Bonus episode: Hedley reads Chapter 1 of his new book, The Teacher's Pet

The Teacher's Pet

The Australian

News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 10.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Listen to Hedley Thomas reading Chapter 1 of his new book, The Teacher's Pet.

The book is published by Pan Macmillan and is available at all good bookstores, and wherever you get audiobooks.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Claire Harvey from the Australian.
0:13.0	We're jumping into your feed today to bring you an exclusive extract from Hedley Thomas's new book.
0:19.0	We have a feeling you might like it.
0:21.0	It's called The Teacher's Pet, and it's a deeply personal memoir about
0:25.5	journalism and the story of a lifetime, Christopher Michael Dawson. Dawson was
0:31.4	convicted of murder in 2022 and the unlawful carnal knowledge of a schoolgirl in
0:37.0	2023. He's now indicated he will appeal the murder conviction, but for now Dawson is in prison. The teacher's pet is
0:45.4	available now wherever you buy books and as an audio book on all platforms.
0:50.3	Please enjoy Chapter 1. Part 1, Gathering
1:07.0	Bowen Hills 27 October, 2017.
1:15.0	Dear Greg, please let me reintroduce myself.
1:18.6	It has been some years since our last contact.
1:21.5	My name is Headley Thomas, and I wrote some lengthy articles about your sister
1:25.5	Lynn in 2001. This happened after I met and interviewed Pat at her home in Sydney as well as Detective Loon at the police station
1:35.7	he was then working from.
1:38.9	Detective Loon was good enough at the time to give me access to his police and coronial files and on my return to
1:46.0	Brisbane I developed a feature article headlined Looking for Lynn and published in
1:52.4	the Courier Mail.
1:55.0	The dignified efforts of you, Pat, your mother until her passing and Lynn's other relatives
2:00.7	and friends to find Lynn and to achieve justice have been un-stinting over so many years.
2:09.1	It is one of the reasons Lynn's story has always stayed with me.
2:15.0	It is late in the afternoon on the last Friday of October in 2017
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