Lorin Clarke
Presents Aural Text
How did you first connect with Triple R?
When I first started out writing and directing theatre shows I tuned in to 3rrr to find out what was happening in Melbourne and occasionally I’d come on air to talk about a production I was working on. 3rrr has always been a great way of finding out about the things I actually want to know about – the work that might be main-stream in a few years, as opposed to the work you see advertised on tram stops and described as cutting-edge in The Age.
What/when was your first show?
My first ever on-air experience in radio was working on a daily comedy show on Triple M. I did that for a year. It was a great experience although if I’m entirely honest it could have done with a smidge less Nickleback.
My first 3rrr show was during the Melbourne International Comedy Festival earlier this year. It was a show about the festival – the shows, the politics, the highlights, the trends. It was called Tragedy Plus Time and I presented it with Michael Roper, who you can sometimes hear on The Architects.
What's your favourite Triple R story?
I love any organisation that gets so passionate about a community football match.
Your favourite other Triple R program and why?
I like SmartArts because it covers areas of interest to me and about which I tend to know a little bit, and I like Detour because it’s about topics in relation to which I am singularly, crushingly, breathtakingly ignorant. There’s no such thing as an entirely free education anymore, but if your headphones are tax-deductible you can fairly inexpensively learn a hell of a lot from someone who knows what they’re talking about on radio.
What does Triple R mean to you?
Hanging out with the cool kids. Not the actual cool kids but the ones your parents told you would turn out to be cool in the end.
The studio door has accidentally jammed shut with you stuck inside. If there was only one CD in there with you what would you want it to be and why?
Either a CD of good writing read aloud (Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads monologues are always a good start) or I’m Your Man. Leonard Cohen performed by Jarvis Cocker, Beth Orton, Anthony, the Handsome Family, Perla Batalla, Teddy Thompson, a McGarrigle or two and some Wainwrights. I went to the gig in Sydney. It was the cat’s actual pyjamas.
