S2Ep4: Making History in Audio (Behind the scenes of Season 2)
Release 19 Dec 2018 | Series 2
So much goes into making a History Lab episode, not least the tricky but magic process of bringing journalists together with historians. We caught some of the producers when they were deep in the process of making Season 2, just before the launch. Tom Allinson and Jason L’Ecuyer talk with Tamson and the Australian Centre for Public History’s Anna Clark about the ethics of re-enactment and interpretation and how doing history in audio is like flying a plane.
Listen to History Lab Season 2
- S2Ep1: The Bank, the Sergeant and his bonus – Unsettling discoveries in the banking archives.
- S2Ep2: Invisible Hands – Where do jelly babies come from?
- S2Ep3: Skeletons of Empire – Is world peace just a dream?
This conversation was originally part of 2SER’s other podcast GLAMcity. History Lab is a collaboration between the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney and 2SER 107.3
Credits
Producers: Tom Allinson & Sarah Marshman
Executive Producer: Tom Allinson
Hosts: Tamson Pietsch and Anna Clark
Image Credit: That’s Tamson and Olivia hunting audio on a ferry
S2Ep4: Making history in audio (behind the scenes of Season 2)
The History Lab audio makers explore how they’ve tried to understand the past through sound in History Lab Season 2.
S2E3 Extra: The Edith Effect
Ninah Kopel talks to 2Ser’s Final Draft about the intersection between storytelling and reality in Frank Moorhouse’s books on the League of Nations.
S2Ep3: Skeletons of Empire
Is world peace just a dream? In the aftermath of WWI, nations came together in an attempt to ensure such a war would never happen again. In this episode, Glenda Sluga and Ninah Kopel search for the ephemeral traces of that belief in a unified world.
S2Ep2: Invisible Hands
Where do jelly babies come from? Mass-produced things are all around us. But they all start with a single object. Olivia goes looking for the patternmakers, whose invisible hands create many of the products we use every day.
S2Ep1: The Bank, the Sergeant and his bonus
In 1817, the Bank of New South Wales opened as the first financial institution in the Australian colonies. But when the first customers arrived for the grand opening, they found someone had already made a deposit.