ABC calls for contributors to pitch them podcast ideas as it launches first dedicated kids podcast
Bracken: “Podcasting is no longer a cottage industry”
The boss of the ABC’s radio division Linda Bracken is inviting independent contributors to pitch new podcast ideas for the division’s new dedicated internal podcasting unit.
The public broadcaster is keen to build on its current podcast subscriber base, last year creating a dedicated unit for podcasting which today launched its first dedicated kids podcast (not intended for broadcast), Short & Curly, an ethics-driven program aimed at parents and kids.
Linda Bracken, head of content and digital radio at ABC Radio told Mumbrella: “Last year we had 135m podcasts downloaded or streamed. We are starting to talk big numbers; this isn’t a cottage industry anymore – this is a professional industry.
THE RODECASTS: Version 2 (Hit “Submit” by accident).
I am a master graduate of Australian History, and my name in use is “Bluey” Quilty. My business registration is Australian Heritage Quanta t/a AHQ Research & Copyright. I think to share my novelisation of the little-known but turbulent experience of the Scripture Union in the Mallee in the early 20th Century.
FAITH meets CONTEMPT in the WHEATFIELDS of the MALLEE – 1923 – 1933
I am just now developing my skills as a one-handed studio. I have just acquired my Rode NT-USB and – in the process of developing vocal profile for TV presenting, I have been working up my biographical novel of the life of Lois Faith Dalton, a farm girl from the Mallee whose parents become converted to the Scripture Union. When they give up all worldly entertainments, the town loses 4 football players, 3 highland dancers, a pianist/singer and a bagpiper/fiddler player/& singer.
There was to be blood. The contempt in the air for the members of the Scripture Union could be carved with a knife. People who now walked around with a faraway gaze and a heart full of love cannot get a loaf of bread without innuendo. The men in the Dalton clan (comprising four brothers and their sons) are put upon by ruffians outside the pubs. Their desire to bring peace amongst God’s flock is tested severely.
In the midst of this, Lois’s father, Will Dalton emerges as the shining leader. His prayer meetings at his own homestead are attended by growing numbers of supporters from all around the Mallee, from Geelong and Adelaide.
But Will’s love of the machine’s around him and his skill at mechanical repairs make him a popular visit for people with breakdowns. He neglects his farming and – just as the Depression comes like a tidal wave of misery around the world, Will Dalton packs his wife and family up and they follow the shearing trails in the southern Riverina, never to return.
THOU SWEET and WOND’ROUS WILL of MY GOD is a compelling and revealing story of a powerful neo-Christian ideal amidst the egalitarian conventions of rural Australia in the twenties and thirties.
It is also the story of my mother’s early life.
RSVP:
BLUEY QUILTY MA
Lawson BLUE MOUNTAINS, NSW, 2782
Tel: (02)4702 6805 M. (0448)645 795