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    Photo and video projects in 2022 so far
    Mark Thomson
    • May 4
    • 2 min

    Photo and video projects in 2022 so far

    For a while in 2022 I sort of took a break from photography and just stopped doing my usual "photo walks" or anything much beyond...
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    177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 58 - On rural life in Kenya
    Mark Thomson
    • Apr 29
    • 2 min

    177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 58 - On rural life in Kenya

    I guess Kenya is one of those countries we might associate with the quintessential Africa - herds of Wildebeest, sweeping savannah,...
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    177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 57 - Small island community of the Seychelles
    Mark Thomson
    • Apr 27
    • 2 min

    177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 57 - Small island community of the Seychelles

    There were so many aspects of Anna's personal story that I found interesting that it was hard to decide what to leave out. I must admit...
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    177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 56 - Traditional village life in Portugal
    Mark Thomson
    • Apr 25
    • 2 min

    177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 56 - Traditional village life in Portugal

    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...
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    177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 55 - Iraq and a touch of Palestine
    Mark Thomson
    • Apr 14
    • 3 min

    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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    177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 54 - Singer and jeweller from Slovenia
    Mark Thomson
    • Apr 2
    • 3 min

    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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    177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 53 - Barber from Sierra Leone
    Mark Thomson
    • Apr 1
    • 2 min

    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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    177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 52 - Beautiful Bolivia
    Mark Thomson
    • Mar 24
    • 2 min

    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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    177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 51 - Conflict in the Congo
    Mark Thomson
    • Mar 24
    • 3 min

    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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    177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 50 - From a divided South Africa
    Mark Thomson
    • Mar 9
    • 4 min

    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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    177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 49 - Mysterious Mauritius
    Mark Thomson
    • Mar 6
    • 2 min

    177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 49 - Mysterious Mauritius

    Mauritius is a small and quite remote set of islands in the Indian Ocean, and some 2000km off the coast of the African mainland. So...
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    177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 48 - Unknown Honduras
    Mark Thomson
    • Mar 5
    • 2 min

    177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 48 - Unknown Honduras

    I think Honduras is the first country I've come across about which I've realised that I knew almost nothing, apart from the most basic...
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    177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 47 - Exotic Ecuador
    Mark Thomson
    • Mar 5
    • 2 min

    177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 47 - Exotic Ecuador

    Ecuadoreans are another one of those nationalities that I didn't really expect to find in Tasmania, but doing so gave me an opportunity...
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    177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 46 - The complexities of Ethiopia
    Mark Thomson
    • Feb 10
    • 3 min

    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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    177 Nations of Tasmania podcast update :  The impact of some much-needed publicity
    Mark Thomson
    • Feb 10
    • 2 min

    177 Nations of Tasmania podcast update : The impact of some much-needed publicity

    After a mostly quiet and frustrating January as far as the podcast goes, things have really burst into a hive of activity in the last few...
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    COVID, mental health and taking pictures
    Mark Thomson
    • Jan 25
    • 4 min

    COVID, mental health and taking pictures

    To see some, the connection between these three things may seem unclear, but there will be others who will probably relate straight away....
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    More adventures with "A Piano of Tasmania"
    Mark Thomson
    • Jan 14
    • 2 min

    More adventures with "A Piano of Tasmania"

    Some of you may have seen my blog about A Piano of Tasmania in 2020, and how it blew up into a story on national TV. It really all...
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    177 Nations of Tasmania - Looking back at 2021, and forward to new horizons in 2022
    Mark Thomson
    • Jan 3
    • 5 min

    177 Nations of Tasmania - Looking back at 2021, and forward to new horizons in 2022

    The change of year is often a time for reflection and taking stock, of reflecting back on the year that was and making plans and...
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    177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 45 - Croatia born, but proud Tasmanian
    Mark Thomson
    • Dec 21, 2021
    • 3 min

    177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 45 - Croatia born, but proud Tasmanian

    The header for this episode is actually a direct quote from Davor, and I thought it was not only an excellent way to sum up his story,...
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    177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 44 - From Poland with love
    Mark Thomson
    • Dec 17, 2021
    • 3 min

    177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 44 - From Poland with love

    Poland has been one of the major sources of migrants to Tasmania since 1947 and many Poles came in the 1950s and 60s to work as labourers...
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