Andrew Ford – The Shortest History of Music
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Kate Kennedy – Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound
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Bernadette Brennan – Leaping into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears
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Helen Ennis – Max Dupain : A Portrait
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Anna Funder : Wifedom
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Jacqueline Kent: A Certain Style. Beatrice Davis: A Literary Life
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Andrew Ford – The Shortest History of Music
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.
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Kate Kennedy – Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound
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.
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Bernadette Brennan – Leaping into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears
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.
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Helen Ennis – Max Dupain : A Portrait
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.
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Anna Funder : Wifedom
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, multi award-winning author Anna Funder chats with Gabriella about her choices while crafting Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life. Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, Anna Funder slipped into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watched him create his writing self, she tried to remember her own…
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Jacqueline Kent: A Certain Style. Beatrice Davis: A Literary Life
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Jacqueline Kent chats with Gabriella about her choices while writing A Certain Style. Beatrice Davis: A Literary Life, the biography of Beatrice Davis, Australia’s doyenne of publishing.
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Ashleigh Wilson: Wendy Whiteley: Conversations About Art, Life and Gardening
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Ashleigh Wilson chats with Gabriella about the choices he made while writing A Year with Wendy Whiteley: Conversations About Art, Life and Gardening.
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Christie Lowrance: Nature’s Ambassador
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Christie Lowrance chats with Gabriella about her choices while writing Nature’s Ambassador: The Legacy of Thornton W. Burgess, the children’s author and naturalist.
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Laurie Gwen Shapiro: The Stowaway. A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Laurie Gwen Shapiro chats with Gabriella about the choices she made while writing The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica, the true story of Billy Gawronski, a New York teenager, who stowed away on a ship bound for Antarctica in 1928.
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Melanie Nolan: The ADB’s Story
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Melanie Nolan, Director of Australia’s National Centre of Biography, chats with Gabriella about her book, The ADB’s Story, the history of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB).
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