Podcast highlights for June : Benin, Tunisia and Israel
The recent podcast episodes involved one that was 11 months in the making, and another came together in a matter of days. Two of them...
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Mark Thomson
- Jun 19
- 2 min
Refugee Week and sharing refugee stories. Some thoughts.
At the time of writing this, I have completed 108 interviews for the 177 Nations of Tasmania podcast. These have spanned a whole gamut of...
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Mark Thomson
- Jun 18
- 1 min
Autumn colours along the Hobart Rivulet walk
As I write this, we are well and truly into winter, but I have been going through the many folders of photos I accumulated through the...
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Mark Thomson
- May 15
- 3 min
Podcast highlights for May - Escaping ethnic cleansing and surprising romances
A somewhat provocative heading perhaps, but then 2 of the recent episodes have involved Bosnia Herzegovina and Bhutan. In both countries,...
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Mark Thomson
- May 1
- 2 min
Podcast highlights - Armenian farming blueberries on King Island and professional volleyball in Estonia
Things have been a little slow with the podcast in the past few months, but should be picking up a bit more over the next month with some...
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Mark Thomson
- Mar 19
- 2 min
Celebrating 100 episodes of 177 Nations of Tasmania
Having reached 100 episodes/nationalities on the podcast, I thought it was a milestone worth celebrating and I invited participants to...
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Mark Thomson
- Jan 15
- 3 min
177 Nations of Tasmania - 2023 in review and future goals
Whenever a new year starts, it's common to look back at the previous year and reflect on what you may have learnt and achieved. With an...
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Mark Thomson
- Dec 14, 2023
- 2 min
Podcast highlights - Scottish salmon farmer and Latvian choral singing
The two latest episodes on the podcast come from Scotland and Latvia. Both from Northern Europe, but two very different stories in both...
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Mark Thomson
- Oct 26, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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
- May 30, 2023
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- Mar 24, 2022
- 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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Mark Thomson
- Jan 25, 2022
- 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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Mark Thomson
- Jan 14, 2022
- 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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Mark Thomson
- Nov 9, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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