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Biographers in Conversation

Biographer Gabriella Kelly-Davies chats with biographers across the world about the myriad of choices they make while researching, writing and publishing life stories. In every episode, she explores elements of narrative strategy such as structure, use of fiction techniques, facts and truth, beginnings and endings and to what extent the writer interpreted the evidence rather than providing clues and leaving it to readers to do the interpreting themselves. She also asks how they researched their

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38:04

Patricia Meisol "A Heart Afire: Helen Brooke...

Biographers in Conversation ·

2025/07/02

Patricia Meisol explores the life and legacy of Dr Helen Taussig, the pioneering mother of paediatric cardiology:How Helen Taussig exposed the dangers of thalidomide, helping to spark new U.S. drug safety legislation in the 1960s. Helen Taussig’s determination in overcoming personal challenges, including dyslexia and progressive hearing loss, to become a world leader in medicine. Patricia reflects on her decade-long research journey, including interviews with Taussig’s former students and

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41:20

Jacqueline Kent "Bonjour, Mademoiselle! April Ashley...

Biographers in Conversation ·

2025/06/25

Award-winning biographer Jacqueline Kent returns to the podcast to discuss her latest work, coauthored with historian Tom Roberts, about the iconic transgender model and activist April Ashley.A Life Reimagined – Born George Jamieson in Liverpool, April Ashley transitioned in 1960 and became one of the first Britons to undergo gender-affirming surgery. Jacqueline explores April’s remarkable transformation with insight and compassion. The biography traces April’s journey from a tough childhood to the

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56:11

Robert Zaretsky "The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life...

Biographers in Conversation ·

2025/06/18

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, the intellectual historian Dr Robert Zaretsky chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while crafting The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas. Known as the ‘patron saint of all outsiders’, Simone Weil was one of the 20th century’s most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals.Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode: Why Robert Zaretsky chose the title: The Subversive Simone

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01:01:40

Kiera Lindsey's "Wild Love: The Ambitions of Adelaide...

Biographers in Conversation ·

2025/06/11

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, the historian Dr Kiera Lindsey chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Wild Love: The Ambitions of Adelaide Ironside, the First Australian Artist to Astonish the World. Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode: Adelaide Eliza Scott Ironside was a trailblazing Australian artist known for her passion, ambition and extraordinary talent. Born in Sydney in 1831, she challenged artistic boundaries by exploring themes such

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59:05

Sally Bayley: "The Green Lady: A Spirit, A Story, A...

Biographers in Conversation ·

2025/06/04

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, the critically acclaimed author, Oxford scholar, literature teacher and performer Dr Sally Bayley chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about The Green Lady: A Spirit, A Story, A Place. Part memoir, part fiction, The Green Lady is an experimental mix of biography, fiction and family history. Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode: The Green Lady explores a child’s search for artistic education and a sense of self. Lyrical and playful, Sally

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01:00:12

Lamisse Hamouda: "The Shape of Dust"

Biographers in Conversation ·

2025/05/28

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, memoirist Lamisse Hamouda chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting The Shape of Dust. Lamisse co-authored this deeply disturbing account with her father Hazem Hamouda. It chronicles Hazem’s wrongful arrest in Egypt and Lamisse’s desperate 443-day struggle to free him from Tora, one of Egypt’s most notorious prisons. The Shape of Dust won the 2024 National Biography Award.Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode: The

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52:59

Kerrie Davies's "Miles Franklin Undercover: The...

Biographers in Conversation ·

2025/05/21

The name Miles Franklin might sound familiar to you. After all, she wrote My Brilliant Career, a debut novel that made her an overnight literary sensation at the age of 21. However, here’s the plot twist: just two years after that success, Miles Franklin vanished from the public eye. Where did she go? And what did she do during those ‘lost’ years?That’s the mystery we’re here to unravel in this episode of Biographers in Conversation when Dr Kerrie Davies chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about

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57:08

Oliver Soden "Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat"

Biographers in Conversation ·

2025/05/14

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, the distinguished British biographer Oliver Soden chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while crafting Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat. Jeoffry was a real cat who lived in a London asylum with Christopher Smart, an 18th-century poet.Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode: How Virginia Woolf’s Flush: A Biography, the imaginative biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s cocker spaniel, influenced Oliver Soden’s choices while crafting The

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01:09:12

Kate Fullagar "Bennelong & Phillip: A History...

Biographers in Conversation ·

2025/05/07

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, the award-winning historian and author Dr Kate Fullagar chats with Dr Gabriella-Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Bennelong & Phillip: A History Unravelled, the first joint biography of First Nations leader, Bennelong, and the first governor of the British Colony of New South Wales, Arthur Phillip.Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode: Why Bennelong & Phillip is still so relevant, over 200 years since the events depicted in

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50:24

Pamela Toler's "The Dragon from Chicago. The Untold...

Biographers in Conversation ·

2025/04/30

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, the historian Dr Pamela Toler chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting The Dragon from Chicago. The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany, the biography of Sigrid Schultz, the Chicago Tribune’s bureau chief in Berlin during Hitler’s rise to power.Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode: Why Pamela Toler chose The Dragon from Chicago as the biography’s title Why Sigrid Schultz’s story is still so

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51:33

Ashleigh Wilson's "Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the...

Biographers in Conversation ·

2025/04/23

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Ashleigh Wilson chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies me about his choices while crafting Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing, his acclaimed biography of Brett Whiteley, one of Australia’s most iconic artists.Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode: The meaning of The Other Thing in the biography’s title Ashleigh’s surprise discoveries and how they shaped the narrative How Ashleigh verified the many colourful anecdotes about Brett

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49:58

Amy Reading's "The World She Edited: Katharine S....

Biographers in Conversation ·

2025/04/16

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Amy Reading chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker, the biography of Katharine Sergeant White, the first fiction editor of The New Yorker, an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode: Amy Reading’s inspiration for crafting The World She

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47:13

Patchen Barss "The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and...

Biographers in Conversation ·

2025/04/09

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Patchen Barss chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while crafting The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius, the biography of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose. Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode: Patchen Barss’s painstaking research strategy How Patchen grasped complicated information about quantum physics and mathematics How he crafted erudite, poetic and propulsive narrative from

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57:53

Biographers in Conversation ·

2025/04/02

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Australia’s doyenne of biography, Brenda Niall, chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting: Joan Lindsay: The Hidden Life of the Woman Who Wrote Picnic at Hanging Rock.Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode: Brenda Niall’s inspiration for crafting Joan Lindsay: The Hidden Life of the Woman Who Wrote Picnic at Hanging Rock Brenda’s meticulous research strategy How Joan Lindsay’s character drove the plot How

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01:01:22

Andrew Ford's "The Shortest History of Music"

Biographers in Conversation ·

2025/03/26

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, the multi-award-winning broadcaster, composer and author Andrew Ford chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while crafting, The Shortest History of Music. A lively, authoritative tour through 4,000 years of music, this book explores music’s role in human society.Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode: Andrew Ford explains how he balanced brevity and intellectual depth while crafting a 200-page book spanning 4,000 years of

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01:08:14

Kate Kennedy's "Cello: A Journey Through Silence to...

Biographers in Conversation ·

2025/03/19

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Kate Kennedy, a distinguished cellist, musicologist, and Director of Oxford University’s Centre for Life Writing chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound.Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode: Kate Kennedy’s inspiration for crafting Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound Why Kate chose Pál Hermann, Lise Cristiani, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and Amedeo Baldovino as her

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01:04:41

Bernadette Brennan's "Leaping into Waterfalls: The...

Biographers in Conversation ·

2025/03/12

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, award-winning biographer Dr Bernadette Brennan chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Leaping into Waterfalls: The Enigmatic Gillian Mears, a literary biography that explores the rich, tumultuous life of Gillian Mears, one of Australia’s most celebrated writers. Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode: Gillian Mears’s lived and imaginative lives were rich with adventure, risk and often transgressive passion. Her

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01:11:09

Helen Ennis' 'Max Dupain: A Portrait'

Biographers in Conversation ·

2025/03/05

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, the acclaimed author and art historian Dr Helen Ennis chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Max Dupain: A Portrait, the first biography of the photographer Max Dupain, Australia’s most influential photographer of the 20th century. Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode: Helen Ennis’s inspiration for crafting Max Dupain: A Portrait How Max Dupain’s photograph ‘The floater’ influenced Helen’s narrative

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59:30

Anna Funder’s ‘Wifedom’: Restoring Visibility & Voice

Biographers in Conversation ·

2025/02/28

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies chats with multi-award-winning author Anna Funder about her choices while crafting Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life. Wifedom resurrects Eileen O’Shaughnessy, a brilliant Oxford graduate who married George Orwell in 1936. Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode: Anna Funder’s inspiration for writing Wifedom Why and how Eileen O’Shaughnessy was written out of George Orwell’s life story How Anna restored

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27:04

Jacqueline Kent. A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, A...

Biographers in Conversation ·

2024/08/29

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Jacqueline Kent chats with Gabriella about the choices she made while writing A Certain Style: Beatrice Davis, A Literary Life, the biography of Australia’s doyenne of publishing..Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode: Jacqueline Kent’s inspiration for writing a second edition of A Certain Style after her first edition won the National Biography Award in 2002. How Jacqueline structured A Certain Style by bringing together three strands of

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