Phil Craig
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Writer/producer ex BBC, Brook Lapping, Nutopia & ABC 🇦🇺. New book 1945 The Reckoning now available in 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇳🇿& 🇮🇳. Host of @MongersPodcast
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When someone whose work you really admire cites you as an influence.... it makes you feel really bloody old! But thanks to the master wordsmith @James1940
Actually, the book that made me think, ‘yes, this is the way to write history,’ was Finest Hour by @philmcraig and Tim Clayton. Absolutely brilliant - and an amazing BBC TV series too for that matter. Came out back in 1999, I think, but still very much in print.
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best pic of my Aussie trip - thanks @KarlJames_1945
It was a wonderful conversation between Christine & yourself, talking through the events of #WWII & the long legacies of the war. #WeHaveWays
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Sydneysiders, Melburnians, you have it all wrong. Canberra isn’t just a few roundabouts with a wine bar, it’s F-ing cool and the beating heart of Australian life. Oh and it has the best Japanese restaurant in the southern hemisphere! And - just to complete the picture - some
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There’s no better place of history and remembrance anywhere in the English speaking world I reckon, so I was honoured to speak at the @AWMemorial today alongside exceptional Australian historian Christine Helliwell. Many thanks to @KarlJames_1945 and you were especially missed
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And so was the fact that we’d already been married 30 years at that stage.
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So when I worked for the ABC I dated a hot student from the college across the road. Which was handy.
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The deep psychological roots of a writers life according to @Roger_Moorhouse
Brand new episode with the estimable @Roger_Moorhouse Dive ! Dive !!! Dive !!! https://t.co/DWpCRBgUMP
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For some reason I'm thinking of this extract from my book today
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A slightly crumbly Sydney institution that’s recently tried to rebrand itself. And a hotel. Cheers mates
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And now the obligatory brekkie - hey Old World, Monday’s looking good.
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Wake up Melbourne 4am, flight to Sydney, two events, over 200 people, 50 plus books sold, old friends caught up with and warm spring evening drinks under the southern cross (well clouds but she was there). Nice way to spend a Sunday!
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Brand new episode with the estimable @Roger_Moorhouse Dive ! Dive !!! Dive !!! https://t.co/DWpCRBgUMP
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Just did a really fun event at @seamuseum_ in Sydney and beforehand Ann Carmody - a fan of @MongersPodcast - presented me with a gift of wine from Hunter Valley where she lives! So nice.
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I read this on a flight in Australia and it really got under my skin. A clever and satisfying Norfolk ghost story (that explores some very contemporary questions) from the excellent @fugitiveink It would make a cracking BBC spooky drama in the Mark Gatiss style.
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I'll be at the evening event. Join me!
Sydney I will be in you tomorrow morning and I’ll be doing two events as part of my ‘if it’s Wednesday this must be Canberra’ tour. If any Sydneysiders want to have a free talk (and probably a free drink too for the 10 dollar evening event) then please consider coming along.
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Had a great day with @MHHVic yesterday. Sold a few books but also bought a new one I’ve been looking forward to. Perfect for the flight home next week.
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Then at the Petersham Bowling Club for a relaxed spring evening under the southern cross
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Join best-selling author and multiple-award winning filmmaker Phil Craig as he speaks about his latest work of non-fiction ‘1945: The Reckoning’.
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