Bonus episode: Hedley Thomas talks The Teacher's Pet with Raymond Bonner
The Teacher's Pet
The Australian
4.6 • 10.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Hedley Thomas sits down with Pulitzer Prize-winner and former NYT foreign correspondent Raymond Bonner to discuss his new book, The Teacher's Pet, at Bookoccino book shop on Sydney's Northern Beaches.
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's Daily News Podcast, The Front. |
| 0:09.2 | Today we're bringing you a conversation recorded lives between our own Headley Thomas, |
| 0:14.3 | creator of the teacher's pet, and veteran investigative journalist Ray Bonner. |
| 0:19.1 | Ray's won a Pulitzer Prize and an Emmy Award during his long career which included stints at the New York Times and the New Yorker. |
| 0:27.0 | He now owns a bookshop on Sydney's Northern Beaches called Bookicino and this live event marked the release of Hedley's new book |
| 0:35.2 | The Teacher's Pet. The Teacher's Pet is available now wherever you get great books and |
| 0:39.9 | audio books. Please enjoy Hedley Thomas and Ray Bonner in conversation. |
| 0:47.2 | Welcome to a fantastic Bookicino author evening. This is our first time in this wonderful venue and it's lovely to see so many new faces and indeed so many faces. |
| 1:01.0 | My name is Sally Tabner. I have had the privilege to become one of the new |
| 1:06.2 | custodians of Bucchino with my co-owner Ray Bonner who is here conducting this |
| 1:12.1 | interview for us tonight. |
| 1:14.0 | You have in your company two renowned investigative journalists. |
| 1:19.0 | Headley Thomas is known to all of you, |
| 1:21.0 | but Ray Bonner is also an investigative journalist, formerly of the New York |
| 1:26.7 | Times and a Pulitzer Prize winner. And we're very fortunate to have him here with us on the northern beaches to bring |
| 1:35.0 | Bucchino into a new role as a cultural institution here. |
| 1:40.3 | Bucchino wishes to pay its respects to the first peoples of this nation. |
| 1:45.8 | We acknowledge the land that we stand on as belonging to the Gattagal people and we pay our deepest |
| 1:51.7 | respects to them. |
| 1:53.0 | Little housekeeping please, phones off, thank you. |
| 1:57.0 | Phones on silent, I should say, |
| 2:01.0 | you're very welcome to film tonight you're very welcome to |
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