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MY PLACE ZOOM WEBINAR 2023: Storytelling with Nadia Wheatley

Thanks to 22,400 young readers and their teachers who attended my My Place Zoom Webinar on 25 August. And thanks to the the Australian Children’s Television Foundation and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image for organising this annual event.

MY PLACE ZOOM WEBINAR 2022: Writing About Place and Time with Nadia Wheatley, 2022

Since its publication 33 years ago, My Place has been an unwavering favourite in Australian classrooms and homes. In this webinar, teachers and students have the unique opportunity to hear author Nadia Wheatley discuss her classic picture book, the importance of writing about our own communities, and how she gets her ideas for stories from the place where she lives.

‘The inspiration for My Place,’ Interview for ABC television, 1988

 

This interview with Andrea Stretton was done when My Placewon Children’s Book of the Year for Younger Readers in 1988. Although the quality of the film has deteriorated, it is worth a look because Andrea and I are talking in one of the key places of the book — the St Peters brick pits. The clip opens with children reading some passages of the text. 

 

Trailer for Five Times Dizzy, 12 part television miniseries.

Adapted from my books Five Times Dizzyand Dancing in the Anzac Deli, I wrote the script for this mini-series in collaboration with Terry Larsen Produced by Samson Productions and the Special Broadcasting Service, this ground-breaking multicultural children’s series went to air on SBS in 1986. In this trailer you will see faces you will recognise from other TV shows…

The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen interview with Phillip Adams on Late Night Live, 27 Apr 2015

Interview with Martin Johnston, 1985

Poet Martin Johnston always avoided questions about his parents, the writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston. But in 1985 he agreed to do this interview with me for an ABC program I was doing about Clift and Johnston. Although it was very difficult for him, he spoke very openly. After it was over, he said, ‘Well, Nard, that’s your lot.’

‘From Greece to Papunya’: Interview on the Guestroom, ABC Radio Darwin, March 2012, with Kate O’Toole, producer Miranda Tetlow

 

In this interview with Kate O’Toole of ABC Darwin’s Guestroom, I talked about the time I spent as a consultant in the community of Papunya (NT), and I played some of my favourite music by great NT Aboriginal musicians, including the Warumpi Band, Frank Yamma, and Dr Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu. 

‘Growing Up: Children in History’s Page’: Hindsight, ABC Radio, February 2014, producer Catherine Freyne

 

In this re-telling of a number of the ‘growing up’ stories in my book Australians All, some of the material is brought to life by young actors but a number of stories are told by the people themselves —notably, young Dharawal man Raymond Ingrey, Aboriginal Elder Isobel Flick, and Hazara refugee Najeeba Wazefadost.