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Speaker 1: You're listening to this Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at be.

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Speaker 2: For all the things that Lee Child has written over

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Speaker 2: his incredible career, all of the amazing Reacher adventures, he

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Speaker 2: has never yet published an autobiographical collection, that is, until now.

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Speaker 2: Reacher The Stories Behind the Stories by Lee Child is

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Speaker 2: the first of Katherine Rain's our book reviewers Picks for

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Speaker 2: this weekend. Hey Catherine, Morning, Jack, So tell us about it.

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Speaker 3: So Lee Child was made redundant from a BBC in

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Speaker 3: the early nineties, and so the book actually opens on Monday,

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Speaker 3: September the fifth, and nineteen ninety four, and he's at

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Speaker 3: home at the dining room table writing the first chapter

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Speaker 3: of his book, and he gives it to his wife

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Speaker 3: and actually asks the very innocuous question should I continue?

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Speaker 3: And she said, yes, I like it. So these are

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Speaker 3: all of the tales of the Reacher novels. And it

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Speaker 3: describes the cut up, behind the scenes, and why the

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Speaker 3: books turned out the way that they did. And he's

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Speaker 3: got and he notes about it and what he was

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Speaker 3: inspired by and context not only of what was going

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Speaker 3: on his life, but the world outside the books as well.

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Speaker 3: And so it starts from nineteen ninety nine's Killing Four

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Speaker 3: all the way to twenty nineteen's Blue Moon, and it's

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Speaker 3: that book Killing Floor that he's you know, was his

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Speaker 3: debut novel and it went on to be a pretty

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Speaker 3: big hit, and it was originally entitled actually bad Luck

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Speaker 3: in Trouble, which went on to be his eleventh novel,

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Speaker 3: And he talks about working with Tom Cruise and that

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Speaker 3: whole Hollywood experience and Persuader was his. He loved Alistair MacLean,

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Speaker 3: so it was really, you know, kind of about writing

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Speaker 3: like him and that sort of thing. And you know,

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Speaker 3: it reflects on actually how sixty one hours is his

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Speaker 3: favorite of the Reacher novels, and you know, he credits

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Speaker 3: a lot of success with the professionals around him, his agent,

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Speaker 3: his publishing teams, and above all his family. And then

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Speaker 3: actually the book ends with Lee Child with a short

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Speaker 3: story called a Better Place, which is a Jack Reacher story,

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Speaker 3: So for all fans, you get a little taste of

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Speaker 3: Jack creature again with Lee Child.

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Speaker 2: On this book. Oh super Okay, that's the stories behind

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Speaker 2: the stories by Lee Child because his brother's been writing

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Speaker 2: the last few Lee Child adventures.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I think the last five year is it?

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Speaker 2: Five, they write it.

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Speaker 3: They wrote a couple together and then I think it's

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Speaker 3: the last. Yeah, yeah, where Andrew's kind of written them

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Speaker 3: all on his own. So yeah, and it has put

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Speaker 3: a bit of a different spin on it. But I

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Speaker 3: still like I still like the tail. I still like

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Speaker 3: Jack Reacher. And yeah, he has a bit of a

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Speaker 3: different spin, but it's good.

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Speaker 2: He has an amazing thing too, where he because you know,

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Speaker 2: he came on the show and we talked to him

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Speaker 2: about it. He was saying, you know, when he writes,

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Speaker 2: he does that thing where he just he doesn't like

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Speaker 2: map out a story arc or anything like that. Right,

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Speaker 2: he doesn't. It's not it doesn't look like a mass

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Speaker 2: murderer's leer. We have all of the bits of string

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Speaker 2: and kind of fragments of bits of paper pinned to

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Speaker 2: the walls, and everything's connected. Nothing like that. When he

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Speaker 2: writes a book, he just writes a page and then

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Speaker 2: he just writes the next page, and he thinks, oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: that was good, and then he just writes the next page,

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Speaker 2: barely goes back and deletes anything. It's just amazing how

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Speaker 2: his brain works when it comes to storytelling so very much.

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Speaker 3: And he crafts a story that makes a lot of sense.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, and then yeah, it is incredible because most

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Speaker 3: writers don't write like that, you know, with how you

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Speaker 3: described it. So yeah, it's an incredible way that he

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Speaker 3: does it. So I think it's his TV background that

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Speaker 3: helps him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, absolutely, See TV is good for something.

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Speaker 2: The Stories Behind the Stories by Lee Child as your

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Speaker 2: first book. Next up, tell us about Frosty by Mark Winterbottom.

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Speaker 3: So this story Mark Winterbottom starts in a very poor

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Speaker 3: suburb of Sydney and dune Side and then ends up

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Speaker 3: at the racing of kind of Mount Paranama. And you know,

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Speaker 3: Mark Winterbottom didn't come from money, and actually where he

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Speaker 3: gets his start is he actually wins raffle for a

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Speaker 3: pee wee fifty motorcycle and that kind of got him

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Speaker 3: hooked on on motor racing. And then he has this

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Speaker 3: crash and his mother decided that his motorcycling career was over,

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Speaker 3: but actually he could go kart racing. And the book

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Speaker 3: actually talks a lot about his relationship with his mother, June,

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Speaker 3: and the bond that they had and you know that's

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Speaker 3: to dissolve and June was actually diagnosed with breast cancer

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Speaker 3: when Mark was only four, and he ends up as

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Speaker 3: her main support, accompanying to chemotherapy sessions until she sadly

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Speaker 3: passes away in twenty eleven. But her struggle with cancer

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Speaker 3: shapes his childhood and his character and his connection with

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Speaker 3: his mum's really strong that actually it's almost the opposite

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Speaker 3: what it is, the opposite with his father, who is

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Speaker 3: incredibly strange from his father, who was a speedway racer

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Speaker 3: guy called Jim, and he's never really spoken about it publicly,

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Speaker 3: and he speaks about it, I think quite candidly in

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Speaker 3: this book, you know, and the fact that they never

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Speaker 3: reconcile before his father's death in twenty twenty from leukemia.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it's a kind of interesting person that Mark

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Speaker 3: is is shaped. But then of course there's the motor

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Speaker 3: racing and he won ten Australian cart Championships, twenty five

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Speaker 3: state championships and there because he moves to Formula Ford

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Speaker 3: Anyone's Bathur in thirteen alongside Kywe Stephen Richards and he

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Speaker 3: won the twenty fifteen Supercars Championship. But actually he also

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Speaker 3: talks about the politics of the supercars and what went

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Speaker 3: on behind the scenes, and he's pretty candid about his

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Speaker 3: racing life. He certainly doesn't shy away from talking about people.

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Speaker 3: He talks about the people that really helped him, but

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Speaker 3: he also talks about his rivals, particularly Mark Larkham, you know,

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Speaker 3: with his exit from the TV Stars team in two

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Speaker 3: thousand and five, his rivalry with Jamie Wincup. He really

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Speaker 3: sort of saves a lot of his chat about Craig Lownds,

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Speaker 3: who really gets some sharp critique, and their battles in

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Speaker 3: twenty fourteen and fifteen, and then of course this is

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Speaker 3: very recent exit from Team eighteen. And the book has

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Speaker 3: lots here whether you're a Mark Winterbottom fan or not,

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Speaker 3: it's got lots about motor racing and full performance and

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Speaker 3: some really good stories. And yeah, I think I think

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Speaker 3: those motor racing fans will find some good things in

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Speaker 3: this book.

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Speaker 2: And I can tell that you are one of them, Catherine,

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Speaker 2: I am actually yeah, I know. No, it's very good.

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Speaker 2: You're full of surprises. It's great. So that is The

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Speaker 2: Stories Behind Sorry. That is Frosty by Marke Winterbottom. Your

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Speaker 2: first book is of course The Stories Behind the Stories

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Speaker 2: by Lee Child. Both of those will be on the

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Speaker 2: news Talk ZEDB website.

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