Guest Name: Joshua Antonio
Birth Location: Northam, Western Australia
Current Location: Bunbury, Western Australia
About Our Guest
I’m a country boy, born and raised. In my early years, my brothers and I helped out on the family farm (mostly in feeding the sheep, but also in climbing the header). In high school, I had a really passionate teacher in physics, so I decided to study it at uni (Curtin University). After a bit of a false start with the high level of mathematics required, I switched over to Chemistry where I eventually got my undergraduate and honours.
These days I work as the Analytical Chemist at the Albemarle Lithium Refinery just north of Bunbury, where we are processing the raw material into battery-grade lithium to be used in electric car batteries!
In my spare time, I’m a part of a sporting committee in Perth (Lambs Floorball Club) where I both play and live-stream our games, a part of the Northam Agricultural Society committee and on the Next Generation WA sub-committee, both of which are related to the Agricultural Show movement. After all that I also do a bit of astrophotography and have filmed a handful of weddings for some friends.
My Birth Year
In each episode of My Birth Year, we are going to choose a year between 1945 and 1999 and highlight some the big news events from that year as well as remembering some of the biggest selling songs, most popular movies and, for episodes from 1956 onwards, the most popular TV shows.
In the second part of each episode, we’ll introduce a guest - someone who was born in our feature year. We’ll talk about their memories of their childhood, their youth and their adult years.
These are real stories about real people. We can't wait to share them with you!
Neil Butler has been a radio broadcaster since 2008 and a podcast host since 2015. In that time, he has developed a passion for podcast conversations - or Podversations as he likes to call them.
Join Neil as he takes us back through the years, chatting to an amazing collection of guests on My Birth Year.