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Duration: 60 minutes
“As an author I write about myself … if that sounds self-indulgent, you don't know the half of it.” Hear Phil Brown, Arts Editor at The Courier Mail discuss his affectionate, witty memoir about growing up in Hong Kong with Steve Austin.
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Phil Brown
Phil Brown is editor of InReview, Qld, an independent arts outlet. He is the author of two books of poetry — Plastic Parables (Metro Community Press 1991) and An Accident in the Evening (Interactive Press 2001). His most recent book is The Kowloon Kid: A Hong Kong Childhood published by Transit Lounge in 2019. He has been covering the arts in Australia in the mainstream media for nearly four decades and was for some years Arts Editor for The Courier-Mail in Brisbane.
#Moderator
Steve Austin
Steve has presented programs for ABC Radio & Television for thirty years. He has focused primarily on public affairs with a political bent. An interest in Art and what it says about the artist and the audience he believes that Brisbane writer Melissa Lukashenko got it right when she wrote “the audience gives us their trust & we give them new eyes”. Steve aims to approach public affairs from a different angle and draw out the unexpected from guests. He has interviewed every Australian Prime Minister from John Howard to the Present day. He declines to interview celebrities as they tend to be predictable whilst the interesting stories come from unexpected people.
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