Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLiana MacDonald et al., "Fragments from a Contested Past: Remembrance, Denial and New Zealand History" (Bridget Williams Books, 2022)
Episode 78
‘What a nation or society chooses to remember and forget speaks to its contemporary priorities and sense of identity. Understanding how that process …
4 years, 6 months ago
David Hunt, "Girt Nation: The Unauthorised History of Australia," Volume 3 (Black Inc., 2021)
Episode 77
The saga of Australia continues with... Girt Nation: The Unauthorised History of Australia, Volume 3 (Black Inc., 2021). David Hunt tramples the tall…
4 years, 6 months ago
Mikaela Nyman and Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen, "Sista, Stanap Strong!: A Vanuatu Women's Anthology" (Te Herenaa Waka UP, 2021)
Episode 247
Sista, Stanap Strong!: A Vanuatu Women's Anthology (Te Herenaa Waka UP, 2021) is an anthology of new writing from Vanuatu by three generations of wom…
4 years, 6 months ago
East Timor Elections: José Ramos-Horta in Conversation with Amber Woortman
Episode 118
Jose Ramos-Horta topped the first round of polling in the 2022 East Timor presidential elections, securing 46.56 per cent of the popular vote on 19 M…
4 years, 7 months ago
Sophie Chao, "In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 151
This episode we speak with Sophie Chao, author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua (Duke University Press, 2022). …
4 years, 7 months ago
Heather Goodall, "Georges River Blues: Swamps, Mangroves and Resident Action, 1945–1980" (ANU Press, 2022)
Episode 54
Georges River Blues: Swamps, Mangroves, and Resident Action, 1945-1980 (ANU Press, 2022)
by Heather Goodall
The lower Georges River, on Dharawal and Dh…
4 years, 7 months ago
Tom Greenwell and Chris Bonnor, "Waiting for Gonski: How Australia Failed Its Schools" (UNSW Press, 2022)
Episode 162
Anyone interested in how education policy is made and unmade, in school funding models, their historical and contemporary development and their effec…
4 years, 7 months ago
77* Polynesia, Sea of Islands: with Christina Thompson
Episode 77
John and Elizabeth talk cultural renewal with Christina Thompson in this rebroadcast of a 2019 Recall this Book conversation. Her Sea People: The Puz…
4 years, 7 months ago
Sophie Cooper, "Forging Identities in the Irish World: Melbourne and Chicago, 1840-1922" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Episode 10
Forging Identities in the Irish World: Melbourne and Chicago, 1840-1922 (Edinburgh UP, 2022,) explores the shifting influences of religious demograph…
4 years, 8 months ago
Jacqueline Leckie, "Invisible: New Zealand's History of Excluding Kiwi-Indians" (Massey, 2021)
Episode 76
Despite our mythology of benign race relations, Aotearoa New Zealand has a long history of underlying prejudice and racism. The experiences of Indian…
4 years, 8 months ago