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  • 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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    40 min
  • 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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    55 min
  • 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


    Find all of Roland Quiz’s stories here


    Stories by Ivan Dexter


    Author Vance Palmer


    The stories in this episode were read by Perform Australia


    Find the transcript of this episode here


    Main story


    The Story of the Three Photos

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    30 min
  • Episode 5: Stand and deliver! The cult of the Bushranger

    Show notes


    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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    43 min
  • Episode 4: appendix
    Listen to four pieces of children's fiction from the late 19th and early 20th century.

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    44 min
  • 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


    You can find a full transcript of the episode here.


    Main stories


    The Marvellous Island


    Theft of a day


    The Convalescence of Taffie Farndon


    A Little Bushmaid

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    38 min
  • 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.


    Find a full transcript of this episode here

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    42 min
  • Episode 3: appendix
    Hear 'The Wickham Aeroplane' by Francis Marlowe performed in full.

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    30 min

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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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