1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,199 Speaker 1: Gold. Hello there, it's Jones you Demandra. The weekend is done. 2 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 1: Everything was great. The piano was on last night. I 3 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 1: enjoyed it very very much, and. 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:10,960 Speaker 2: You know, I'm pleased you watched it. I know it's 5 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 2: up against married at first sight. A lot of people 6 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 2: watch it on iView, all the episodes up there. I 7 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 2: like watching it a week at a time. 8 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:18,599 Speaker 1: Like the idea of its being filmed in the airport. 9 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: Can I ask who pays for the parking? 10 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:22,239 Speaker 2: For who? 11 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:25,160 Speaker 1: For anyone? Because it would be very expensive. 12 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 2: Actually that's a very good point. It was amazing to 13 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 2: film at an airport because where else will you find 14 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 2: so much emotion? People coming, people going, people crying, people laughing, 15 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 2: people loving. It's like love. 16 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: Actually yeah, yeah, it was. 17 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 2: A great spot. And so each time we put a piano, 18 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:46,000 Speaker 2: a public piano in a different place and people come 19 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:49,239 Speaker 2: down and tell us their stories and did you find it? 20 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:50,600 Speaker 2: Did you find it moving? 21 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, of course very much. 22 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 2: Stories are incredible. A lot of people this morning, when 23 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 2: I was walking my dog wanted to talk to me 24 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 2: about it. And it's then the stories. A lot of 25 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 2: people say it's so moving and I cry, But it's 26 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 2: not always sad. For example, what an incredible slice of 27 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:08,399 Speaker 2: history it was to meet a fourteen year old called Max. 28 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 2: He was there with his grandma and she told a 29 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 2: bit of this story. His grandmother's father was Jack, who 30 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 2: was the piano player in the Changy prisoner of war camp. 31 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 2: This is a particularly brutal prisoner of war camp and 32 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 2: they very famously had a concert group and he was 33 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:28,400 Speaker 2: the piano player. 34 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 3: One of the work parties said, oh, we've been down 35 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 3: to the British naval based doing some cleaning up and 36 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 3: there's a piano down there. So they went out in 37 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 3: the night through the jungle, found this tiny little piano 38 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:43,559 Speaker 3: and dragged it back to the camp. Wow, they would 39 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 3: have been shot dead. And the Japanese never asked where 40 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 3: it came from. 41 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 4: It was just that. 42 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 3: So the Chaney Concert Party held over two hundred and 43 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 3: forty performances. I do believe that Dad's contribution and the 44 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 3: concert party's contribution, it really did carry them through. They 45 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 3: wouldn't have at home without that music. 46 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 2: And the footage. It's so heartbreaking. And they said that 47 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 2: sometimes the men were too weak to move, so their 48 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:14,079 Speaker 2: colleagues would carry them to the concert and that morale 49 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 2: kept them going just incredible. That piano now is at 50 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:20,920 Speaker 2: the Australian War Memorial, by the way, piano that Jack played. 51 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 2: So Max sat down his fourteen year old Max to 52 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:27,959 Speaker 2: play the song that Jack had written for his wife 53 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 2: while he was in that prison camp. 54 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 3: The song Barbara is about injuring love, the love that 55 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 3: mum and dad had kept him alive. 56 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:44,520 Speaker 2: It's loved, so. 57 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 3: It's pure and simple. It's only because of mum and 58 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:58,959 Speaker 3: Dad's injuring love that we've now got four generations keeping 59 00:02:58,960 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 3: the music alive. 60 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: Those guys had I recommend if you're ever in Singapore, 61 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 1: go to Changing Prison for a visit, because it's amazing 62 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: what they went through. The brutality put on our soldiers 63 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 1: by the Japanese was beyond the pale, absolutely and it 64 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 1: was you know, they had to wear these lap laps, 65 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:22,960 Speaker 1: a little lap lap. It was like, you know, this 66 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:26,359 Speaker 1: tiny strip of fabric. But the ingenuity, like getting the 67 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:28,639 Speaker 1: piano or there was one I was reading one particular 68 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:32,079 Speaker 1: soldier over there, he smuggled a pineapple in his lap 69 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 1: lap ries. I know how the you know, that's just 70 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 1: ozsy ingenuity right there. But if you're ever in Singapore, 71 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 1: it's worthy of a visit. 72 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, and the role that mate Chip played Kraal and 73 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 2: music and art. That's as as Andrew said, that's where 74 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 2: art is essential. 75 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 1: Exactly, I'm alive exactly. 76 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 2: Someone else we met on the show last night was Elizabeth. 77 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 2: When we first met Elizabeth and she's swinging her little 78 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 2: boy Archie on a swing and then she tells us 79 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 2: her backstory. 80 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 4: We started trying for a family pretty much immediately after 81 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 4: we got married. About a year into that, I went 82 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 4: to the GP and they discovered that I had endometriosis 83 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 4: and polcistic overy syndrome. They said to me that it 84 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 4: would be a five percent chance of me having a 85 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:19,919 Speaker 4: successful pregnancy. I just completely fell apart and felt like 86 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 4: I would never have a child. We went through years 87 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 4: and years of fertility treatment to have a family. We 88 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 4: unfortunately lost seven babies in the process. 89 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 2: Sorry, I know what that's like. I went to IVS 90 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 2: and you're down the barrel of thinking you won't be 91 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:40,039 Speaker 2: a parent. 92 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:40,680 Speaker 5: Yeah. 93 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:42,840 Speaker 2: I feel for everyone that doesn't get to take home 94 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 2: a baby. 95 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,719 Speaker 4: So I would say that writing songs really got me 96 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 4: through that, and I put all that weight that I 97 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 4: was feeling into the piano and she wrote. 98 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 2: An incredible song because so many people can relate to 99 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 2: that story and can relate to the beauty of this 100 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 2: song she's written called Finally. 101 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 5: I wasn't shore the huge show. It's been so long 102 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 5: to be told now, but all things change. Finally, Finally, 103 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 5: the only boy that came to mind when two became three. 104 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 1: So sweet, so. 105 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:33,239 Speaker 4: Sweet, so sweet. 106 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 2: This show is just a gift of the show. It 107 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 2: really is, and we've got moral like three bit later.