Archive Fever

Archive Fever (2019-) is an Australian history podcast featuring intimate conversations with writers, artists, curators, fellow historians and other victims of the research bug. Each episode, co-hosts Clare Wright and Yves Rees talk to archive addicts about what kind of archives they use, how often they use them, when they got their first hit. Join us as we ask: what madness is this?

A special live episode on Archives of Love (ft. Alecia Simmonds and Danielle Scrimshaw) is coming up at Readings State Library on Thursday 22 February 2024.

Archive Fever is a La Trobe University podcast, recorded and produced by Matt Smith on unceded Wurundjeri land. 

Listen to episodes and find behind-the-scenes material at www.archivefeverpod.com

Season 1 guests include Chloe Hooper, Tony Birch, Billy Griffiths, Paul Daley, Jock Serong, Rachel Buchanan and Gwenda Tavan. Season 1 also included a special live episode on ‘Queering the Archives’, featuring Noah Riseman and Julie Peters, recorded at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne in November 2019.

Season 2 guests include Jenny Hocking, Helen Garner, Michelle Arrow, Alessandro Antonello, Natalie Harkin and Alice Gorman.

Season 3 guests include Gideon Haigh, Jess Hill, Brook Andrew, Sara Sligar, Mark McKenna, Lynne Kelly, Margo Neale, Peter Hobbins, Samia Khatun and Catherine Dwyer.

Season 4 guests include Kate Grenville, Anna Clark, Tamara Oudyn, Lauren Burns, Duane Hamacher, Mike Jones and Lauren Piko. A live bonus episode with SA Museum’s John Carty and Jared Thomas was recorded at Adelaide Writers’ Week in March 2022. Another live episode was recorded at Sydney Writers Festival in May 2022, featuring award-winning biographer Bernadette Brennan and filmmaker Tosca Looby.

Season 5 guests include Zoe Coombs Marr, Kate Auty, Krystal de Napoli, Fiona Kelly McGregor, Alexis Bergantz, Above the Bit, Nadia Rhook and Oliver Cassidy.

Season 6 is under development and will be released in late 2024.