A place to listen to podcasts, documentaries, interviews and sound art. I'm an international audio producer, an award-winning radio journalist and an author with a keen interest in creating hybrid forms of storytelling. I have over thirty years’ experience in the arts, media and publishing, and I've worked as a writer, editor, consultant, researcher, workshop facilitator and project manager. Hear all my podcasts at https://www.craiggarrett.online/
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Not quick enough to be sudden; too sudden to come to terms with: how do we find dignity in death? Interview with Jos Hall from Dying With Dignity This piece discusses death, dying and grief. First broadcast on 11 December 2017 The doctor talks about ‘active dying’; ‘non-active dying’; ‘range of life’; ‘treatment options’. We speak in months, weeks, days. He’s professional and factual. ‘Three to…
Fractured Voices; Muted Voices; Healing Voices Recorded 25-28 August 2017 First broadcast September 2017 ‘Distant Voices’ is a non-linear soundscape that captures the texture, emotion and feel of QPF2017: it takes you there. The three-acts: Fractured Voices; Muted Voices; Healing Voices, honour the 2017 theme, and pay tribute to the writers, activists and poets of this continent and beyond.…
Fair Rights for Sex Workers because everyone has the right to be safe at work and come home at the end of their shift 4ZZZ’s ‘Brisbane Line’ and 3CR’s ‘Stick Together’ talk to Elena Jeffereys from Respect Inc. (QLD) and Jane Green from Vixen Collective (Victoria) about sex work and how these collectives organise in a space which has legal barriers faced by no other group of Australian workers.…
Interview by Alan (aged five); recording by Sally (mum); production and editing by Craig First broadcast 20 December 2018 The National Rugby Sevens Championship is an annual rugby union event that includes senior and junior teams in men’s and women’s divisions. Competitors include national Indigenous representative teams, state- and territory-based teams, and representatives from the Australian…
First Broadcast in 2018 Brisbane-based writer Bri Lee’s memoir Eggshell Skull is her story through the Australian legal system, as a policeman’s daughter, law student, judge’s associate and complainant. Eggshell Skull is a fierce memoir, and its haunting appraisal of modern Australia illustrates how ‘justice’ looks very different — depending on who you are and where you’re from. It was a…
First Broadcast in 2017 “The smoke got thicker and darker and then it seemed to be coming from everywhere, swirling around until it blackened the entire town.” — The Coal Face by Tom Doig In February 2014, the open cut coal mine surrounding Hazelwood Power Station caught fire and burned for forty-five days — that’s over 1000 hours; one-and-a-half months; six weeks. The town of Morwell, home to…
First Broadcast in 2017 The following piece discusses death, dying and grief. “There were flies in the kitchen, cane toads in the driveway, golden orb spiders in the Camellia and mosquitoes in the window blinds. Currawongs, butcher birds and magpies sang and shat in the frangipani tree while lizards hunted on the pool tiles. At night possums crawled along the brush fence and bats fought over…
First Broadcast in 2017 The battle for Australia's tropical rainforests In December 1983 a small group of local Daintree residents formed a peaceful protest when the Douglas Shire Council, with the support of the Bjelke Petersen State Government, commenced work on a road from Cape Tribulation to Bloomfield in Australia’s tropical north east, about two hours north of Cairns. As an aside, Bjelke…
First Broadcast in 2017 In 2015 Australia lost vibrant writer, editor and activist Kat Muscat at the age of 25 (1990–2015). A stone-cold scallywag, Kat was a formidable writing talent who taught all those she touched how to love each other better with kindness and empathy. Her writing embodied her personal mantra: Defiance, Feminism, Empathy. It’s tempting to see the terminology we’re raised with…
First Broadcast in 2019 This piece discusses mental illness, death and dying, and may contain content that some people find disturbing. If you need help please call Lifeline on 13 11 14. Sonia Orchard ’s third book Into the Fire is a beautifully written and deceptive page turner, that’s also difficult to read at times. It follows Lara, Alice (Lara’s best friend) and Crow (Alice’s partner). The…
