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Highlights of 2025: The best from our guests, their places & tunes

December 22, 2025 • Anthony James • Season 9 • Episode 289

What an incredible year. There was certainly dark stuff, but if you were ever in doubt there was plenty to revel in, welcome to the highlights from a unique and far-reaching year on the podcast.

You’ll hear highlight selections from our guests throughout 2025, accompanied by some of the music they often played or sung themselves, and the sounds of Country as we travelled across multiple continents, countries and languages.

This year featured a record 54 episodes, 4 with bilingual editions, and over a dozen bonus extras and vignettes. Most episodes were conversations, with 5 panels too, 1 documentary style production, 1 fan mail episode and this highlights reel.

There were 67 guests, around half Aussie and half international, almost all of them on-location, just under a quarter First Nations, and from all walks of life.

Once again listening to it all in one place today has been incredible. I hope you enjoy it too.

And I hope you’ve enjoyed the podcast as a whole this year. As another year ends, huge thanks to all you generous subscribers and other supporting listeners, for making it possible. I’ll continue my shout outs, exclusives and other bonus bits next year, and as we enter the podcast’s 10th year, I’ll reach out with a few new things too.

Thanks also for your wonderful correspondence this year. And to everyone who sheltered, fed and generally cared for us throughout the year, around Australia, Guatemala and the States, thank you.

With enormous thanks also, to all the wonderful musicians who generously granted permission for their music to be heard here.

And finally, thanks so much for listening.

The track list for this episode, identifying the people, places and tunes, is in the chapter list.

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Title image: Glacier National Park, on Blackfeet Nation, northern Montana USA (pic: Anthony James).

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Thanks again for listening, have a wonderful festive season and see you in 2026!

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