Light It Up | The Podcast Amanda Fung

This episode is about stories of hope for the future of lighthouses and a call to action - if you want to keep the lighthouse story and buildings alive, we need to act in creative ways to preserve, protect and promote lighthouses around Australia.

Co-hosted with Max Halden.

In this episode we hear stories about the fallout from the Inquiry and the impact on the keepers and light stations.

Co-hosted with Max Halden

You're probably wondering why you can't find a job advertisement on seek.com.au for lighthouse keepers. The beginning of the end is a story about money, technology evolution, commercial shipping and warring government departments. The unmanning of lighthouses was a topic worthy of a parliamentary inquiry, starting with The Report on Navigational Aids (Summers Report) in 1974 and culminating in the Parliamentary inquiry titled "Lighthouses: Do we keep the keepers?" in 1983 (Inquiry).

Co-hosted with Max Halden.

We just cannot get enough of Scottish Lighthouses! Ted Peers chats to us about his time on the Scottish Lights including at rugged beauty Muckle Flugga Lighthouse (you might want to practise pronouncing this one a few times!). 

Bonus edit: Ron Fehlberg tells us about his time visiting Donald Trump's lighthouse on his Scottish golf course.

Co-hosted with Georgia Egan-Griffiths.

It's about time we took a holiday… We are going global this week to explore some international lighthouses. We finally get to meet our land-locked Czech lighthouse extraordinaire, Denise Schultz, former President of Lighthouses of Australia, Inc, who gives us an introduction to international lighthouses.

Bonus edit: Dan Spinella, creator of the lens in The Lighthouse movie, shares his knowledge about US Lighthouses.

Co-hosted with Georgia Egan-Griffiths

Helen Hyatt-Johnston and Brad Buckley were artists in residence at Bruny Island Light and share with us why a lighthouse is a perfect muse.

Co-hosted with Caroline Ma.