To Be Continued ...

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Dive into the heart of Australia's hidden literary past with 'To Be Continued,' a groundbreaking podcast that unearths literature gems from the 19th to early 20th-century newspapers.

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September 24, 2023 Episode 1: Ghosts, Ghouls and the Australian Gothic (r)
In this episode we take a spooky turn as host Dr Rod Lamberts discusses ghosts, ghouls and the Australian gothic with PhD candidate Clare Burnett.

Burnett tells us that there was a time people claimed Australia didn’t have enough ‘cultural infrastructure’ to write gothic stories- but they were very wrong!

Our featured stories feature the biggest tropes of this genre: murders, ghosts, bushrangers and twist endings. What do these fears tell us of the mindset of the time?

Mentioned in the episode

The story that A Bush Story took cues from: The Ghost Upon the Rail by John Lang

Information on Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto

Early Australian writers mentioned: Barbara Baynton and Marcus Andrew

A A Phillips, author of ‘The Cultural Cringe’ (1950)

Early American Gothic writers: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe

Women and the Bush by Kay Schafer

The Ghost of Bamboo Gully or The Headless Woman by Mark Antony

A Tasmainan Girl

To Be Continued in Trove

Main Stories

A Bush Ghost Story

The Storyteller: An Australian Ghost Story

An Australian Ghost Story
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40min
September 24, 2023 Episode 1: appendix (r)
Listen along as three tales featuring ghosts, ghouls and Australian gothic are performed for the first time in a hundred years by talented voice actors.

Find the newspaper articles with the stories here:

A Bush Ghost Story

The Storyteller: An Australian Ghost Story

An Australian Ghost Story
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55min
September 10, 2023 Episode 6: Gather 'round the campfire
Show notes

Bibliographer Carol Hetherington tells us her own tale of sleuthing through the To Be Continued database and Trove as she attempted to track down a mysterious author who wrote story after story…after story.

How did she track down the enigmatically named Roland Quiz? And what do the stories behind the many pseudonyms found in Trove tell us about the people who wrote Australia’s fiction in the newspapers of the time?

Mentioned in the episode

A Bush Race Meeting

A Ghostly Chapter

A Deaf Cook

His Terrifying Experience

The Last Night of the Camp

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Stories by Ivan Dexter

Author Vance Palmer

The stories in this episode were read by Perform Australia

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Main story

The Story of the Three Photos
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30min
September 10, 2023 Episode 6: appendix
Listen to 'The Three Photos', produced by students from Perform Australia
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17min
August 27, 2023 Episode 5: appendix
Listen to two stories of Australian bushrangers in full
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18min
August 27, 2023 Episode 5: Stand and deliver! The cult of the Bushranger
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The scientific bushranger? Have you ever heard of such a thing?

In this episode we look at the unexpected Bushranger stories Associate Professor Maggie Nolan from the University of Queensland and Professor Ronan McDonald from Melbourne University found in the To Be Continued database.

Bushrangers are an iconic part of Australian post colonial history but what do we really know about them other than the iconic image of Ned Kelly?

Mentioned in episode

Search Trove for ‘Bushranger’

The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

Bushranger Martin Cash

Bushranger Alexander Pierce

Female Bushranger Jesse Hickman

Chinese Australian Bushranger Sam Poo

Main stories

How Ubique Robbed TheMorganville Company’s Safe

The Helpful Bushranger

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43min
August 13, 2023 Episode 4: appendix
Listen to four pieces of children's fiction from the late 19th and early 20th century.
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44min
August 13, 2023 Episode 4: Whimsy, Wonder and Children's yarns
This episode we dive into the extraordinary world of fiction for children with Associate Professor Kristine Moruzi from Deakin University.

When did we first start publishing material for children? And what do the wild adventures involving shipwrecks, kidnapping and toast water tell us about what it meant to be a child in this time?

Mentioned in the episode

Mary Grant Bruce

Princess Spinaway’s Department

Someone else thought the concept of toast water was interesting and attempted to recreate the recipe in this YouTube video

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Main stories

The Marvellous Island

Theft of a day

The Convalescence of Taffie Farndon

A Little Bushmaid
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38min
July 30, 2023 Episode 3: Contraptions and culture
How much is our way of thinking shaped by technology?

Associate Professor Roger Osborne from James Cook University joins us to delve into a story about high flying spying antics that raises a lot of questions about how new technological possibilities become integrated into stories.

As history unfolds how do we imagine new futures? And when some of these come to pass, how are stories used to question and explore the ways our society changes?

Mentioned in the episode

The Flying Girl

Eleanor Dark

Featured stories

The Wickham Aeroplane by Francis Marlowe.

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42min
July 30, 2023 Episode 3: appendix
Hear 'The Wickham Aeroplane' by Francis Marlowe performed in full.
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30min

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The podcast currently has 26 episodes available.