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Jun 192 min read

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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May 153 min read

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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Oct 26, 20232 min read

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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Aug 31, 20233 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...

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Apr 14, 20223 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...

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Apr 1, 20222 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...

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Sep 21, 20213 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...

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