This is a PhD reflecting on narrative theories influencing my long-form radio journalism on recent instabilities and disunity in Europe. It also examines how and why long-form journalism equates with the telling of contemporary history.
Why is Berlin sometimes colloquially referred to as an outer suburb of Melbourne? And is there a link between Germany’s amazing success selling of pianos at the Melbourne Exhibitions of 1880/1888, and the present-day openness of Germany to Australian musicians and cultural conversation?
A chance encounter with a large volume of maps, behind the scenes of the State Library of Victoria, led to a discovery, twenty years later, of a vast, long forgotten collection of books scattered around the library. All were part of a gift, from France to Australia in 1880.
