Episode thirteen: Tex Perkins – ‘Tex’ , and Mark Holden- ‘My Idol Years’
To day we hear from Tex Perkins reading, under slight duress on a hot day at a Byron Writers Festival, from his book entitled simply ‘Tex’, in which he reveals he was never dismayed that he wasn’t taken seriously as a musician, he never wanted to be serious as a musician – and Mark Holden reads from ‘ My Idol Years’ about one of the highlights of his career, singing with the Temptations.
Featured music tracks : ‘How Good is Life’ & ‘One step ahead of the Blues ‘ by Tex, Don and Charlie .
Recorded at the Byron writers Festival 2017
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Some kids just love to read and can be found with their nose in a book or glued to a screen e-reading any time of the day, but for some the magic of entering those other imaginary worlds eludes them. Reading is an important skill and some parents despair that their children just don’t seem interested but maybe they just haven’t found that one book that is the key . Our three authors today all write for that tricky age of ‘7-12 years
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Edition twelve: Penelope Janu -‘ In at the Deep End’, Kendall Talbot – Lost in Kakadu’, and Susan Lattwein – ‘Arafura- Blood, the Wet and Tears ‘
Well here is some holiday listening! Three Adult romance authors with a love of the outback and the top end and the deep sea!
Featured music track:’Nullabor Song’ by Kasey Chambers
Recorded at the A.R.R. A conference , Melbourne 2017.
Edition eleven : Catherine Evans – ‘The Healing Season’ and Kelly Hunter –‘Wish’
Today we hear from two authors who are classed as Romance authors but this genre is now so expanded that under books published by romance imprints along with the usual love stories you will find, crime, fantasy, science fiction, historical and in the case of Catherine Evans and her book ‘ The Healing Season’ – scientist romance! In Kelly Hunters novel ‘Wish’ we have a classic ‘ searching for a new life’ saga – but charmingly and satisfyingly told as a young mother struggles to start again.
Featured music track:‘The day that I lost You’ – Suzannah Espie; “ Back to the Sun” -Ange Takats
Recorded at the A.R.R. A conference , Melbourne 2017.
Edition Ten :Tracey Spicer – ‘The Good Girl Stripped Bare ‘; Mary-Lou Stephens –‘ Sex,Drugs and Meditation’ and Suzanne Leal – ‘The Teacher’s Secret’
Well this week’s edition is certainly topical! Here is Tracey Spicer with her explosive expose of the misogyny in the media industry ( who’d have thought?!) and Mary-Lou Stephens tells all about being bullied at the ABC and Suzanne Leal weighs in with a fictional novel of life in the education department.
Featured music tracks:‘Change’ –Jodi Martin; ‘Some say I got Devil ‘ –Inge Liljestrom
Recorded at Sydney Writers Festival 2017, Byron writers Festival 2015, Sydney Writers Festival 2017
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Two great musical memoirs from Tex Perkins in ‘Tex’ and Mark Holden in ‘My Idol Years’. Language warning on the Tex Perkins one as he recounts his early years performing around Sydney.
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