Bad Diaries Podcast
Diving into the world of diaries – the good, the bad and everything in between.
Writers Jenny Ackland and Tracy Farr are fascinated by diaries: their own and other people’s. They’ve curated more than 20 Bad Diaries Salons across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand since 2017, and now have a podcast to keep the discussion going. Join them as they chat with each other and with some of the nearly 80 authors who have read at Bad Diaries Salons.
Episodes
16 episodes
S2E6: Claire Mabey
In this episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, Tracy talks with arts festival founder and director, arts events maven, book reviewer, books editor, essayist and novelist Claire Mabey about a life in the arts, the wisdom of teachers, and the tra...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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1:00:24
S2E5: Janine Mikosza
In this episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, Jenny talks with Janine Mikosza about art, writing, her extraordinary memoir Homesickness, and reading Duran Duran fan fiction at Bad Diaries Salon.Jen and Janine talk about how Jan...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:15:10
S2E4: Rachael King
In this episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, Tracy talks with award winning writer, reviewer, former literary festival director and ex-bass player Rachael King about reading journals, her love of a good boot, and
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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57:30
S2E3: Jock Serong
In our first guest interview for Season 2 of the podcast, Jenny chats with Jock Serong on a chilly Victorian night. They talk diaries, rituals, the writing life, and what Jock does with his old Blundstones.Jock was one of five writers wh...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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46:44
S2E2: Three
Double, double toil and trouble, join the two of us on the pod to make a throuple – this episode is all about THREE.We’ve chosen THREE as the theme of our second episode of the season not because we can’t count, but because we both have...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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52:25
S2E1: Diarymaking
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome to the blank first page (for Tracy, terrifying; for Jen, not) of season 2 of Bad Diaries Podcast.In our first episode of the podcast for 2024, we look back at the summer that’s passed since our xmas episode...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:05:30
S1E9: A Very Diary Xmas
Pickle your beets, sniff your jars, and wrap the Christmas ham in a teatowel! We’ve reached the toe, the toenail, the heel – no, the sole of the year, and Jenny and Tracy are bringing (or at least name-checking) the A-list celebs for A Very Dia...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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1:00:08
S1E8: Nadine Anne Hura
In this episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, Tracy talks with poet, essayist and zine-maker Nadine Anne Hura about diaries, the narrative arc of a life, writing and drawing, and Dirty Dancing.After reading at
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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59:52
S1E7: Emily McCulloch Childs
In this interview episode for Bad Diaries Podcast, Jenny talks with curator, writer and art historian Emily McCulloch Childs. Emily loves diaries, life writing, and writers’ journals; her own earliest diary (velveteen-covered, horse-embl...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:10:52
S1E6: Notes
A mixed tape of an episode that takes in The Saints and New Order at the Seaview Ballroom in 1982 Melbourne, writes a song about a closed cemetery in rainy Paris in 1989, nicks a guitar pick from the INXS stage, and reads a lot of Dick Francis....
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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58:10
S1E5: Kate Camp
In our second guest interview episode for Bad Diaries Podcast, Tracy talks with poet, essayist, reviewer and five-time Bad Diaries Salon reader Kate Camp about diaries, the slipperiness of memory, and noticing what you notice.Kat...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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59:10
S1E4: Sarah Krasnostein
In our first guest interview episode for Bad Diaries Podcast, Jenny talks with Sarah Krasnostein.On a May morning in Melbourne, Sarah and Jenny sink into Succession, narrative structure and shaping a story, research step...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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43:33
S1E3: Other people’s diaries
In this third episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, we talk about the origin of BAD in Bad Diaries, and how, in our diaries, we can allow the badness – and the goodness – of our unedited lives to show. Jen coins the term ba-goodness, and we com...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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55:46
S1E2: DiArama
In this second episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, we take another dive into the Bad Diaries universe.We ask each other, Were you always a writer? We talk about our own history and practice of keeping diaries, personal journals and writing ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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41:09