Episodes

  • Letters From Quotidia Episode 12 Surprised By Joy

    Letters From Quotidia Episode 12 Surprised By Joy
    Jan 23 2025
    The song, Surprised by Joy, was performed only once in public, at the newly opened Penrith Gaels club in Sydney in 1997. Unfortunately, I had neglected to tell my wife about this song, which had just been written. Indeed, the decision to sing it was spur-of-the-moment. As she listened to the lyrics, she realised the context and left the venue in tears.More
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    14 mins
  • Letters From Quotidia Episode 11 The Mark of Cain

    Letters From Quotidia Episode 11 The Mark of Cain
    Jan 22 2025
    Crime takes centre stage as we wander from the first crime recorded in Genesis through murders in ancient Greece and Rome and the Ottoman Empire to a Shakespearean examination of the topic as well as how it is treated in 20th Century popular culture.More
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    12 mins
  • Letters From Quotidia Episode 10 Easter Rises

    Letters From Quotidia Episode 10 Easter Rises
    Jan 21 2025
    caught in the coils of commercial-ism, having been harried by the pester power of the kids over the years, having the state of my kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, laundry, study- let’s face it, every nook and cranny of my dwelling, not to mention the garden shed and garage- sneered at by reno-vation shows and lambasted by lifestyle mavens, I have long since capitulated to capitalism’s handmaiden- commercialism.More Easter Rises
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    11 mins
  • Letters From Quotidia Episode 9 The Self-Unseeing

    Letters From Quotidia Episode 9 The Self-Unseeing
    Jan 20 2025
    On the Western Front, all went quiet when the strains of this carol drifted across no man’s land and the fighting men on both sides declared a truce and for one day, a minor miracle. More
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    13 mins
  • Letters From Quotidia Postcards edition 2

    Letters From Quotidia Postcards edition 2
    Jan 17 2025
    Stephen Foster liked a drink, as many of us do...thirty years after his death one reporter described him as paying "the penalty of an irregular life...but Foster lives on in his songs that we love to sing.More
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    24 mins
  • Letters From Quotidia Episode 8 Sylvia

    Letters From Quotidia Episode 8 Sylvia
    Jan 16 2025
    Seeking out a copy of Ariel, which was published posthumously in 1965, I started reading, and re-reading, those dark and brilliant poems... of Sylvia Plath.More
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    12 mins
  • Letters From Quotidia Episode 7 Old Dog

    Letters From Quotidia Episode 7 Old Dog
    Jan 15 2025
    I wonder: would you agree with Winston Churchill "I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."More
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    12 mins
  • Letters From Quotidia Episode 6 A Touch of Ireland

    Letters From Quotidia Episode 6 A Touch of Ireland
    Jan 14 2025
    Alas! We know the names of the invading overlords...lots of details and names here...but I can't find any of the names of the Aboriginal dispossessed.More
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    12 mins