PRICKLY PODCAST PEARLER

name’s Guy “Cliffo” Clifton and I, dear readers, am a podcast- a- holic.

I think I’ve made the facetious claim that I’m addicted to the spoken word in this column before. Nothing’s really changed. I’m still intrigued by a good old yarn and the humble podcast still remains the most convenient way to consume my drug of choice.

My latest discovery ( and by discovery I mean it popped up in the top charts tab on my podcast app) is a little number put together by the ABC. It’s titled How Do You Sleep At Night? and let me tell you, good old Aunty have really outdone themselves with this one. It’s a killer! And in some eps I mean that quite literally.

How Do You Sleep At Night is a case by case series centred around people who live their lives in the face of judgment. Putting it very simply: bad people. We’re talking a big tobacco lobbyist, a pokies billionaire, abortion clinic protesters, a stock market manipulator, a killer ( yeah, of people), and big game hunters. That last one gets me. The woman in episode one actually flew to Africa to shoot a giraffe dead. The mind boggles.

Although I’m only one episode in, How Do You Sleep At Night seems to be as confronting as it is compelling.

I’m in hook line and sinker. Well done to the producers of this one.

New eps of How Do You Sleep At Night drop weekly wherever you get you podcasts.

Now I’m off to sob over that poor giraffe. I still can’t process that one.