Carmel Rooney

Australia

Executive Producer at ABC Brisbane

EP, ABC Conversations Producer of Pods, Radio, Film, TV & Apps. 💕 pictures, stories, songs and shtick.

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Mammal mania and marsupial mayhem — the weird, wild world of zoology - ABC listen

3 days ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Meggie Morris |Richard Fidler

Kris Helgen has helped name and discover around 100 species of mammal, travelling to many fascinating places to find them. He's traversed volcanic caters in Papua New Guinea, savanna grasslands of Kenya, and ventured deep into the forests of the Andes. Kris also spends much of his time in the dark depths of natural history museums, stumbling upon the forgotten pelts and unnamed specimens languishing in filing cabinets.
Riding for a fall — when success, a big house and a loving family aren't enough - ABC listen

6 days ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Richard Fidler

Andrew O’Hagan is the author of several highly acclaimed novels. His most recent book is a sweeping portrait of modern-day London, a city ‘levitating on a sea of dirty Russian money’. The main character, Campbell Flynn, is much like Andrew himself: a public intellectual who escaped from the Scottish council estate he grew up in and came to London to enjoy great success. But success, a big house, a loving family and expensive habits are not enough.
The strange history of the travelling Taranaki panels

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Alice Moldovan |Richard Fidler

In 1971, five intricately carved Maori panels were unearthed in a swamp on the North Island of New Zealand. The panels are known as Te Motonui Epa, and they were buried for two centuries for their protection and preservation. Rachel Buchanan is a descendent of Taranaki, the place where the panels originated. She explains that once they woke up, they went on an adventure to New York, Geneva and London, before they were returned to their home.
Hormones and mental health with Dr Jayashri Kulkarni

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Tamar Cranswick |Sarah Kanowski

Jayashri Kulkarni’s family moved from India to Australia in 1961. They found there were no Indian grocery stores, few spices of any kind, and plain yoghurt wasn’t available. But the Kulkarnis adapted to their new home, teaching their neighbours how to cook Indian food, and encouraging Jayashri's love for studying. Jayashri became a doctor, and during her training as a psychiatrist she became fascinated by the relationship between women's hormones and mental health.
Martha Wainwright on music, mothering and finding her voice

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Sarah Kanowski

Martha Wainwright is descended from extraordinary songwriters on both sides of her family. Her mother was folk musician Kate McGarrigle and her father is Loudon Wainwright III. Despite a lifetime of witnessing painful family truths delivered through song, she made it her life’s work too. A few years ago her beloved mum was diagnosed with cancer while Martha was pregnant with her first child. As Kate succumbed to her illness, she passed the baton of life onto Martha's premature baby boy.
A home filled with music — raising the Kanneh-Masons - ABC listen

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Richard Fidler

Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason is a former English academic and the mother of seven extraordinary children. All of them are gifted classical musicians. Her eldest daughter, Isata wrote and performed her first piano concerto at the age of eleven. Her son Sheku mastered the cello and performed at the royal wedding of Harry and Megan Markle. Every day the seven Kanneh-Masons, who range from early teens to the mid-twenties, fill the family home with glorious, sometimes chaotic, music.
Encore: How Sean Sweeney found his deaf heart

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Nicola Harrison |Richard Fidler

Sean Sweeney grew up as a child of deaf adults and was the first hearing baby to be born to his mother's family in four generations. Sean first signed the word for 'bottle' to his mum at 10 months. He grew up in a tight-knit deaf community with a lot of pride in their uniquely Australian version of sign language, named Auslan in the 1980s. In his twenties, Sean rebelled against the deaf world, and began to look for a new life in the hearing one. But after eighteen years, he returned.
Treating anorexia by nourishing the heart

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Alice Moldovan |Sarah Kanowski

Warren Ward's patients are often critically ill with diseases like anorexia. Warren says asking someone with anorexia to eat is like asking an arachnophobe to put their hand in a jar full of spiders. As a psychiatrist, Warren uses psychotherapy to help his patients. He encourages those with an eating disorder to approach their mental illness as one part of their whole self.
Heroin addiction, Ivan Milat's dentist, and beginning again

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Nicola Harrison |Sarah Kanowski

Claude Robinson is the manager of Rainbow Lodge, a home in inner Sydney for men just out of prison. Claude knows the place well because nearly 20 years ago he was sent there himself. At the time, Claude was a heroin addict who did crime to pay for his habit and wound up in a minimum security jail. Then after he assaulted a prison guard, he ended up in one of Australia's toughest prisons - Goulburn Correctional Centre.
From Mt Druitt to Tonga, how Winnie embraced her cultural heritage - ABC listen

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Carmel Rooney |Alice Moldovan |Sarah Kanowski

Winnie Dunn was born into a big Tongan family in Western Sydney but she felt conflicted about her heritage growing up. While at high school the Chris Lilley character, 'Jonah from Tonga’, became a national joke and her first trip to Tonga as a teenager was a disaster. But over time Winnie’s understanding of what it means to be Tongan evolved, and at the age of 28, she became the first Tongan Australian to have a novel published.