Paul and Louise married on Halloween in 2009. Three years later, Louise packed up her bags and left the family home. Paul reflects on their relationship, their separation, and jointly parenting their twin boys, who have Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Show notes:

• Mother! - my blog post accompanying this episode.

Music:

• Intro and outro music is by ProleteR: April Showers and Don't Mean a Thing

• Blue Dot Sessions: Heliotrope

• Jon Luc Hefferman: Discovery

• Podington Bear: Peas Corps, Floating in Space, Box canyon

• Lee Rosevere: Memories, Looking back

• Kevin Macleod: Immersed

• Kai Engel: Harbor, Cold War Echo

• Glaciære: Island

• Myuu: Tender remains

• Airtone: Departures

The mind of a teenager can seem at times wholly unknowable and yet - we've all been there, haven't we? Lachie and I discuss photography, he and his peers' process of finding themselves, and his most important relationships.

Show notes:

• A big thanks to Robert at PhotoAccess for putting me in touch with Lachie. The PhotoAccess exhibition, 'Muse', which Lachie exhibited Dad, 2017 in: bit.ly/2HRktoz

• Time - my blog post accompanying this episode.

Music:

• Intro and outro music is by ProleteR: April Showers and Don't Mean a Thing

• MSFX: Merrow loopable

• Reno Project: Little cookie

• Podington Bear: Pretty melody, Dust in sunlight

• Kevin Macleod: There is romance

In Kaleen, a group of friends have been meeting every weekend for the past 30 years. Their commonality: they're Vietnamese refugees who immigrated to Australia in the wake of the Vietnam War. In this episode, I spend time with the remaining two couples of the group. We eat, walk, laugh, and share stories about the past and present.

Show notes
Migration story - my blog post accompanying this episode.

Music

• Intro and outro music is by ProleteR: April Showers and Don't Mean a Thing.

• Blue Dot Sessions: Fifteen street, In paler skies, Temporal slip, Heliotrope

• Jamie Evans: Opening doors

• Lee Rosevere: 10 4th avenue walkup, As I was saying, Dream colours, Expectations, Sad marimba planet, More on that later, I thought of pills 

• MSFX: Sad kingdom loopable

• Jon Luc Hefferman: Curious, Departures

• Kai Engel: Passages, Cold war echo, Scenery, 

• Airtone: Departures, Night rain

• Podington Bear: Aim is true

• Kevin Macleod: Danse Morialta

Forty years ago, Steve's father didn't show up to take Sylvia to her own wedding.

Forty years later, Sylvia and Steve are still married.

Show notes

• This is the last episode for 2017. If you'd like to chat, feel free to drop me a line during my break: [email protected]

Music

• Intro and outro music is by ProleteR: "April Showers" and "Don't Mean a Thing".

• ENORMOUS thanks to Podington Bear, who supplied the interstitial music: Fingernail grit, Back stairs, Dreamliner, Pretty melody, Curious process, Ice cream sandwich, Floating in space, Lucky stars, Sonstiges, Tra-la-la, Old skin, Ideas, Hearts aflutter, Ever.

Andrew always wanted to have children. And now he has James. The one catch: James belongs to his mothers, Natasha and Katrina.

Here, Andrew talks about how life hasn't quite gone as planned, and the joys of his relationship with James.

Show notes

• Some parts of the episode will sound a bit strange. At the request of Andrew after we recorded our conversation, I replaced the names of some of the people referenced. 

Music

• Intro and outro music is by ProleteR: "April Showers" and "Don't Mean a Thing".

• With humble thanks to Podington Bear, who supplied the interstitial music, along with Will Bangs. Delphi, By grace, Floating in space, Lazy river, Gathering, Back stairs, Dust in sunlight, Falling falling, Dulcet - Podington Bear. We hear things so differently - Will Bangs.