Don Walker

Season 6, Episode 10

Robin and Josie are used to working with a keyboard player who became a physicist, but this week they’re joined by a physicist who became a keyboard player, not to mention legendary songwriter, best selling author and founding member of Australia’s biggest band, Cold Chisel. Don Walker joins the show to chat about writing songs, his book Shots plus Jorge Luis Borges, Gore Vidal, Ray Bradbury and much more.

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Robin and Josie are playing at the Edinburgh Fringe this month and Don’s new album with Tex, Don and Charlie is out now.

 

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Reading List

Don recommends:

Palimpsest: A Memoir by Gore Vidal

Doctor Brodie’s Report by Jorge Luis Borges

The Gnostic Gospels

The work of William S Burroughs

The work of Ray Bradbury

The poems of Yeats

Josie recommends:

The short stories of Jorge Luis Borges

Robin recommends:

Shots by Don Walker

The Stand Up Comedian Sits Down by John Hegley

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

V For Vendetta by Alan Moore

Watchmen by Alan Moore

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