Aldous Huxley once said (and please excuse the old school gender-specific language): 'Every man's memory is his private literature'. This week, as we continue our summer season of highlights from 2009, we're bringing you stories from memories: stories of people taking their private literature and publishing it. As a grown woman Lorraine McGee-Sippell discovered that her memories were only a fraction of her story—she drops by to share the tale of how she discovered the family and the heritage she didn't know she had. Don Walker is best known for writing and performing Cold Chisel songs, but he is also the author of an intriguing memoir, and he phones in to chat about them. And we revisit a sweet and haunting story by poet and writer Ella Holcombe, a story about a moment full of meaning from childhood.
Lorraine McGee-Sippell, Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste? Magabala Books - interviewed by Katherine Keefe (first broadcast July 2009)
Don Walker, Shots, Black Inc - interviewed by Shamin Fernando (first broadcast June 2009)
Ella Holcombe, 'In the Pines', from Louise Swinn and Zoe Dattner (eds.), The Sleepers Almanac No. 5, Sleepers Publishing - read by Ella Holcombe, produced by Benedict Taylor with assistance from Michelle Bennet, RRR; (first broadcast July 2009)
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