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EPISODE 33 - 18 HARROW AVENUE - Mud Between Your Toes - 04 March, 2020

EPISODE 33 – 18 HARROW AVENUE. This chapter revolves around the life at my gran and grandads home in Salisbury (Harare). Often it was akin to the Mad Hatters tea party, with a constant stream of eccentric, liberal and occasionally famous people fighting their way through packs of dogs and pigeons underfoot.

Photo: My aunt Susan Burnet (m. Susan Ray) had a successful career in British television, film and on stage. Critics likened her looks to Brigitte Bardot. Susie divided her time between the UK and 18 Harrow Avenue. © Mark Olden

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EPISODE 32 - CONVERSATIONS with MARK OLDEN. Mud Between Your Toes. 26 February, 2020

EPISODE 32 – CONVERSATIONS with Mark Olden. In this episode I chat with my cousin Mark from London. We discuss his early life in Rhodesia and what it was like having famous parents who were in the spotlight – and their often, very vocal opposition to Ian Smiths government. Ashrams, Arthur C. Clarke, Brian Jones, Diana Dors and more.

Photo: Mark Olden bringing the traffic to a halt with his mohawk and safety pins on First street, Harare, circa 1981. He was arguably the only punk in the country at the time. © Mark Olden

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EPISODE 31 - THE LUNCH DO (PART 2) - Mud Between Your Toes - 19 February, 2020

EPISODE 31 – THE LUNCH DO (PART 2). Farm invasions. The end of an era. The age of the farm lunch do was over.

Photo: My brother Duncan with a snake he shot. Snakes gravitated to the house during the Christmas holidays, attracted by the annual N'yau tom tom drumming. © Libby Wood.

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EPISODE 30 - THE LUNCH DO (PART 1) - Mud Between Your Toes - 12 February, 2020

EPISODE 30 – THE LUNCH DO (PART 1). Rhodesian farm gardens and the superb weather were the ideal space for large, often rowdy lunch dos with up to 40 guests or more. Of course, fleets of servants also helped. The downside meant long, tedious journeys stuck in the car with an irascible father.

Photo: My mums garden on M’sitwe was the ideal location for a lunch do. © Libby Wood.

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EPISODE 29 - THE V BLOCK AND BEYOND - Mud Between Your Toes - 04 February 2020

EPISODE 29 – THE V BLOCK AND BEYOND. The Victory block – named after the allies victory after WW2. This where my family lived for more than half a century. I meander through the good times and wander across the country to my cousins ranch, Divuli near the eastern border.

Photo: I loved the way my mums indigenous aloe garden down the hill merged with the bush seamlessly. © Peter Wood

EPISODE 28 - THE STAMP THIEF - Mud Between Your Toes - 29 January 2020

EPISODE 28 – THE STAMP THIEF. My neighbours often wondered why there were large, suspicious holes in their letters from overseas…

Photo: Just some of my stamps in my collection. © Peter Wood

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EPISODE 27 - THE BIRTHDAY (PART 2) - Mud Between Your Toes - 21 Jan 2020

EPISODE 27 – THE BIRTHDAY (PART 2) In this episode I read from my book. Seventy teenagers stuck on a farm during a civil war. What could possibly go wrong?

Photo: Illustrated Life Rhodesia, considered one of the more liberal publications (circa 1977). I don’t recall ever dressing like this.

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EPISODE 26 - THE BIRTHDAY (PART 1) - Mud Between Your Toes - 15 January 2020

EPISODE 26 – THE BIRTHDAY (PART 1) In this episode I read from my book. It was 1978 – my 16^th birthday, held on the farm during the height of the bush war. It was a weekend few will forget. To get out of the house, we went camping on the farm. It turned into a night full of surprises. Teenagers, terrorists and questionable tunes.

Photo: Illustrated Life Rhodesia, considered one of the more liberal publications (circa 1977). I don’t recall ever dressing like this.

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EPISODE 25 - CONVERSATIONS with David Fox - The Birthday - Mud Between Your Toes

EPISODE 25 – CONVERSATIONS with David Fox. In this episode of "Conversations" I chat to my old buddy David about one notorious weekend in July, 1978 – my sixteenth birthday on the farm during the height of the Rhodesian bush war. Teenagers, terrorists and questionable tunes.

Photo: (L-R) Shaun Elliot, Spike Cockburn and David Fox on the top of the bald kopje, M’sitwe farm, July 1978 (The day before the weekend that was).

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EPISODE 24 - THE SEYCHELLES AND THE SUBMARINER - MUD BETWEEN YOUR TOES - 01 JANUARY 2020

EPISODE 24 – The Seychelles and the Submariner. In this episode I read you a chapter from my book that dwells upon my first rather fumbled sexual experience and the guilt that was to follow.

Photo: My parents and me on board HMAS Orion, an Oberon-class sub belonging to the Royal Australian Navy. The Seychelles, 1978.

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