Caribbean Echoes has been in the works since 2020. Ben commissioned me to write a podcast script based on the research I did for my novel, Master of My Fate - the result was Caribbean Convicts and an ABC Radio National, History Listen airdate. Fast forward to 2024 and under the auspices of an ARC grant we developed and produced Caribbean Echoes for Impact Studios', History Lab Series. 

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My contribution has been all encompassing: to research, write, interview, audition & direct actors, narrate, record & edit, while choosing the music. I'm particularly proud of the fictional recreation monologues in Ep 1 & 3 where the actors inhabit the thoughts and feelings of Peter Jackson and Nellie Small.

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VOICES

*Grantlee Kieza OAM, an award-winning journalist who specialises in historical Australian stories. *Jordana Moore Saggese, Professor of Modern & Contemporary American Art at the University of Maryland. *Myron Jackson is a historian and retired Senator who has dedicated his life to Virgin Islands history and culture. *Professor John Maynard is recognized as one of Australia’s foremost Indigenous historians, whose work reveals previously missing chapters in Aboriginal history. *Professor Tony Birch is a writer, activist, historian and essayist, and is currently the Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne. *Alana Valentine is a librettist, playwright, and director who is an expert at working with real life subjects and stories, dramatizing them with respect. *Professor Cassandra Pybus FAHA specializes historical narratives about people who have been marginalized, forgotten or written out of history. *Vanessa Cassin is Education Manager at Society of Australian Genealogists with extensive experience in providing training and assessment in the trustee industry. *Garry Chapman taught in both primary and secondary sectors and worked in both government and independent schools over a career of 42 years. *Jamaican Historian Dr Suzanne Francis-Brown has worked as a journalist, lecturer in media and communications and museum curator. *Elizabeth Wiedemann is a local historian in Inverell, NSW. *Marg Young is a relative through marriage of Dick Holt, Richard Holt’s Son who is featured in the program.​

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CREATIVES

Alpha Kargbo is a British-Sierra Leonean actor trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. 

Graeme Rhodes’ career spans over 30 years and includes numerous theatre, film, television and radio credits.

Zahra Newman was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica, and moved to Australia at age 14. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Newman has an extensive list of credits in theatre, television, and film. 

Felix Cross MBE is a composer, director and producer whose work has been performed nationally and internationally. 

Michael St George is one of the most unique performance artists to have emerged from Jamaica.

For full credit description: https://impactstudios.edu.au/podcasts/history-lab/s7