In a raucous storytelling session, guests tell host Rebecca Huntley and Sarah Macdonald about when life got so bad it got funny. Featuring Costa Georgiadis, Louisa Lim, Maeve Marsden, Linda Jaivin and more.
Dr Rebecca Huntley is one of Australians foremost researchers on social trends. She has lead research at Essential Media and Vox Populi and was a director at Ipsos Australia.
Sarah Macdonald is currently the presenter for the Evenings program on ABC Radio Sydney and co-presenter of The Full Catastrophe story-telling event and podcast with Rebeca Huntley. She has also built the 'Weekend Nightlife Show', which she’s loved presenting to the nation’s night owls for the last three years.
Costa Georgiadis is a landscape architect, environmental educator and television presenter who has an all-consuming passion for plants and people. Since 2013, Costa has been the much-loved host of one of the ABC’s most iconic and Logie award-winning programs, 'Gardening Australia'.
Linda Jaivin has been a foreign correspondent in China, and is co-editor of the China Story Yearbook and the author of twelve books, including The Shortest History of China, Beijing, The Empress Lover, Found in Translation: in praise of a plural world, Miles Walker, You're Dead, Rock n Roll Babes from Outer Space.
Louisa Lim is an award-winning journalist, whose book Indelible City; Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong has been named one of the best history books of 2022 by Amazon. Louisa previously spent a decade in China as a correspondent for the BBC and NPR and is now a Senior Lecturer in Audiovisual Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
Maeve Marsden is a writer and theatremaker. Maeve curates national storytelling project Queerstories, and her writing has appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian Australia, Junkee and Archer Magazine, among others.
Note that this session goes for 90 minutes (rather than 60 minutes as for most other sessions).
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