Hey History! is a podcast for kids aged 8-12 about Australian history. 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. Awards 🏆Gold for Best Children’s Programme: New York Radio Festival Awards …
Born in the early days of the Sydney colony, this deerhound-greyhound cross was bred to hunt and kill kangaroos. The ‘kangaroo dog’ was there at key moments in Australia’s colonial past. From a hunting dog that fed the early colony, to a bushranger’s best mate. From ‘battle dog’ in the Australian Wars, to being a …
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. The podcast uses archive, oral history, interviews, vox pops, music and sound to tell the story and history of an iconic thing or place in Sydney’s inner western …
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 …