I’m used to doing the interviews – not being the subject of them!
That said, when approached to take part in a ‘positive, feel good’ story (just prior to the somewhat bland Federal Budget being handed down), I agreed.
Although a little hesitant at first, wondering whether my experience could or should fill a column or two in the Gold Coast Bulletin, I was assured that speaking out was a good thing to do. What I was given, was an opportunity to recount what had happened in the 12 months prior. Having been in broadcast media where everything’s on tape – us radio journo’s tend to get a little nervous at what the ‘print guys’ might publish!
Journalist Melanie Pilling knew what my life ‘before BC’ involved and was familiar with my voice delivering the news each morning. The interviews on the whole ‘boob experience’ were less about me being a ‘newsreader’ (the job which I was quite comfortable speaking about), than they were about me the ‘breast cancer survivor’. As photographers Kit and Kate lined up shots laughing at my jokes about the old ‘face for radio’, Mel spent countless hours going over the detail.
Here’s their work;
The fight of her life Gold Coast News goldcoast.com.au Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
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