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Natasha Mitchell (she/her)
@natashamitchell.bsky.social
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Australian journo. NOW: host of ABC Radio National's BIG IDEAS, THEN: Founding presenter/creator of All in the Mind & Science Friction podcasts, host of Life Matters, MIT Knight fellow, World Federation of Science Journalists board. Owned by a wolfhound-x.
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TOP 100 BOOKS of the 21st Century Vote Now ABC Radio National Colourful artoon image of piles of books and little people amongst them #Top100Books of the 21st Century Tune in 18 & 19 October
September 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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ABC Radio National's #Top100Books of 21C vote is going OFF!

Tens of 1000s of you have already voted!

Most are voting for glorious novels.

I'm a weirdo.

My lucky occupational hazard is I interview a lot of non-fiction authors.

Was profoundly affected by these.

Vote now!
top100books.abc.net.au
Alt text: Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity - Andrew Solomon Stasiland - Anna Funder The Lovely Bones - Alice Seabold Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda - Roméo Antonius Dallaire Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal - Jeanette Winterson Boy, Lost - Kristina Olsson A Human Being Died that Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness (2003) - Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela The Gene: An intimate history - Siddhartha Mukherjee The Signature of All Things - Elizabeth Gilbert A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions - Thom Van Dooren
September 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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We're addicted to it, especially Australians.

But fast farshun, sweetie darling, is seriously f**ed up for the planet & humanity.

Four guests, including acclaimed fashion designer #KitWillow, join me from the frontier of change.

Hear now on the BIG IDEAS podcast
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
4 women and a man standing in front of a banner
June 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Where do you look for the secret, untold, lost, hidden histories? Can we are to truly understand ourselves without them? Joining me at Melbourne Writers Festival

Santilla Chingaipe
Sita Sargeant
Steve Vizard

for THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY

Hear now on BIG IDEAS

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Book cover: Black Convicts: How slavery shaped Australia - by Santilla Chingaipe Book cover: She Shapes History: Guided Walks and Untold Stories About Great Australian Women - by Sita Sargeant Book cover: Nation Memory Myth: Gallipoli and the Australian Imaginary by Steve Vizard 4 people, 3 women, one man, standing side by side on a stage looking at camera
June 18, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Bit on, and then some!

Hosting these Sorrento Writers Festival panels this weekend:

sorrentowritersfestival.com.au/artfuel/prog...
pile of books
April 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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QUEEN POLLY JEAN.

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March 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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#JemBendell joins me at the #FestivalofDangerousIdeas.

We’re past the brink of civilisational collapse & many environmentalists push a “fake green fairytale”, he argues

His explosive Deep Adaptation paper played a key role in #ExtinctionRebellion.

But now?

>>>
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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February 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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After the Dawn Service. Naarm. Survival Day. 2025.

The Australian Wars, SBS On Demand
www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-...

The First Australians, SBS
www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-...

Big Ideas episode with Thomas Mayo, Margo Neale, David Marr ABC Radio National ABC listen
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
January 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Why have women been stockpiling #abortion meds in America?

The confronting reality of the frontline of reproductive healthcare with Dr Angel Foster

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Find & follow the BIG IDEAS podcast to join me for 4 episodes weekly. Big thinkers at the best live events, everywhere
white pills on pink background with the words "Why Some Women Are Stockpiling Abortion Meds in the USA".
January 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Guitar music lovers! Don't miss the Medieval to Metal exhibition at Ballarat Art Gallery before it closes in early Feb.... loved it.
Medieval to Metal exhibition sign Armadillos shell as guitar body photo of younger Joan Jett photo of magic dirt (I think by Tony Mott)
January 13, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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'The Forever War: America's Unending Conflict With Itself' by @nickbryantoz.bsky.social is a MUST read to help place the January 20 inauguration into its full historical context. Riveting, sobering, sweeping, important. Read it. Nick is on one of the 3 panels I'm hosting at #AdelaideWritersWeek.
Book cover with title The Forever War: America's Unending Conflict With Itself. By Nick Bryant.
January 1, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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As 2024 draws to a close, may 2025 bring moments of peace & your version of a sandy beach nose & squishy ball. This scruffy girl has these hopes for you ... herself ... and the world.
Large scruffy white & grey wolfhound-x dog sitting on a beach. Sand on her nose & face, orange ball between her paws, big toothy grin.
December 30, 2024 at 12:59 AM