A fantastic thing has come out of making From A Whisper To A Bang! A slew of people have taken to visiting the grave of my great-uncle, Richard “Charles” Spencer, Private, 5218, AIF, (1899-1918). Generous strangers all, asking for nothing in return. Something I never considered when I began making this podcast series about remembrance, three years ago with the welcome of 2020. Richard’s final resting place is in the small CWGC cemetery of Spoilbank, a few kilometres south of Ypres in Belgium. I tell his story in Episode 03: ‘City As War Memorial’. Thousands of people in Australia and all over the world have listened to it. Sad and astonishing as it is, it is a gateway into something…
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