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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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Ashleigh Wilson – Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing

April 22, 2025

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.