road story

Produced by Blue Trumpet for Radio 2RRR, Hard Boys, a psychodrama for radio, is a uniquely Australian story in 10 parts. “It was night by the time we hit Laura. And it’s freezing cold, would you believe, in the tropics. We’ve gone in this Italian restaurant and these people are beautiful to us. They’ve got…

Produced by Blue Trumpet for Radio 2RRR, Hard Boys, a psychodrama for radio, is a uniquely Australian story in 10 parts. “It was night time and we’re in town. Everything’s cool. We were in Warren’s utility, the whole five of us. We’re driving down the straight and we spotted the Sheriff. We sensed something and…

Produced by Blue Trumpet for Radio 2RRR, Hard Boys, a psychodrama for radio, is a uniquely Australian story in 10 parts. “I’ve gone to get a pie or something. I was with Sheree, this gorgeous young sheila. It’s eight o’clock and we’re walking back. I wanted to slip into her jeans you know, get her…

Produced by Blue Trumpet for Radio 2RRR, Hard Boys, a psychodrama for radio, is a uniquely Australian story in 10 parts. “See when Pip and I got together, that’s when things started to go crazy. It wasn’t so much everyone else. They just come along for the ride. It was Pip and I who turned…

Produced by Blue Trumpet for Radio 2RRR, Hard Boys, a psychodrama for radio, is a uniquely Australian story in 10 parts. “We met up with this bloke who was a hypnotherapist. He was an outright bloody sleaze. Like something out of the wild west. San Fransisco in the early days. A shyster, that’s what he…

Produced by Blue Trumpet for Radio 2RRR, Hard Boys, a psychodrama for radio, is a uniquely Australian story in 10 parts. “You know, you’ve got 5000, 6000, 0000 men in some of those camps and miners are pretty rough characters. They’re wild boys. They live and sleep and eat and shit and masturbate in a…

Produced by Blue Trumpet for Radio 2RRR, Hard Boys, a psychodrama for radio, is a uniquely Australian story in 10 parts. “Joe by this time is turning into a little rat. I think that’s as fair a description as I could give of Joe. He’d been on the road about two weeks. Fifteen or sixteen…

Produced by Blue Trumpet for Radio 2RRR, Hard Boys, a psychodrama for radio, is a uniquely Australian story in 10 parts. “Pentland is nothing but one pub, which is unusual for a town. Maybe a dozen houses, general store, one other store besides that, and a railway station. It was total depression. Reminded me of…

Produced by Blue Trumpet for Radio 2RRR, Hard Boys, a psychodrama for radio, is a uniquely Australian story in 10 parts. “There’s a southern road going in and there’s one coming out. We come out the northern end and spent the night in the scrub just outside of town. We’d been on the road maybe…

Produced by Blue Trumpet for Radio 2RRR, Hard Boys, a psychodrama for radio, is a uniquely Australian story in 10 parts. “I’d returned to Surfer’s and gone to this guy’s place who I knew. Henry Alfred Parkes III he called himself. His family were rich, from Brisbane. He was about twenty years of age. His…