I was asked the other day who has been the most interesting person I have interviewed\u2019?. Been thinking about that. Thought it might have been Barry Humphries who was the incredibly funny Dame Edna. Then maybe it was Maeve Binchy the gloriously irreverent Irish writer who happily had her month\u2019s supply of G and T\u2019s at our lunch. The more I thought about it, the longer the list became. Such is a consequence of chatting with people since the 70\u2019s (that\u2019s the 1970\u2019s).
Of late, Joanne Cash ( Johnny\u2019s sister) would take some beating. Mind you Kiwi superstar singer Stan Walker probably did that. I chatted with Paul Potts, remember Paul?, the phone salesman who Simon Cowell petrified but Paul had the voice of an angel. I enjoyed my chat with him a lot.
To my shame I can\u2019t remember the brave man who was the first to \u2018come out\u2019 and acknowledge he had AIDS in Australia. Greg Chappell the cricketer was not the fierce man people told me he was. I think Flo Bjelke-Peterson was all that you\u2019d hope she\u2019d be. It is with sadness that I never got to chat with Sir Jo\u2026her husband and Queensland PM for years!. I was one of his \u2018media chooks\u2019.
And so the list grows and still I can\u2019t elevate \u2018just one\u2019 to the top of the heap. But hang on. I think I can. I never interviewed him for either radio or the tele, but laying beside him on his bed towards his death, it was my chats with dad that I think were the best\u2026as well as the saddest. Why did I leave it \u2018 too late\u2019. I didn\u2019t record them and already my memory is dodgy. But I can remember thinking that although our relationship was littered with \u2018slips along the road\u2019 that for those precious moments, everything was ok.
Unlike my TV programs I can\u2019t play them again \u2018on demand\u2019 .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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