Strange Currencies
by Connor Millsom and Robert Webb
Latest episode
Strange Currencies 19/1/2026: 2025 Top Fives
Strange Currencies 19/1/2026: 2025 Top Fives
About this podcast
Strange Currencies, every Thursday from 8pm till 10 with Connor and Rob. We play new, interesting and often unusual music from all corners of the globe.
Each week we bring in something we've been reading and we have a chat about it. We discuss novels, poems, short stories, literary criticism, music journalism; basically, everything is fair game.
Our conversations often take us into deep waters - intellectually and emotionally - and there are times when we don’t make the swim to the distant shore of understanding.
Episodes
- Strange Currencies 19/1/2026: 2025 Top Fives · 1 h 42 min · Season 3 Episode 1On this month’s episode of Strange Currencies, we run through our top fives of ’25—albums, films and books—alongside reflections on Connor’s debut cricket season. We also take a…
- Strange Currencies 22/11/2025: JG Ballard on the big screen (Crash and High Rise) · 1 h 42 min · Season 2 Episode 6In this episode of Strange Currencies, we dive into the unsettling worlds of J.G. Ballard to explore how the cinematic adaptations of Crash (Cronenberg, 1996) and High-Rise (Ben…
- Strange Currencies 3/10/25: Neika Lehman’s Dog House & Pablo Neruda’s Tonight I Can Write · 1 h 50 min · Season 2 Episode 5In this month’s episode—our second recorded at the new narrm ngarrgu Library—we explore two poems: Neika Lehman’s Dog House, winner of the 2024 Judith Wright Poetry Prize, and…
- Strange Currencies 7/9/2025: A new home at the narrm ngarrgu Library · 1 h 34 min · Season 2 Episode 4After a long break, Connor and Rob return with a wide-ranging chat: Connor’s unexpected dive into cricket, recent overseas travels, and a hefty Napoleon biography by David G…
- Strange Currencies 13/3/2025: The final episode from 3WBC · 1 h 21 min · Season 2 Episode 4On our final episode broadcast from 3WBC we have a relaxed chat about music, life and a couple of short stories: Entropy by Thomas Pynchon and Drive My Car by Haruki Murakami…
- Strange Currencies 6/3/2025: An Interview with Jordan Prosser · 1 h 26 min · Season 2 Episode 2In this week's episode, we interview Jordan Prosser, a writer, filmmaker and performer based in Naarm. In 2022, he won the Peter Carey Short Story Award for Eleuterio Cabrera’s…
- Strange Currencies 6/2/2025: An Interview with Andrea Pavleka · 1 h 22 min · Season 2 Episode 1In this episode, we interview Andrea Pavleka about her award-winning short story The Golden Hour, which won the 2024 Peter Carey Short Story Award and was published in Meanjin…
- Strange Currencies 26/12/2024: Top Fives of 2024 Part 2 · 1 h 12 min · Season 1 Episode 10This week’s episode is the second of a two-part special covering Strange Currencies’ top five movies, tv shows and novels for 2024.
- Strange Currencies 19/12/2024: Top Fives of 2024 Part 1 · 1 h 25 min · Season 1 Episode 9This week’s episode is the first of a two-part special covering Strange Currencies’ top five movies, tv shows and novels for 2024.
- Strange Currencies 12/12/2024: Andrea Pavleka’s ‘The Golden Hour’ and Jordan Prosser’s 'Eleuterio Cabrera's Beautiful Game' · 1 h 15 min · Season 1 Episode 8In this week’s episode we chat about a couple of stories that appeared in Meanjin and were both winners of the Peter Carey Short Story Award: Andrea Pavleka’s ‘The Golden Hour’…
- Strange Currencies 5/12/2024: Moxie · 1 h 16 min · Season 1 Episode 7Guest host Hue shares her love for Amy Poehler's 2021 adaptation of Jennifer Mathieu's novel with Connor and Rob, and explains how the film led her to feminist punk.
- Strange Currencies 14/11/2024: Derek Jarman · 1 h 17 min · Season 1 Episode 6In this week's episode, we discuss a couple of films directed by Derek Jarman. Connor attended a retrospective of his work at ACMI. Derek Jarman (1942–1994) was a groundbreaking…
- Strange Currencies 7/11/2024: Elizabeth Tan and Philip K. Dick · 1 h 11 min · Season 1 Episode 5In this week's episode, we discuss a couple of short stories: 'Eighteen Bells Karaoke Castle (Sing Your Heart Out)' from Elizabeth Tan's Smart Ovens for Lonely People, and Philip…
- Strange Currencies 17/10/24: Rough Cut Editors, Indigo Bailey and Tiia Kelly · 50 min · Season 1 Episode 4In this week's episode, Connor chats to Indigo Bailey and Tiia Kelly, editors of Rough Cut, an online film publication that provides reviews, festival coverage, interviews, and…
- Strange Currencies 19/9/24: Morality Play by Barry Unsworth · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 2In this week's episode, Connor brings in Barry Unsworth's Morality Play for discussion, a novel he recently read as part of his book club. Set in 14th-century England, Morality…
- Strange Currencies 3/10/24: Exploring the work of Jenny Han, YA author · 52 min · Season 1 Episode 3In this week's episode, guest host Rue shares her thoughts on the writing of Jenny Han and the film and TV adaptations of her work. In The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy, Belly…
- Strange Currencies 12th September 2024 · 1 h 13 min · Season 1 Episode 1Dreams, Cormac McCarthy, Haruki Murakami, running, growing older... a free-wheeling return to air after a couple of weeks off due to sickness.
