Michelle Ransom-Hughes / creator
I teach podcasting at the University of Sydney and make my own stuff (new audio series Nobody Dies Here, photography) on days off. I’m interested in most things and never run out of questions.
I’ve contributed to Days Like These and Field Recordings.
I produced Conversations (with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski), the ABC’s flagship podcast, between 2007-2021. This longform interview show was Apple Podcasts Australia’s ‘most downloaded’ from 2015, reaching millions of people each month.
My qualifications are in Journalism, Publishing & Editing, and Theatre (playwriting).
Tweet me @ransomhughes
Collaborators
Dylan Ransom-Hughes / Mix Season 3
Seja Vogel / Music and Sound Design Seasons 1 and 2
Rebecca Armstrong / Script Consultant Season 2 (eps 1/2)
Lea Redfern / Script Consultant Season 1
Johnny / muse
I didn’t grow up with dogs. We had other pets (cats, fish, a lamb) and I was a girl obsessed with horses. The dogs I knew best were characters in books and on TV: sidekicks, heroes, flying aces and runaways.
Then, when my son was in need of a puppy, we found and fell in love with Johnny, a melancholy and singular beagle with a ‘thing’ for yellow labradors. He of the spotted belly, heavenly face and truly earthy habits.
Living with Johnny changed us forever. And becoming a ‘dog person’ opened a new way of understanding others and myself.
Like this project I was born in a Year of the Dog. Increasingly I notice all the ways in which I am, or still aspire to be, like dogs.
“All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog.”