SEARCHING by INXS.Story by Martina Medica.
I watch the funeral on my own, in bed, after recording it. I don’t want to watch it in real time with others around me, the people who don’t understand, who tell me I'm being silly.
SECURITY by THE SAINTS. Story by Robert Lastdrager.
I realised the lounge room had become quiet, like a courtroom waiting for a verdict. As the questions continued the crowd in the room began to swell.
SEE MY BABY JIVE by WIZZARD Story by Stephen Andrew
I couldn't escape the crush (in both senses of the word) the first time I heard it. I was dumped, pulled under and dragged disoriented across the sandy sediment of my adolescent existence. See My Baby Jive was excoriating.
Senses Working Overtime by XTC. Story by Zoë Krukpa
Zoë Krukpa Cleaning my bedroom window, Canberra, 1982My ear was burning in the sun, and my nose, which I had just recently pierced with the aid of a needle sterilized with a match and a handy bit of raw potato, was throbbing softly. The window rag smelled of this new stuff, eucalyptus oil, which I wanted to drown the world in I loved it so much, and my music box was precariously perched on a stool.
SERENADE by MARIO LANZA. Story by Hugh Jones
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.
Serong on song for Terang
Our second show for 2022 is just weeks away - Saturday 5 March, in Terang, south-west Victoria.