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76 episodes
Interview with Ian de Souza – Freo Artist
Ian de Souza, now in his 87th year, is a much loved Fremantle artist, but he wasn’t always a visual artist.After puzzling his way through a few years of Minor Seminary in New South Wales as a 16 year old in the mid 1950s, straight...
The Catalpa Escape Podcast Series – Episode 11
Regular listeners of Episodes 1-10 will know that the escape moment has nearly arrived. In this episode, Episode 11, we arrive at the pointy end of the great escape story. In Episode 10 we heard that the alarm seemed to have been ...
View From the Round House With Martin Drum – Iran, Iran, Iran
Welcome back to our politics podcast, View From The Round House With Martin Drum.Today, our Editor, Michael Barker asks the Prof about one thing and one thing only, well, three things one supposes: IRAN, IRAN, IRAN.<...
Interview with Lara Bianca Pilcher – Audacious Artist
Lara Bianca Pilcher is an international performing artist, author, speaker, and ICF PCC-certified creativity coach with over 25 years of experience across musical theatre, choreography, education, and leadership.She has worked int...
View from the Round House with Martin Drum – Ley Loses, Taylor Triumphs, All Eyes Turn To Farrer!
Welcome to our regular politics podcast, View From The Round House With Martin Drum.This episode is titled LEY LOSES, TAYLOR TRIUMPHS, ALL EYES TURN TO FARRER!In this episode, our Editor, Michael Barker, ask...
The Catalpa Escape Podcast Series – Episode 10
In this Episde, Episode 10, at long last we begin to get to the business end of the rescue and escape. Captain Anthony in Bunbury and Breslin/Mr Collins in Fremantle are in regular touch by telegram over the Easter weekend. The 6 Fenians...
Interview with Moshe Rosenzveig OAM - Head of Head On Photo Festival
The Head On Photo Festival began in Sydney in 2004, and, for the first time, in 2026, it’s on show, in Perth Western Australia, right now!You don’t need to be a declared lover of photography to attend the Festival, but if you are, you w...
The Catalpa Escape Podcast Series – Episode 9
Here’s Episode 9 of this very popular podcast celebrating to escape of political Fenians from Colonial Western Australia on 17 April 1876 - coming up 150 years. In this episode, the Catalpa arrives in Bunbury. It’s 27 March 1...
The Catalpa Escape Podcast Series – Episode 8
Welcome to Episode 8 of the Catalpa Escape Podcast Series.In Episode 1, our narrator, Margo O’Byrn...
Interview with Scott Ellis - Patriotic Millionaire
Patriotic Millionaires is a group of wealthy Americans advocating for higher taxes on the rich, stronger democracy, and fairer economic systems. Its mantra is TAX THE RICH, PAY THE PEOPLE, SPREAD THE POWER. And Scott Ellis is one of the Patriot...
The Catalpa Escape Podcast Series – Episode 7
Welcome to Episode 7 of the Catalpa Escape Podcast Series.In Episode 1, our narrator, Margo O’Byrne, sets...
The Catalpa Escape Podcast Series – Episode 6
Welcome to Episode 6 of the Catalpa Escape Podcast Series.In Episode 1, our narrator, Margo O’Byrne, sets...
The Catalpa Escape Podcast Series – Episode 5
Welcome to Episode 5 of the Catalpa Escape Podcast Series.In Episode 1, our narrator, Margo O’Byrne, sets...
Interview with Isla Scarvaci – Who Is Off To 6th WFDYS Children Camp In Ontario, Canada
The 6th WFDYS Children Camp — organised by the World Federation of the Deaf Youth Section – is set to take place in Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada from August 23 to 29, 2025.And 10 year old, White Gum Valley girl and F...
Interview With Geoff Hutchison – Grumpy Old Buggers
Well known media guy, and now a newly minted Freo author, Geoff Hutchison has just seen his first book, How Not To Become A Grumpy Old Bugger published by Affirm Press, a Simon & Schuster company.As the publisher says o...
The Catalpa Escape Podcast Series – Episode 4
Welcome to Episode 4 of the Catalpa Escape Podcast Series.In Episode 1, our narrator, Margo O’Byrne, sets the scene for the famous 1876 Catalpa Escape of the ‘Military’ Fenians from just south of Fremantle, Western Australia. ...
The Catalpa Escape Podcast Series – Episode 3
In Episode 1 of the Catalpa Escape Podcast Series, our narrator, Margo O’Byrne, set the scene for the famous 1876 Catalpa Escape of the ‘Military’ Fenians from just south of Fremantle, Western Australia.Episode 2 deals with the raising ...
The Catalpa Escape Podcast Series – Episode 1
The Catalpa Escape was the escape, on 17 April 1876, of six Irish ‘military’ Fenians from the ‘Convict Establishment’, now Fremantle Prison, in the then British colony of Western Australia. A number of Fenians were initially transpo...
The Catalpa Escape Podcast Series – Episode 2
The Catalpa Escape was the escape, on 17 April 1876, of six Irish ‘military’ Fenians from the ‘Convict Establishment’, now Fremantle Prison, in the then British colony of Western Australia. A number of Fenians were initially transpo...
Interview with Chuckie Raven – 2025 Fogarty Literary Award Winner
Chuckie Raven is the 2025 Fogarty Literary Award winner. The Award was announced Tuesday night at the Western Australian Government House Ballroom. Chuckie Raven receives a $20,000 cash prize from the Fogarty Foundation, a publishin...
View from the Round House with Martin Drum - The Pope, The Papacy, The Vatican as a State
With the Australian Federal elections pretty much over – bar some shouting – and the Ministers in the new Albanese Government appointed, and so much happening elsewhere around the globe just now, the Prof and I decided to turn out attenti...
View from the Round House with Martin Drum – The Wrap
Welcome to our politics podcast, View From The Round House With Martin Drum. Well the Australian National elections are over. The Albanese Labor Government has been re-elected with an increased majority. The minor parties and a nu...
Interview with Professor Charles Watson AM – Neuroscientist, Public Health Guru, Health Scientist
Emeritus Professor Charles Watson has done it all, well, if not exactly all, then nearly all in the fields of neuroscience, public health and health sciences.Charles is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Health Sciences, Curtin U...
Interview with Mark Nelson – Biospherian
In early 1993, after spending just over 2 years inside Biosphere 2 in Arizona, USA, Mark Nelson emerged from the artificial sphere into the natural atmosphere of Biosphere 1 – Planet Earth – with his 7 fellow Biospherians.Mark ...
Interview with Ilaria Mazzoleni - NAHR & Transect of Coexistence
Ilaria Mazzoleni is the General Editor of Transect of Coexistence: Inquiry into Nature, Art, and Habitat, a recently published book that collects the outcomes of a decade-long collaboration between scholars and creatives, who, thr...