Robin Bailey

Extraordinary memoir.

Flamingos Aren't Born Pink, My Family's Story of Healing Hope and Living Life in Colour.

And you just missed actually me gassing you up to Brie, our producer, because I was saying I was like going to do a –

as I always do if someone's written a book, I always read the book.

But sometimes you read and sometimes you like reading for context or whatever.

I read, read, read this book.

And this morning when I finished it, I was howling, howling.

It's so frank, as in points to be alarming.

Yeah.

Like it really is, but it also encompasses really eloquently your life journey and what it has entailed and what it is that you've experienced that is, I think, unique to you, the grief that you have known and a word that's used a lot, resilience.

but that we sense the joy of you and what you did for your three boys.

And it's a huge story.

And all of you, I have to say, are pink flamingos, but...

What were you when you were born?

What colour were you?

And yet you obviously – potential's an interesting word because you've gone on to have an extraordinary career.

Now, people outside of Brisbane – and I'm from Brisbane –

might not know you.

There literally would be no one in Brisbane that doesn't know you because you've been in radio there for decades and you've had extraordinary success in radio and also you've been very open about sharing with your listeners the pain and tribulations that have befallen you.

Yes.