Ep 389 - The Secret River, by Kate Grenville
Overdue
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4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Andrew's got the week off so Craig's wife Laura joins the show again to talk about Kate Grenville's award-winning novel The Secret River.
The story is an an attempt to tell more truthfully the British settlement of Australia, as through the eyes of one man sent to the penal colony that would ultimately become the country we know today. The violence he witnesses - and participates in - against Aboriginal people defines him as well as the generations that come after.
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| 1:45.3 | My name is Craig. And my name is Laura. Whoa, you're not Andrew. Sure, I'm not. Where is he? |
| 1:52.8 | I assume he's at his own home because we are in our home and he's not here. He is not here. |
| 1:57.9 | That's true. We gave him the week off as he is still a new parent. He could use the breaks when |
| 2:05.2 | he can get them. And we figured we would do an episode. I asked you if you would do an episode a |
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