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The BookshelfA love triangle set against the beauty of Montana in Eric Puchner's Dream StateFamilies, secrets, mysteries, war...Kate and Cassie read Eric Puchner’s Dream State, an American saga that spans fifty years and is set against the expansive beauty of Montana; mysterious encounters and marital strife between an actor and an art critic in New York in Katie Kitamura’s Audition, and a World War II story set in an apartment block in Brussels in Alice Austen’s 33 Place Brugmann.BOOKSEric Puchner, Dream State, SceptreKatie Kitamura, Audition, Fern PressAlice Austen, 33 Place Brugmann, BloomsburyGUESTSMark Mordue, music...2025-04-1754 min
The BookshelfBest Books of 2024The best books of 2024 as selected by Cassie McCullagh, Kate Evans, Jason Steger, Lev Grossman and Michaela Kalowski. Keep scrolling for a full (and somewhat idiosyncratic) list.GUESTSJason Steger, literary journalist. Former literary editor at the Age and SMH; and regular guest on ABC TV's Tuesday Book Club.Lev Grossman, bestselling American novelist and journalist — whose books include The Magicians trilogy and (his latest), The Bright Sword (an Arthurian tale).Michaela Kalowski, literary interviewer and the curator of Radio National's Big Weekend of BooksBOOK RECOMMENDATIONS(li...2024-12-0654 min
The BookshelfMatricide, the (Virginia) Woolfmother, Norwegian woods: Graeme Macrae Burnet, Michelle de Kretser, Karl Ove KnausgaardThe latest from double Miles Franklin Award winner, Michelle de Kretser, Theory and Practice, a novel that evokes the 1980s and Virginia Woolf. Scottish writer Graeme Macrae Burnet plays a French literary game in A Case of Matricide; and summer days under the light of a strange star in Norway in Karl Ove Knausgaard’s The Third Realm.BOOKSGraeme Macrae Burnet, A Case of Matricide, TextMichelle de Kretser, Theory & Practice, TextKarl Ove Knausgaard, The Third Realm, (Translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken), Harvill SeckerGUESTS...2024-10-2554 min
Emperors of RomeEpisode CCXXVII - The Catiline Comparison (The Catiline Conspiracy VIII)Throughout our examination of the Catiline conspiracy we have avoided the urge to make comparisons between the events in Ancient Rome and modern day politics. In this episode we resist no more.
Part VIII of The Catiline Conspiracy
Guests:
Associate Professor Rhiannon Evans (Classics and Ancient History, La Trobe University)
Professor Nick Bisley (Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University)2024-07-3146 min
The BookshelfCatherine McKinnon's To Sing of War takes us to PNG during WW llKate Evans is joined by guest host Richard Aedy to discuss Catherine McKinnon's To Sing of War, a novel of love, war and friendship. Plus, two debut novels... Big Time by Jordan Prosser, set in a not-too-distant future Australia where pop music is propaganda, and Evenings and Weekends by Oisin McKenna, set during a heatwave in London as tensions and secrets come to a head over one life-changing weekend.BOOKSCatherine McKinnon, To Sing of War, Fourth EstateJordan Prosser, Big Time, UQPOisín McKenna, Evenings and Weekends, Fourth EstateG...2024-06-2854 min
Front RowLiverpool's Taylor Swift Art Trail, Les Dennis, the state of UK festivalsAs Liverpool enters the Swiftularity with the arrival of the arrival of the record-breaking phenomenon that is Taylor Swift and her Eras world tour, Nick visits the Taylor Town Trail - the new art trail dedicated to the singer's albums/eras - in the city centre and talks to one of the trail's co-producer Rhiannon Newman from Culture Liverpool, Kirsten Little - artistic director of the trail, and three of the artists involved in the project - Simon Armstrong, Rachel Smith-Evans, and Catherine Rogers.Les Dennis makes his Shakespeare debut as Malvolio in a new production of...2024-06-1142 min
The Bull Evans PodcastHow To Be An Award Winning Millionaire | Nick HiterNick Hiter was born and raised in Nashville, TN. Nick was a standout athlete and musician in high school and went to college on both a baseball and music scholarship. Nick played 5 seasons of professional baseball, is a certified specialist in sports conditioning and was quoted in The New York Times. Nick & his wife, Rhiannon met at the bar they worked at in downtown Nashville in 2002. In 2013 they linked their contracts with USHEALTH Group, where since then, they formed Team Hiter - USHEALTH Advisors & operate two Satellite offices, have a team of 50+ agents, and have produced over $4M personally a...2022-12-0436 min
Rex Rivetter: Private EyeForget Me Squared - Part SixA case reopened. Nothing is ever what it seems - the thrilling conclusion of Forget Me, Squared. Warning: Tonight's episode includes discussion of mature themes, including mentions of sexual violence. Tonight's episode of Rex Rivetter: Private Eye starred Randy Coull and Rhiannon McAfee with Nick Young as Lt. Burke, Alyssa Slagle as Jane Doe, Kira Vine as Mrs. Ludman and Brian Evans as Mr. Ludman with appearances by John Aviles, Jacob Hatch, Jacob Painter, and John Schwendinger It was written by Greg McAfee and produced in San Diego, CA by Downstairs Entertainment in a...2018-07-3137 min
Home Front - Omnibus22-26 May 1917The sixth omnibus of Season 10, Our Daily Bread, set in Folkestone, in the week, in 1917, when Britain suffered its first ever airplane bombing raid.Cast
Maisie Harris ..... Cassie Layton
Esme Macknade ..... Katie Angelou
Jessie Moore ..... Lucy Hutchinson
Kitty Lumley ..... Ami Metcalf
Alec Poole ..... Tom Stuart
Eve ..... Amelda Brown
Reg Roach ..... Arthur Smith
Hilda Moore ..... Bella Hamblin
Adam Wilson ..... Billy Kennedy
Alfred Vane ..... Charlie Clements
Switchboard ..... Chetna Pandya
Alice Macknade ..... Claire Louise Cordwell
Lady Penfold ..... Elaine Claxton
Cynthia Hamilton ..... Fenella Woolgar
Rob MacDonald ..... Finlay Robertson
Noah Hamilton ..... Finn Monteath
Maggie Macknade ..... Hollie Thoupos
Nancy Parker ..... Jane Whittenshaw
Sylvia...2017-05-2656 min