AUSTRALIAN GENERATIONS – tell YOUR Life Story!
Australian Generations is an epic oral history project – the most multi-faceted undertaken in Australia – and I’m proud to be part of it! Project Leader Al Thomson (standing) with oral historians A...
View ArticleJoin my Writing for Radio Workshop, Varuna, Sept 24 – October 1 2012
Varuna Writers’ Centre in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney is a very special place. Former owners Eleanor and Eric Dark made the house and gardens a haven that nurtured their writing,...
View ArticleSonic Storytelling at NonFictionNow Conference
In late 2012, I participated in a crossover event at RMIT University, Melbourne, called NonfictionNow 2012. The organisers described it as ‘one of the world’s most significant gatherings of writers,...
View ArticleEAT PRAY MOURN… new radio documentary collaboration
About to publish an unusual interdisciplinary research project, ‘Eat Pray Mourn’…, which seeks to convey scholarly anthropological research as affective audio documentary. A two-year collaboration...
View ArticleRadioDoc Review – How Audio StoryTelling Got Sexy
2013 has been my YEAR OF AUDIO – making it, listening to it, teaching it, writing about it, and best of all, through the newly founded journal of radio documentary studies, RadioDoc Review, discovering...
View ArticleHighlights of 2014 #1: Paris, Leipzig, ocean views and always, audio
A whole year since my last post! Among the highlights: four stolen days in Paris (good as when I last visited 30 years before), Leipzig (first experience of having a radio feature I produced critiqued...
View ArticleEMOTIONAL HISTORIES: GETTING STARTED on AUDIO STORYTELLING
The six primary emotions: Fear, Anger, Sadness, Joy, Surprise, Disgust Audio conveys emotions beautifully – a quaver in the voice, a chuckle, a sigh, all carry as much meaning as any spoken words....
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