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Speaker 1: our midst is one of the most incredible writers. He's

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Speaker 1: Australian but has sold eight million books worldwide. The master

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Speaker 1: he switched hats and became the director and co writer

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Speaker 1: for his first film, Interceptor, a huge success, reaching number

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Speaker 1: one on Netflix and over eighty countries, and good news

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Speaker 1: for his book fans. He's back to writing novels and

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Speaker 1: illustrata to release his latest, the epic historical adventure Mister

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Speaker 1: Einstein's Secretary, sounds intriguing. Matthew Riley, Hello.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 3: Matt, it's great to have you in here. And of course,

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Speaker 3: over the time, Aman and I have both written books.

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Speaker 3: So you're in good compiler. You're then writers, you're in

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Speaker 3: a writer's conventions convention.

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Speaker 1: Tell us about Mister Einstein's Secretary historical this time.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I did a historical book about ten years ago,

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Speaker 2: called The Tournament, and I like doing that so much.

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Speaker 2: I thought, I'm going to do this story that spans

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Speaker 2: forty years something, which is a big epic, and it's

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Speaker 2: this young woman who's a gifted physicist in Berlin in

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Speaker 2: about nineteen nineteen, and tragedy strikes. She shipped off to

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Speaker 2: New York City and she sent a secretary school. So

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Speaker 2: you got this really brilliant young woman who then becomes

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Speaker 2: a secretary to all these key historical figures over the

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Speaker 2: next thirty years. So you get gangsters in the twenties,

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Speaker 2: the crash, Nazis in the thirties, then World War Two,

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Speaker 2: and in there is Einstein and the genesis of the

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Speaker 2: atomic bomb.

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Speaker 1: Hi Bizarly, when I went with Beyond two thousand, held

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Speaker 1: Einstein's brain in a jar for many years. I thought

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Speaker 1: I'd imagined it, and I saw the footage again recently.

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Speaker 1: The guy who did the autopsy just went and stole

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Speaker 1: the brain, did he? Yeah, And so I'm standing there

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Speaker 1: looking at it in a jar bizarrely. How did you

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Speaker 1: find the experience of directing your films or your first

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Speaker 1: from Interceptor? What was that experience like, because some of

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Speaker 1: being on a big set.

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Speaker 2: It was fantastic. Yeah, it's awesome. Better catering, I bet, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: there is better catering. And you know, I mean my

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Speaker 2: star an Interceptor was Elsa Pataki because you know missus

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Speaker 2: Chris Hemsworth. Yes, and she was just dynamite. You know.

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Speaker 2: By the end of Interceptor she looks like John McLain

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Speaker 2: at the end of Diehard she's been been shot. I

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Speaker 2: bet she loved it. You know, she would go home.

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Speaker 2: She's got two boys and a daughter and she'd go

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Speaker 2: home with her makeup on, with blood, you know, dripping

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Speaker 2: out of the door to come home and see the kids.

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Speaker 2: Go look kids, look the work. And she was it

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Speaker 2: was you know, Interceptor was If you've ever wondered what

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Speaker 2: a Matthew Riley book would look like as a film,

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Speaker 2: Interceptor is what I would consider that to be. It's

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Speaker 2: just NonStop, you know, pedal to the metal. I was

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Speaker 2: stoked doing that. That's fantastic. I want to do it again.

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Speaker 2: Now the right strokes over, I can do it again.

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Speaker 3: You're back to it and you're in As you mentioned,

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Speaker 3: you're living in LA Now what about the Doloreum. Where's

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Speaker 3: that hanging out? Now you've got the Dolory.

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Speaker 2: The DeLorean is still in Australia right because it's right

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Speaker 2: hand drive. Idiot that I am. I got it converted.

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Speaker 2: You've got to convert it. It's in my friend's garage

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Speaker 2: in Canberra, yep, and I'm getting it converted to electric.

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Speaker 2: So I'm going to have an electric DeLorean.

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Speaker 3: Well actually would probably reliable.

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Speaker 2: Then, well, it's a terrible it's a very very slow car.

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Speaker 2: But it's beautiful. My Dolorean is just a piece of art.

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Speaker 3: It's just it is. It's you know, when they made it,

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Speaker 3: it was really Back to the Future that just gave it.

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Speaker 3: It's because it was a bit of a lemon, really, wasn't.

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Speaker 2: It the company The company had gone under. Back to

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Speaker 2: the Future came about a year too late to save Delorian.

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Speaker 2: I just love it. It's a beautiful car. And where

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Speaker 2: I live in la you actually see the old Doloreian

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Speaker 1: So will you actually drive it as an everyday car?

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Speaker 2: My friend will, my friend in Canberra will drive it

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Speaker 2: around as an everyday car. Brilliant. I was an idiot

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Speaker 2: because I bought it left hand drive, converted it to

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Speaker 2: now I have this right hand drive DeLorean that I

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Speaker 2: can't use.

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Speaker 1: Very grateful friend, Very grateful friend.

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Speaker 2: What do you find out when you meet me, is

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Speaker 2: that I'm a bit of an idiot. I look like

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Speaker 2: I'm this smart, you know, all the guy, but I'm

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Speaker 2: running around from books to movies.

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Speaker 1: And I like that you've got your own follies on board.

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Speaker 3: I could do a good deal on a flux capacitor.

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Speaker 3: I've just got some garbage out the back. We're just

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Speaker 3: shove it in the in there and off your guard.

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Speaker 2: That would be helpful.

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Speaker 3: This would be great, well, Matt, it's always great to

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Speaker 3: talk to you. Mister Einstein's Secretary is out now from

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Speaker 3: all good bookstores. Matthew Riley, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me. It's great to

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Speaker 2: be back.