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
- Oct 26
- 2 min
177 Nations of Tasmania podcast - From Sweden to the heart of Africa
One of the beauties of doing this podcast is the diversity of stories and cultures I get to hear about from quite disparate parts of the...
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Mark Thomson
- Sep 11
- 2 min
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
- 3 min
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
- Jun 28
- 4 min
177 Nations of Tasmania : A personal journey of discovery
After my most recent interview with Ali, who grew up in Beirut, Lebanon I started to reflect on how much I've learned from all these...
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Mark Thomson
- May 30
- 3 min
Almost 3 years of the 177 Nations of Tasmania podcast - Time for a review and an appeal for help
The podcast has been going for almost 3 years now and I thought it was a good time to sit back and both review what I've achieved so far...
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Mark Thomson
- Dec 31, 2022
- 5 min
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
- Aug 2, 2022
- 3 min
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 64 - The simple life in Tonga
As I mentioned in my last blog, I hadn't managed to find any Pacific Islanders until recently, despite many attempts. But once you get...
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Mark Thomson
- Jul 31, 2022
- 3 min
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
- Jun 29, 2022
- 4 min
177 Nations of Tasmania - Compiling clips on common themes
In the process of doing the interviews for this podcast, more and more common themes have emerged. There are certain things that are...
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Mark Thomson
- Jun 19, 2022
- 2 min
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 62 - Magical Madagascar
I have to say that Madagascar was actually not on my list of countries from the 2016 census ( which is of course well out of date, but...
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Mark Thomson
- Jun 17, 2022
- 2 min
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 61 - Talk with an Egyptian
I have been doing this podcast for almost 2 years now, and through the process I've learnt many things. One thing that I've taken on...
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Mark Thomson
- Jun 16, 2022
- 2 min
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 60 - In between Hong Kong and Tasmanian culture
I thought it would be interesting to have Anthony on the podcast because of his rather unusual reason for coming to Tasmania and his...
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Mark Thomson
- Jun 5, 2022
- 2 min
177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 59 - Norway
In the case of many migrants I've interviewed, coming to Australia/Tasmania has meant coming to a place with a better quality of life,...
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Mark Thomson
- Apr 29, 2022
- 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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Mark Thomson
- Apr 27, 2022
- 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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Mark Thomson
- Apr 25, 2022
- 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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Mark Thomson
- Apr 14, 2022
- 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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Mark Thomson
- Apr 2, 2022
- 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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Mark Thomson
- Apr 1, 2022
- 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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