how the future looks to
them.
Sydney Opera House Head of Contemporary Performance and
Executive Producer of It’s A Long Story, Danielle
Harvey, says: “The
Sydney Opera House belongs to everyone – even long-haul travellers. We are
thrilled that we can make our digital content available to even more audiences
around the world through our partnership with Etihad Airways. Podcasts are perfect
for inflight entertainment – keep the kids entertained with This Kid Life or explore the back stories of some of our
most interesting artists and thinkers with It’s A Long Story.”
Etihad Airways Vice President Asia Pacific, Lindsay White,
says: “We’re
excited to be able to share such innovative and exciting content with guests
through our inflight entertainment selection. The Sydney Opera House has a long
history of developing and nurturing creative content and these two podcasts are
great examples of how our partnership is enhancing the Etihad guest experience.”
Both It’s A Long Story
and This Kid Life podcasts are now available on all flights featuring Etihad
Airways’ inflight entertainment system.
Etihad Airways is the
Sydney Opera House’s Major Partner and Opening Nights Presenting Partner. The
airline supports Opera House programming by flying guest artists and performing
arts companies to Sydney from across its extensive network of 116 international
destinations. In March 2016, the Sydney Opera House and Etihad Airways renewed
their major partnership for a further five years.