Sydney fireworks, the return

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

New Year’s Eve in Sydney is more than the 12 o’clock show. It is an event that takes over an entire city. Fireworks are launched from the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House, there are barges positioned across the Harbour, there are rooftops around the city with pyrotechnics, as well as lighting projections on the boats on the harbour, Luna Park and the bridge pylons. It is a year in the planning and one family has been designing the fireworks for this spectacular night for the last 25 years. Foti Fireworks is an award winning pyrotechnics family business originating in 1793 in Italy. They still have family members operating today, not only in Italy, but in Hong Kong and Sydney, Australia, bringing joy and hope to people all over the world. Regina Botros spoke with Fortunato Foti and other artists who together paint the canvas of the Sydney skyline for millions the world over

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.
0:07.2	Things just swirling around my head.
0:09.6	Am I really the product of this?
0:12.1	Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests.
0:17.0	Little did I know what more was to come.
0:19.5	I'm Jenny Clemen, and in the new series of The Gift, we'll hear more stories emerging out of the ever-expanding global DNA database.
0:28.8	They did know that I was different.
0:31.7	You had kids together.
0:33.0	Yeah.
0:33.5	Then you met.
0:34.3	Then we met.
0:35.2	The Gift.
0:36.1	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:39.5	Ladies and gentlemen, good morning.
0:41.2	Thank you so much for being here this morning for Sydney New Year's Eve.
0:45.2	My name is Stephen Guilty.
0:47.1	I'm the producer of major events.
0:48.4	Welcome to the documentary in the studio from the BBC World Service,
0:52.2	the program that takes you inside the creative process with the
0:55.9	artists who light up your world. I'm Regina Botros. Please welcome the Lord Mayor of Sydney,
1:02.6	Clovermore. We're expecting a million visitors around our harbour and we're expecting 425 million
1:09.2	people around the world to be watching.
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