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SeedPod Productions
by Craigs Audio Works
An audio showroom for my podcasts, documentaries and soundscapes. I'm an award-winning radio journalist; creative writer; editor; consultant; and workshop facilitator (audio, editing, writing & publishing) with over twenty-five years’ experience in creative arts, media and publishing. Hear my podcast https://www.craiggarrett.online/
Episodes
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Dying with Dignity
Not quick enough to be sudden; too sudden to come to terms with: how do we find dignity in death? Interview with Jos Hall from Dying With Dignity This piece discusses death, dying and grief. First broadcast on 11 December 2017 The doctor talks about ‘active dying’; ‘non-active dying’; ‘range of...
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Distant Voices
Fractured Voices; Muted Voices; Healing Voices Recorded 25-28 August 2017 First broadcast September 2017 ‘Distant Voices’ is a non-linear soundscape that captures the texture, emotion and feel of QPF2017: it takes you there. The three-acts: Fractured Voices; Muted Voices; Healing Voices, honour…
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Sex Work is Real Work
Fair Rights for Sex Workers because everyone has the right to be safe at work and come home at the end of their shift 4ZZZ’s ‘Brisbane Line’ and 3CR’s ‘Stick Together’ talk to Elena Jeffereys from Respect Inc. (QLD) and Jane Green from Vixen Collective (Victoria) about sex work and how these...
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National Rugby Sevens Championship
Interview by Alan (aged five); recording by Sally (mum); production and editing by Craig First broadcast 20 December 2018 The National Rugby Sevens Championship is an annual rugby union event that includes senior and junior teams in men’s and women’s divisions. Competitors include national...
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Bri Lee - Eggshell Skull (debut memoir)
First Broadcast in 2018 Brisbane-based writer Bri Lee’s memoir Eggshell Skull is her story through the Australian legal system, as a policeman’s daughter, law student, judge’s associate and complainant. Eggshell Skull is a fierce memoir, and its haunting appraisal of modern Australia illustrates...
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Tom Doig - Hazelwood
First Broadcast in 2017 “The smoke got thicker and darker and then it seemed to be coming from everywhere, swirling around until it blackened the entire town.” — The Coal Face by Tom Doig In February 2014, the open cut coal mine surrounding Hazelwood Power Station caught fire and burned for...
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Elspeth Muir - Wasted
First Broadcast in 2017 The following piece discusses death, dying and grief. “There were flies in the kitchen, cane toads in the driveway, golden orb spiders in the Camellia and mosquitoes in the window blinds. Currawongs, butcher birds and magpies sang and shat in the frangipani tree while...
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Bill Wilkie - The Daintree Blockade
First Broadcast in 2017 The battle for Australia's tropical rainforests In December 1983 a small group of local Daintree residents formed a peaceful protest when the Douglas Shire Council, with the support of the Bjelke Petersen State Government, commenced work on a road from Cape Tribulation to...
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Bri Lee - the writing of eggshell skull
First Broadcast in 2017 In 2015 Australia lost vibrant writer, editor and activist Kat Muscat at the age of 25 (1990–2015). A stone-cold scallywag, Kat was a formidable writing talent who taught all those she touched how to love each other better with kindness and empathy. Her writing embodied…
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Sonia Orchard - Into the Fire
First Broadcast in 2019 This piece discusses mental illness, death and dying, and may contain content that some people find disturbing. If you need help please call Lifeline on 13 11 14. Sonia Orchard’s third book Into the Fire is a beautifully written and deceptive page turner, that’s also...
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Bri Lee - the first fellow
Frist Broadcast in 2016 The annual Kat Muscat Fellowship develops young female and feamle idenifying writers and editors from around Australia. The Fellowship offers professional development up to the value of $3,000 for an editorial project or work of writing by a young person and aims to…
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The Granddaddy of all Liars
Australia’s Department of Home Affairs: a department no one wanted with a minister no one trusts — not even his colleagues In 2017 the Australian Department of Home Affairs was formed against all expert advice and against the grain of independent reviews and security analysts. As recently as 2015...
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I want to be like Laser Beak Man
Unrepresentative views demonising people with physical and cognitive differences In 2017 a former Australian TV star was accused of sexual assault by many women. To defend his actions he claimed to suffer from ‘undiagnosed Aspergers’. Then a slew of un-informed personalities and politicians...
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Australia’s fake energy debate
Australia’s fake energy price debate (or “Coal is good for humanity”) During a 2017 debate about the findings of the Independent Review into the Future Security of the National Electricity Market conservative politicians used fake concern about energy prices to argue that Australia needs more...
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Weakening Protections in Australia’s Racial Discrimination Act
Unrepresentative views on making it easier to discriminate against people Australia’s Conservative Government attempted to significantly change a section of Australia’s Racial Discrimination Act in order to weaken protections from racial abuse. Image Credit Photo by raphael beutel on Unsplash
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Easy Money
The scandals just keep coming for Australia’s big four banks For months the Conservative governments of Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott resisted calls for a Banking Royal Commission. For perspective, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) broke an anti-terror law 56,000 times and Wespac broke...
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Wibble Wobble Jelly
Climate-denial politicians on rising sea levels; flooding; and, for some reason, jelly During droning debates about climate change — which include, seemingly, every issue under the sun except for climate: e.g. energy generation, poor people in India, CPI, ‘the new normal’, the Greens party,...
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Backflips, contradictions and u-turns
Unrepresentative views on refugees, migrants, and, for some reason, tax During constant, ongoing and seemingly never-ending debates about refugees, Australian politicians often repeat themselves by sending inconsistent and illogical messages. Image Credit Photo by Michael Dziedzic on Unsplash
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Malcolm Turnbull (then-Prime Minister) on a boat, a train and a tram
Malcolm Turnbull (then-Prime Minister) on the campaign trail in 2016 During his re-election campaign Malcolm Turnbull donned military clothing, toured a warship and spouted empty cliches. Image Credit Photo by Aneta Hartmannová on Unsplash
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Twerwaneho Listeners Club (TLC)
Magezi Jackson, Trader Suleiman, Prosper Businge and Kyaligonze Fred are members of Twerwaneho Listeners Club (TLC), which is an NGO based in Fort Portal, in the Rwenzori Region of Western Uganda. TLC makes weekly radio programs centred on human rights, capacity building, civic education, and the...
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Radio Salmon and Radio Progreso (Colombia and Honduras)
Radio Salmon in Colombia The Radio Salmon (El Salmón) project in Colombia mobilises socially sensitive dialogue, encourages critical and participatory processes in defence of dignity and diversity as identity elements of social reconstruction. Radio Progreso in Honduras Radio Progreso is an award...
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Al-Tayyar newspaper
Shamael Al-Noor is a journalist working with Al-Tayyar newspaper in Sudan. Al-Tayyar is an independent Sudanese daily newspaper that was founded in 2012. Shamael Al-Noor regularly writes for Al-Tayyar where she criticises extremism and promotes human rights.
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Me Nam (Mother Mushroom)
Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh is a blogger and Coordinator of the Vietnamese Bloggers Network. Since 2006, she has been blogging under the pseudonym of Me Nam (Mother Mushroom). She is known for her criticism of the government, including revealing corruption cases and human rights violations committed by...
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The Quint
Poonam Agarwal is a investigative journalist and human rights defender working for the online news portal The Quint, where she regularly covers stories related to human rights in India and the abuse of law by the powerful.
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Your Telephone Been Ringing While You're Dancing in the Rain
What do new romantic 1980s pop band Duran Duran, novelist William S Burroughs, new wave band The Buggles, post-punk folk band The Pogues, MTV, cinema, nostalgia, my novel Transition Events, possible worlds literary theory, retro-future histories, time loops, Alice in Wonderland, director Russell...
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Covid Dreams — of Birdsong and Sirens
End to end, our London flat was a modest 32 footsteps. When London shut down, I’d been in the UK four weeks. At first, when we paused to listen closer, all we heard were random, almost opaque, individual noises, but as we refocussed our attention — maybe as we plodded into lockdown, maybe as we...
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Security Freedom Safety Democracy - for whom and at what cost?
An interview with Dayak activist and environmentalist Emmanuela Shinta. In this short documentary, recorded in 2019, Emmanuela Shinta introduces us to her people; paints us the beauty of Kalimantan; and explains the important environmental work of Ranu Welum. To read the associated article...
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Black GST — Genocide, Sovereignty, Treaty
As part of 2018’s Seven Days of Resistance WAR: Warriors for the Aboriginal Resistance, held a Black GST Public Forum. Long-time Indigenous activists Tony Birch; Margi Thorpe; Robbie Thorpe; and non-Indigenous ally Clare Land talked Genocide, Sovereignty, Treaty. This audio is an excerpt from…
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The House Conspiracy
This document Declassified May 11, 1973 I sense the presence of others. In this Place This continent and its islands This country is one remove from the cultural source, twice removed, three times; a continent–country that is an ad hoc triage on a home caesarean gone wrong. Every culture longs…
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No Trickery, No Re-takes, No Stand-ins (Act 1)
No Trickery, No Re-takes, No Stand-ins is the story of Vulcana Women's Circus told in three parts. It investigates Australian circuses; the importance of women-only circuses; the funding models available to performing arts organisations; and the impacts state and federal government funding cuts...
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No Trickery, No Re-takes, No Stand-ins (Act 2)
No Trickery, No Re-takes, No Stand-ins is the story of Vulcana Women's Circus told in three parts. It investigates Australian circuses; the importance of women-only circuses; the funding models available to performing arts organisations; and the impacts state and federal government funding cuts...
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No Trickery, No Re-takes, No Stand-ins (Act 3)
No Trickery, No Re-takes, No Stand-ins is the story of Vulcana Women's Circus told in three parts. It investigates Australian circuses; the importance of women-only circuses; the funding models available to performing arts organisations; and the impacts state and federal government funding cuts...
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Van Badham
Van Badham by Craig Garrett
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Behind The Line
'Behind the Line' is a behind the scenes/best of look at 4zzz's award-winning 'Brisbane Line' news hour - Saturday Edition. Saturday Brisbane Line won the 2017 Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) awards. Nominated in the 'Excellence in News and Current Affiars' category, we are...
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Canberra Is On Ngunnawal Country - Welcome to Country by Nin Jannette Phillips
In May 2017 I was a sound artist at the Noted Festival and was privileged to hear Ngunnawal Elder Nin Jannette Phillips deliver the Welcome to Country in the foyer of the National Library. At times our surroundings exerted a slightly surreal juxtaposition and contradiction when related to the...
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RainbowFamiliesDoco
This doco follows five different LGBTIQ+ families. It began as a series of five themed, stand-alone news interviews about marriage equality. I then re-edited them into a single one-hour show. To give the final piece added relevance (the ‘debate’ evolved) I added a history of the 1961 Marriage…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
An audio showroom for my podcasts, documentaries and soundscapes. I'm an award-winning radio journalist; creative writer; editor; consultant; and workshop facilitator (audio, editing, writing & publishing) with over twenty-five years’ experience in creative arts, media and publishing. Hear my podcast https://www.craiggarrett.online/
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