Segment One
AAMSO Pod 412
Music File 1: ‘AAMSO Theme’: colume up 15 seconds. Fade. Keep low in background as Lachlan speaks
Voiceover by Lachlan
For me, the architecture serves as an anchor point for bigger questions!
Roger: Greetings AAMSO space-timers!
That was Lachlan Welsh.
He’ll be back with us later in the show.
On The AAMSO Pod today, we’re discussing an image of a 19th century asylum.
In Lachlan’s view, the architecture and social history of the structure in that image reveals much about the colonial imaginary.
Our discussion today is based on an artefact in our digital museum – a photograph taken by Charles Nettleton in the 1860s OECT.
I’ll place it in the transcript here:
This is very benevolent of us, I have to say, Eli, seeing as the AAMSOs will be made redundant before we can say “end of this lunar cycle”.
Eli: Hah!
Roger: Hah!
But the show must go on.
And as always, we’ll be asking who and what is missing from the archive – which could be us very soon!
You’ve tuned into radio broadcast 412.
On Earth frequency modulation.
I’m AAMSO content designator 153425455 [A] – AKA Roger. And this is The AAMSO Pods!
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Roger: For this special episode I’ve joined AAMSO Eli on the terrestrial Miegunyah Site.
Looks like we’re leaving a lot behind here, Eli.
Eli: Hi Roger, thanks for coming. And a big hello to all our audience out there – whether you’re listening to the broadcast or reading from the transcript!
To answer your question, Roger, yes, we’ve done a lot here on site. It’s sad that the excavation came to a halt after we got our ONIAR-21s. But listen, just as I was packing up, I came across a collection of mobile communication devices. What caught my eye Roger, was that all of them had been preserved in AAMSO affiliated conservation shells.
Roger: No way!
Eli: Yep! And well, I’ve got so much more to tell you, but I can’t now. I’ve promised not to spoil the surprise at the end of the show. Oh Roger, you’ll be de—
Roger: Oh, please not one of those cake-eating send-offs! We could be back next week! The Benefactors haven’t decided about these broadcasts yet.
Eli: Cake?
Roger: It’s like a-
Eli: I’m joking. Anyway. Before I found the devices, I was looking at this incredible drawing called The sick woman in dray (Study for Black Thursday). It’s by someone called William Strutt.
Roger: I can feel a segment coming on. The floor is yours Eli!
Segment 2: The sick woman in Dray
Segment 3: The Benevolent Asylum Site
Unquiet Voices 