Alice Garner
@soundslikealice.bsky.social
Historian, musician, audio maker, actor & teacher. National Library Australia oral history interviewer. Cellist in Sunshine Tip and Sally Ford & the Idiomatics. Latest project: Choc-tops and Cassata podcast
Wow, this @radiolab.bsky.social episode took an unexpected turn! Extraordinary story - in which punk rock, politics and public health collide podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/r...
Los Frikis
Podcast Episode · Radiolab · 12/09/2025 · 33m
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September 22, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Wow, this @radiolab.bsky.social episode took an unexpected turn! Extraordinary story - in which punk rock, politics and public health collide podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/r...
Stories of dodgy tycoon Christopher Skase peppered my adolescence and early 20s. Fascinated to hear the full(er) story on ABC RN Rewind - podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a...
01 | The Confidence Man
Podcast Episode · ABC Rewind · 19/09/2025 · 1 sec
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September 21, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Stories of dodgy tycoon Christopher Skase peppered my adolescence and early 20s. Fascinated to hear the full(er) story on ABC RN Rewind - podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a...
Bonus ep of Choc-tops and Cassata out now - on the Australian classic film ‘The Castle’ being actually quite Italian !
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Choc-tops and Cassata - Bonus Episode - The Castle: the most quintessential Australian movie with an Italian vibe?
Podcast Episode · The Secret Life of Language · 16/09/2025 · Bonus · 57m
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September 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Bonus ep of Choc-tops and Cassata out now - on the Australian classic film ‘The Castle’ being actually quite Italian !
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...
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Just pressed submit on an @audioflux.bsky.social entry - of course the idea came at the last minute but I decided to go with it anyway because it felt real! Having these prompts to make new work is really helpful, gotta say!
September 16, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Just pressed submit on an @audioflux.bsky.social entry - of course the idea came at the last minute but I decided to go with it anyway because it felt real! Having these prompts to make new work is really helpful, gotta say!
Recommendation: ‘Empire’ podcast eps on the Suez Crisis - a fantastic guest in historian @alexvont.bsky.social Covers so much fascinating territory in a very engaging way. From Egypt to Palestine to… Hungary, not to mention France, Britain, Israel and the US.
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284. Suez Crisis: The British Imperialist vs The Arab Nationalist (Part 1)
Podcast Episode · Empire · 25/08/2025 · 39m
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September 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Recommendation: ‘Empire’ podcast eps on the Suez Crisis - a fantastic guest in historian @alexvont.bsky.social Covers so much fascinating territory in a very engaging way. From Egypt to Palestine to… Hungary, not to mention France, Britain, Israel and the US.
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e...
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e...
Ep 4 of Choc-tops and Cassata out now, taking a trip from a small theatre in Naples to Melbourne cinemas screening Italian movies in the 60s - 70s to Italian and French film festivals and the popularisation of prosecco in Australia. Local cinema history from the horse’s mouth!
Episode 21: Choc-tops and Cassata - Part 4: From vision to legacy: Antonio Zeccola and Italian cinema in Australia
Episode 21: Choc-tops and Cassata - Part 4: From vision to legacy: Antonio Zeccola and Italian cinema in Australia
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September 2, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Ep 4 of Choc-tops and Cassata out now, taking a trip from a small theatre in Naples to Melbourne cinemas screening Italian movies in the 60s - 70s to Italian and French film festivals and the popularisation of prosecco in Australia. Local cinema history from the horse’s mouth!
Out today! Had a blast adding cello to this album… recorded at Rolling Stock Studio by Myles Mumford - have a listen
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Every Happiness, by Sally Ford and the Idiomatics
9 track album
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August 28, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Out today! Had a blast adding cello to this album… recorded at Rolling Stock Studio by Myles Mumford - have a listen
sallyfordandtheidiomatics.bandcamp.com/album/every-...
sallyfordandtheidiomatics.bandcamp.com/album/every-...
Time travel back to 1970s Melbourne and an Italian film night at the grand Metropolitan cinema with ep 2 of our Choc-tops and Cassata podcast
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Episode 19: Choc-tops and Cassata - Part 2: Saturday Nights at the Metropolitan: Melbourne’s Italian Cinema Experience
Episode 19: Choc-tops and Cassata - Part 2: Saturday Nights at the Metropolitan: Melbourne’s Italian Cinema Experience
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July 31, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Time travel back to 1970s Melbourne and an Italian film night at the grand Metropolitan cinema with ep 2 of our Choc-tops and Cassata podcast
tinyurl.com/2nvdkf2j
tinyurl.com/2nvdkf2j
“That which no canvas could withstand” - a gorgeous piece on the Beaufort Scale on BBC podcast Illuminated, one of my favourite shows. Beautiful writing, lessons in editing and sound design. Engages all the senses.
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Sea Like a Mirror
Podcast Episode · Illuminated · 29/06/2025 · 29m
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July 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
“That which no canvas could withstand” - a gorgeous piece on the Beaufort Scale on BBC podcast Illuminated, one of my favourite shows. Beautiful writing, lessons in editing and sound design. Engages all the senses.
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/i...
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/i...
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July 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Finalmente! Ep 1 of Choc-tops & Cassata just dropped today - on how Italians in 1950s-70s Melbourne grabbed the chance to screen films in their own language & saved some buildings along the way tinyurl.com/ny2vxf3v
Episode 18: Choc-tops and Cassata - Part 1: How multicultural movies saved the Melbourne cinema scene
Episode 18: Choc-tops and Cassata - Part 1: How multicultural movies saved the Melbourne cinema scene
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July 15, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Finalmente! Ep 1 of Choc-tops & Cassata just dropped today - on how Italians in 1950s-70s Melbourne grabbed the chance to screen films in their own language & saved some buildings along the way tinyurl.com/ny2vxf3v
For Italian speakers: an interview on SBS radio about the podcast on Italian language cinema in Melbourne town that we’re launching later this month … www.sbs.com.au/language/ita...
I cinema italiani a Melbourne, una storia d'amore e nostalgia nella comunità italiana degli anni '50
Il podcast "Choc-tops and Cassata" ricostruisce il periodo d'oro dei cinema italiani a Melbourne, dagli anni '50 fino alla loro scomparsa a metà degli anni '80.
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July 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
For Italian speakers: an interview on SBS radio about the podcast on Italian language cinema in Melbourne town that we’re launching later this month … www.sbs.com.au/language/ita...
Wandering down the aisles of Melbourne’s lost Italian language cinemas, cassata balanced precariously on a paper plate… I’ve enjoyed being part of the research & production team for this new podcast. Teaser here: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...
Choc-tops and Cassata - Teaser
Podcast Episode · The Secret Life of Language · S1 Trailer · 1m
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June 27, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Wandering down the aisles of Melbourne’s lost Italian language cinemas, cassata balanced precariously on a paper plate… I’ve enjoyed being part of the research & production team for this new podcast. Teaser here: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...
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I'm excited to share details about The Identifying Precarious Victorian Oral History Collections Project! This project is identifying & creating a list of precarious oral history collections held in Victoria, Australia. Tell us about your collection via www.precariousoralhistories.com #oralhistory
June 3, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I'm excited to share details about The Identifying Precarious Victorian Oral History Collections Project! This project is identifying & creating a list of precarious oral history collections held in Victoria, Australia. Tell us about your collection via www.precariousoralhistories.com #oralhistory
A curation of voices … here is an audio piece I made out of #oralhistory collections on university student life in Melbourne in the first half of the 20th century. Listen at soundcloud.com/user-1152745...
May 27, 2025 at 8:19 AM
A curation of voices … here is an audio piece I made out of #oralhistory collections on university student life in Melbourne in the first half of the 20th century. Listen at soundcloud.com/user-1152745...
Oral historians: Voices and photographs capturing early-mid 20thc student life at Melbourne Uni will appear today MPavilion Parkville. Only up for 3 days, 6-8 May, 11-3. On Thurs I’ll be there from 11-2 to chat about the project. @unilibrary.bsky.social @oralhistoryvic.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Oral historians: Voices and photographs capturing early-mid 20thc student life at Melbourne Uni will appear today MPavilion Parkville. Only up for 3 days, 6-8 May, 11-3. On Thurs I’ll be there from 11-2 to chat about the project. @unilibrary.bsky.social @oralhistoryvic.bsky.social
An observation from my 18-y-old about social media during the election campaign. He reckons that ALP smashed the LNP in memes etc - and he’s not particularly political (as in: doesn’t read the news). This might actually be more significant than we might imagine in shaping the election results.
May 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
An observation from my 18-y-old about social media during the election campaign. He reckons that ALP smashed the LNP in memes etc - and he’s not particularly political (as in: doesn’t read the news). This might actually be more significant than we might imagine in shaping the election results.
Ok so I’m very relieved by the Australian election result but I also want to acknowledge that opposition leader Dutton (who lost his seat!) has *accepted* the loss and is NOT doing a Trump sore loser act.
May 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Ok so I’m very relieved by the Australian election result but I also want to acknowledge that opposition leader Dutton (who lost his seat!) has *accepted* the loss and is NOT doing a Trump sore loser act.
Can’t reply directly to these unsolicited texts during the Australian federal election campaign so sharing my response here instead. Background for people outside Australia: a Trump-influenced party is trying to foment division over the practice of First Nations Welcome to Country ceremonies.
April 30, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Can’t reply directly to these unsolicited texts during the Australian federal election campaign so sharing my response here instead. Background for people outside Australia: a Trump-influenced party is trying to foment division over the practice of First Nations Welcome to Country ceremonies.
If you were thinking about it but haven’t … it’s worth a go!
📣 Closing soon! Applications for the 2026 National Library of Australia Fellowships and Creative Arts Fellowships close 5 May 2025.
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April 24, 2025 at 8:45 AM
If you were thinking about it but haven’t … it’s worth a go!
Made the shortlist for the Whickers podcast pitch awards! I’ve been working on this project about Mavis Robertson for a couple of years now & the thought that I *might* get the funds to make the series I first imagined back in 2022 is a bit thrilling. & if I don’t win I feel encouraged anyway
April 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Made the shortlist for the Whickers podcast pitch awards! I’ve been working on this project about Mavis Robertson for a couple of years now & the thought that I *might* get the funds to make the series I first imagined back in 2022 is a bit thrilling. & if I don’t win I feel encouraged anyway
Melburnians: Looking for something to do this arvo? Come down to the Lowie (Lomond Hotel) in East Brunswick - I’m playing cello with Sally Ford & the Idiomatics starting from 5 pm - lush melancholic electronica with some organica…
April 13, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Melburnians: Looking for something to do this arvo? Come down to the Lowie (Lomond Hotel) in East Brunswick - I’m playing cello with Sally Ford & the Idiomatics starting from 5 pm - lush melancholic electronica with some organica…
Tonight! In St Kilda - playing sweet original tunes - leaning towards sad but I reckon you’ll walk away in better spirits than when you arrived… tix via sunshinetip.xyz/shows
April 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Tonight! In St Kilda - playing sweet original tunes - leaning towards sad but I reckon you’ll walk away in better spirits than when you arrived… tix via sunshinetip.xyz/shows
If sad songs help you through crazy and difficult times and if you’re in Melbourne, you might enjoy my next gig with Sunshine Tip… come and drown your sorrows and confusion in good company!
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Sunshine Tip at the Ember Lounge @ The Ember Lounge - Apr 3, 2025, 8:00PM
Acoustic alt-country outfit Sunshine Tip bring their sweet evocative originals to the Ember Lounge. Dave Bowers (guitar, vocals), Dee Hannan (mandolin, vocals), Alice Garner (cello), with drummer Al B...
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March 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
If sad songs help you through crazy and difficult times and if you’re in Melbourne, you might enjoy my next gig with Sunshine Tip… come and drown your sorrows and confusion in good company!
sunshinetip.xyz/event/598769...
sunshinetip.xyz/event/598769...
If sad songs help you through crazy and difficult times and if you’re in Melbourne, you might enjoy my next gig with Sunshine Tip… come and drown your sorrows and confusion in good company!
sunshinetip.xyz/event/598769...
sunshinetip.xyz/event/598769...
Sunshine Tip at the Ember Lounge @ The Ember Lounge - Apr 3, 2025, 8:00PM
Acoustic alt-country outfit Sunshine Tip bring their sweet evocative originals to the Ember Lounge. Dave Bowers (guitar, vocals), Dee Hannan (mandolin, vocals), Alice Garner (cello), with drummer Al B...
sunshinetip.xyz
March 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
If sad songs help you through crazy and difficult times and if you’re in Melbourne, you might enjoy my next gig with Sunshine Tip… come and drown your sorrows and confusion in good company!
sunshinetip.xyz/event/598769...
sunshinetip.xyz/event/598769...