Love, Canberra

Christina Lee's sister Gayoun motivates and drives Christina - from the biggest decisions she's made, to her day to day existence.

Gayoun died when Christina was two years old. Here, Christina tells the story of what happened and why Gayoun has been so influential in her life.

Show notes

The sound quality of the interview is not as good as usual - apologies!

Music

Intro and outro music is by ProleteR: April Showers and Don’t Mean a Thing
Interstitial music -

• Blue Dot Sessions: Palms down, An opus in Bb

• Cryptic scenery: The glacial age

• Mr.ruiZ: A rush of blood to the heart

• Origami Repetika: One Two 3 4

• Pictures of the Floating World: Death's Head

• REW: Enceladus

• Sergey Cheremisinov: To live, Young wind

• Serge Quadrado: Lazy day, Light emotion,

Sue has always liked animals more than people. And horses the most of all animals.

Her horses helped her get through a particularly tough time when she was working, studying, and living with her husband for a year after they'd separated.

If you love horses, this is definitely the episode for you. And if you don't - well, this might just convert you.

Show notes

Thank you to Sue, for having me out at her property to meet her horses. You can find photos of them here on the blog. And a huge thank you to Doug, her ex-husband, for introducing me to Sue!

Music

Intro and outro music is by ProleteR: April Showers and Don’t Mean a Thing
Interstitial music -

• Blue Dot Sessions: Borough, Calisson, Ranch hand

• Sergey Cheremisinov: To Live

• Chad Crouch: Grove Melody (Instrumental)

• Kai Engel: Arctica, Lesicia

• Tattooed Preacher: In the Dirt

Chery and Glen were in their 20s and in love. They thought they had their whole life ahead of them and that it would take the trajectory of any other ordinary life. But then illness struck, and it changed all their plans.

Chery reflects on the hell of a ride they’ve been on. It’s been a bumpy road, but at least they’ve had each other.

Show notes

Love, Canberra is now an occasional podcast! This means episodes won’t be published on a regular schedule, but as stories come to me. Please stay subscribed to catch the next episode when it’s out, sometime in the not-too distant future.

If you have a story you’d like to share, do get in touch: lovecanberrapodcast @ gmail

Music

Intro and outro music is by ProleteR: April Showers and Don’t Mean a Thing
Interstitial music -

• Blue Dot Sessions: Plasticity, Building the sled

• Monplaisir: Be a good punk, Check

• Soft and Furious: Superconnected sleep

• Broke for Free: Night owl

• Alpha Hydrae: Friends and apples

• Stenifer: Le temps passe et ca va

Simon has been in three serious relationships. In all three, he suffered domestic abuse. Here, he reflects on what he went through, and talks about the book he wrote inspired by his experiences - for which he interviewed over 200 abusers.

CW: This episode contains graphic descriptions of abuse.

Music

Intro music is by ProleteR: April Showers
Interstitial music -

• Blue Dot Sessions: Rodney Skopes

• Kai Engel: Cobweb morning, Plague, Aspirato, Marée

• Soft and Furious: Superconnected sleep

• Hinterheim: Sednoseterces

• Pictures of the Floating World: Sometimes it shines

Matthew had been dating Sammy for about a year when she abruptly moved back to China. After some months, she admitted she was pregnant - with his child. Matthew has since been going through the visa process to have them live together in Australia as a family.

Show notes

Happy Father’s Day..!

Music

Intro music is by ProleteR: April Showers
Interstitial music -

• Stenifer: Eyeliner, Adios

• Blue Dot Sessions: Building the sled

• Jon Luc Hefferman: A storm at Eilean Mor, Upbeat