I thought it would be interesting to have Anthony on the podcast because of his rather unusual reason for coming to Tasmania and his...

As any of you who follow my podcast will know, I frequently ask my subjects about their childhood and upbringing. This is the time of...

There have been numerous interviews where I have felt like there was so much more we could have talked about and that my final edit...

This was my first attempt at interviewing a couple, I hadn't really been able to do it before easily, but now I have a new microphone...

If you look at the history of migration across the world, one of the common threads you see is how migrants bring both new skills and a...

Sometimes in these interviews that I do, the thing that I think is going to be interesting, doesn't end up being much of a focus but then...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is a big country, the second-largest in Africa, and also one of the most populous. It's also rich in...

It's interesting that when I sit down with people for the podcast and ask them to tell me a bit about their life story, there is often a...

It is, of course, impossible to fully encapsulate all the aspects of a nation or culture in a single podcast, especially in regards to a...

This was the second interview I did in Devonport and I had heard a bit of Piera's story in advance that I thought it had some features...

I finally made my first foray outside of Southern Tasmania and Launceston to do a couple of interviews in Devonport, Tasmania's third...

Words like "resilience" and "inspirational" are perhaps overused expressions these days, but resilience just seemed to be the perfect...

One of the really fascinating things about doing this podcast over the last year or so has been hearing stories that give you a window...

People are complex and often their stories have many threads, and this is perhaps even more true for those who have migrated to our...

With each new episode I seem to uncover something a little different but which nevertheless speaks to a kind of common humanity or...

Up until now, almost all my interviewees have come from places where English was not the first language, and, of course, the language...

One of the challenges of a project like 177 Nations of Tasmania is that you can't really take a one-size-fits-all approach to the wide...

The last two episodes I've done have been with the two oldest people I've interviewed so far, though you would certainly not have guesed...

Jenny aka Yenni has written several books in English, including two of an autobiographical nature, a remarkable achievement for someone...

Tasmania has received many Ukrainian migrants since the large migrations began just over 70 years ago. Many were displaced people as a...