Northern Tasmania Community Stories
Northern Tasmania Community Stories
Playlist by Northern Tasmania Community StoriesA range of local stories that have been previously broadcasted on Launceston's community radio station City Park Radio.Follow the podcast:
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Andrew Grubert - first time Games participant.
Andrew Grubert is about to realise a dream - to participate in the Australian Transplant Games. It's been a wait since 'covid' cancelled the event scheduled in Launceston several years ago. Andrew has set his sights on athletics and swimming events but is very cagey about his performance times --…
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Harping for seven hours - Emily Sanzaro
A hightlight of the Junction Arts Festival 2026 has got to be a harp marathon. It's the idea of Emily Sanzaro to play a "mix-tape" of music from the five decades in her life. Starting with the present decade, Emily will play the harp and sing along to her favourite music for seven hours. A "Butl…
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Mariners Muse 2026 part 2
As part of the fringe of the Tassie Scallop Fiesta at Bridport, the popular Mariners Muse story-telling session featured again this year. For over two hours, it is a panel of diverse speakers telling their tales of involvement with the sea. In this second part and closer to home, marine biologist…
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Mariner Muse 2026 pt 1
As part of the fringe of the Tassie Scallop Fiesta at Bridport, the popular Mariners Muse story-telling session featured again this year. For over two hours, it is a panel of diverse speakers telling their tales of involvement and affinity with the sea. In the first part this year, it was the rec…
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Donate Life - Tasmania Cares
Organ transplants required a team of dedicated professionals to prepare and care for for people undertaking the transplant journey. At the Launceston General Hospital Renal Services, Lisa & Anna care for renal patients in Northern Tasmania who have had or are requiring a transplant due to kidney f…
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100 years on - Launceston plans to celebrate the great flood
Inveresk in Launceston is not known as 'The Swamp' for nothing. So many stories just float to the top. Helene Boyer's book "On The Swamp" details many stories of people known affectionally as swampies. Through the thousands of years, the North Esk has regularly flooded to make it a fertile area, …
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Donate Life - A Family Affair
When four year old Henry Barrett was extremely ill, his family made a courageous decision. On his death, Henry donated his organs so others could live a normal life. Long before Henry joined the family, his parents had already discussed the possibility of themselves being organ donors..... but fo…
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2026 Australian Transplant Games - Launceston
For the first time, Tasmania is hosting the Australian Transplant Games and Launceston is getting ready to make them the best yet. The local organising committee is powering ahead to ensure participants and families have the best adventure. One of the local committee is Mark Brewer, a veteran of …
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JOHN WEST Memorial Lecture 2026 - Queenborough Cemetery
In this year’s John West Memorial Lecture, Archeologist Brad Williams provides an overview of his team's work with the former Queenborough Cemetery exhumations and reburials 2024-25… and the stories of history sometimes forgotten. The project involved the exhumation of nearly two thousand individu…
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Amanda Shepherd exits stage left.
For the last 25 years, Amanda Shepherd worked her way up to the dress circle of theatre management in Launceston. This has been the third tranche of Mandy's working life .. the first being education, then came radio which led to her involvement in, and love of, Theatre North at the Princess Theatr…
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