Kate Evans

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25,858 appearances 189 recordings 3 series first heard Feb 2018 last heard 5d ago

Kate Evans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Bookshelf · Art, apocalypse and country people · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

And so from the inside out, she's building this sort of post-apocalyptic world where this woman, the mother, is somebody who scavenges things. voice-verified

She's a forager. voice-verified

Well, the feel is quite different, but I guess it's similar in that it is a sort of post-apocalyptic climate change. voice-verified

Something has happened, but there are other people living in this world. voice-verified

I mean, she has a mother. voice-verified

who's living her precarious life in a slightly different way, in a sort of hyper-feminine way, whereas our unnamed character doesn't care about how she looks, what she's wearing. voice-verified

She doesn't engage with other people very much. voice-verified

She's very much focused on her son. voice-verified

Her son is about eight and he does go to a school. voice-verified

Only boys go to this school. voice-verified

Their heads are shaved. voice-verified

they're wearing sort of overalls and they're there until they're 16, at which point the boys are sent off somewhere to a sort of promised land. voice-verified

So it's this strange, eerie world. voice-verified

Is it recognisably Australian? voice-verified

Well, at first I wasn't sure where it was and I think the clues suggest that we're somewhere else, possibly in Europe, and that's partly reference to some of the plants that we see. voice-verified

But this is a denuded landscape. voice-verified

So even though there are houses, there are remnants of things, you know, there are foxes, but of course there are foxes in Australia, there are foxes everywhere else. voice-verified

I think it's deliberately obscured, but it keeps upending our expectations. voice-verified

So at first we're inside the worldview of this woman and her son, and then we do meet another character, a stranger, a man, and it's unusual for a man to be there because most of them have been sent off. voice-verified

But we think that's going to change the narrative in a particular way and it's not quite what we expect. voice-verified

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