<p>Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) is best known as the first white guy to circumnavigate (and name!) Australia. But could he perhaps also have been circumnavigating the towering physique of ship surgeon George Bass?</p><p>Alecia and Leigh do a literal reading of a seemingly steamy letter, written by Flinders to Bass in 1800, and a (potentially) queer reading of the relationship between these chaps with maps.</p><p>By the end of this two-parter, you won't look at these men the same way.</p><p>Sources:</p><p>The Life of Matthew Flinders by Miriam Estensen (2002)</p><p>Matthew Flinders: The Man Behind the Map by Gillian Dooley (2022)</p><p>The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Ernest Scott (2023)</p><p>My Own Destroyer: A Biography of Matthew Flinders, Explorer and Navigator by Sidney John Baker (1962)</p><p>Matthew Flinders, Maritime Explorer of Australia by Kenneth Morgan (2016)</p><p>Between Sentiment and Sea: The Meaning of Friendship in the Letters of Matthew Flinders by Alecia Simmonds in The Great Circle 38.2 (2016)</p><p>Friendship, Imperial Violence and the Law of Nations: The Case of Late-Eighteenth Century British Oceania by Alecia Simmonds in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 42.4 (2014)</p><ul><li>Hosted by Alecia Simmonds and Leigh Boucher</li><li>Supervising Producer: Hannah Reich</li><li>Development Producer: Beverley Wang</li><li>Executive Producers: Clare Rawlinson and Eric George</li><li>Head of ABC Audio on Demand: Jessica Radburn</li><li>Theme: Martin Peralta</li><li>Artwork: Gabriel Virata-Alves</li></ul>