Barry Lee
Thompson

Vision Australia Radio

  • Coming to Cover To Cover

    Coming to Cover To Cover

    I’ll be contributing new material to the Elwood Writers Cover To Cover program for 2026. All I have so far is a theme and a blank page. The moment feels loaded with possibility, pulsing with potential, quivering with quiet excitement. Thrilling! – as long as the page doesn’t remain blank for too long. Because that…

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  • The story behind ‘Fragrant’

    During one of my fellowship meetings with Carol Major at Varuna in 2016, it was suggested that I could write a brand new story, an upbeat tale to balance the overall tone of the sixteen existing stories in my collection Broken Rules. I rose to the challenge, and decided to write a personification of joy.…

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  • Change & Place | Radio Stories

    I’m thrilled to have work included in the latest Elwood Writers special edition of Cover to Cover for Vision Australia Radio — including ‘Fragrant’, one of the seventeen stories in Broken Rules & Other Stories (published by Transit Lounge). The program is all about change and place, and features a selection of Helen’s poetry, and…

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  • Stories on the wireless 📻🎙️

    The podcast of Cover to Cover episode 548 – broadcast on Vision Australia Radio on Friday 25 October, repeated Sunday 27 October – is available (see above). The program is an Elwood Writers special, featuring work created and performed by members of the group, including myself. My contribution is ‘Haunting in Bandung’ (18 minutes into…

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  • Stories on your radio

    I’ve been working on a story for an upcoming Elwood Writers special for Cover to Cover on Vision Australia Radio. The deadline to get the material to producer Tim McQueen is early October, so the program might well go to air later this year, a spring/summer broadcast, but we don’t have any more detail as…

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