Podcast Episodes

Strange Currencies 7/9/2025: A new home at the narrm ngarrgu Library

Season 4 Episode 4

After a long break, Connor and Rob return with a wide-ranging chat: Connor’s unexpected dive into cricket, recent overseas travels, and a hefty Napoleon biography by David G. Chandler. The pair take …

Published on 6 hours ago

Strange Currencies 13/3/2025: The final episode from 3WBC

Season 3 Episode 3

On our final episode broadcast from 3WBC we have a relaxed chat about music, life and a couple of short stories: Entropy by Thomas Pynchon and Drive My Car by Haruki Murakami. Little did we know it w…

Published on 7 hours ago

Strange Currencies 6/3/2025: An Interview with Jordan Prosser

Season 2 Episode 2

In this week's episode, we interview Jordan Prosser, a writer, filmmaker and performer based in Naarm. In 2022, he won the Peter Carey Short Story Award for Eleuterio Cabrera’s Beautiful Game, access…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Strange Currencies 6/2/2025: An Interview with Andrea Pavleka

Season 2 Episode 1

In this episode, we interview Andrea Pavleka about her award-winning short story The Golden Hour, which won the 2024 Peter Carey Short Story Award and was published in Meanjin, as well as her fascina…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Strange Currencies 26/12/2024: Top Fives of 2024 Part 2

Season 1 Episode 10

This week’s episode is the second of a two-part special covering Strange Currencies’ top five movies, tv shows and novels for 2024. 

Published on 8 months ago

Strange Currencies 19/12/2024: Top Fives of 2024 Part 1

Season 1 Episode 9

This week’s episode is the first of a two-part special covering Strange Currencies’ top five movies, tv shows and novels for 2024. 

Published on 8 months ago

Strange Currencies 12/12/2024: Andrea Pavleka’s ‘The Golden Hour’ and Jordan Prosser’s 'Eleuterio Cabrera's Beautiful Game'

Season 1 Episode 8

In this week’s episode we chat about a couple of stories that appeared in Meanjin and were both winners of the Peter Carey Short Story Award: Andrea Pavleka’s ‘The Golden Hour’ and Jordan Prosser’s '…

Published on 8 months ago

Strange Currencies 5/12/2024: Moxie

Season 1 Episode 7

Guest host Hue shares her love for Amy Poehler's 2021 adaptation of Jennifer Mathieu's novel with Connor and Rob, and explains how the film led her to feminist punk.

Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago

Strange Currencies 14/11/2024: Derek Jarman

Season 1 Episode 6

In this week's episode, we discuss a couple of films directed by Derek Jarman. Connor attended a retrospective of his work at ACMI.

Derek Jarman (1942–1994) was a groundbreaking British filmmaker an…

Published on 9 months ago

Strange Currencies 7/11/2024: Elizabeth Tan and Philip K. Dick

Season 1 Episode 5

In this week's episode, we discuss a couple of short stories: 'Eighteen Bells Karaoke Castle (Sing Your Heart Out)' from Elizabeth Tan's Smart Ovens for Lonely People, and Philip K. Dick's 1956 class…

Published on 10 months ago