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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: The ABC of starts tomorrow night on the ABC, obviously

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Speaker 2: an interview series that brings prominent Australians face to face

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Speaker 2: with their earlier selves, based around a one on one

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Speaker 2: conversation with David Wenham. Who's with us now? Good morning, David,

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Speaker 2: good morning, good morning. To know what a great list

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Speaker 2: of guests you have at Start Strong with Julia Gillard

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Speaker 2: in the first week.

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Speaker 3: It does? It does. We've got Julia, We've got cricketing legend,

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Speaker 3: Ian Chappell, Greg pick Havever, who is hg from Gan

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Speaker 3: Roy Love, Wendy Harmer, Miranda tapsll Yeah, terrific.

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Speaker 1: People are right, well a line up? Are you talking

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Speaker 1: to Jack Thompson as well? In this one?

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Speaker 3: Mate? I am talking to Jack Thompson as well.

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Speaker 1: Absolute legend, so many stories I imagine.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know Jack, And when we were planning the

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Speaker 3: second series, I asked the producers if you know Jack

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Speaker 3: would be a wonderful subject. Of course, so I asked

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Speaker 3: Jack and he just laughed and he said, mate, I'd

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Speaker 3: do it, he said, but good luck trying to narrow

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Speaker 3: that one down to half an hour.

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Speaker 2: A life lives that sounds like a very reaction.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we can hear that he's got Oh completely, yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's about you know, ten decibels were bigger and more

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Speaker 3: booming the mind. Incredible, incredible man, incredible story, incredible clips

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Speaker 3: from the archive actually that they've dug up. Have you

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Speaker 3: done work? Have you worked with Jack before we did?

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Speaker 3: We were both in Australia to get the past moments,

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Speaker 3: Ah right, and we've done a couple of things. We've

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Speaker 3: done a couple of things, a couple of other things

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Speaker 3: that when they re released Sunday Too Far Away, they

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Speaker 3: digitoually remastered the print the very first screening of that,

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Speaker 3: which was up in Queensland at the Art Gallery there.

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Speaker 3: I interviewed Jack afterwards, which was just fantastic to mine

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Speaker 3: his history and what a history.

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Speaker 1: We haven't actually spoken to you. We'll get back to

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Speaker 1: the show shortly. We haven't spoken since Elvis became such

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Speaker 1: a big hit. Wasn't there one incredible experience? And you

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Speaker 1: we have discussed how wonderful you were in your role.

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Speaker 1: But that first thirty minutes or so is bas Leman

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Speaker 1: on steroids, isn't it? It is incredible?

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Speaker 3: It is you know Basis stuff is there's a different

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Speaker 3: stamp that he puts on his work, which makes it

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Speaker 3: so so unique. You can't you know, you see twenty films,

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Speaker 3: you know which one is bas Lemons, which is a

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Speaker 3: testament tissue, is very specific, unique, wonderful talent.

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Speaker 2: Now back to the show of course the ABC of

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Speaker 2: who would be your dream guest?

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Speaker 1: Out of if you could just.

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Speaker 2: Pick any one?

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Speaker 3: Okay, I did ask for my dream guest. Don't ask

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Speaker 3: you obviously we're I think exactly so we don't you know,

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Speaker 3: we obviously concentrate on people who have got a big

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Speaker 3: history within the ABC archive. But I thought I might

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Speaker 3: be able to stretch it just a little beers and

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Speaker 3: see if I could get somebody who has a lot,

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Speaker 3: like an incredible amount on the BBC archive. But all

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Speaker 3: that stuff was screened on the ABC. And he is,

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Speaker 3: Sir David Attenborough.

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Speaker 2: The dream guests for everybody.

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Speaker 3: He would I was very fortunate once to meet today,

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Speaker 3: but at dinner in London there was about twelve hothers there.

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Speaker 3: One of the most extraordinary experiences in my life. He

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Speaker 3: was one of the very few people who's who even

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Speaker 3: exceeded my expectation of who and what He would be.

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Speaker 3: Incredible man, incredible man. So he would be Yeah, he'd

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Speaker 3: be my dream, my dream interviewing this is a.

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Speaker 2: Different kind of role for you because we are so

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Speaker 2: used to seeing and you're such a versatile actor, and

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Speaker 2: we're used to seeing you on the screen in that way.

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Speaker 2: Is this something you always wanted to add to the bow?

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Speaker 2: Another string?

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Speaker 3: Not really look at it. It came to me from

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Speaker 3: complete left of field. I got asked about it if

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Speaker 3: i'd be interested in talking to the producer about the

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Speaker 3: very first season. Who's been John Cassimir, who's a bit

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Speaker 3: of a legend in the Australian television industry now. He

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Speaker 3: used to be a journalist and wrote for newspapers. And

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Speaker 3: we sat down and he talked about the reason why

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Speaker 3: he had approached me. He said, look, we don't want

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Speaker 3: a journalist to do this show. We want our guests

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Speaker 3: to feel comfortable sitting in that chair, and we thought

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Speaker 3: that somebody who had sat in that chair themselves many

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Speaker 3: many times would understand what it felt like and also

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Speaker 3: that could possibly lead to different conversations. The reasoning behind

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Speaker 3: it they wanted somebody who was you know, who was

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Speaker 3: the main thing was to elicit a different type of conversation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, people come from I mean, have you got

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Speaker 1: a particular we know your style now, but have you

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Speaker 1: got a particular host or interviewer that you love? Are

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Speaker 1: your parking? Is it David Frost, is it dentim you idea?

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Speaker 3: Well, both all those three out you know, their their

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Speaker 3: top shelf obviously here in Australia. Yeah, Denson's right at

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Speaker 3: the top of the list there and he was. He

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Speaker 3: was kind enough when we were planning for this series

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Speaker 3: to allow himself to be interviewed by me as a

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Speaker 3: bit of an exercise. We sat down and we chat

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Speaker 3: it for a couple of hours and the bugger won't

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Speaker 3: let us air that, but it was. It was terrific.

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Speaker 3: It was extremely informative for me, and he was very

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Speaker 3: generous in sharing his insights about about interviews.

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Speaker 2: Keep that at wear him down?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely for the next one. I certainly, you know,

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to be giving up my day job.

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Speaker 3: It's you know, it's it's a it's a part time job.

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Speaker 3: Well and I love it's like it's I feel so

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Speaker 3: privileged to be able to sit in that chair and

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Speaker 3: just to listen to the most extraordinary people talk about

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Speaker 3: their journey and their lives and how they've changed. It's yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's a gift. Yeah, I feel very lucky.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, can relate because we feel very privileged to

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Speaker 2: have you join us this morning, David the ABC of Thank.

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Speaker 3: You, David. You have a good day, you too,