Don Walker
Season 6, Episode 10Robin 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
