This week Richard Flanagan was profiled on Australian Story. The program is televised on Mondays at 8.00 pm, and repeated on Saturdays at 12.30 pm, on ABC 1. You can also watch Australian Story on ABC 2 on Thursdays at 8:45pm, Fridays at 5:30pm and Saturdays at 7:30am and 8:00pm.

Stories are ‘narrated’ by the subjects themselves. The program aims to present a varied and contrasting picture of contemporary Australia and Australians from many different perspectives and to contribute to the wider spectrum of coverage of issues and individuals. Since it first aired on May 29, 1996, the program has won many professional awards including seven Walkley Awards and four Logie awards.

Richard Flanagan is a Rhodes Scholar, an adventurer, and an internationally acclaimed author.

A hearing impediment meant he was ‘virtually deaf’ for the the first six years of his life. But at the age of seven he wrote a letter in which he predicted his own success as an author. Recently, he’s been involved in helping to write the screenplay for the epic new Nicole Kidman-Hugh Jackman movie ‘Australia’. But in his own home state of Tasmania, he’s been accused of treachery because of his environmental activism.

In the program, he talks about writing, campaigning to protect forests, and working with Baz Luhrmann on the keenly awaited ‘Australia’. Singer Paul Kelly introduces the episode. See it.

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