Podcasts by MTC Audio Lab
Great dramatic texts brought to life by some of your favourite stage actors. It's theatre for your ears.
Welcome to MTC Audio Lab a new series of audio dramas produced by Melbourne Theatre Company.
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The Turn of the Screw: Q&A with Director Sarah Goodes from 2020-08-20T14:01:05
The Turn of the Screw Director Sarah Goodes chats with MTC Literary Associate Jenni Medway about the enduring fascination with Henry James novella and the process of creating an audio drama.
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The Turn of the Screw: Part Three from 2020-08-13T14:01:05
MTC Associate Artistic Director Sarah Goodes directs a dramatic reading of Henry James’s classic ghost story, The Turn of the Screw, brought to life by Laurence Boxhall, Marg Downey, Robert Menzies...
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The Turn of the Screw: Part Two from 2020-08-06T14:01:02
MTC Associate Artistic Director Sarah Goodes directs a dramatic reading of Henry James’s classic ghost story, The Turn of the Screw, brought to life by Laurence Boxhall, Marg Downey, Robert Menzies...
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The Turn of the Screw: Part One from 2020-07-30T14:06:46
MTC Associate Artistic Director Sarah Goodes directs a dramatic reading of Henry James’s classic ghost story, The Turn of the Screw, brought to life by Laurence Boxhall, Marg Downey, Robert Menzies...
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Great Australian Speeches: Vida Goldstein's Open Letter to Parliament from 2020-07-16T10:50:21
Vida Goldstein was an Australian suffragette and social reformer. In 1900 she founded the Australian Woman's Sphere, a monthly journal which advocated for equal rights for women. With the support ...
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Great Australian Speeches: Shareena Clanton’s The Age of Ignorance is Over from 2020-07-16T10:50:16
Shareena Clanton is an Australian theatre, film and television actor. Clanton portrays Doreen Anderson in the Foxtel TV series Wentworth and appeared in the feature film Last Cab to Darwin. In 201...
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Great Australian Speeches: Sir Robert Menzies's The Forgotten People from 2020-07-16T10:50:09
Sir Robert Menzies was Prime Minister of Australia from both 1939 to 1941 and 1949 to 1966. In his career, he played a central role in the creation of the Liberal Party of Australia. Serving over ...
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Great Australian Speeches: Dame Nellie Melba's Farewell from 2020-07-16T10:50:02
Dame Nellie Melba, born Helen Porter Mitchell, was an Australian operatic soprano and was the first Australian classic musician to receive international recognition and became one of the most famou...
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Great Australian Speeches: Ned Kelly’s Cameron Letter from 2020-07-16T10:49:54
Ned Kelly is one of the most famous (and one of the last) Australian bushrangers. He is perhaps best known for his suit of armour, worn during his final shootout with the police. In December 1878,...
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Great Australian Speeches: Miles Franklin's Henry Lawson Tribute from 2020-07-16T10:49:47
Miles Franklin was an Australian writer, best known for her novel My Brilliant Career. Miles Franklin paid homage to Henry Lawson on the 5 September 1942, delivered at the annual ceremony arranged...
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Great Australian Speeches: Lowitja O’Donoghue at the National Congress of Australia’s First People from 2020-07-16T10:49:41
Dr Lowitja Lois O'Donoghue Smart AC CBE DSG, is a lauded Aboriginal Australian and retired public administrator. In 1976, Dr O'Donoghue was the first Aboriginal woman to be inducted into the new O...
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Great Australian Speeches: John Curtin's Japan Enters the War from 2020-07-16T10:49:35
John Curtin served as the 14th Prime Minister of Australia from 1941 until his death in 1945. Curtin's leadership skills and personal character were acclaimed by his political contemporaries. He i...
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Great Australian Speeches: Jack Patten's Day of Mourning protest opening address from 2020-07-16T10:49:28
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this recording contains names and words of deceased persons. John Thomas 'Jack' Patten was an Aboriginal Australian civil rights a...
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Great Australian Speeches: Faith Bandler’s Faith, Hope&Reconciliation from 2020-07-16T10:49:23
Faith Bandler AC was an Australian civil rights activist of South Sea Islander and Scottish-Indian heritage and a campaigner for the rights of Indigenous Australians and South Sea Islanders. As ge...
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Great Australian Speeches: Dame Enid Lyons's Maiden Speech from 2020-07-16T10:49:18
Dame Enid Lyons was an Australian politician, the first woman elected to the House of Representatives and the first woman to serve in federal cabinet. In 1925, she became one of the first two wome...
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Great Australian Speeches: Ellen van Neerven’s poems from 'Throat' from 2020-07-16T10:49:12
Ellen van Neerven is an award-winning writer, editor and educator of Mununjali Yugambeh and Dutch heritage with strong ancestral ties to south east queensland. They write fiction, poetry and non-fi...
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Great Australian Speeches: Dame Dorothy Tangney's Maiden Speech from 2020-07-16T10:49:06
In the landmark 1943 election, Dorothy Tangney was the first woman to be elected to the Senate. A member of the Australian Labor Party, she served as a Senator for Western Australia from 1943 to 1...
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Great Australian Speeches: Banjo Paterson's The Man From Snowy River from 2020-07-16T10:49:01
The Man from Snowy River is a poem by Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson. First published in Australian news magazine, The Bulletin, on 26 April 1890, the poem was written at a time when Australia...
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Great Australian Speeches: Introduction with Petra Kalive from 2020-07-10T00:52:54
We kick off our new series of audio dramas, MTC Audio Lab, with Great Australian Speeches, comprising speeches, texts and poems designed for spoken performance. From political leaders to leading In...
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