02. Audio
Reports, presents, produces, and edits podcasts, audio features and documentaries
Often from far-flung and remote destinations.
Occasionally as a series producer on narrative documentary series.
Here’s a selection:
Strange Frontiers (The Science Show, ABC Radio National) 2023-2024
Scientists work in some remarkable, unusual, hard-to-reach, and off-limits parts of the world. Join Carl Smith as he visits the researchers working on these Strange Frontiers.
Pacific Scientific (ABC Radio Australia & ABC Radio National) 2023-2024
From volcanoes to secretive vaults, isolated islands to idyllic coastlines, Pacific Scientific takes you deep into the region to meet the scientists and communities living and breathing science and research. Created by Carl Smith, with original reporting from a team of journalists across the region.
Chimeras in Medicine (The Health Report, ABC Radio National) 2022
At the cutting edge of medical science, humans and animals are being combined. Hear how in this two-part series which covers everything from xenotransplantation to ‘animal avatars’. A finalist for the 2022 Eureka Prize for Science Journalism.
Patient Zero (ABC Science) 2020-2021
Senior Producer of 2021 Eureka Prize-winning podcast Patient Zero which tells the stories of disease outbreaks: where they begin, why they happen and how we found ourselves in the middle of a really big one.
Short & Curly (ABC Audio Studios) 2016-present
Co-host and co-writer of Short & Curly, a fast-paced fun-filled ethics podcast for kids and their parents, with questions and ideas to really get you thinking. It asks curly questions about animals, technology, school, pop culture, and the future.
The APOCALYPSE (Science Friction, ABC RN) 2019
This three-part series featured on ABC RN’s Science Friction, looking at how well prepared society is for several catastrophic natural disasters.
The Mind’s Eye (All in the mind, ABC RN) 2018
It might surprise you that some people can't conjure an image in their mind's eye. Neurologists believe roughly 2 per cent of people have this condition. But how important is visualising something in your mind? Listen here.
Click-Sick (Science Friction, ABC RN) 2020
Series Producer of Click-Sick, a three part Science Friction series from ABC Science and ABC Radio National, which hunts down the sources, considers the harms, and shines a spotlight on fake health claims, winning the Barry Williams Award for Skeptical Journalism in 2020.
Bionic Bodies (The Science Show, ABC RN) 2017
Sight for the blind, hearing for the deaf, a body with functionality restored. These are the promises of bionics. In part 1 of his Walkley Award-winning series, Bionic Bodies, Carl Smith introduces the people whose lives have been changed, and the innovators behind remarkable results in the field of artificial body parts.
Electronic Music’s Origin Story (Sum of all Parts, ABC RN) 2019
Where and when did a digital computer play music for the first time? The surprising story of how Australia’s first computer started singing. Listen here.
The Library of Life on Earth (The Science Show, ABC RN) 2019
This documentary for ABC RN’s Science Show explored the uses of genomics in understanding the diversity of species on our planet - and examined the ways in which this genetic data is allowing us to peer back into the past.
Energy Futures (The Science Show, ABC RN) 2015
In this timely series, Energy Futures, Carl Smith examines Australia’s energy options beyond oil, coal and gas. Geothermal, wind, solar, wave energy, hydropower, nuclear and even waste by-products are all on the table.