Storytelling With Mama Duck

Storytelling With Mama Duck

Literature in the English language read aloud by Mama Duck, Aussie writer and performer.

Episodes

May 30, 2022 • 29 mins
Chapter 8 of the Dickens novel read by an Aussie in Ireland.
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Sunday evening and the serial adventures of Pip in 19th century England, as read by an Aussie.
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May 21, 2022 • 41 mins
Dickens on a Saturday. Kindness.
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May 20, 2022 • 34 mins
Ready for some good Dickens?
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May 19, 2022 • 16 mins
Third instalment of Dickens, read aloud by an Aussie in Ireland.
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May 17, 2022 • 30 mins
Reading aloud for the craic.
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May 15, 2022 • 15 mins
Revisiting my favourite Dickens, little bit at a time.
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Benjamin Franklin's advice to a cis straight youthful man upon where best to sow his wild oats.

Read by an Aussie woman of a certain age who is quite fond of oats, herself.

Please Sir, can I have some more?
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A poem about love, by Irish poet James Joyce, recorded on the eve on Bloomsday, 2021.
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I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.....

Hope my funeral will be a very, very long time from now, well attended and someone among the merrymakers celebrating my long and interesting life remembers to read this poem aloud cos it's one of my favourites.
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Music on in the kitchen, birds calling in the garden and an Aussie reading poetry aloud at wine o'clock.
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The possible origins of the hipster beard in 19th century Australia
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Humorous Bush ballad, about Irish people adapting their culture to their circumstances in 19th century outback Australia.

My mother bought me an illustrated version (illustrations by Aussie artists who were daughters of the NZ/Aussie writer Ruth Park and Irish Australian writer D'Arcy Niland, come to think of it) when I was five years old, and read it to me animatedly.

I was entranced by the sound of rhyming language in a familiar en...
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May 6, 2021 • 1 min
One of my favourite poems, musing on womanhood and the stages of maiden, mother and crone with cycles of vanity and ageing.

When I first read this poem as a 23yo English Studies undergrad, I melodramatically identified with it, from the perspective of a struggling young mother and writer in a brutal marriage.

Far too closely..... I've had my head in the gas oven in a metaphorical sense far too often as I struggled with self esteem an...
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May 5, 2021 • 2 mins
The famous poem written in England, 1906, by a woman homesick for her country of birth, Australia.

Read by a woman in 2021, conscious of the original sin of Terra Nullis, grateful for the opportunities enjoyed by her children in a sunburnt country, missing the smell of gum leaves and gravel as rain falls on the slate roof of her cottage in Ireland.
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I read a poem by that Algonquin Queen of the sardonic and Bohemian, Dorothy Parker.

Lockdown socialising has me musing, indeed.
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February 24, 2020 • 5 mins
The thru line of my Irish great grandmothers down to my emancipated Aussie daughters, in context of English colonialism and genocide.
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October 3, 2019 • 16 mins
Episode one: a humorous tale written & narrated by Mama Duck. A fish out of water seeks divine inspiration on her existence in an unfamiliar territory.
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