Surely Robert Forster wasn’t a surfer, you initially think. He’s having a lend of us. But he isn’t. Or is he?
Our first show for 2023 is our first visit to the Queenscliffe Literary Festival, on Victoria's Bellarine peninsula.
He could barely speak English. I could barely speak Italian. But somehow, we communicated with one another, almost playing a silent game.
Some guests on Desert Island Discs are more interesting than others, and some are not what you would expect at all - Robert Plant, for example.
Congratulations to Stereo Stories writer Rijn Collins on the publication, today, of her debut novel, Fed to Red Birds.
I was in my new outfit and if truth be told I looked a bit like Thurston Howell III from Gilligan’s Island. I think most of the girls there thought so too.
Once Upon A Time there was a band. A band that was Made In Dublin. And there was a girl. Who wasn’t Made In Dublin. But was formed there. In a way. In the 1980s and the 1990s. In the parts of Ballymun that passed themselves off as Glasnevin.
A big thank you to Irish radio station Newstalk, which quoted a Stereo Story on Tuesday 21 February.
So, had I ever heard of CSN, he asked? (Wait, what!? Was that a news channel? A law firm?) No, I had not.
You don’t have to agree on everything, you don’t have to like the same bands, or like the same bands as much, but there is a bond, a thread.