Storytelling With Mama Duck
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Great Expectations Chapter 8
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chapter 8 of the Dickens novel read by an Aussie in Ireland.
Great Expectations Chapter Six
22 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sunday evening and the serial adventures of Pip in 19th century England, as read by an Aussie.
Great Expectations Chapter Five
21 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dickens on a Saturday. Kindness.
Great Expectation Chapter Four
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ready for some good Dickens?
Great Expectations, Chapter Three
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Third instalment of Dickens, read aloud by an Aussie in Ireland.
Great Expectations : Chapter Two
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Reading aloud for the craic.
Great Expectations : Chapter One
15 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Revisiting my favourite Dickens, little bit at a time.
Advice To A Young Man On Choosing A Mistress, A Letter From Benjamin Franklin, 1745. Read By An Amused Aussie
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Benjamin Franklin's advice to a cis straight youthful man upon where best to sow his wild oats.Read by an Aussie woman of a certain age who is quite f...
On The Beach At Fontana By James Joyce: Read By An Aussie In Ireland
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A poem about love, by Irish poet James Joyce, recorded on the eve on Bloomsday, 2021.
"The Love Song Of Alfred J. Prufrock" By T. S. Eliot, Read By An Aussie Woman Of A Certain Age
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.....Hope my funeral will be a very, very long time from now, well attended and someone among the merrymak...
"This Is Just To Say" By William Carlos Williams, Read By An Aussie In Her Conservatory
30 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Music on in the kitchen, birds calling in the garden and an Aussie reading poetry aloud at wine o'clock.
"The Man From Ironbark" By A. B. "Banjo" Paterson
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The possible origins of the hipster beard in 19th century Australia
A Bush Christening By A. B. 'Banjo' Patterson Read Aloud By A Nostalgic Aussie
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Humorous Bush ballad, about Irish people adapting their culture to their circumstances in 19th century outback Australia.My mother bought me an illust...
"Mirror" By Sylvia Plath, Read Aloud.
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of my favourite poems, musing on womanhood and the stages of maiden, mother and crone with cycles of vanity and ageing.When I first read this poem...
"My Country" By Dorethea Mckellar
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The famous poem written in England, 1906, by a woman homesick for her country of birth, Australia.Read by a woman in 2021, conscious of the original s...
Dorothy Parker "The Burned Child" Read By An Incurable Optimist
09 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I read a poem by that Algonquin Queen of the sardonic and Bohemian, Dorothy Parker.Lockdown socialising has me musing, indeed.
Freedom, Australia And Horses!
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The thru line of my Irish great grandmothers down to my emancipated Aussie daughters, in context of English colonialism and genocide.
Short story: Sheila In The Holy Village
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Episode one: a humorous tale written & narrated by Mama Duck. A fish out of water seeks divine inspiration on her existence in an unfamiliar territory...