Michael Green

Writer and producer

Cath and Jack and the firestorm in Dale Place

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L to R: Dougie, Jack and Cath

For ABC Radio National’s documentary show Earshot, I produced a 35-minute story about one couple’s terrifying experience of bushfire. It’s a thriller, and a love story, and you can listen here, or via Earshot on your favourite podcast app.

When the Black Summer firestorm hits her street , Cath runs for her life—leaving her partner Jack, who’s hellbent on staying to defend their home. They lose each other. Later, among the shock and the chaos, it hits her: Oh my god, where is Jack? What’s happened to him?

As the catastrophe unfolds, Cath Bowdler, Jack Egan, and Channel Ten news journalist Daniel Sutton describe what happens to them on New Years Eve 2019, on the South Coast of NSW.

Listen: Cath and Jack and the firestorm in Dale Place

Producer: Michael Green

Composer and sound engineer: Matthew Crawford

Supervising producer: Claudia Taranto

The Wait podcast

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Mozhgan Moarefizadeh is stuck in Jakarta, living without rights—but with a yappy dog named Bella. With journalist Nicole Curby, she brings you into the lives of refugees like her, who are trapped on Australia’s new borderline, in Indonesia.

The Wait is a five-part narrative podcast, two years in the making. Published by The Guardian and supported by the Walkley Foundation, The Wait is a compelling and innovative combination of in-depth interviews, field reporting, audio diaries and conversations. I’m co-writer and supervising producer for the show.

Check out the website for photos and more information. Subscribe now, on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Or just listen below…

Manus Recording Project Collective

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where are you today, 2020 [sound installation]. Every day throughout August, subscribers received a text message with a new ten-minute audio recording from Farhad Bandesh, Farhad Rahmati, Samad Abdul, Shamindan Kanapathi, Thanush Selvraj or Yasin Abdallah.

These men, seeking asylum by boat, were forcibly transferred to Manus Island by the Australian government nearly seven years ago. Now, they are held in hotels or detention centres in Port Moresby, Melbourne or Brisbane.

The site displayed some additional information: the number of kilometres between you and the person who made the recording, and the number of minutes, hours, or days that had elapsed since the recording was made. Listen to the recordings.

Design, build and conceptual support by Public Office. Commissioned and presented by Liquid Architecture. Supported by the City of Melbourne COVID-19 Arts Grants.

Mantra Hotel, Preston. Photo by Yasin Abdallah.

how are you today, 2018. A sound installation comprising an archive of 84 ten-minute field recordings by six men on Manus Island. Developed for the Eavesdropping exhibition at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, with Samad Abdul, Farhad Bandesh, Behrouz Boochani, André Dao, Shamindan Kanapathi, Kazem Kazemi and Jon Tjhia. how are you today was subsequently exhibited at City Gallery, Wellington, and Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland. Listen to the recordings.

how are you today, 2018, at the Ian Potter Museum of Art.

Still Life

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A series of first-person narratives about statelessness, together with still life images. A collaboration with writers André Dao and Nicole Curby and artist Sarah Walker. This project is also an academic collaboration with Associate Professor Jennifer Balint and Dr Ashley Barnwell, from the University of Melbourne, as well as the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at the Melbourne Law School.

Forthcoming, 2021.

Imran is stateless

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Imran fled violence in Myanmar – now he is in detention on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, with no papers and no idea what will happen to him. A documentary for BBC World Service.  

Hosted by Academy Award-winning documentary film-maker Asif Kapadia (Amy, Senna, Diego Maradona), this is the fourth episode in a five-part series from BBC World Service in collaboration with Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute. Detours takes us off the main roads of our lives, following people who didn’t end up where they expected.

Producer: Elyse Blennerhassett and Michael Green

Listen now via BBC, 27 minutes.