Jacqueline Kent

Jacqueline Kent – Bonjour, Mademoiselle!

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.
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Robert Zaretsky – The Subversive Simone Weil

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.
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Dr Kiera Lindsey

Kiera Lindsey: Wild Love: The Ambitions of Adelaide Ironside, the First Australian Artist to Astonish the World

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.
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Sally Bayley – The Green Lady

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.
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Lamisse Hamouda : The Shape of Dust

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.
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Kerrie Davies – Miles Franklin Undercover: The Little-Known Years When She Created Her Own Brilliant Career

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.
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Amy Reading – The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker

April 17, 2025

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.

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Patchen Barss – The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius

April 10, 2025

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.

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Brenda Niall

Brenda Niall – Joan Lindsay: The Hidden Life of the Woman Who Wrote Picnic at Hanging Rock

April 1, 2025

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.

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Andrew Ford – The Shortest History of Music

March 27, 2025

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

March 20, 2025

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

Bernadette Brennan – Leaping into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears

March 13, 2025

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

Helen Ennis – Max Dupain : A Portrait

March 6, 2025

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

February 28, 2025

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

Jacqueline Kent: A Certain Style. Beatrice Davis: A Literary Life 

August 30, 2024

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

August 28, 2024

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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