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Tim Dobbyn – Black, White + Colour

In this latest episode of Biographers in Conversation, Tim Dobbyn chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Black, White + Colour: A Biography of Mervyn Bishop Australia's First Indigenous Professional Photographer.
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Joshua Kendall – Trudeau & Doonesbury

In this latest episode of Biographers in Conversation, Joshua Kendall chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Trudeau & Doonesbury: The Cartoonist Who Turned the News into Art.
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James Bailey – Like a Cat Loves a Bird

In this latest episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr James Bailey chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark.
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Nigel Cameron – Dr. Koop

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Nigel Cameron chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Dr Koop: The Many Lives of the Surgeon General.
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Kathryn Heyman – Circle of Wonders and Fury

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Kathryn Heyman chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting her memoir Fury and seventh novel, Circle of Wonders.
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Jeffrey Meyers : Parallel Lives

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Jeffrey Meyers chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while crafting Parallel Lives: From Freud and Mann to Arbus and Plath.
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Patricia Meisol – A Heart Afire

July 3, 2025

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.

Jacqueline Kent – Bonjour, Mademoiselle!

June 26, 2025

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.

Robert Zaretsky – The Subversive Simone Weil

June 19, 2025

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.

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

June 12, 2025

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.

Sally Bayley – The Green Lady

June 5, 2025

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.

Lamisse Hamouda : The Shape of Dust

May 29, 2025

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.

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

May 22, 2025

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.

Oliver Soden – Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat

May 15, 2025

In this episode of Biographers of Conversation, the distinguished British biographer Oliver Soden chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while crafting Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat.

Kate Fullagar – Bennelong & Phillip: A History Unravelled

May 8, 2025

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.

Pamela D. Toler : The Dragon from Chicago

May 1, 2025

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.