Behind the scenes: Episode Twenty Six

Here’s a screencap of my Pro Tools session for Episode Twenty Six! Each episode is highly labour intensive as I do my all to try to make each one the best it can be - content-wise, and to the best of my technical ability.

Every segment of a clip represents a cut I’ve made in the audio, and every dot is a point where I’ve adjusted the volume. Plus there’s a lot more work that went into this that this screencap doesn’t show!

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Love, Canberra on the Emerging Writers Festival podcast

The wonderful people at the Emerging Writers Festival contacted me last year about submitting some clips for a podcast episode they were working on. The resulting episode, "Creative Audio: Reflections from Australian Producers" features a number of excellent Australian audio producers, and me, discussing a piece of old tape and the lessons we drew from the experience of making it. 

Have a listen if you please! I come in at the 11:33 mark.

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Angel and Michael (Episode Two) on The Project

Angel and Michael from Episode Two - Poly appeared on Channel Ten's The Project tonight to talk about living polyamory! 

The back story involves Love, Canberra - The Project emailed, referencing the episode, and asked to be put in contact with them. Everything happened quite quickly and then BAM - on TV.

Here they are with Michael's girlfriend Maddie. Watch the episode here - A&M&M appear from 34:26.

Article: Cast Away Australian Podcast Awards

On 1 April, I was delighted to attend Australia's first ever podcasting awards: Cast Away.

It was a Moment in Australian podcasting history that I felt needed to be captured - so I put myself up for the challenge.

For the piece, I spoke to Cast Away founder and organiser, Dave Gertler, one of the award judges, Madeline Joannou, and a representative from one of the winning podcasts - Anna Priestland of the Casefile: True Crime Podcast.

Read the full piece on Bello Collective.

Maria and Simon: a love (at first sight) story

Taken on Simon's birthday in 2001. "He had a 1960's karaoke party," Maria says.

From their wedding in July 2002: "In this photo Simon is telling me his vows.

"Simon and I have also been on the stage several times together. I like this one best, from Cinderella December 2009.

"This is one of my favourite pictures of us in July 2015 whilst we were in Hong Kong. We'd just come down Victoria Peak."

With many thanks to Maria Josey for the above photos and descriptions. Listen to her and Simon's story in Episode 13 - At first sight.

OzPod 2016

So. Zacha Rosen and I teamed up to produce a write-up of OzPod 2016 for the Bello Collective. 

In case you don't know Zacha (and you really should), he's an awesome radio producer (at FBi Radio) and writer.

In case the words 'OzPod 2016' conjure no memories or associations for you, it was a (fantastic) one day conference on podcasting organised by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) for folks in podcasting and radio. 

Read our summary/insights/review of OzPod 2016 at the Bello Collective.

Seeking stories

According to the ACT Government, the population of Canberra is approaching 400,000. 

On my podcast, I have so far featured ten Canberrans. 

Are you, or someone you know, one of the remaining hundreds of thousands of Canberrans who has a story that you could share with me and Love, Canberra? 

Here are a handful of the stories I'm hoping to explore on the show:

  • An unlikely love story
  • Significant imbalance in a relationship: money, status, looks, intelligence, talent, friends
  • Pick-up artist
  • Found one true love and lost them
  • Break-up
  • Fetish for a particular ethnicity
  • Unusual sexual fetish
  • My partner doesn’t/can’t give me one thing I really need
  • Interracial dating
  • Someone you had a secret crush on and can’t forget
  • Cheated on a partner
  • Addicted to porn
  • Male escort
  • Female escort
  • A long, possibly happy, possibly unhappy, marriage
  • Death
  • An imbalanced friendship
  • An unlikely friendship
  • Having a child changed my relationship with my partner
  • Sex therapist
  • On entering a relationship that felt doomed from the beginning
  • Introverted but wanting connection
  • Canberra’s most boring couple
  • Great love story
  • Wanting someone you can’t have
  • Dating with an STD
  • Keep dating the “same” person
  • Dating on a low income
  • Don’t believe in love

Or maybe there's something else (relating to love, sex, or relationships) that you'd like to talk to me about on the podcast?

Get in touch! I don't bite :)

Hello Bello!

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When I told Brittany Jezouit, creator of the Podcast Broadcast, that I had been accepted into AIR Media's summer 2016 Full Spectrum Intensive Storytelling Workshop, she expressed her excitement for me. And then she asked if I wanted to do a write-up about the workshop for a new project of hers. 

That write-up is now up, as is her new project, The Bello Collective, which she founded with Dana Gerber-Margie, behind The Audio Signal - another great newsletter about podcasts that I was also a subscriber to.

I say 'was' because the newsletter is no longer active - same with Podcast Broadcast. The book has closed on them both, with the new chapter being The Bello Collective. 

Read my piece here!

Love, Canberra on Friday Night Lip Service

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Friday Night Lip Service is a rad show on the Canberra community radio station 2XXfm that's presented by a group of queer Canberran women. One of their presenters just so happens to be Daria, whom I interviewed in Episode Six - Asexual. 

Daria was very kind to make mention to Love, Canberra generally and the episode she was on specifically. You can hear all the lovely things she said about the show here (from 45:20).