Geordie Williamson
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728 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2018
last heard 21 Aug
Geordie Williamson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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where their animals are literally dying uh on their feet, where they can't get decent grass.
And the problem is that they need to do their job, and the only way they can do it is by breaking into the properties of of various squatters and stealing their water and grass.
So it is um
It's a novel about incredible eccentrics and strange characters who have ended up in this, like, you know, long-haul truckies, who will get together in the calf, which is basically just wherever they can steal some grass from a local squatter, and tell tall tales.
It's just magnificently digressive.
It's all about the yarn.
It's Chaucerian, it's like the Canterbury Tale.
A bunch of very strange different people who happen to be at the same inn and explaining to the others while they're there.
It's so rich in detail and narrative.
It's also hilarious because they're all incredibly sweary, but all of the swear words have to be put in square brackets and claimed to be something.
Else.
They are eccentrics who, like Tom Collins, the central sort of character, the man who holds the whole story together, some of them are incredibly learned.
Some are fallen aristocrats, remittance men, some are closer to criminals.
Others are wonderful, decent human beings, have had incredible
Sad life, which our obtuse narrator Tom Collins doesn't always get the memo about the deep emotional content of the stories that he's telling them.
But it's digressive, it's yarn-like, it's funny, it's sad, it's filled with information about um about this world, the world of of rural Australia in the colonial era.
Um, it's it's it's very rude about anyone who isn't Australian.
It's very rude about anyone who isn't Australian and um of the socialist working class.
So it's a profound early text of I guess Australian egalitarianism.
But I tell you all of this, and honestly, it's a series of tall tales tied together by a man who doesn't really exist.
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