177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 53 - Barber from Sierra Leone
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...
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Mark Thomson
Mar 24, 20222 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 52 - Beautiful Bolivia
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...
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Mark Thomson
Mar 24, 20223 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 51 - Conflict in the Congo
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...
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Mark Thomson
Mar 9, 20224 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 50 - From a divided South Africa
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...
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Mark Thomson
Feb 10, 20223 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 46 - The complexities of Ethiopia
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...
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Mark Thomson
Nov 9, 20213 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 43 - A long-lost LIbya
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...
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Mark Thomson
Nov 4, 20212 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 42 - A bit of Indonesia in Devonport
I finally made my first foray outside of Southern Tasmania and Launceston to do a couple of interviews in Devonport, Tasmania's third...
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Mark Thomson
Sep 21, 20213 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 41 - Inspiration from Afghanistan
Words like "resilience" and "inspirational" are perhaps overused expressions these days, but resilience just seemed to be the perfect...
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Mark Thomson
Sep 15, 20212 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 40 - A Greek Odyssey
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...
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Mark Thomson
Sep 14, 20213 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 39 - Colourful Mexico
People are complex and often their stories have many threads, and this is perhaps even more true for those who have migrated to our...
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Mark Thomson
Aug 9, 20212 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 38 - Chile and challenges
With each new episode I seem to uncover something a little different but which nevertheless speaks to a kind of common humanity or...
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Mark Thomson
Jul 24, 20212 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 37 - Oh Canada !
Up until now, almost all my interviewees have come from places where English was not the first language, and, of course, the language...
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Mark Thomson
Jul 16, 20213 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 36 - Journeys from Belgium
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...
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Mark Thomson
Jun 6, 20213 min read
177 Nation of Tasmania - Episode 35 - Delving into 20th century Hungarian history
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...
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Mark Thomson
May 27, 20213 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 34 - The personal side of history in Slovakia
Jenny aka Yenni has written several books in English, including two of an autobiographical nature, a remarkable achievement for someone...
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Mark Thomson
May 27, 20212 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania podcast - Episode 33 - Comparing with Ukraine
Tasmania has received many Ukrainian migrants since the large migrations began just over 70 years ago. Many were displaced people as a...
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Mark Thomson
May 3, 20212 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 32 - Insights from a big ,cold island
Greenland is a self-governing territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, perhaps comparable to Scotland and Northern Ireland within the United...
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Mark Thomson
Apr 5, 20212 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 30 - A bit of Nigeria in Launceston
So I made another trip up to Launceston to met with Edward, who works for the Northern Tasmanian Development Corporation, to find out a...
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Mark Thomson
Apr 3, 20212 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 29 - Postivity and realism from Brazil
With these interviews, I really like to try and understand the environment where people grew up and how that may have influenced their...
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Mark Thomson
Mar 24, 20212 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 28 - Facts about Finland
Finland is a country that often gets mentioned in Tasmania in regards to various social problems , as a place which offers some models of...
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