Julie Copeland

Julie Copeland is one of ABC Radio's most well-known and respected broadcasters with extensive experience in a range of high quality radio programs.

During over 20 years with the ABC, Julie has produced and presented radio programs which examine political, artistic and cultural activities with both a national and international focus.

Julie's strong interest in and knowledge of the arts and culture was enhanced by ten years in Europe, where she worked as a painter and designer and studied literature, art history and cultural theory.

On returning to Australia in 1974, Julie worked at Melbourne's talk radio station 3AW as Head of Research and Producer for both the highly successful morning programs of the late Ormsby Wilkins and Claudia Wright.

In 1978 she was one of a team of four on a daily TV current affairs program on Channel Ten in Melbourne, called Shoulder to Shoulder. During that year, she filmed 'scoop' interviews in Libya with Colonel Gadhafi and Yasser Arafat.

Julie then began work for Radio National, producing and presenting programs including Investigations, Broadband, Doubletake, Saturday Arts Review, The Coming Out Show, Guest of Honour, Sunday Feature, Encounter, and Arts Illustrated as well as contributing to ABC Metropolitan and Regional Radio and ABC TV's Book program.

In 1981 Julie began ABC Radio's weekly book program, First Edition which she continued to present until she launched the first and only radio program to specialise in European affairs, The Europeans, which she produced and presented with great success until the end of 1990.

For the program, Julie travelled extensively and broadcast material from many countries including Germany, Russia, Estonia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Austria, France, Italy, Greece and Spain.

In 1991 she was appointed as Commissioning Editor of a new Radio National department, Arts Talk. In this position for three years, she was responsible for setting up daily arts programs as well as The Music Show; a weekly review of film and Books and Writing.

In the last ten years she has presented Arts National and the weekly arts feature, Arts Talk, followed by Sunday Morning and her current program, Exhibit A.

As you'd imagine, Julie loves arguing about art and politics, painting, reading, sitting drinking coffee in Italian piazzas, smelling the roses, talking to the animals; and her particular passion is horses.