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 more than 70 authors who have read at Bad Diaries Salons.
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S2E1: Diarymaking
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome to the blank first page of season 2 of Bad Diaries Podcast. In our first episode of the podcast for 2024, we chat about diarymaking — aesthetics and logistics, preferences and flexibility, the creative and the mundane.
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 Diary Xmas.
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.
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-emblazoned) dates to when she was 10.
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.
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.
S1E4: Sarah Krasnostein
In our first guest interview episode for Bad Diaries Podcast, Jenny talks with Sarah Krasnostein.
S1E3: Other people’s diaries
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; and Jen coins the term ba-goodness.
S1E2: DiArama
In this second episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, we take another dive into the Bad Diaries universe. Tracy reads from her 9/11 journal, and Jen reads from DiArama, her 1980s diary.
S1E1: People dig it
In this first episode of BAD DIARIES PODCAST, we talk about Bad Diaries Salon, the live literary series that we co-produce and co-curate, and we introduce BAD DIARIES PODCAST, and our hopes and plans for the podcast.
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Bad Diaries Podcast is recorded and produced in Naarm Melbourne, Australia, on the lands of the Kulin Nation; and in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, on the iwi lands of Taranaki Whānui, and Ngāti Toa Rangatira. We pay our respects to Mana Whenua, and to Elders past, present and emerging, of these lands.
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