Season 2 Podcast Episodes

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, the award-winning historian and author Professor Kate Fullagar chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Bennelong & Phillip: A History Unravelled.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, the historian Dr Pamela D. Toler chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting The Dragon from Chicago. The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany. For fans of unheralded women’s stories, The Dragon from Chicago shares the electrifying story of Sigrid Schultz—one of the earliest reporters to warn Americans of the rising threat of the Nazi regime—a story that draws striking parallels to the rise of fascism today.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Ashleigh Wilson chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while researching and writing Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing, his acclaimed biography of Brett Whiteley, one of Australia’s most iconic and enigmatic artists.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Amy Reading chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker, the biography of Katharine Sergeant White, the first fiction editor of The New Yorker, an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Patchen Barss chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while crafting The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius, the biography of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger Penrose.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Australia’s doyenne of biography, Brenda Niall AO, chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting: Joan Lindsay: The Hidden Life of the Woman Who Wrote Picnic at Hanging Rock.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, the multi-award-winning broadcaster, composer and author Andrew Ford AOM chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his latest book, The Shortest History of Music. A lively, entertaining, authoritative tour through 4,000 years of music, this book explores music’s role in human society. Spanning cultures and eras, it’s a blend of witty and informative anecdotes, historical insights and philosophical musings.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Kate Kennedy, a distinguished cellist, musicologist, broadcaster and Director of Oxford University’s Centre for Life Writing, chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, award-winning biographer Dr Bernadette Brennan chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Leaping into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears, the biography of Gillian Mears, one of Australia’s most celebrated authors.

In this episode of Biographers of Conversation, the multi-award winning author and art historian Helen Ennis chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Max Dupain: A Portrait.