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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S2E6: Claire Mabey

In this episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, Tracy talks with arts events maven, books editor, writer Claire Mabey about a life in the arts, the wisdom of teachers, the transportive power of reading – and The Raven's Eye Runaways, Claire's immersive debut novel.

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S2E4: Rachael King

In this episode of Bad Diaries Podcast, Tracy talks with writer, reviewer, former literary festival director and ex-bass player Rachael King about reading journals, her love of a good boot, and why she’s no longer writing novels for adults.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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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