Tag: now hear this

• Busy Week – Many Choices

  29/10/2014

  now hear this, Radio, Sydney

  It never rains. It pours. There are many weeks (and weekends) where I find myself sitting at home staring at the ceiling, or sitting on the couch scrolling through the television channels hoping desperately there’ll be something to watch. Dullsville

  This week and next don’t fall into that category. Work is super-busy right now.… Read the rest “Busy Week – Many Choices”

• Now Hear This – Christmas Special

  04/12/2013

  linda jaivin, malcolm turnbull, melanie tait, now hear this, Radio, rn, sally sara, sarah macdonald

  “Remember your credit card has a limit, not a target” was one of my favourite lines delivered at the Now Hear This story-telling night at the State Library of NSW.

  Now Hear This is a radio project I’ve had some involvement in over the last couple of years.

  Most of the time it’s a story-telling slam, where people stand up before a live audience and tell a story of about five minutes duration.… Read the rest “Now Hear This – Christmas Special”

• Now Hear This

  27/02/2013

  Family, Genealogy, now hear this, Radio

  

  I didn’t expect to, but ended up telling a story at the “Now Hear This” story-telling night in Sydney tonight.

  I told the story of my great-great grandmother who had a relationship with her first cousin (no, I don’t have two heads). After the birth of their fourth child together, he married someone else and had four more children.… Read the rest “Now Hear This”

• Fika och Choklad

  28/11/2012

  daim, now hear this, Sverige

  

  “Is there anyone here who is Swedish?’, the young woman on stage asked tonight at Sydney’s Arthouse Hotel. As much as I was tempted to reply “yes”, I figured it was a little too much for me to claim Swedishness, since I was descended from a varied group of English, Irish and Scottish settlers and convicts, including a family who had arrived in Australia on the Third Fleet.… Read the rest “Fika och Choklad”