Podcasts about kat muscat

To mark ten years since Terry Pratchett's death, Liz, Ben and guest Myfanwy Coghill discuss his 2010 Richard Dimbleby lecture, “Shaking Hands with Death”. Please note that this episode includes discussions of death, terminal illness, assisted dying and suicide. Pratchett was the first novelist to give the Richard Dimbleby Lecture, an annual talk broadcast on the BBC in memory of Dimbleby, a BBC broadcaster who died in 1965. His subject was a turning point in his activism: from raising awareness (and money) for Alzheimer's Disease, to talking openly about the inevitability of death, and the importance of being able to choose a good one, safely and legally. The speech was collected in A Slip of the Keyboard in 2014, and published in a standalone volume with an introduction by Rob Wilkins in 2015. The televised version is also (currently) on YouTube. We hope we've done Pratchett justice in carrying on this discussion. We are lucky to live in Australia, where citizens in most states have access to assisted dying - even if under more narrow circumstances than Pratchett might have liked. The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill provides similar access, and was introduced in the UK parliament by backbench Labour MP Kim Leadbeater in November 2024. It's currently at the committee stage. (See our episode notes for more details.) Guest Myfanwy Coghill (she/her) has been many things, including an opera singer, a teacher, a funeral director, and a Dungeon Master (of the Dungeons & Dragons variety). She previously appeared to discuss Maskerade in #Pratchat23, “The Music of the Nitt”, in September 2019. GNU Elspeth Sutherland; Kat Muscat; Stella Young; Cal Wilson; DJ Ian; and Terry Pratchett. We'd love you to consider supporting the Kat Muscat Fellowship, which provides support and development for a young Australian writer or editor each year; or helping to fund a new documentary about Stella Young, I Am Not Your Inspiration (which coincidentally launched in between us recording and publishing this episode). You can find episode notes and errata on our web site. Next month is our rescheduled discussion about both volumes of the Ankh-Morpork Archives, which collect material from the Discworld diaries, and their sibling publication The Discworld Almanack! There's still time for a few more questions; send them in via email (chat@pratchatpodcast.com), or social media using the hashtag #Pratchat84.

Sean is thrilled to lean into it and have a cerebral discussion with Jessica Alice about all things writing and they also both pay special tribute to Kat Muscat. Jessica Alice is a writer, broadcaster, artistic programmer and newly appointed director of Writers SA. Sean starts the show by reading a poem called UHF. A poem commissioned by Dear Everybody Collective. Jessica Alice talks about her new position as newly appointed director of Writers SA. And also about the Kat Muscat Fellowship and the newly published collection of Kat's work titled Defiance, Feminism, Empathy: The Writings of Kat Muscat. Jessica Alice takes on the More Than a Challenge and reads a new poem inspired by the following creative prompts. Driverless Cars - I can't remember who supplied this creative prompt! Sorry! If it was you give me a yell and I'll give you a shout out. Arctic - Cameron Semmens. Sean reads a poem inspired by the following creative prompts. Prompts - Rebecca Vespertine - Cigarette butts and confetti Cameron Semmens - Crow has been standing on my face. Fee Sievers - picture of a peacock at Montsalvat. Mark Ireland - Well dressed cowboys. ??? - Tarot (sorry this prompt was from a while ago and again I can't remember who supplied it. LOL. Was it you?) Penny Ulmer- The Kafka diaries, February 12, 1922, I have loved this for years, particularly this: The gesture of rejection with which I was forever met did not mean: 'I do not love you' but 'You cannot love me, much as you would like to; you are unhappily in love with your love for me, but your love for me is not in love with you'. In the World of Whelan segment Sean discusses his upcoming gig performing at Cafe Philosophique De La Mort. Tickets available now. Jessica Alice closes the show by reading a remarkable piece of writing by the late Kat Muscat called So Your Dick Isn't Perpetually Hard. Which is also included in the newly released publication by Express Media, Defiance, Feminism, Empathy: The Writings of Kat Muscat.

"Risk is not so risky. It’s a necessity. It is how forms develop, how we find new audiences, new artists, how cultural conversations happen." - Angharad Wynne-Jones In our momentous final, fifth episode on responsibility, Fleur and Jana speak with two great women of the Australian performing arts: all-round cultural leaders Angharad Wynne-Jones, Artistic Director of Arts House Melbourne, and Esther Anatolitis, Director of Regional Arts Victoria (formerly CEO of Melbourne Fringe). In an emotional, grounding ending to the series, we touch on some important, often neglected questions: how do we create an ecology that supports the artist, as well as the arts?" "The independent arts is a hell of a lot stronger than any arts minister in any doomed-to-fail attempt to politicise the ways that art gets made.” - Esther Anatolitis This is a very special episode. As Angharad and Esther spoke with an authenticity and feeling that is rare in public discourse. We felt very privileged to have them with us, and we all left in tears. Discussed in this episode: George Brandis, being a person with a 'decision-making potential and capacity to be confused', the future, 'creating new artistic frameworks for established arts companies' and what that could possibly mean, the difference between advocacy and lobbying, audiences, the importance of having rigorous conversations about art, being accountable to the rate-payers of the City of Melbourne, bushfires, Kat Muscat, burn-out, and what is cultural leadership anyway?! With this episode ends our season on responsibility, Fleur's baby, a season which has taken us some very deep places. We will take a short break now, to recover from the rollercoaster and consider what to do next. But stay tuned: we have more exciting and intellectually rigorous conversations to come. Podcast bibliography: Keith Gallasch: Interview, Angharad Wynne-Jones, RealTime 109, June-July 2012 Michael Short: Esther Anatolitis enters The Zone, The Age, April 25, 2011 Richard Watts: Kat Muscat's life celebrated at emotional Melbourne farewell, ArtsHub, August 4, 2015 see Angharad Wynne-Jones speak about FOLA 2014 estheranatolitis.net.

In this week’s podcast we look at the legacy of writer and editor Kat Muscat, who tragically passed away last week. From there, taking inspiration from Kat, and joined by Amy Gray, we look at the rise of online think pieces. And finally we chat Voiceworks magazine and its 100th issue with editor Liz Flux.