Hey History! is a podcast for kids aged 8-12 about Australian history, with one season so far. Each episode has music, immersive sound and stories from Australia’s top historians and experts. There’s a professional development episode for primary school teachers, and the series is mapped to the Australian curriculum. I am lead producer, working with …
Kangaroo Dog is a radio documentary commissioned by ABC Radio National’s The History Listen, broadcast on 24 August 2024. Born in the early days of the Sydney colony, this deerhound-greyhound mongrel dog was bred to hunt and kill kangaroos. The kangaroo dog was there at key moments in Australia’s colonial past – from hunting dog …
Inner West Icons is an indie podcast made by me about the local, grassroots history and community stories of inner west Sydney, first published in May 2022. It won Best History Podcast at the 2023 Australian Podcast Awards. The podcast uses archive, oral history, interviews, vox pops, music and sound to tell the story and …
I created two audio pieces to accompany a touring US exhibition of photography by Walker Evans. Both pieces accompany the iconic photo, Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer Wife, 1946 and were made as part of a SALT Documentary Institute course in 2021. Here I am. Allie Mae Burroughs. Allie Mae Burroughs was a cotton tenant farmer …
The Scholar’s Hut is a radio documentary commissioned by ABC Radio National’s The History Listen and broadcast in November 2020. Thomas Shadrach James was a teacher at Maloga and Cummeragunja Aboriginal missions, on Yorta Yorta country in New South Wales. In the day, he taught kids in the schoolhouse. At night, he ran an activist …
Oscillations is a seven-part audio series that reaches into the Powerhouse Museum’s collection and unearth stories about the vibrations, fluctuations, and movements woven through our world – and beyond it, published in November 2022. John Jacobs and I traced the ingenuity behind the pedestrian button and its development through the activism of blind and deaf …