1 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation. 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 2: What a great show the Piano last night. And you've 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:10,160 Speaker 2: seen you host many many shows in my time, but 4 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:11,119 Speaker 2: this is one of your best. 5 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 3: Well the premise, it's a beautiful show. Amateur pianists who 6 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 3: normally display maybe a piano at home. Some people have 7 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 3: never told their friends they played the piano. They are 8 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 3: encouraged to come down and play a public piano just 9 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:25,639 Speaker 3: for the love of it. And what they don't know 10 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 3: is at Harry Connick Junior and Andrea Lamb, who's Australia 11 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 3: is leading classical pianist, are watching on. They're hidden and 12 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 3: they're talking about these pianists and what they love about them. 13 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 3: And then they slept one from each location we go 14 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 3: to to perform in a concert at the end. But 15 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 3: the stories are beautiful, they're heartwarming. I cried watching it 16 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:45,239 Speaker 3: again last year night. 17 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 4: Yeah. I like that that one hundred and three year 18 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 4: old guy about him a battlefield one hundred and three. 19 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, he's one hundred and three years old. I've never 20 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 1: met anybody who has a home in three You're in 21 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 1: very good, Nick, Thank you very much, madam. 22 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 3: And his memory is going, his vision is going, but 23 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 3: he has this muscle memory of the music. 24 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 2: Is he still going? 25 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,959 Speaker 3: He passed away between the filming and and last night. 26 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:19,679 Speaker 4: It was great. 27 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:20,520 Speaker 3: He was beautiful. 28 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 2: I like those ladies, the Evergreens. 29 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:25,279 Speaker 3: There were four of them. They all dressed in green, 30 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:28,800 Speaker 3: and four of them played the piano at the same time. 31 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 1: Ready, one, two, three, four. It's good. 32 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 3: But it wasn't just old. 33 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 4: No, there were. 34 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 3: Five year old and there were teenagers who who didn't 35 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:53,919 Speaker 3: play sports, and that this got them through hard times 36 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 3: in their life. The length and breadth of people who 37 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 3: who feel something through the music, it's extraordinary piano. 38 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 5: When I was a kid, we ended up going to 39 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 5: learn the piano, and my piano teacher used to wear 40 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 5: a bikini when I was playing the piano because she 41 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 5: live near the beach and. 42 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 3: She'd sit next to you on the piano stool in 43 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:16,239 Speaker 3: a bikini. Yeah, you've got beautiful memories of it. 44 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 2: I was about five or six, but a lot of kids, 45 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 2: I could have been a virtua so if I wasn't 46 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 2: so distracted. 47 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 3: A lot of people said they'd learned it when they 48 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 3: was young, when they were young, and then they moved 49 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 3: away from it, and there was something whether you're going, 50 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 3: whether it was COVID or hard times in their life 51 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,680 Speaker 3: or whatever it was. They were very grateful that they'd 52 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 3: had that grounding because they could go back to it. 53 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 2: Critics few was in in the Sydney Morning Herald. You 54 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:39,359 Speaker 2: know how many stars I got? 55 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:40,080 Speaker 4: The possible? 56 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 2: Five stars, five Stars Babies, Big Time, hosted by Amanda Kello, 57 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 2: who is surely the most genuine person on TV and radio. 58 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 2: That's not me saying that this is this review, but 59 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 2: I would concur very nice. The series aims to explore 60 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:55,359 Speaker 2: how the piano has transformed the lives of everyday Australians, 61 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:57,799 Speaker 2: from a five year old girl to a one hundred. 62 00:02:57,480 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 5: And three year old man. 63 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:00,640 Speaker 2: She is the best thing on TV. 64 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 3: Doesn't say that's true? 65 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 4: That's me, that's right. 66 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 2: And you bring the commentary. 67 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 3: I told our pianists to come so. 68 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 2: Really, you love your art, you're watching that or against 69 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:15,919 Speaker 2: you're up against botched? 70 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 5: Come on,