Sophie Couchman

Professional Historian and Curator

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In the Media

I have had a range of experience working in the media for television, radio and print media, both as an interview subject and behind the scenes. 

ABC Television, Yakka: Australia at Work, https://iview.abc.net.au/show/yakka-australia-at-work, Series 1, Episode 1, 21 Nov 2023.

ABC Central Victoria, ‘Intricate Chinese artefacts have travelled down the road to Bendigo Art Gallery’, https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/vic-statewide-mornings/chinese-art/101371614, 25 Aug 2022 and https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-27/treasures-of-dai-gum-san-bendigo-art-gallery/101357340, 27 Aug 2022.

ABC Wimmera, Gillian Aeria, ‘Four-decade journey to uncover true surname of Ararat’s Chinese-Australian family’, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-14/ararat-victoria-tracing-chinese-ancestry-back-to-the-goldrush/101317868, 14 Aug 2022.

ABC Television, Waltzing the Dragon with Benjamin Law, https://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/waltzing-the-dragon-with-benjamin-law/, 30 Jul and 6 Aug 2019.

ABC RN, Shooting the Past, ‘Alien Nation’, https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/shootingthepast/shooting-the-past-alien-nation/10665816), 12 Feb 2019.

ABC RN, The History Listen, ‘William Ah Ket: The First Chinese-Australian barrister’, https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-history-listen/william-ah-ket-the-first-chinese-australian-barrister/10155706, 28 Aug 2018.

SBS documentary, The Great Australian Race Riot, 2014.

ABC RN, Waleed Aly, Historyonics, ‘Goldrush era phrasebook empowered Chinese entrepreneurs’, https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drive/historyonics3a-goldrush-era-phrasebook-empowered-chinese-entre/5283748, 26 Feb 2014.

Rod Quinn, ABC Overnights, 16 Feb 2014.

Lawrence Money, The Age, 3 Feb 2014.

SBS documentary, Immigration Nation: The Secret History of Us, 9 Jan 2011.

Hilary Harper, ABC 774, 5 Feb 2011.

I have also had experience working behind the scenes:

Consultant historian, New Gold Mountain, miniseries for SBS Television, 2021 https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-series/new-gold-mountain.

Chinese Australian history advisor, Glitch, season 3, Matchbox Pictures for ABC Television, 2019 https://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/glitch/. ABC Television, ‘Chinese opera’, promotional video for Glitch, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBUpm0jcO_0, 28 Aug 2019.

Researcher, Shooting the Past, season 2, ABC RN, 2019 https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/shootingthepast/.

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