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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...
Mark Thomson
Apr 27, 20222 min read


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...
Mark Thomson
Apr 25, 20222 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...
Mark Thomson
Apr 14, 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...
Mark Thomson
Apr 2, 20223 min read


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...
Mark Thomson
Apr 1, 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...
Mark Thomson
Mar 25, 20222 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...
Mark Thomson
Mar 24, 20223 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...
Mark Thomson
Mar 9, 20224 min read


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...
Mark Thomson
Mar 6, 20222 min read


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...
Mark Thomson
Mar 5, 20222 min read


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...
Mark Thomson
Mar 5, 20222 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...
Mark Thomson
Feb 10, 20223 min read


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...
Mark Thomson
Feb 10, 20222 min read


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...
Mark Thomson
Jan 3, 20225 min read


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,...
Mark Thomson
Dec 21, 20213 min read


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...
Mark Thomson
Dec 17, 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...
Mark Thomson
Nov 9, 20213 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...
Mark Thomson
Nov 4, 20212 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...
Mark Thomson
Sep 22, 20213 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...
Mark Thomson
Sep 15, 20212 min read
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