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Back Chat: two Karens talking shit
Playlist by Kitchen RadioTwo Karens talking shit about the conundrums of everyday life – culture, society, media – whatever we set in our sights. Each week we pose a Carrie Bradshaw question about some aspect of modern life,…28 clip(s) in playlist
S3 E4 Back Chat — did genX ever exist?
When was genX? Did genX ever exist and does anyone care, except its aging members, who are now a fertile breeding ground of Karens. Alecia and Eleanor discuss the generation that never was, with Eleanor leafing back through Mark Davis’ Gangland: Cultural Elites and Generationalism, the 1997 Austral…
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S3 E3 Back Chat - Where shall we meet?
It’s been a long time between drinks, but Back Chat is back – again – with two Karens talking shit about books, culture and the world in general. In this week’s episode, we ask: Where shall we meet? Are there too many platforms to meet on, are the generations in social media siloes and is this a Go…
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Back Chat S3 E2 – Karen & the Sad Girl genre
What is a Karen, where did the catchphrase come from and are we Karens? Eleanor and Alecia ponder these philosophical questions of the day along with the Sad Girl genre. Associated with millenial women writers such as Sally Rooney, Caroline O’Donogue, Dolly Alderton, and Australians Madeleine Gray …
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S2 E14 - Luke Scholes on Sun and Shadow
'The first acrylic desert art paintings were radical and transformative acts. They spoke, and continue to speak, across vastly different and ever more entangled worlds. They illuminated another Australia. They sang its songs’, Professor John Carty writes in Sun and Shadow: Art of the Spinifex Peopl…
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S2 E13 – Dan Box on The Man Who Wasn't There
On 27 October 2023, Aboriginal man Zak Grieve was released on parole after serving over 12 years in the NT prison system for the murder of Ray Niceforo – a contract killing that he claimed not to have attended. This week, Dan Box discusses his book about Grieve, The Man Who Wasn’t There: A true s…
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S2 E12 – Natalie Stockdale and Tanya Heaslip on Campfire for a Woman's Heart
Campfires, resilience and inspirational women are themes that resonate strongly with Centralian life. In this week's episode of Book Chat, resilience coach Natalie Stockdale chats about her new anthology of women's life stories, Campfire for a Woman's Heart, with local contributor, Tanya Heaslip (…
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S2 E11 – Don Christophersen on A Little Bit of Justice
On 15 July 1893, Aboriginal stockman Charlie Flannigan became the first man to be executed in the Northern Territory after shooting station manager Sam Croker during a game of cribbage. During his imprisonment at Fannie Bay gaol, Flannigan was given drawing materials and sketched vignettes of his t…
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S2 E10 - Beth Driscoll & Sandra Phillips on Community Publishing
What if the future of the book in Australia doesn't emerge from Silicon Valley, London or Sydney, but is rather in the hands of grassroots organisations with local aspirations? Researchers Beth Driscoll and Sandra Phillips from the Community Publishing project discuss why, despite persistent stori…
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S2 E9 – David Jagger on To Kill a Crested Bellbird
The jury’s in, sequestered-slash-quarantined overnight on a serious criminal case in the suitably imposing Alice Springs courthouse. But the jury’s well and truly out on whether or not justice will be served, what with all the baggage the jurors have brought to the case, the misapprehensions. In …
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S2 E8 – Betty Sweetlove on The Nestmakers
How do you make theatre that intervenes in the historical record and generates moments of collective joy in the Red Centre? In this week’s episode, Betty Sweetlove discusses all things Centralian drama, including her play, The Nestmakers, ‘a time capsule of climate change anxieties’, and her new t…
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