Episodes
Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
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01 | 20000508 | Peter O'Brien reads extracts from the haunting memoir of Australian writer Robert Drewe, showing how the author's life became entangled with the last man to be hanged in a Freemantle jail. Abridged in five parts by Elizabeth Bradbury. 1: Six-year-old Robert moves to Perth in the 1950s. Abridged in five parts by Elizabeth Bradbury. | |
02 | Moss Pissing | 20000509 | By Robert Drewe, read by Peter O'Brien. Abridged in five parts by Elizabeth Bradbury. 2: Eleven-year-old Robert meets Eric, his father's new handyman, who teaches him the art of `moss pissing'. The boy also worries about a prowler targeting his mother. Abridged in five parts by Elizabeth Bradbury. |
03 | 20000510 | By Robert Drewe, read by Peter O'Brien. Abridged in five parts by Elizabeth Bradbury. 3: At 16, Robert falls in love and kills a shark. Meanwhile, a menacing stranger has started to murder local women - but is he really a stranger? Abridged in five parts by Elizabeth Bradbury. | |
04 | 20000511 | By Robert Drewe, read by Peter O'Brien. Abridged in five parts by Elizabeth Bradbury. 4: At 18, Robert acquires a job, a wife and a baby. Then someone murders his best friend, and all hell breaks loose. Abridged in five parts by Elizabeth Bradbury. | |
05 | 20000512 | By Robert Drewe, read by Peter O'Brien. Abridged in five parts by Elizabeth Bradbury. 5: The net is closing in around the serial killer, but who is to blame for the death of Robert's mother? Abridged in five parts by Elizabeth Bradbury. | |
05 LAST | 20000512 | By Robert Drewe, read by Peter O'Brien. Abridged in five parts by Elizabeth Bradbury. 5: The net is closing in around the serial killer, but who is to blame for the death of Robert's mother? |