Podcast highlights for June : Benin, Tunisia and Israel
The recent podcast episodes involved one that was 11 months in the making, and another came together in a matter of days. Two of them...
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Mark Thomson
May 153 min read
Podcast highlights for May - Escaping ethnic cleansing and surprising romances
A somewhat provocative heading perhaps, but then 2 of the recent episodes have involved Bosnia Herzegovina and Bhutan. In both countries,...
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Mark Thomson
May 12 min read
Podcast highlights - Armenian farming blueberries on King Island and professional volleyball in Estonia
Things have been a little slow with the podcast in the past few months, but should be picking up a bit more over the next month with some...
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Mark Thomson
Mar 192 min read
Celebrating 100 episodes of 177 Nations of Tasmania
Having reached 100 episodes/nationalities on the podcast, I thought it was a milestone worth celebrating and I invited participants to...
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Mark Thomson
Feb 72 min read
Podcast highlights - The Austrian Alps, Aged Care in Singapore and a childhood in PNG
It's been an interesting first month or so on the podcast in 2024, with three quite contrasting stories from Austria, Singapore and Papua...
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Mark Thomson
Nov 23, 20232 min read
Podcast highlights - Stories from three different continents
My most recent podcast episodes were with three different women from three different continents, and perhaps as geographically apart as...
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Mark Thomson
Sep 11, 20232 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania Highlights : Stories of romance and travel adventures
I've done another three new episodes in quick succession, all from Europe, but from quite disparate parts. After a succession of...
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Mark Thomson
Aug 31, 20233 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania podcast - Recent highlights
The last few months have been pretty productive and yielded some interesting interviews from both similar and contrasting parts of the...
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Mark Thomson
Dec 31, 20225 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania podcast in 2022 - looking back at the achievements and challenges
It's always interesting to look back on what you've achieved during the year, and when I look at the gallery of photos of just some of...
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Mark Thomson
Jul 31, 20223 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 63 - Samoa and family
My interview with Loni was my first with someone from any of the Pacific Island nations, an area I've been wanting to cover for a while...
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Mark Thomson
Apr 14, 20223 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 55 - Iraq and a touch of Palestine
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...
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Mark Thomson
Apr 2, 20223 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 54 - Singer and jeweller from Slovenia
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...
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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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