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Speaker 1: Jum mission with Jones and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Our next guest is an Australian Hollywood style. We've seen

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Speaker 2: him on the big screen the small screen, but he's

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Speaker 2: trying something different and I for one can't wait for this.

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Speaker 2: It's a crime drama podcast called The Orchard. Eric Banner, Hello,

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Speaker 2: look at him?

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Speaker 1: Jonesy and a man, good morning. Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 3: Ge look good.

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Speaker 4: I've got one of those filters on that says look

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Speaker 4: good today.

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Speaker 2: Can we borrow it? I?

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Speaker 3: Can we borrow it after you've done with it?

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Speaker 2: Eric, This is thrilling because I spend quite a bit

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Speaker 2: of time driving to and from work. We still come

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Speaker 2: into work every day, and I'm always looking for something

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Speaker 2: to listen to. And I love an old school drama.

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Speaker 2: All this real life stuff, I'm kind of over it.

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Speaker 2: So tell me about The Orchard.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's an original, original drama.

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Speaker 4: I got approached by Audible with this idea of a

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Speaker 4: thirdeen part podcast that was basically like a radio play,

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Speaker 4: like an old fashioned drama radio play, and I just

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Speaker 4: apps jumped at the chance. I thought it was a

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Speaker 4: wonderful opportunity to keep the acting muscles flexed, as we

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Speaker 4: like to say, and it was just a lot of fun.

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Speaker 4: It was a great challenge and a hell of a

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Speaker 4: lot of fun to do.

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Speaker 3: When I started in radio some thirty thousand years ago,

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Speaker 3: I used to play a radio play. It was from

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Speaker 3: the fifties. It was called The Man That Came to

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Speaker 3: Kill and it was voiced by a young Roger Clemson.

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Speaker 3: But I found myself at first purpooing it, saying what's this?

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Speaker 3: I'd rather be playing the Angels. But after some time

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Speaker 3: I really got into it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really wonderful, and they've really taken a lot

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Speaker 4: of a lot of work into the approach of the

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Speaker 4: audi audio experience. So the sound design on this is

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Speaker 4: really high end. So especially if you were lucky enough

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Speaker 4: to listen to it with headphones on, you'll find that

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Speaker 4: it is another level to what we're used to with podcasts,

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Speaker 4: which is basically people talking.

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Speaker 1: But this is like.

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Speaker 4: Watching a film but listening to it, and it's really

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Speaker 4: been tailor made for that experience.

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Speaker 2: In the old school ones, I remember, I used become

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Speaker 2: obsessed with Cattleman. I sometimes I cry on the way

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Speaker 2: into work. I got so consumed by it. But I

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Speaker 2: assumed it when the old school everyone was in a

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Speaker 2: room together recording it. Obviously, that's not how this has

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Speaker 2: been done. I know you've got Magda Zubanski's part of

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Speaker 2: the lineup. Did you all have to film your own

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Speaker 2: bit individually or how did you actually physically do it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we did it in a couple of stages.

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Speaker 4: Luckily it was in between lockdowns in Melbourne, so at

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Speaker 4: one point we were able to shuffle in and out

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Speaker 4: of a very very large room and so I could

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Speaker 4: see some of the other cast members from a long

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Speaker 4: way away, but we could interact and do it in

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Speaker 4: real time, which was far better than us like recording

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Speaker 4: individually and sort of you know, them patching it all together.

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Speaker 4: So for a lot of the big scenes where there's

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Speaker 4: a lot of interplay, we were able to be in

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Speaker 4: the same space at the same.

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Speaker 1: Time, which was which was fantastic.

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Speaker 4: And I got to you know, I can't believe Australian

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Speaker 4: actor in my fifties and I hadn't acted with Gary

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Speaker 4: Sweet before really, so I got to tick that box.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's extraordinary.

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Speaker 2: What's it like acting with just your voice or did

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Speaker 2: you find that all of you were physically acting through

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Speaker 2: it anyway?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you kind of do.

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Speaker 4: It's a great question, because in actual fact, the approach

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Speaker 4: is kind of exactly the same as if you're acting

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Speaker 4: in a film in terms of you know, being prepared

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Speaker 4: understanding what the scene's about. In some ways, it's even

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Speaker 4: more important because you don't have that extra tool to

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Speaker 4: rely on, you don't have that close up, you don't

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Speaker 4: have that reaction. It all has to be communicated through

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Speaker 4: through your voice. And I absolutely, look, I love voice work,

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Speaker 4: I love doing the ration and things like that, so

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Speaker 4: I really really enjoyed that. But it was it was

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Speaker 4: a wonderful exercise and it really did feel very very

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Speaker 4: similar to acting in film, but having to sort of

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Speaker 4: heighten those muscles that you normally rely upon.

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Speaker 3: And you play a disaffected detective, did you, because in

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Speaker 3: the Dry you were kind of a disaffected detective as well.

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Speaker 4: So this is I was, yeah, yeah, well, I mean essentially,

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Speaker 4: this is a this is a mystery. It is a thriller,

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Speaker 4: and I'm investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a

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Speaker 4: young young boy who was linked to a girls school.

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Speaker 1: And it does have.

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Speaker 4: Have elements of you know, thriller, mystery and a little

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Speaker 4: bit of supernatural as well. And we've got a wonderful,

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Speaker 4: wonderful cast, and it was just just a lot of

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Speaker 4: fun to do.

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Speaker 3: I'm asking for a friend, how's the falcon going? A

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Speaker 3: man who just wants to know she's.

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Speaker 4: Just the falcon is ripping. The Falcon's had a rough

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Speaker 4: couple of years in lockdown. Let's be honest. He's it

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Speaker 4: really is looking forward to a good a good thumping

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Speaker 4: out on the open road. But anyway we'll have to

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Speaker 4: we'll have to wait for that. But it's fantastic, mate.

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Speaker 4: You know, I was repaired many years ago, and it's

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Speaker 4: registered and engineered, and I enjoy driving it on the road.

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Speaker 1: And I don't race that car anymore because it's because

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Speaker 1: you smashed it last time. A replacement, because they're going up.

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Speaker 3: They've just gone up in vey you ment like big

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Speaker 3: rust buckets out in the middle of nowhere. A is

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Speaker 3: selling for incredible amounts of money.

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Speaker 1: It's extraordinary.

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Speaker 4: Look one of the best investments I've ever made. I mean,

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Speaker 4: if you told me when I was fifteen that I

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Speaker 4: was such an entrepreneur who thought.

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Speaker 1: To realize that investment, I.

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Speaker 3: Can imagine the people back then saying, good on your money.

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Speaker 3: Draw your money into that Eric's always a treat to

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Speaker 3: catch up with you.

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Speaker 1: The orchard is out today great. Thanks for having me guys.

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Speaker 2: Nice to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's g