Writer and Podcaster
Re-affirmed: Chat 10 Looks 3, Shameless, Squizz Shortcuts, Teacher’s Pet series’ Who The Hell Is Hamish?
New: Loose Units: The Podcast, Gertie’s Law, Parental As Anything (with Maggie Dent), Take 5, Unravel True Crime: Snowball
Undiscovered: We Fact Up, Love and Luck
— Read on www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/apple-s-best-of-list-reveals-undiscovered-gems-in-remarkable-year-20191202-p53g32.html
The podcast includes these conversations, as well as audio from the police watching the trio. These contemporaneous recordings give the show an immediacy, as though you’re listening to the events in real time.
Read more at SMH: Humanising the smugglers and law enforcers behind the Pong Su story
Gertie’s Law is the best podcast I’ve heard in 2019. The series has the same empathy and access to the courts as the classic documentary So Help Me God, and plays as a more successful version of Serial’s third season, offering the perfect mix of fly-on-the-wall soundscapes, narration and interviews.
Source: Here comes the judge: Gertie’s Law goes to the coalface of the court
Let’s Talk About Sects is an award-winning podcast from Sydney-based filmmaker and writer Sarah Steel. The show explores the charismatic leaders behind cults ranging from The Family, Branch Davidians and one that sprung up from an addiction to recovery program Synanon. (read more)
There is a surprisingly light tone to Snowball, the latest season of the ABC’s true crime podcast Unravel. Compared to the tough, sombre listens of previous seasons, Snowball feels more like a caper movie, a long con stuffed with characters and situations that verge on the ridiculous. (read more)
Anna Priestland has had a unique career in podcasting. Just a few years ago Priestland was working in the fashion industry, toying with the idea of becoming a full-time writer. After a few freelance gigs, she emailed the host of her favourite true crime podcast, Case File, offering to write a few episodes of the show. (read more)
Paul Verhoeven had a unique childhood. He was raised without a television, so his father John would entertain Paul with “highly inappropriate” stories of life as a Sydney cop. (read more)
