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Podcast Episode · ABC Rewind · 19/09/2025 · 1 sec

Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 18d

Stories of dodgy tycoon Christopher Skase peppered my adolescence and early 20s. Fascinated to hear the full(er) story on ABC RN Rewind - podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a...

01 | The Confidence Man

Choc-tops and Cassata - Bonus Episode - The Castle: the most quintessential Australian movie with an Italian vibe?

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 20d

Bonus ep of Choc-tops and Cassata out now - on the Australian classic film ‘The Castle’ being actually quite Italian !

podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

Podcast Episode · The Secret Life of Language · 16/09/2025 · Bonus · 57m

284. Suez Crisis: The British Imperialist vs The Arab Nationalist (Part 1)

Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · 23d

Just pressed submit on an @audioflux.bsky.social entry - of course the idea came at the last minute but I decided to go with it anyway because it felt real! Having these prompts to make new work is really helpful, gotta say!

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · Sep 6

I really hate AI

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · Sep 6

Recommendation: ‘Empire’ podcast eps on the Suez Crisis - a fantastic guest in historian @alexvont.bsky.social Covers so much fascinating territory in a very engaging way. From Egypt to Palestine to… Hungary, not to mention France, Britain, Israel and the US.

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Podcast Episode · Empire · 25/08/2025 · 39m

Episode 21: Choc-tops and Cassata - Part 4: From vision to legacy: Antonio Zeccola and Italian cinema in Australia

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ep 4 of Choc-tops and Cassata out now, taking a trip from a small theatre in Naples to Melbourne cinemas screening Italian movies in the 60s - 70s to Italian and French film festivals and the popularisation of prosecco in Australia. Local cinema history from the horse’s mouth!

arts.unimelb.edu.au

Every Happiness, by Sally Ford and the Idiomatics

Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · Aug 28

Omg

Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · Aug 28

Out today! Had a blast adding cello to this album… recorded at Rolling Stock Studio by Myles Mumford - have a listen

sallyfordandtheidiomatics.bandcamp.com/album/every-...

9 track album

sallyfordandtheidiomatics.bandcamp.com

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · Aug 20

Here’s another - I haven’t read it yet mind you - and not sure Palmer was interviewed - but: uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/ink...

Ink in Her Veins: the troubled life of Aileen Palmer

Sylvia Martin Aileen Palmer – poet, translator, political activist, adventurer – was the daughter of two writers prominent in Australian literature in the first half of the twentieth century. Vance ...

uwap.uwa.edu.au

Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · Aug 16

Judy Brett’s recent biography of Beatrice Faust?

Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · Aug 14

Just saw this, am having a think …

Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · Aug 5

What a ripoff

Episode 19: Choc-tops and Cassata - Part 2: Saturday Nights at the Metropolitan: Melbourne’s Italian Cinema Experience

Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · Jul 31

Time travel back to 1970s Melbourne and an Italian film night at the grand Metropolitan cinema with ep 2 of our Choc-tops and Cassata podcast

tinyurl.com/2nvdkf2j

tinyurl.com

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · Jul 30

“That which no canvas could withstand” - a gorgeous piece on the Beaufort Scale on BBC podcast Illuminated, one of my favourite shows. Beautiful writing, lessons in editing and sound design. Engages all the senses.

podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/i...

Sea Like a Mirror

Podcast Episode · Illuminated · 29/06/2025 · 29m

Episode 18: Choc-tops and Cassata - Part 1: How multicultural movies saved the Melbourne cinema scene

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Reposted by Alice Garner

Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · Jul 14

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · Jul 15

OMG thank you to whoever actually read the TOS and for telling us

Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · Jul 15

Finalmente! Ep 1 of Choc-tops & Cassata just dropped today - on how Italians in 1950s-70s Melbourne grabbed the chance to screen films in their own language & saved some buildings along the way tinyurl.com/ny2vxf3v

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · Jul 3

For Italian speakers: an interview on SBS radio about the podcast on Italian language cinema in Melbourne town that we’re launching later this month … www.sbs.com.au/language/ita...

I cinema italiani a Melbourne, una storia d'amore e nostalgia nella comunità italiana degli anni '50

Il podcast "Choc-tops and Cassata" ricostruisce il periodo d'oro dei cinema italiani a Melbourne, dagli anni '50 fino alla loro scomparsa a metà degli anni '80.

www.sbs.com.au

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Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · Jun 29

Just make sure you fill up on petrol before you head up there. I learnt this from bitter experience.

Choc-tops and Cassata - Teaser

Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · Jun 27

This is awful.

Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · Jun 27

Wandering down the aisles of Melbourne’s lost Italian language cinemas, cassata balanced precariously on a paper plate… I’ve enjoyed being part of the research & production team for this new podcast. Teaser here: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

Podcast Episode · The Secret Life of Language · S1 Trailer · 1m

Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social · Jun 27

Is there a link to the audio?