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Joins the show to go through who won the weekend in sport's ratings with David Warner's Final Test and the summer of tennis dominating. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Boxing Day Viewership Numbers, BBL Thriving, United Cup Interest Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Australian PGA Championship Numbers, AFLW Viewers, WBBL Broadcast Numbers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
England Vs Australia Viewers, Seven Having The Ashes Rights, Kangaroos Vs Kiwis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Australia Vs Pakistan, New Zealand Vs Samoa, F1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Warriors Vs Broncos Numbers, The Brownlow Medal, Wallabies Vs Wales Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
WWC Numbers, NRL Continues To Shine, Dragons Match On The Weekend Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Matildas And The WWC, Wimbledon Final, Ashes Viewing Expectations! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tess Connery-Britten Interview Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Tess Connery Interview
Tess Connery Interview
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Tess Connery joins Afternoons with Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith is joined by: Channel 9 reporter Zac Bailey The Daily Telegraph's Ben Horne ESPN's Laurie Horesh MediaWeek's Tess Connery
Tess Connery Interview
Tess Connery Interview
We discuss chapters 5-9 from No Crime in the Mountains by Raymond Chandler. As the plot gets slowly more ludicrous, Flex derails the conversation to complain about Chandler's non-fiction writing about the Crime Fiction genre, including his very own set of rules. Herds is put to the task to determine if his own claim that 'if they give you the answer early, it must be a lie' is true. We're also joined by former 2SER Breakfast host Tess Connery, who after promising us a discussion on True Crime in April, decided to depart the station.
Highway Bodies takes us to regional Victoria on the eve of the Zombie Apocalypse.With the undead ready to bite at ever turn, three groups of teenagers must fight through the shuffling hoards and defend against roaming bands of humans.Featuring queer, non-binary and gender fluid characters Evans' apocalyptic adventure explores the very real danger of trying to live, survive and just be yourself.
If Cats Disappeared From the World tells the story of a postman given only days to live following the diagnosis of a brain tumour.When the devil appears wearing an Aloha short the postman is given a choice; for one more day of life he must make one thing disappear from the world.What could you live without?
The 2ser Book Club is back with more great reads in 2019!Join Andrew and Tess and discover what they've been reading over the summer as well as find a few good reads to help you think about Australia's history in the lead up to January 26th.
Sara Barsova has returned to her family home at the foot of Mt Wellington following the death of her Grandmother. Nina Barsova raised Sara as her own following the teenage pregnancy of Sara’s mother Helena.A chance meeting with Abdhul, an Afghani refugee, has Sara reevaluating her ties to family as she seeks to forgive her mother and finally discover the identity of her father.
Cedar Valley follows Benny Miller as she leaves Sydney to take up an offer of a small house house in Cedar Valley. Benny’s Mum has recently died and her old friend Odette has offered Benny the house where Vivian once lived.The day Benny gets to town a well dressed man steps off the local bus and walks to the local antique store. Sitting himself down on the footpath, he is later found dead, still seated when the town closes down for the afternoon.So begins another day in the life of Cedar Valley.
Krissy Kneen's Wintering takes us into the lives of Jessica and Matthew. They live a secluded life in an out-of-the-way cabin in Tasmania’s south. Matthew’s a local though, in a town that knows what you had for breakfast before the coffee even gets cold, while Jessica’s from the mainland and mostly keeps to herself. Life goes on, as life tends to do, until one evening Matthew fails to return home and Jessica receives a call; the police have found his car and his phone abandoned on an isolated section of road...
In Rosalie Ham’s The Year of the Farmer we find five years of drought have been hard on Bishop’s Corner. They’ve been hard on the whole region, but Mitchell Bishop has suffered especially since Neralie McIntosh left town for the city. Mitch is now married to Mandy, against the town’s wishes, and she’s hellbent on getting the respect she feels she’s owed as Mrs Bishop.With the water authority ready to cut allocations to irrigators, no one’s got any money to pay anyone else and the town is ready to riot. And just who is the pubs new owner and what will they mean for the simmering tensions across the community?
A Sand Archive begins in Geelong, where our unnamed narrator discovers a slim volume on dune stabilisation by an engineer, FB Herschell. The unassuming book quickly transfixes the narrator with its blend of carefully observed statistics and poetic flourishes. When Herschell himself visits the narrator’s book store, they begin a brief friendship that inspires a search for the true Herschell following his death. Piecing together a life from diaries we are transported between the 1968 Paris student riots, the French Atlantic Coast and the stifling Victorian public service.
Terra Nullius takes the reader to a kind of fictional future-history of Australia. We hit the ground running matching the frantic pace of Jacky, a Native escaped from the convent school where he is treated little better than a slave. The Settlers are soon on Jacky’s trail and Trooper Rohan, famed and feared for his violent temper, is none too happy to be setting off into the harsh Australian interior to bring the fugitive Jacky home.Claire G Coleman's Terra Nullius is an important insight into the history and impact of dispossession, and a cracking good read from a new Australian voice!
Levi and Charlotte McAllister’s mother has died and been cremated, only to return to the family as a creature of flesh and fern from the wilderness where her ashes were scattered. It’s not so unusual, and she means no malice, you see many of the McAllister women have returned to visit their family after death, sporting the raiment of the natural world. She takes a shower, because ferns need lots of water, then after a few days their mother seeks out their estranged father only to spontaneously combust on his front lawn.So begins Charlotte and Levi’s grief. A grief that sees Charlotte flee to a wombat colony on the island’s south and Levi, fearing his sister’s own fate, embarks on a mission to build her a coffin so that she might never fear cremation and return.Join Andrew and Tess as they dive head first into the weirdly wonderful Flames!
We meet Katherine King Button as she embarks from the boat into London, two years after departing at the end of the war. Having served as a nurse on the Western Front, Katherine is Kiki to all those who know her from those days. London is just a pit stop, though on her way to Paris and to the freedom that only the post war liberty that city can offer. Ensconced in a garret in Montparnasse Kiki is determined to live up to notoriety as the blonde Australian society reporter.Falling in with artistic circles Kiki becomes a model and lover of Pablo Picasso who entrusts Kiki with a mission to locate a stolen portrait; leveraging all her society access to discover the thief. When a mysterious figure from the war reemerges, at the same time reports drift in from Germany's northern territories of fascist brownshirts terrorising the population, Kiki knows her past is catching up with her...Settle in for a ripping adventure in the city of lights!
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart introduces us to Alice. As a child she lives with her family in a seaside village, where they have carved out a seeming idyllic existence. Alice loves her mother, but is perplexed by her father’s moods. Following a tragic fire Alice must leave the town and travel inland to live with her heretofore unknown Grandmother June. June’s farm, Thornfield is a home for women with nowhere else to go and Alice soon falls into the rhythms of nurturing the exotic native flowers that the women are famed for. But June is harbouring a secret that she will do anything to keep lest she lose her granddaughter’s love.
One of, if not the most important show at 2ser, is our Breakfast program. From 6am weekdays, our most popular magazine show brings you the latest news and diverse stories you are unlikely to find anywhere else!Host of 2ser Breakfast is Tess Connery, and she joined me on Old New Borrowed Blue this week to talk all things radio, interviews, and politics!
In this special bonus episode of Great Conversations Andrew and Tess Connery from 2ser's Breakfast program discuss Behrouz Boochani's No Friend But the Mountains.No Friend But the Mountains takes the reader into Australia’s offshore detention facility. Behrouz has been imprisoned on Manus for five years and in that time has written journalism on his imprisonment and produced an internationally acclaimed film Chauka, Please Tell us the Time. No Friend but the Mountains imagines his life and experiences on Manus, detailing the oppression and torture of life imprisoned without recourse or release.
Hans and Bennett are joined by Laura Wynne and Tess Connery to look back on a week which saw a Turnbull ministerial reshuffle and a look ahead to the Italian Elections. Features International Editor Ryan Quek’s report into the removal of terms for Chinese President Xi Jinping.