Dr Gary Clapton - The Father's Experience (Part Two)
In the second episode of our interview with Dr Gary Clapton, Jo asks him about his adoption research, with a particular focus on fathers who lost children to adoption. Gary is a father who lost a daug...
7 Sep 202151min
Dr Gary Clapton - A Father's Story (Part One)
Dr Gary Clapton is a father who lost a daughter to adoption in 1970. He is also a Social Worker who conducts research into adoption at The University of Edinburgh and is a committee member of the Fath...
24 Aug 202137min
Lynelle Long - InterCountry Adoptee Voices (ICAV)
Lynelle Long is a Vietnamese adoptee born in the early 70's who now resides in Sydney, Australia. She founded InterCountry Adoptee Voices (ICAV) in 1988 and has built it into a global network in the i...
10 Aug 202143min
Bernadette Davison
Bernadette Davison is a mother who lost a daughter to adoption in Cairns, Queensland in 1985 at the age of eighteen. In this episode she shares her story of that time, how this loss impacted her life ...
27 Jul 202142min
Ruth Loli - Link-Up Qld (Part Two)
In this episode, we talk to Link-Up Queensland Research Manager, Ruth Loli. Link-Up Qld works to enhance the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were forcibly removed from their ...
13 Jul 20211h 1min
Jo Stuurman - Link-Up (Qld) Part One
Jo Sparrow talks to Jo Stuurman about his experience as an adoptee who lived through the Stolen Generation. The Stolen Generations are Indigenous Australians who were forcibly removed from their famil...
29 Jun 202140min
David Bohl - Adoption & Addiction (Part Two)
In the second episode of our two-part adoption and addiction series, Jane speaks to David Bohl about the relationship between adoption and addiction. David is an adoptee from the USA who is a Clinical...
16 Jun 202140min
Kevin Barhydt - Adoption & Addiction (Part One)
Kevin Barhydt is an adoptee living in New York who wrote a memoir about his adoption, childhood sexual abuse, addiction and recovery called 'Dear Stephen Michael's Mother'. By the age of 20, Kevin had...
1 Jun 202147min
