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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...
Mark Thomson
Sep 11, 20232 min read


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...
Mark Thomson
Sep 1, 20233 min read


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...
Mark Thomson
May 30, 20233 min read


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...
Mark Thomson
Dec 31, 20225 min read


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...
Mark Thomson
Jul 31, 20223 min read


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...
Mark Thomson
Jun 29, 20224 min read


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...
Mark Thomson
Jun 16, 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 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 - 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


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...
Mark Thomson
Sep 14, 20213 min read
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