https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/storytelling-with-mama-duck--4090784enBooksCopyright Mama Duckhttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/09464da8c5180288c56301efc7547ded.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/storytelling-with-mama-duck--4090784Fri, 18 Oct 2024 20:09:26 +0000Mama DuckMama Duckfeeds@spreaker.comLiterature in the English language read aloud by Mama Duck, Aussie writer and performer.cleanepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/great-expectations-chapter-8--50001846https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50001846Mon, 30 May 2022 19:16:52 +0000Mama DuckChapter 8 of the Dickens novel read by an Aussie in Ireland.1777cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/great-expectations-chapter-six--49897171https://api.spreaker.com/episode/49897171Sun, 22 May 2022 21:42:34 +0000Mama DuckSunday evening and the serial adventures of Pip in 19th century England, as read by an Aussie.1071cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/great-expectations-chapter-five--49888801https://api.spreaker.com/episode/49888801Sat, 21 May 2022 19:06:34 +0000Mama DuckDickens on a Saturday. Kindness.2506cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/great-expectation-chapter-four--49878592https://api.spreaker.com/episode/49878592Fri, 20 May 2022 16:14:34 +0000Mama DuckReady for some good Dickens?2047cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/great-expectations-chapter-three--49860594https://api.spreaker.com/episode/49860594Thu, 19 May 2022 12:58:24 +0000Mama DuckThird instalment of Dickens, read aloud by an Aussie in Ireland.989cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/great-expectations-chapter-two--49835210https://api.spreaker.com/episode/49835210Tue, 17 May 2022 20:08:04 +0000Mama DuckReading aloud for the craic.1858cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/great-expectations-chapter-one--49804604https://api.spreaker.com/episode/49804604Sun, 15 May 2022 19:27:01 +0000Mama DuckRevisiting my favourite Dickens, little bit at a time.926cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/advice-to-a-young-man-on-choosing-a-mistress-a-letter-from-benjamin-franklin-1745-read-by-an-amused-aussie--45326809
Read by an Aussie woman of a certain age who is quite fond of oats, herself.

Please Sir, can I have some more?]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45326809Wed, 16 Jun 2021 15:43:01 +0000Mama DuckBenjamin 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?
Read by an Aussie woman of a certain age who is quite fond of oats, herself.

Please Sir, can I have some more?]]>335aussie,benjaminfranklin,humour,sex.advicecleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/on-the-beach-at-fontana-by-james-joyce-read-by-an-aussie-in-ireland--45316140https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45316140Tue, 15 Jun 2021 22:10:51 +0000Mama DuckA poem about love, by Irish poet James Joyce, recorded on the eve on Bloomsday, 2021.63aussie,irish,love-poem,poetrycleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-love-song-of-alfred-j-prufrock-by-t-s-eliot-read-by-an-aussie-woman-of-a-certain-age--45234858
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.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45234858Wed, 09 Jun 2021 18:43:34 +0000Mama DuckI 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...
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.]]>539asmr-poem,aussie,poem-of-the-day,poetrycleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/this-is-just-to-say-by-william-carlos-williams-read-by-an-aussie-in-her-conservatory--45099828https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45099828Sun, 30 May 2021 18:05:12 +0000Mama DuckMusic on in the kitchen, birds calling in the garden and an Aussie reading poetry aloud at wine o'clock.27asmr-sounds,aussie,poetrycleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-man-from-ironbark-by-a-b-banjo-paterson--45038090https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45038090Tue, 25 May 2021 23:45:25 +0000Mama DuckThe possible origins of the hipster beard in 19th century Australia289aussie,australia,poetrycleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-bush-christening-by-a-b-banjo-patterson-read-aloud-by-a-nostalgic-aussie--44953622
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 environment about landscape and identity.

My clever Mummy taught me to read, early.

I became a writer, journalist, comedian and broadcaster.

From little things, big things grow.

Read to our kids, in person and aloud, happily. 😊]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/44953622Fri, 21 May 2021 17:27:16 +0000Mama DuckHumorous 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...
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 environment about landscape and identity.

My clever Mummy taught me to read, early.

I became a writer, journalist, comedian and broadcaster.

From little things, big things grow.

Read to our kids, in person and aloud, happily. 😊]]>214asmr-poem,aussie,poetryreadingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mirror-by-sylvia-plath-read-aloud--44665920
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 and finding my way in the world.

Now I'm 50.

I've survived this long.

I'm reconciled and at peace with anything my mirror shows me.

Thanks for listening.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/44665920Thu, 06 May 2021 18:07:45 +0000Mama DuckOne 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...
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 and finding my way in the world.

Now I'm 50.

I've survived this long.

I'm reconciled and at peace with anything my mirror shows me.

Thanks for listening.]]>113cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-country-by-dorethea-mckellar--44645661
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.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/44645661Wed, 05 May 2021 16:22:58 +0000Mama DuckThe 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,...
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.]]>137asmr,aussie,poetrycleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dorothy-parker-the-burned-child-read-by-an-incurable-optimist--44276874
Lockdown socialising has me musing, indeed.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/44276874Fri, 09 Apr 2021 19:58:59 +0000Mama DuckI read a poem by that Algonquin Queen of the sardonic and Bohemian, Dorothy Parker. Lockdown socialising has me musing, indeed.
Lockdown socialising has me musing, indeed.]]>46comedy,dorothyparker,love,poetrycleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/freedom-australia-and-horses--23138505https://api.spreaker.com/episode/23138505Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:28:50 +0000Mama DuckThe thru line of my Irish great grandmothers down to my emancipated Aussie daughters, in context of English colonialism and genocide.321australia,colonialism,daughter,donegal,éire,english,equality,feminism,horses,indigenousrights,ireland,irish,monarchy,secularismcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/short-story-sheila-in-the-holy-village--19337505https://api.spreaker.com/episode/19337505Thu, 03 Oct 2019 11:28:32 +0000Mama DuckEpisode one: a humorous tale written & narrated by Mama Duck. A fish out of water seeks divine inspiration on her existence in an unfamiliar territory.998aussie,comedy+podcast,ireland,irish,mayo,religion/spiritual,short-story,writingcleanfull