Derek Mortimer
Radio
A great two hours spent recently on Radio Blue Mountains, chatting with Maaike Lauwerens and co-producer Doug, and reading from my collection of short stories, ‘Meridian’. Local radio is a wonderful way to give a voice to local communities. I love doing this, giving voice to my characters, accents that can’t be conveyed on the page, the subtleties of thought. Makes one aware of the power of oral story telling and the limitations of the written word.