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Episode 3: Craig Ainsworth - Checkmate and Change - Around the School Table by Xuno Suite
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Around the School Table, host Steve Davis talks with Craig Ainsworth from Westport Public School about how a modest chess program i...
Episode 2: Nikki Bonus - The Data of Emotion - Around the School Table by Xuno Suite
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Around the School Table, host Steve Davis speaks with Nikki Bonus, founder of Life Skills Group and the digital platform Life Skill...
Episode 1: Leigh Johnson - Failing Forward - Around the School Table by Xuno Suite
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Around the School Table, host Steve Davis visits Leigh Johnson, principal of Harkaway Primary School—a small, 150-year-old sc...
Gay Elves & Trans Aliens: Queering Everything
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this second week of Pride month, Amy & Justina, Payton, and Millie try to talk broader queer fiction, get distracted by queer romance again, bu...
Queer Romance Fiction: How to Jettison Joy This Pride
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Must there always be a boy one and a girl one? Is there only one way to write a queer HEA? What's the difference between representing queer people and...
Amy & After Dark: Taboo and Dark Romance Novels
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amy & the podcast team don their oodies and pyjamas to sit down After Dark and have a conversation about the topics that don't make it into our fo...
BOOKCLUB: Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hi Booklovers! This week, Amy & the podcast team sat down to chat about Christina Lauren's Beautiful Bastard and all things smut-tastic! Wher...
Minisode 52.5: Kate Grenville and her new book “Unsettled”
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Grenville is best known for her book “The Secret River” published in 2005 which became an analogy for white settlement of A...
Traitorous Nipples: Interview with Christina Lauren
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amy & Harry talk with special guests, the legendary duo Christina Lauren! Through the laughs, we discuss the upcoming re-release of their 'Beautif...
Smut & Representations of Sex in Rom Com Novels
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amy & series regulars, Payton Hogan and Justina Ashman, are joined by (soon-to-be) Dr. Georgia Nicholls to discuss sex in the rom com novel, where...
Season Recap with Rachel Sallis
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Sallis reflects on her podcasting journey and how "This is My Voice" came to be. We want to invite YOU to get in touch with if you have any fee...
Fantasy Smut & Guys with Big Wingspans
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s officially smut month! Amy and series regulars Millie Heffernan and Abby Guy are joined by our special guestie Izzie Duffield (who also wri...
Episode 52: “Delirious” by Damien Wilkins + how to style a second hand bookshop
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cath discovers the people in Damien Wilkins’ life who inspired his latest novel, “Delirious”. It’s an emotionally powerful nov...
BOOKCLUB: Side Chick Nation by Aya de Léon
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amy & the podcast team sit down to discuss Aya de Léon's romantic suspense novel, Side Chick Nation, as part of our Climate Fiction mo...
Salvage & the Ethics of Space Billionaires: Interview with Jennifer Mills
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amy & Justina chat with Jennifer Mills, a celebrated writer of climate fiction and dystopian novels and author of The Airways (2021), Dyschro...
Get in, Loser. We're Imagining a Better Future.
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amy & Payton talk with special guesties Dr Alex Cothren and Dr Rachel Hennessy about climate-fiction writing and scholarship – but we&r...
Voiceover Face Off!
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I do voices! The late great Robin Williams quote from his classic film Mrs. Doubtfire is "I do voices" and we do too. In this episode Rachel and Eddie...
Intro to Climate Fiction & Pining for a Better World
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amy & season regulars, Payton and Millie, are joined by special guestie Melanie Ross to talk climate fiction. Listen in as we talk climate disaste...
BOOKCLUB: Pride and Prejudice
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amy & the podcast team sit down for our very first live bookclub where we chat, with earl grey cocktails (and tea) in hand, about all things Pride...
Episode 51: “High Wire” by Candice Fox + new literary journal, “Splinter”
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah is joined by Candice Fox who reflects how her “scrappy” upbringing in Bankstown and her Dad’s work in the local prison informe...
Learn The Art Of Exploration with Tamara Linke (Part 2)
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Learn the art of exploration with Adelaide's own Tamara Linke, as Eddie and Rachel learn about referencing voices, accents and how to experiment with ...
For the Love of Austen: Interview with Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week our host, Amy Matthews, is joined by season regulars Justina Ashman and Harry Stewart...But wait! There's more! Today, we are graced by two ...
Digressions & Bigg-Wither? I Hardly Know Her
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amy & season regulars, Payton, Harry, and Abby, demonstrate just how far our conversations can digress (like why, exactly, Harry would be a beaver...
Learn The Art Of Exploration with Tamara Linke (Part 1)
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Learn the art of exploration with Adelaide's own Tamara Linke, as Eddie and Rachel learn about referencing voices, accents and how to experiment with ...
First Impressions and Locating Jane Austen's Ghost
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amy & season regulars, Justina, Millie, and Abby, welcome you to the very first episode of the Amy & Podcast! This week we chat Jane Austen fa...
Amy aaaaand….?
23 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amy & is a bookish podcast with benefits. Amy Matthews is joined by series regulars Justina Ashman, Abby Guy, Millie Heffernan, Payton Hogan ...
Meet The Voice Behind Bullwinkle: Keith Scott
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Rach and Eddie learn about the history of the voice industry from none other than Australian extraordinaire and Bullwinkle ...
Episode 50: “The Burrow” by Melanie Cheng + “Alias Grace” by Margaret Atwood
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cath and Sarah delight in sharing what they loved about Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey’s short novel, “Orbital” + Cath then set...
Meet The Voice Behind Futurama, Bugs Bunny, Ren and Stimpy and more : Billy West
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The latest installment of the This is My Voice! podcast stars the iconic Billy West, undoubtedly one of the most well known stars in the voice in...
Get to Know Your Hosts Rachel Sallis and Eddie Bye
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, hosts Rachel Sallis and Eddie Bye turn the spotlight on themselves. Find out who our presenters are, what makes them tick, and more b...
Episode 49: To Sing of War by Catherine McKinnon + remembering Beryl Bainbridge
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine McKinnon’s tense but tender tale, “To Sing of War”, immerses the reader in the lives of three characters strung across the...
Global Hit Show Bluey: The Voice of Uncle Stripe and Sound Designer Dan Brumm
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sound Designer from the global hit show Bluey and voice of Uncle Stripe joins Rachel and Eddie this week on the show. Eddie does a deep dive into...
Introducing the next voice of Wallace - Ben Whitehead
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Whitehead stars as Wallace in the upcoming film "Wallace and Gromit - A Vengeance Most Fowl", and he joins us for the very first episode of This I...
Subscribe now - 'This Is My Voice' is coming soon
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe now - 'This Is My Voice' with Rachel Sallis and Eddie Bye is coming soon.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Episode 48: Robbie Arnott + Hannah Ferguson + Tsundoku’s best books of 2024
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Michaela talks to one of her favourite writers, Robbie Arnott, about “Dusk”; a beautiful and beguiling tale of siblings, so down on their ...
Episode 47: Markus Zusak’s “Three Wild Dogs and the Truth” + revisiting Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women”
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Markus Zusak uses words like “challenging” and “ complex” to describe his three dogs, Reuben, Archie and Frosty. In this interview Zusak recou...
Episode 46: Sean Williams; guru of speculative fiction and fantasy + Kylie Cardell dissects the “gloriously unhinged” work of Miranda July and Rachel Yoder
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sean Williams, author of 5 million words, is famous for his hugely successful forays into the worlds of Star Wars, Dr Who, the Marvel Universe, but di...
Episode 45: The Romance Edition
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As Mills and Boon Australia celebrates 50 years of taking readers on journeys of love and lust, Annie speaks with Barbara Hannay about her latest nove...
Episode 44: Amy Stewart’s tales of arboreal obsession in “The Tree Collectors” + Don Binney, New Zealand’s favourite bird artist remembered in “Flight Path”
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Amy Stewart paints a powerful portrait of the human passion for plants in “The Tree Collectors” with fifty different tales of people who, for on...
Episode 43: “The End And Everything Before It” by Finegan Kruckemeyer + “Don’t Tell Alfred” by Nancy Mitford
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A story that is difficult to pin down to a narrative, playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer’s debut novel explores arrivals and departures, time and space,...
Episode 42: “This Devastating Fever” by Sophie Cunningham + The Jewish Men’s Book Club
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cath carries this episode with two great chats; the first with author Sophie Cunningham and the other with self-professed “book snob”, Ron Hoenig....
Episode 41: “The Work” by Bri Lee + “The Radio Hour” by Victoria Purman
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peeling back the veneer of the New York art scene, Bri Lee takes readers into the background world that fuels the industry. ‘The Work’ follows the...