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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Mark Thomson
Mar 22, 20212 min read
177 Nations of Tasmania podcast - Episode 27 - Made in South Korea, living in Launceston
This episode is hopefully the first of a series of migrants living up in the north of Tasmania, in this case, Launceston. I have done one...
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Mark Thomson
Feb 20, 20212 min read
Episode 26 of 177 Nations of Tasmania - Understanding Iran
One of many reasons why I started this podcast was that I could see how easily misconceptions and stereotypes about a certain country or...
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