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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...
Mark Thomson
Jul 16, 20213 min read
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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...
Mark Thomson
Jun 6, 20213 min read
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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...
Mark Thomson
May 27, 20213 min read
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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...
Mark Thomson
May 27, 20212 min read
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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...
Mark Thomson
May 3, 20212 min read
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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...
Mark Thomson
Apr 3, 20212 min read
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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...
Mark Thomson
Mar 24, 20212 min read
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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...
Mark Thomson
Mar 22, 20212 min read
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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...
Mark Thomson
Feb 20, 20212 min read
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Episode 25 of 177 Nations of Tasmania - Discovering Bangladesh
Arman's journey from growing up in rural Bangladesh, through boarding school near Dhaka to studying in Tasmania, has in some ways...
Mark Thomson
Feb 14, 20212 min read
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Episode 24 of 177 Nations of Tasmania - Japan
Having lived and worked in Japan myself many years ago, and having taught many many students from Japan over the years, I was already...
Mark Thomson
Feb 10, 20212 min read
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