Interview #44 | The Criminal Class: Memoir of a Prison Teacher with Paul MacNamara

British Murders with Stuart Blues

Stuart Blues

True Crime

4.7 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

I welcome Paul MacNamara to the show in this interview episode to discuss his debut book, 'The Criminal Class: Memoir of a Prison Teacher.'

Paul was born in Sydney and has worked as an educator in several correctional centres in Australia. He has also worked as a teacher in the juvenile justice system.

He never held a political position on the prison system and knew very little of the workings of a jail. Through 'The Criminal Class', Paul has created a thought-provoking tale based on his surreal and eye-opening experience that is - all at once - tragic, amusing and entertaining.

The film and television rights to Paul's book have been acquired by Bondi Beach Productions, a multi-award-winning Film and TV production company with offices in Sydney, Los Angeles and New York.

'The Criminal Class: Memoir of a Prison Teacher' was released on July 4, 2022, and is available to purchase here:

AUS: The Criminal Class | Big Sky Publishing

UK: The Criminal Class | Amazon.co.uk

***This interview was recorded on September 26, 2023.

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David John Brady - 'Throw Down the Gauntlet'

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0:00.0	This podcast contains elements that may be alarming to some listeners.
0:04.2	Listener discretion is advised.
0:06.4	You are now listening to British Brothers.
0:09.8	This will cry podcast. All right, Paul McNamara, thank you for coming on the show and giving me your time all the way from Australia.
0:32.6	Whereabouts over there are you based?
0:34.8	I'm based in northern New South Wales, just a couple of hours south of Brisbane, but still in
0:42.9	New South Wales where Sydney is.
0:45.0	Most of your listeners would be aware of that.
0:48.1	Yeah, I do have quite a, well, I think it's my third key demographic is Australia, so hopefully
0:54.0	some people are listening.
0:55.4	For those of us who aren't the best at geography, including myself, whereabouts on the island is
1:01.5	New South Wales?
1:03.3	Well, it's on the East Coast and it's sort of halfway up, really.
1:08.3	You've got Queensland up to the top and victoria below there it's not exactly
1:13.7	equal the way it's cut up but um yeah new south wales is sort of in the middle on the right as you look at
1:21.3	the globe okay i keep saying to myself i'm going to go to Australia.
1:37.5	But all the creepy crawlies that you have over there and the big killer spiders and the snakes and all that, it just puts me off, Paul, I won't lie.
1:45.8	Well, you should come to my house because just the other day we had a big carpet python in the backyard. The dog started barking.
1:53.2	It was about two and a half metres long. And it's made its way up into the roof now.
2:02.0	Oh, that's nice. Yeah, yeah, they're harmless enough to people. But, you know, if you're a rat or something like that,
2:04.2	yeah, you keep out of their way.
2:06.5	But, yeah, I like snakes.
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