Podcast
Moreland City Council has one podcast - the Moreland Library Talks podcast.
Moreland Library Talks podcast
The podcast has a new episode about every month. Each episode is a different public talk, usually by a local author but also by poets, historians and community experts, recorded at one of five libraries in Moreland. Each episode is between 30 and 40 minutes long.
The talks are part of the ReadMore project, which encourages and celebrates reading. The Events Calendar lists upcoming ReadMore talks.
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Listen to or read the talks online
Each talk below has an audio file you can listen to online or download, and a full transcript of the talk.
| #1 Making Modern Melbourne with Jenny Lee | [Recorded October 2008] Jenny Lee and her publisher Dale Campisi discuss the layers of Melbourne's history from illegal village to modern metropolis. |
| #2 The Glenroy novels with Steven Carroll | [Recorded 7 November 2008] Steven reads from his triology set in the Moreland suburb of Glenroy, and describes how and why he wrote about life in the suburbs. |
| #3 Writers and exile with Joan Nestle | [Recorded 19 November 2009] A 68-year-old Jewish, lesbian, feminist writer and activist originally from the Bronx, talks about authors and poets writing in exile, in particular Mahmoud Darwish and Osip Mandelstam. |
| #4 Madame Brussels with Lenny Robinson | [Recorded 3 December 2008] The story of the keeper of Melbourne’s most famous brothel of the 1880s and 1890s - 'female pest’, entrepreneur and jilted lover Caroline Hodgson, known as Madame Brussels. |
| #5 Flavours of Melbourne with Charmaine O’Brien | [Recorded 30 April 2009] The history and diversity of Melbourne's food by the author of 'Flavours of Melbourne', shortlisted shortlisted in this year’s State Library of Victoria Summer Read. |
| #6 The War Within with Don Tate | [Recorded 21 May 2009] Don's story of a tough boyhood in Brisbane to the Vietnam War and recovery from a terrible injury, and the slow implosion in the decades after. |
| #7 The Whole Shebang with Clare Macrae | [Recorded 17 June 2009] Clare Boyd-Macrae is a professional writer whose work regularly appears in The Age. |
| #8 Boy He Cry: An island odyssey with Roger Averill | [Recorded 6 August 2009] Roger Averil reads his novel aloud and shares his island experience. |
| #9 Inspiration and stand up with Denise Scott | [Recorded 2 December 2009], Denise Scott talks about her book and how it gave her inspiration for her stand up show. |
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