Light It Up | The Podcast
Amanda FungI'm your host Amanda and this is Light It Up, a podcast all about Australian Lighthouses. In this series we cover everything you want to know about Australian Lighthouses (and even things you didn't know you wanted to know) including what it was like to live at a lighthouse, shipwrecks, harrowing tales, women and first nations stories, the lens, how lighthouses have inspired artists and much, much... more
| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 34 | Founded | 4 years ago |
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This episode is about stories of hope for the future of lighthouses and a call to action - if you want to keep the lighthouse story and buildings alive, we need to act in creative ways to preserve, protect and promote lighthouses around Australia.
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In this episode we hear stories about the fallout from the Inquiry and the impact on the keepers and light stations.
Co-hosted with Max Halden
You're probably wondering why you can't find a job advertisement on seek.com.au for lighthouse keepers. The beginning of the end is a story about money, technology evolution, commercial shipping and warring government departments. The unmanning of li... more
We just cannot get enough of Scottish Lighthouses! Ted Peers chats to us about his time on the Scottish Lights including at rugged beauty Muckle Flugga Lighthouse (you might want to practise pronouncing this one a few times!).
Bonus edit: Ron Fehl... more
It's about time we took a holiday… We are going global this week to explore some international lighthouses. We finally get to meet our land-locked Czech lighthouse extraordinaire, Denise Schultz, former President of Lighthouses of Australia, Inc, who... more
Helen Hyatt-Johnston and Brad Buckley were artists in residence at Bruny Island Light and share with us why a lighthouse is a perfect muse.
Co-hosted with Caroline Ma.
We chat to Professor Peter Hill about the 6-month adventure that led him to write Stargazing: memoirs of a young lighthouse keeper documenting his time light-keeping at Scottish Lighthouses including at Pladda Island.
Peter is an artist, writer, a... more
Mike Pitcher shares with us two of his favourite poems that he wrote while an AB seaman in this episode. We also read out a poem by Margie called "The Ghost of Bustard Head".
Bonus edit: Picasso with Caroline Ma
Co-hosted with Caroline Ma.
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