Welcome to a new addition to our Podcast series- QUICKPODS!
For those times when you just want to listen to something entertaining but not too lengthy , we are introducing one author and interview Podcasts – a little shorter than our usual Podcasts.
We’re going to kick off with an author and musician who received a great response when we first broadcast him- Ash Grunwald.
Ash was great to interview -he’s genuinely excited about how the process of writing this book and speaking to so many other accomplished performers and surfers has had a positive effect on his own music practice. His advice is to – just do it!
Recorded at the Byron Writers Festival 2019
#2 :STEPHEN J. PYNE – BURNING BUSH
The prospect of an ever increasing drying and inflammable countryside is one Australians are having to come to terms with.
No longer just a ‘dry year’, 2019/2020 has brought an awareness to Australia and the rest of the world of what climate change is going to wreak upon our lives.
Historically, fire has always been present in the Australian landscape – sometimes under human control , sometimes naturally produced . What will be the impact in the future?.
Stephen J Pyne is an acknowledged world expert on fire and his book ‘Burning Bush – A fire history of Australia’ is an in depth. Scholarly and scientific account of how fire has shaped one of the driest continents on earth.
He is going to read from the beginning of his book, where he documents white arrival in Australia and afterwards we will talk about the implications of a drier world.
Recorded at the Byron Writers Festival 2019
#3: Ayik Chut Deng- ‘The Lost Boy -Tales of a Child Soldier’
Child soldier in Sudan, refugee, drug addict, proud father, model and T.V movie star- Ayik has crammed a lot into his life so far. This amazing interview reveals a little of what he has lived through.
Recorded by phone due to social distancing laws.
#4:Laura Jean Mackay – The Animals in that Country
A creepily dystopian tale – a virus infects everyone in the country and suddenly they can understand what animals, and then birds and insects even reptiles are saying about us.
Recorded by phone due to social distancing laws.
#5 Tristan Bancks- Ginger Meggs
Ginger Meggs has been a feature of daily newspapers now for over 100 years. In fact, this year marks the centenary of the birth of Ginger, originally created by Jimmy Bancks.
To commemorate this occasion, a brand new edition of four Ginger Meggs adventures has been published by Penguin written by the great grea t nephew of Jimmy Bancks- Tristan Bancks- himself a a popular and successful author of children’s and young adult books. With illustrations by the strip’ current illustrator Jason Chatfield, it is a handsome, hardback quality paper production that a wonderful tribute to this little Aussie redhead.
I spoke with Tristan on the week of the book’s publication, which he had just launched with much fanfare ( and cream cake) at Sydney Writers Festival.
