Immigrants and Exiles
We are the sons of migrants. In the podcast, we talk about our experiences growing up in Australia in the second half of the Twentieth century. My name is Walter and my friend is Moreno. We met at university. After a long time not seeing each other, we started meeting again regularly for lunch every two weeks at The Beachcomber in St.Kilda. Occasionally we meet for breakfast when the cafe is quieter and we record our conversations. Write to us at waltermusolino@gmail.com if you would like to talk to us about your emigrant experiences. Technical production for these podcasts is by Laura Wild.
Episodes
Welcome to the Immigrants and Exiles podcast recorded at The Beachcomber Café in St. Kilda. We’re calling this one: ‘Walter Goes To Italy’. This time Walter talks about his visits to Italy and the people he met over there. He first went back at the age of nine in 1963 although he refuses to confirm that. Walter, start talking…
Music: “A Girl, A Picture, A Wall” by Walter Musolino & Davide Musolino.
“Allora, Walter, tell me then… you want to tell me a bit more about your grandparents…”
Music: “Runaway” by Walter Musolino & Davide Musolino.
Welcome to the Immigrants and Exiles podcast recorded at The Beachcomber Café in St. Kilda. This is a conversation between me and my friend Walter. In this episode we talk about my next book to be published in July 2025, this year, called The Immigrants. Black Ink published my first book, The Fireflies of Autumn, in 2018. Now seven years later, here we are, finished the copy editing and all the other work that goes with publication...
Welcome to the second part of an episode of the podcast series Immigrants and Exiles, which started as a conversation between myself, Walter, and my friend, Moreno, regarding his second novel: The Immigrants.
We talked about so many topics: love, loving, having loved, having no luck, staying here, leaving here – that is, Australia – going back to Italy. And we finished by talking about how he wanted to stir people up. And I said so...
Hello, and welcome to Immigrants and Exiles; a series of chats recorded at the Beachcomber Café in St. Kilda between me, Walter, and my friend Moreno, the sons of Italo-Australian migrants. Today we chat with Niki Baras, a long-standing friend of Moreno’s. Over the years, they’ve been colleagues – translators and interpreters – and share an affinity as intellectuals. Niki has also worked as an academic, a union organizer and a work...
You’re listening to Immigrants and Exiles; a series of chats recorded at the Beachcomber Café in St. Kilda between me, Walter, and my friend Moreno. In part two of the episode dedicated to ‘Ukraine’ Maria – sorry, Maria, we know you’re really Russian – we reflect some more on twenty-first century Italy as a modern destination for new migrants, but also on why Italian cemeteries can be so welcoming and why Australia shouldn’t simply...
In this episode, we talk about what drives people to emigrate, other than war and natural disasters, Wuthering Heights gets a mention and we ask you what your parents and grandparents told you about why they came here.
In this two-part episode, Walter meets Franco Cozzo at the dentist, Moreno asks whether Franco Cozzo ate spaghetti, Walter has an argument with Bob Maguire, and Moreno prefers Ted Whitten to Franco Cozzo.
In this episode, we discuss Australia’s shallow political culture and the complicity of migrants in promulgating terra nullius.
This time we discuss an issue that our parents struggled with all their lives, namely: Italy or Australia? Did they do the right thing in coming to Australia?
This time we talk about bullying, neighbourliness and illegal immigrants.
In this episode Walter and I talk some more about our parents, rats as big as cats, whether Walter was conceived on a ship, his fascination with broad beans and how both of us received a $1500 gift.
This time we talk about Australian girls in the 1960s, our experiences in Little Italy, in Carlton in the 1970s and, finally how a visit to Italy can hurt.
In this episode Walter and I talk about why you should open a chain of travel agencies, something magnificent that Mussolini did, picking grapes in Mildura and a dramatic overnight trip from the city to a tobacco farm in country Victoria.
In this episode, Walter and I talk about our families before they came to Australia and the early years in what Walter calls the penal colony and I, in the book I have written which will be published in 2025, refer to as the English colony.
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