Interview with Andrew Denton

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ROSIE BATTY – AUSTRALIAN OF OUR HEARTS

Former Australian of the Year Rosie Batty did what for many of us would be unimaginable.

She turned her greatest tragedy – the murder of her only child – into an extraordinary national campaign to break the cycle of family violence in Australia.

But it’s come at an immense cost. Now, Rosie’s stepping back from public life to focus on her own grieving and healing.

While millions of Australians are inspired by Rosie’s courage, others have judged her – claiming she never cried enough, wasn’t emotional enough, or, weirdly, was too strong.

In this emotional edition of Interview, Rosie opens up to Andrew Denton about her critics, stepping away from the spotlight, learning to live each day without her beloved son Luke, and finding her version of happiness.

LILY ALLEN – NO SHAME

In the world of cookie-cutter popstars, Lily Allen stands out.

For more than a decade, the British singer-songwriter has been topping the charts with funny, feisty, and confrontingly honest songs about herself and the pressure of celebrity.

Refreshingly authentic and upfront, Lily reveals her struggles with success and fame, female empowerment, motherhood and her favourite piece of Lily Allen #fakenews.

In the wake of the Me Too movement, Lily also tells of her own deeply personal family experience with Harvey Weinstein.

INTERVIEW Tuesday 8.45 after HOUSE RULES

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I encourage everyone to watch this :heart:

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This week’s guests are comedian Denise Scott and author Tim Winton.

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Denise appearing on Studio 10 all week and Your Gen this week also, good profiling for her.

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This week

DENISE SCOTT

Denise Scott doesn’t have an off switch.

Unfiltered and unabashed, she has made a career of mining her own life for humour, exposing every odd and embarrassing corner of her existence.

In doing so, she has become one of Australia’s favourite funny people.

No topic is off limits as Denise shares her brutally honest and humblingly real story of a life well lived.

Join Andrew Denton for the funniest Interview of the year.

TIM WINTON

Is the Aussie bloke in crisis?

Acclaimed author Tim Winton thinks so.

“Sometimes, specifically among the boys that I’m surfing with and the young men, it’s sad to hear the way they talk about … the way they rather feel entitled to talk about girls and women, or the way they feel obliged sometimes to talk about girls or women. Either an ornament or atrocity, and it’s all about the physical appearance. And it’s disturbing.”

One of the country’s most celebrated novelists shares with Andrew Denton his thoughts on toxic masculinity, Australia’s lost boys and the damaged men they can become.

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anyone else gonna play the drinking game while watching?

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This week’s guests are actor Guy Pearce (the new season of Jack Irish, starring Guy in the title role, starts on the ABC next Sunday night, July 8) and musician Tim Minchin.

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Michelle Payne is on next weeks show.

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Crowded House’s Neil Finn and son Liam Finn will also be on the next show.

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This week’s guests are wheelchair tennis star and Triple J presenter Dylan Alcott, and adult film star and academic Angela White (by satellite from Los Angeles).

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Tuesday 8.30 after HOUSE RULES

DYLAN ALCOTT

If you could harness the energy of Dylan Alcott, he could power the entire country. The 27 year old dynamo is a Paralympic gold medallist in both tennis and basketball, winner of four Australian Opens, radio broadcaster, music festival organiser and disability activist.

With Andrew Denton, he discusses the tough love he received growing up from his older brother and why turning up to a party uninvited as a teenager changed the way he saw his own disability. He also describes what it’s like to meet a totally naked Roger Federer, recalls the day he crashed his wheelchair into the Dalai Lama and explains how appearing in a bank ad has changed his life.

ANGELA WHITE

WARNING: ADULT CONTENT

This could well be the most eye-opening interview of the year. Her name may not be familiar to most, but Angela White is Australia’s most successful porn star, with more than 20 AVN Awards (the porn Oscars) as a position in the Hall Of Fame.

With an Honours degree in gender studies and a thesis on women in the porn industry, this self-described sexual athlete is adamant that hard core pornography can be liberating and life-affirming, a force for good.

Andrew speaks with the Melbourne born, Los Angeles based writer, director and star about the ways she chooses to express her sexuality, the movies she makes and the thinking behind them.

In a frank and often confronting conversation, Andrew asks direct questions and gets direct answers from a woman who calls her work feminist. Is it okay for porn to show unsafe sex? How can she justify scenes which fictionalise rape? Is porn ethical?

Be warned. This interview contains some very adult themes.

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Singer Troye Sivan is on next week’s show.

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I like the show personally, just a shame it’s buried in a now considered dead slot in primetime. It really has the potential to rate well, it’s just the boffins at Seven who doesn’t know how or where to place the show for it to do well.

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Tuesday

TROYE SIVAN

Troye Sivan began his career at 11 on Channel Seven’s Telethon in Perth.

He became a global star in his teens, making his movie debut as young Wolverine and creating YouTube videos in his bedroom that have racked up hundreds of millions of views.

Now, he’s one of the world’s biggest popstars. Troye’s new single is a duet with Ariana Grande and he recently shared a stage with Taylor Swift, who insisted they sing one of his songs.

The 23-year-old boy wonder speaks to Andrew Denton about how he got where he is, discussing how to form authentic connections with an audience and musing on why eight million people would want to watch a clip of him getting his legs waxed.

In a moving and candid conversation, Troye also reflects on his 2013 coming out video and its ramifications. He reveals the challenges he faced, before and after telling the world, and his ongoing struggle to accept his feminine side and overcome the voices of doubt inside himself.

ALIENOR LE GOUVELLO

Alienor’s is a story of grit, determination, will power and… above all… love.

The French-born explorer travelled more than 5,300 kilometres over 15 months along Australia’s longest trekking route from Healesville, Victoria, to Cooktown in Northern Queensland.

It was a gruelling journey she couldn’t have completed without her three trusted Brumbies and dog by her side every step of the way.

Alienor details the incredible journey – both emotional and literal – she embarked on; how she won the trust and managed to tame wild animals, her battle with the unforgiving Australian outback, her moments of genuine fear for her safety and the illness that hospitalised her.

What makes this journey even more special is that Alienor also happened to find love along the way.

Halfway through her adventure, Alienor unexpectedly crossed paths with Mitch Ballentine, a farmer and aviation specialist. Mitch explains to Andrew that is took seven months and a series of grand dates to woo this explorer into staying still.

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The interview with Alienor will finally screen tomorrow, nearly three months after it was recorded. Why did it take so long?

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Because nobody knows who she is?

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I think that might be it, sadly. Andrew has a great knack of finding the extraordinary tales out there from the no-so-famous. If it was Enough Rope on the ABC, I suspect it would’ve been on sooner.

Anyway, it’s like a fine wine or good whisky - it gets better with time. Tune in, it’s a great story.

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Season final August 7

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Next week Andrew chats with singer Keith Urban.

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This show is bad. Not as good when it was on the ABC. Its a bit tacky i think now.