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Fascinating interviews and reads with world award winning radio presenter Karena Wynn-Moylan from Australian Radio Bay FM 99.9. These authors can also be found at PETER GRESTE - THE CORRESPONDENT To round out this small samplni g of this years interviews here is international correspondent Peter Greste. Peter Greste has spent 25 years working in some of the world's most volatile places as a journalist. As he says, getting locked up or detained is an occupational hazard for someone like him. But when he was arrested in Cairo while working for Al Jazeera he realized he...
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Fascinating interviews and reads with world award winning radio presenter Karena Wynn-Moylan from Australian Radio Bay FM 99.9. These authors can also be found at PRIMA FACIE - SUSIE MILLER Suzie MIller's previous profession was a lawyer- one who became increasingly concerned about how women were treated by the law in sexual assault cases. Suzie MIller first wrote' Prima Facie' as a play , then it was turned into a turned into a novel. A process that allowed the author to expand the cast of of characters and enlarge upon scenes. It is fiction but based on...
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Fascinating interviews and reads with world award winning radio presenter Karena Wynn-Moylan from Australian Radio Bay FM 99.9. These authors can also be found at www.narrativeslibrary.com GINA CHICK - We are the stars Gina Chick became well known to all of us from her win on 'Alone' - the Australian wilderness television survival series. But she never had any fear of the unknown, having faced down trauma all through her life. Here she recounts how her love of the wild and chaotic in Nature started at a very young age. NIKKI GEMMEL - BIRD Teenage female...
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Fascinating interviews and reads with world award winning radio presenter Karena Wynn-Moylan from Australian Radio Bay FM 99.9. These authors can also be found at MATTHEW EVANS - MILK Here is celebrity chef and farmer Matthew Evans extolling the virtues of 'Milk'.He reminds us it is a wondrous substance necessary for the survival of all mammals ( and some birds!) ESTHER ANATOLITIS Esther Anatolitis is the former editor of Meanjin and one of Australia's most influential advocates for arts and culture. Her book asks - what futures are we...
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Fascinating interviews and reads with world award winning radio presenter Karena Wynn-Moylan from Australian Radio Bay FM 99.9. These authors can also be found at www.narrativeslibrary.com TRENT DALTON - 'Love Stories' Picture Trent Dalton on a street corner with a little table and a powder blue Olivetti typewriter asking you to tell him a personal experience of love. It's not surprising people were so disarmed they opened up with extraordinary stories- all of which he duly recorded in this lovely collection. When there was no-one talking to him he observed...
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Fascinating interviews and reads with world award winning radio presenter Karena Wynn-Moylan from Australian Radio Bay FM 99.9. These authors can also be found at MUSIC Let's go to the world of music with two people who work at opposite ends of that world - long time performer, musician, songwriter and arranger Vince Jones, well known for his ability to genre hop in msuic, and long time respected journalist Stuart Coupe - this time writing about himself rather that other artist. Start with vince Jones whom I have included today because of his wonder ful comments about the...
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Fascinating interviews and reads with world award winning radio presenter Karena Wynn-Moylan from Australian Radio Bay FM 99.9. These authors can also be found at www.narrativeslibrary.com Jane Caro- 'Lyrebird' Lyrebirds are fabulous mimics of other bird's calls, chain saws. car horns, but the sound of the screams of a woman being murdered? NO wonder it took twenty years for this crime to be solved- because no-one believed the recording could be real. Here's Jane Caro reading from her crme novel 'Lyrebird'. Hannah Kent - 'Always, home, always homesick' - 'Devotion'...
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A review of just some of the fabulous artists and authors interviewed by award winning radio presenter Karena Wynn-Moylan on Arts Canvass Bay FM and the Narratives Library in 2025. Kumi Taguchi, 'The Good Daughter' Born in Melbourne to a Japanese father and an Australian mother, Kumi grew up in rural New south wales. Learning violin from the age of five, she has now worked in the media for over 25 years in Australia and overseas and is currently the host of SBS's Insight. This memoir is a search for identity and understanding, as she travels to Japan to learn why her...
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Screenworks is a National Film and TV body based in Northern NSW Australia that has grown from a small local, to national to global influential body in 25 years. I popped along to their 2025 conference and 25th birthday party , sponsored by Netflix, to ask a few people the simple question- who are you, where have you come from, why are you here - the answers were illuminating and also gratifying - Screenworks is a body that is having a real influence on the Australian film industry.
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Heavy Metal guitarist Dan Sindel releases his second album and talks about why it has taken so long, the difficulties all independent musicians face and his triumph over personal adversary. Several tracks from his latest album are featured.
info_outlineGeorge Smilovici was a highly successful comedian who is now a musician who divides his time between Cuba ( where he grew up) and Byron Bay Australia. He is a guitarist and composer with a 14 piece band in Cuba and says he sometimes puts a few jokes in his solo shows just for old times sake. This interview with Karena Wynn-Moylan was first broadcast on Bay FM 99.9 on September 22, 2022.