Cheryl Akle

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616 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 2 Jul

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They were Indigenous Australians and they drove to see her in Melbourne.

And they brought their caravan with them so they had somewhere to stay, the parents did.

And they drove all the way to Melbourne, she told me.

And they stayed with her for two weeks and helped her and and she was completely homeless.

But when they left, her mother rang her the next day and said Oops

We accidentally left the caravan behind.

Maybe you can live in.

I still can't tell the story without crying.

It's those little stories that I love and I feel so privileged to hear them.

I had another indigenous author once apologize

that the Australi that the Aboriginal flag cost the community a lot of money.

was like, no, no, no, I have to apologize that we haven't done this sooner.

So you do, you get them in a room, you know this, and they tell you things and it just really it just moves me to my core.

Because our podcast largely is how they came to writing, so it's not really about the book.

And those stories are really remarkable, you know.

Oh gosh, who would that be?

Maybe Paul Oster.

I know it's uh it he's American.

But it's too late 'cause he died this year or last year, I think.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

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