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Natasha Mitchell (she/her)

@natashamitchell.bsky.social
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Australian journo. NOW: host of ABC Radio National's BIG IDEAS, THEN: Founding presenter/creator of All in the Mind & Science Friction podcasts, host of Life Matters, MIT Knight fellow, World Federation of Science Journalists board. Owned by a wolfhound-x.

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Natasha Mitchell (she/her) @natashamitchell.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Love and light, and stay off social media if the imagery, footage, grief, shock, and comments sections, are all too much right now (as they are). All we have is our shared humanity. Words matter. Choose them carefully and with sensitivity. Connect with loved ones. Reach across.
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Natasha Mitchell (she/her) @natashamitchell.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
TOP 100 BOOKS
of the 21st Century 
Vote Now
ABC Radio National

Colourful artoon image of piles of books and little people amongst them#Top100Books of the 21st Century 
Tune in 18 & 19 October
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Natasha Mitchell (she/her) @natashamitchell.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
ABC Radio National's #Top100Books of 21C vote is going OFF! Tens of 1000s of you have already voted! Most are voting for glorious novels. I'm a weirdo. My lucky occupational hazard is I interview a lot of non-fiction authors. Was profoundly affected by these. Vote now! top100books.abc.net.au
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Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity - Andrew Solomon

Stasiland - Anna Funder

The Lovely Bones - Alice Seabold

Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda - Roméo Antonius Dallaire

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal - Jeanette Winterson

Boy, Lost - Kristina Olsson

A Human Being Died that Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness (2003) - Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

The Gene: An intimate history - Siddhartha Mukherjee 

The Signature of All Things - Elizabeth Gilbert 

A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions - Thom Van Dooren
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Natasha Mitchell (she/her) @natashamitchell.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
We're addicted to it, especially Australians. But fast farshun, sweetie darling, is seriously f**ed up for the planet & humanity. Four guests, including acclaimed fashion designer #KitWillow, join me from the frontier of change. Hear now on the BIG IDEAS podcast www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
4 women and a man standing in front of a banner
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Natasha Mitchell (she/her) @natashamitchell.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Where do you look for the secret, untold, lost, hidden histories? Can we are to truly understand ourselves without them? Joining me at Melbourne Writers Festival Santilla Chingaipe Sita Sargeant Steve Vizard for THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY Hear now on BIG IDEAS www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Book cover: Black Convicts: How slavery shaped Australia - by Santilla ChingaipeBook cover: She Shapes History: Guided Walks and Untold Stories About Great Australian Women - by Sita SargeantBook cover: Nation Memory Myth: Gallipoli and the Australian Imaginary by Steve Vizard4 people, 3 women, one man, standing side by side on a stage looking at camera
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Natasha Mitchell (she/her) @natashamitchell.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Bit on, and then some! Hosting these Sorrento Writers Festival panels this weekend: sorrentowritersfestival.com.au/artfuel/prog...
pile of books
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Natasha Mitchell (she/her) @natashamitchell.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
QUEEN POLLY JEAN. @pjharveyofficial.bsky.social
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Natasha Mitchell (she/her) @natashamitchell.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
#JemBendell joins me at the #FestivalofDangerousIdeas. We’re past the brink of civilisational collapse & many environmentalists push a “fake green fairytale”, he argues His explosive Deep Adaptation paper played a key role in #ExtinctionRebellion. But now? >>> www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
jem bendell on stage raising handNatasha Mitchell on stage in blue shirtCrowd with hand up
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Natasha Mitchell (she/her) @natashamitchell.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
After the Dawn Service. Naarm. Survival Day. 2025. The Australian Wars, SBS On Demand www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-... The First Australians, SBS www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-... Big Ideas episode with Thomas Mayo, Margo Neale, David Marr ABC Radio National ABC listen www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Natasha Mitchell (she/her) @natashamitchell.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Why have women been stockpiling #abortion meds in America? The confronting reality of the frontline of reproductive healthcare with Dr Angel Foster www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... Find & follow the BIG IDEAS podcast to join me for 4 episodes weekly. Big thinkers at the best live events, everywhere
white pills on pink background with the words "Why Some Women Are Stockpiling Abortion Meds in the USA".
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Natasha Mitchell (she/her) @natashamitchell.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Guitar music lovers! Don't miss the Medieval to Metal exhibition at Ballarat Art Gallery before it closes in early Feb.... loved it.
Medieval to Metal exhibition signArmadillos shell as guitar bodyphoto of younger Joan Jettphoto of magic dirt (I think by Tony Mott)
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Natasha Mitchell (she/her) @natashamitchell.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
'The Forever War: America's Unending Conflict With Itself' by @nickbryantoz.bsky.social is a MUST read to help place the January 20 inauguration into its full historical context. Riveting, sobering, sweeping, important. Read it. Nick is on one of the 3 panels I'm hosting at #AdelaideWritersWeek.
Book cover with title The Forever War: America's Unending Conflict With Itself. By Nick Bryant.
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Natasha Mitchell (she/her) @natashamitchell.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
As 2024 draws to a close, may 2025 bring moments of peace & your version of a sandy beach nose & squishy ball. This scruffy girl has these hopes for you ... herself ... and the world.
Large scruffy white & grey wolfhound-x dog sitting on a beach.  Sand on her nose & face, orange ball between her paws, big toothy grin.
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