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Speaker 1: Gold, it's jonesy the amount of driving you home there.

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Speaker 1: The Piano was on the Telly last night. It's on

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Speaker 1: ABC I view and all the episodes. You can bogue

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Speaker 1: out them all at once if you want.

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Speaker 2: It's like I think it's like a rich mud cake

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Speaker 2: and that I like to have a bit at a time.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if i'd binge it because I feel it's.

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Speaker 3: A lot there.

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Speaker 1: Meredith first sight, I'm losing it for Meredith first site

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Speaker 1: good and I think, you know, with Mel Shilling passing away,

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Speaker 1: I see her on the Telly and I think and

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Speaker 1: listen to these adult babies talking about their minutiae of

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Speaker 1: their life, and I'm like, come on.

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Speaker 3: Guys, there's real stuff out there. There's real stuff, and

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Speaker 3: you think about Mel was going through all of that.

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Speaker 3: But maybe that's what sustained.

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Speaker 2: Her well some people. Maybe you know, I need a distraction.

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Speaker 2: It's like the modern Shakespeare. That's that's what people lean

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Speaker 2: into as a distraction. But it does remind you. And

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Speaker 2: this is what I often say with the Piano is

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Speaker 2: everyone has a story.

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Speaker 3: Well what about Pete and Rosea?

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Speaker 2: Oh, this is one of my favorite favorite stories. And

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Speaker 2: Peter and Rosie were selected to be in the concert

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Speaker 2: at the end, and that's hugely emotional when that happens.

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Speaker 2: But I loved meeting Peter and Rosie. So Peter is

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Speaker 2: a ninety two year old din Maam and the unpernouncing

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Speaker 2: that correctly ma Man. He's Indigenous. He lives in the

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Speaker 2: northwest of Western Australia.

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Speaker 3: Yep Rafa Broomway, quite.

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Speaker 2: Remote, absolutely between about four flights, still able to come down.

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Speaker 2: So he still works as a stockman. He's ninety two.

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Speaker 2: He works every day. He is the last speaker on

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Speaker 2: the planet of his language. He learned it from his grandfather,

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Speaker 2: remembers a bit of it from his mother. But he's

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Speaker 2: never been to school. He says, I can count sheep,

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Speaker 2: I can count cattle, but I've never been to school.

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Speaker 2: But he's had no one to talk with. This language

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Speaker 2: has disappeared. So there was a Rosie is a linguist.

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Speaker 2: She's not indigenous. She's a linguist who has been trying

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Speaker 2: to work with indigenous people around that area to capture

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Speaker 2: their languages before they go. And so she'd heard about Peter,

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Speaker 2: and he'd heard that she was looking for him. So

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Speaker 2: he took off for three years he went walk about

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Speaker 2: it right three years and she they have forged this

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Speaker 2: brilliant friendship. They are like an old couple. They're not

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Speaker 2: a couple, but they make each other laugh. They're a

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Speaker 2: great team, these two. So she's in the thirties, he's

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Speaker 2: ninety two. She has through talking to her. He could

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Speaker 2: download what was in his brain of his language, and

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Speaker 2: she's put it to music and he does the spoken

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Speaker 2: word of this and she sings in this language, and

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Speaker 2: it is hauntingly beautiful.

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Speaker 3: What Baba.

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Speaker 4: Baba is a song about Peter's country. So the song

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Speaker 4: means if there's no rain, there's no water. And if

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Speaker 4: there's no water in the pools of the river, there's

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Speaker 4: no grass, there's no kangaroos, there's no birds, there's no life,

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Speaker 4: and the country dies.

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Speaker 5: No mo double money in the other.

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Speaker 3: Looking up, moody body, buble.

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Speaker 2: Hello. And Peter is such a great looking man. He's

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Speaker 2: got his hat on and his shirt, his western shirt,

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Speaker 2: and he's striding out in his footage we see of.

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Speaker 3: Him at home. He's old school, he's old school, proud man.

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Speaker 1: It would have sounded, you know, kind of haunting echoing

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Speaker 1: in a modern an ancient language like that echoing out.

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Speaker 3: Through the airport. Yeah, is that incredible? The question I

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Speaker 3: would ask though, with what what ababba? That song? That's

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Speaker 3: his last language? Who knows what he's saying? How does

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Speaker 3: how do you determine what he's saying?

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Speaker 2: Well, she could, he could remember what the language was.

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Speaker 2: He hasn't spoken it for you, learning from his grandfather,

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Speaker 2: that's right. And so he has taught this linguist, Rosie,

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Speaker 2: this language and now she speaks it with him.

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Speaker 3: Amazing, absolutely beautiful.

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Speaker 2: And you're right to be at this international airport and

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Speaker 2: that he'd learnt this language from his grandfather and his mum,

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Speaker 2: who would never have been on an aeroplane in their lives.

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Speaker 2: What a what a journey, And to have this show

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Speaker 2: keep that language alive, What a privilege.

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Speaker 3: It was to hear it. It was beautiful.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we should send Rosie down and marritith first sight

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Speaker 1: so you can work out what they're saying.

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Speaker 2: She worked with James Rain.

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Speaker 3: Beautiful people. It's a great show. Check it out on

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Speaker 3: the ABC