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Speaker 1: Part two of the three part series Miriam Muggley's Australia

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Speaker 1: un Masters on tonight on the ABC at eight thirty.

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Speaker 2: This show is about Miriam traveling.

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Speaker 1: Around Australia to see if the notion that everyone is

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Speaker 1: given the fair chance, you know, the chance at a

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Speaker 1: fair go in Australia is true.

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Speaker 2: And Miriam's joining us now good morning.

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Speaker 3: Well for me, it's good evening because I'm actually in London.

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Speaker 2: Oh good evening.

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Speaker 4: Then good evening here.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: On tonight's episode, you travel through Victoria to experience polo

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Speaker 1: matches and Bogan burnouts to explore what class looks like

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Speaker 1: in Australia and how much it shapes us.

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Speaker 2: How would you compare the class system in Australia to

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Speaker 2: the UK.

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Speaker 3: On the whole? I think the class system in England

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Speaker 3: is about who your parents were, and in Australia it's

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Speaker 3: about how much money you have.

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Speaker 4: Oh, okay, as simple as that, Miriam. What about the

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Speaker 4: Bogan experience? Did you see you have plenty of mullets

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Speaker 4: and get the burnout?

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Speaker 3: I did. I saw lots of the high fades and mullets,

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Speaker 3: and I really had a very good time, a much

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Speaker 3: better time than I expected. It was extremely scary, not

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Speaker 3: because of the people, but because of the cars. I

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Speaker 3: was hung round in a car that I wouldn't normally

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Speaker 3: get into to say, and it was really terrifying. But

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Speaker 3: I was with such a sweet young man. I felt

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Speaker 3: I was being looked after. I think Bogans is a

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Speaker 3: word that maybe middle class people used to describe people

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Speaker 3: that they don't quite plot with. They don't quite understand

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Speaker 3: because the Bogans that I met they have ghastly music.

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Speaker 3: That's true. I didn't like their music. They were generous

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Speaker 3: and friendly and welcoming. It was a community and so

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Speaker 3: I'm on the Bogan's side from now on.

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Speaker 4: Very good.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think most of us love a bogan.

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Speaker 1: It's just there's nothing really that offensive other than their

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Speaker 1: hair about a Bogan.

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Speaker 3: To be fair, well, I don't like people wee wieing

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Speaker 3: in the street, that's all. You know.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to be a Bogan to see that happen.

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Speaker 1: That can strike at all level before the race has

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Speaker 1: even been run.

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Speaker 2: Will you come to Perth in the final episode.

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Speaker 3: Well, unfortunately COVID stopped. I'm reliably informed that I will

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Speaker 3: be coming in the next episode, which we will do

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Speaker 3: in April.

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Speaker 4: You have to come here and we'll play some bog

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Speaker 4: music and we'll head bang to a CDC together.

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Speaker 3: I love w A. I've been there several times for

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Speaker 3: holidays and I made a lovely film there. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 3: no Albany, I have to say, oh.

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Speaker 2: Yes it is Albany.

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Speaker 1: Now you mentioned you're in the UK. How were you

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Speaker 1: there for the heat wave last week? Howd of just survived?

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Speaker 3: Yes? It was. It was just horrible. I really hated it,

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Speaker 3: absolutely hated it. I'm not good in an extreme tropical

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Speaker 3: heat and it was like tropical heat. It was just

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Speaker 3: beastly and I've got fans. I don't have air con

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Speaker 3: in my house, but I do have fans, so I

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Speaker 3: just lay with my legs apart under a fat That

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Speaker 3: was about the best imatic.

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Speaker 4: Sure we're going to explore that more, but we probably

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Speaker 4: weren't right now. Speaking of fans, you have fans all

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Speaker 4: over the world for various races, as many call you

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Speaker 4: Professors Brown of course for Harry Potter reasons. But the

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Speaker 4: Instagram thing is full of I don't think you're actually

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Speaker 4: on Instagram officially, are you? Was it just your fans?

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Speaker 4: Because I know you're you're a TikTok person. There are

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Speaker 4: so many accounts in your name.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know that. Actually, no, I don't have a

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Speaker 3: I don't have a TikTok account, and I don't have

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Speaker 3: an Instagram account. I'm on Facebook. I like Facebook, and

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Speaker 3: I've got you know, chums on Facebook, but they're chums.

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Speaker 3: I know. I don't want chums. I don't know because

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Speaker 3: when you get to.

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Speaker 1: My age, I I mean, I don't have a billion

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Speaker 1: friends on Facebook because why if I'm not friends with

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Speaker 1: you in real life, why do I want?

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Speaker 2: Am I going to accept your random request on Facebook?

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Speaker 3: I feel exactly the same. It's very nice that people

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Speaker 3: like me enough to want to be friends, but you know, sorry, mate,

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Speaker 3: times times too short. I'm eighty one. I've probably only

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Speaker 3: got another five years. I'd rather spend it with people

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Speaker 3: I like and know.

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Speaker 1: This is why You've got a memoir out. It's called

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Speaker 1: This Much Is True. Hilarious stories, some shocking stories from

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Speaker 1: your colorful life and career, including working with Leo DiCaprio

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Speaker 1: and partying with Prince Charles. I'm not sure which order

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Speaker 1: i'd want to do those two things in, But what

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Speaker 1: was a working life?

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Speaker 3: It's all part of life's rich pattern. I'm very proud

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Speaker 3: to say that my book is number one in.

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Speaker 1: The Uktistic congratulations.

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Speaker 3: I never expected that because I'm not a writer, but

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Speaker 3: I thought, if I'm going to write a book, I've

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Speaker 3: got to write everything that's happened to me. I'm not

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Speaker 3: going to I'm not going to filter it. And so

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Speaker 3: although it's very well written because I wrote it, there

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Speaker 3: are incidents in it and stories in it that are

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Speaker 3: not for the general reader. So I always say, don't

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Speaker 3: give it to your grandma because it might upset them.

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Speaker 1: The last thing would want is a watered down memoir

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Speaker 1: from you. We want the full story. I would like

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Speaker 1: to see here some of these stories. Alan Coming one

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Speaker 1: of my favorite people in the world. You did a

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Speaker 1: show with him during Scotland. What's it like going on

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Speaker 1: the road with Alan Coming?

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Speaker 3: It's delightful. The thing I love most is that he's

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Speaker 3: so kind because I'm an old lady and I don't

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Speaker 3: climb up and down out of camper vans very easily,

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Speaker 3: and he's always there with a helping hand. He puts

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Speaker 3: the stool out for me to put my let it down.

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Speaker 3: And it was such a success. Our series we're doing

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Speaker 3: another one, so I'm seeing him again. We're going to

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Speaker 3: Scotland and we're going to America. We're going to California

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Speaker 3: because we're visiting places that have a sentimental attachment for us,

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Speaker 3: and we both work in California. I didn't want to

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Speaker 3: go to New York because I know he lives there.

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Speaker 3: I can't stand New York's places on Earth that I

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Speaker 3: really don't like. But I lived in Los Angeles and

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Speaker 3: I had a good time there. And we're going up

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Speaker 3: Route sixty.

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Speaker 4: Six, beautiful old school.

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Speaker 2: In a convertible.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you do a muscle car or something.

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Speaker 3: No, it'll be a camper van. In the camper van,

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Speaker 3: a toilet available when you get to my age. I

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Speaker 3: can't wait to go to the want to go to, want.

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Speaker 2: To look forward to it.

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Speaker 3: And so the only thing we could do was was

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Speaker 3: to have one of these. Yeah they call it a

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Speaker 3: camper van. Yeah. Yeah. The toilet was so narrow I

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Speaker 3: had to go in sideways.

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Speaker 4: I made it, made it most of them.

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Speaker 3: That's good.

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Speaker 4: You mentioned that Allen Covery is very quick to get

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Speaker 4: the store out, Speaking of which here in Australia, you

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Speaker 4: were the front of the front person of the advertising

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Speaker 4: campaign for bell cancer awareness in Australia. People need to

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Speaker 4: get tested and we get the free kit past to

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Speaker 4: the age of fifty, but.

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Speaker 1: They literally arrives the day after fiftieth first day.

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Speaker 2: Mariam you that was wonderful for you to do that,

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Speaker 2: very important.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I really believe in that. I've always had my

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Speaker 3: colon oscar bes on time. I think it's very important.

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Speaker 3: And it's the same with the prostate cancer if you

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Speaker 3: catch these things early. Now we don't. We girls don't

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Speaker 3: get prostate. We've got other things that we get. But

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Speaker 3: you guys, you've got to go and get tested. You

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Speaker 3: mustn't be squeamish about it. Just go to the doctor.

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Speaker 4: What's those digits at the ready?

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Speaker 1: Well, on that note, interesting, We can't wait to see

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Speaker 1: part two tonight and now that we know, we particularly

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Speaker 1: can't wait for part four next year when you make

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Speaker 1: your way over to w y It's always lovely to

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Speaker 1: talk to you, Miriam.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for having me. I'm loving Western Australia, especially

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Speaker 3: your beautiful theater in Perth that I've played there.

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Speaker 4: That you had imagine you should do a road trip

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Speaker 4: together to Albury. How good would that be?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean as long as it's toilet. Thank you, Mariam,

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Speaker 2: bless you,