On Friday, we were in the audience for the recording of an episode of Conversations with Richard Fidler. This local radio show is one of our favourites and I download the podcasts so we can listen in the car. On Friday, Richard was interviewing Dick Adams who was a Federal Labor MP for twenty years. Dick is a very large man so the unkind call him Biggus Dickus after the Monty Python character. It's fair to say his size works against him and he is a bit of a figure of fun. However, he is certainly a conviction politician, totally focused on what he calls the Second Class. He read a few lines from a Henry Lawson poem about the NSW Railways in the 19th century called Second Class Wait Here. As he said, they're still waiting.
Yesterday we sat through a session with three crime writers: Michael Robotham, Gideon Haigh (more famous for his cricket books) and SJ Brown, a new Tasmanian writer. It was fantastic, especially as we bumped into a very good friend from our days at Friends School. We were very friendly with her family when she was a teenager but she is now 50!
We bought SJ Brown's first book, set in Tasmania. It's great and full of Tasmanian references. Maybe, he tries to be a bit clever dropping in esoteric references. These are OK if you get them. I 'got' the reference to the Timsons and the Molloys in Rumpole of the Bailey but am flummoxed by, 'My name is Zoe, as in David.' Huh?
However, I will happily recommend him.
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