Imagine being thrown into a Guatemalan jail for no reason with no way of knowing when you could be freed? This experience and that of her fellow female cellmates, sets Clemence on a journey to discover how the world treats women in poorer countries, the many ways they are oppressed and helps us understand why they would risk everything to try and gain a better life for themselves and their families.
Recorded at Studio 3 Bangalow 2025
Susan Johnson took her mother to Greece believing she would enjoy the history and culture, but after many misunderstandings it turns out she would have been happy anywhere as long as she was with her daughter.
Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2023
Lea Ypi grew up in Albania believing the government party line about it being a perfect society. When that world collapsed, almost over night, she had to completely reassess her values and beliefs.
Recorded at Byron writers Festival 2023
Maggie Walters has Multiple Personality Disorder and lives with the presence of many different voices in her head. What caused this and how does she cope and lead a relatively normal life? A fascinating life story.
Recorded at the Byron Writers Festival 2024
Clelia started her lifelong devotion to music at the tender age of 16 and a half when she ran away from home and fell into a job at the the most happening music publication in the nation – ‘Go Set’ in 1967. Suddenly handling responsibility for major artists she got a good grounding in the industry for when she herself became a recording star. In this segment, she meets Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin in his notorious youth. She has had an amazing life.
Recorded at Studio 3 Bangalow NSW 2025
Decades of interviewing musicians, hanging back stage, being on the bus, sometimes the plane- Stuart Coupe has seen if not all, then a great deal of how the music industry works. Here he reflects on what led him down this path and what is has given him – and of course lots of anecdotes!
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024
This is a beautiful memoir of coping with grief in a positive way. Indira’s beloved sister passed away and she set out on a search on how we can all deal with grief as a natural process and how it can lead to deep healing.
Recorded at Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival 2024
Jacinta Parsons reaches for mythological archetypes like ‘the witch’ ,’the mother’, and ‘the slut’ to demonstrate how women have been placed in boxes all their lives .Much more than a memoir about ageing.
Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2023
Maggie MacKeller already had some experience of farm life before she followed love to the eastern seaboard of Lutruwita ( Tasmania). But the harsh drought conditions of one year really extended her endurance. But still she found things to sustain her.
Recorded at Byron Writers Festival 2023
This is the third and probably final instalment in Carl Cleves’ amazing memories of his life as a global musician and ethnomusicologist. The first book was ‘Tarab: Travels with my Guitar’, the second ‘Dancing with the Bones’. As always it is a riveting account of encounters both musical and non musical, as he and his music and life partner Parissa Bouas trek to mysterious places around the globe to be thrilled by previously unrecorded music and perform themselves in a variety of unusual places. There is a Q code in the book which when scanned will take you to a Spotify play list of 6 hours of some of the music that has influenced him through his life.
Recorded at Studio 3 ,2023