The House of Salt and Story-Episode 5: The Last Speaker
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The House of Salt and Story-Episode 5: The Last Speaker
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The haunting story of Fanny Cochrane Smith, the last fluent speaker of her Tasmanian Aboriginal language. In 1899, she sat before an Edison wax cylinder recorder and sang—knowing she was the last. When she died in 1905, 35,000 years of language and culture died with her. Her voice still exists in those crackling recordings, singing in a language no one alive can understand. This is a story about genocide, survival, and what it means to carry an entire world on your shoulders.
A pinch of salt to hold what lasts,
A tale to carry what time forgets.
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In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.