Season 2 Podcast Episodes

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, historian and author Dr Yves Rees chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Travelling to Tomorrow: The Modern Women Who Sparked Australia’s Romance with America. This fascinating collective biography examines the lives of ten remarkable Australian women who, in the early twentieth century, threw convention to the wind by setting sail across the Pacific to seek their fortunes in North America.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Anna Beer, the author of five acclaimed biographies and a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College in Oxford, chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, the renowned historians Dr Henry Reynolds and Dr Nicholas Clements chat with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about their choices while crafting Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero, the biography of the courageous Indigenous warrior, Tongerlongeter.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Patricia Meisol chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting A Heart Afire: Helen Brook Taussig’s Battle Against Heart Defects, Unsafe Drugs, and Injustice in Medicine. A deeply moving biography, it chronicles the life of pioneering paediatrician and heart specialist Helen Taussig. Known as the ‘mother of paediatric cardiology’, the indomitable Helen Taussig was also a patient activist and a relentless advocate for global health.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, multi award-winning biographer Dr Jacqueline Kent chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Bonjour, Mademoiselle! April Ashley and the pursuit of a lovely life, the glittering story of April Ashley, model and trans pioneer.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, the intellectual historian Dr Robert Zaretsky chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while writing The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas. Known as the ‘patron saint of all outsiders’, Simone Weil was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, the historian Dr Kiera Lindsey chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Wild Love: The Ambitions of Adelaide Ironside, the First Australian Artist to Astonish the World.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, the critically acclaimed author, Oxford scholar, literature teacher and performer Dr Sally Bayley chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting The Green Lady: A Spirit, A Story, A Place.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Lamisse Hamouda chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting The Shape of Dust. This deeply disturbing account is co-written with her father Hazem Hamouda.

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Kerrie Davies chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Miles Franklin Undercover: The Little-Known Years When She Created Her Own Brilliant Career.