Ben Myers

Writes and clearances by Jennifer Thorpe and Cal Griffith.

This podcast was developed by Tara Nadalny, Cynthia Parabello, Jasmine Pender, and Ben Myers.

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And if anyone else has read his work, you will understand why.

His name is... is benjamin myers and he's won tons of writing awards he's won the walter scott prize for historical fiction for the gallows poll which was also adapted uh for the telly by shane meadows if anybody saw that He also won the Goldsmith's Prize for the brilliant novel Cuddy, which I know you've read as well, Tommy.

How would you describe that? It's like sort of experimental novel, isn't it? It's

confusing when you open it and you're expecting like a normal book and they go, what's all this? And it's like a piece together, bits of missives and stories and things that kind of...

It sounds very weird, doesn't it? But it is very good as well.

But anyway, without further ado.

is benjamin myers

just before we do listen to benjamin it should also be mentioned that uh there are a few little snippets of fruity language that find its way into this interview

Writes and clearances by Jennifer Thorpe and Cal Griffith.

This podcast was developed by Tara Nadalny, Cynthia Parabello, Jasmine Pender, and Ben Myers.

Special thanks to Samia's friends and family, who have shared their time and stories with me over the years, and to the people who shared their expertise and talents with us, including Tabea Shar.

To listen to more sports series like this one, search 30 for 30 podcasts wherever you listen to podcasts, or find us at 30for30podcasts.com.

Thank you.

This podcast was developed by Tara Nadalny, Cynthia Parabello, Jasmine Pender, and Ben Myers.

Special thanks to Samia's friends and family, who have shared their time and stories with me over the years, and to the people who shared their expertise and talents with us, including...

Najib Hassan, Saleha Hashi, Siham Abdullahi, Roble Mohamed, Ilya Kravtsov, Mohamed Hussain, and all the staff at Abarso School.

Because you've spoken to people in the defense.

Why did Ben Myers not call an expert to refute all the prosecution experts, who if they were so bad, could easily have been refuted at the time?

Well, given that I can't speak to Ben Myers, I can't say for sure.

All, all I can do is give my opinion on it.

Yeah.

... something that points to guilt.

Um, I obviously can't say why they weren't called.

What did happen during the court case is that approximately, I think it was just after the prosecution case had been presented, uh, Ben Myers made an application to remove Derek Evans from the process-

I mean, you're looking at Berkley Catton, Shane Wright, Ryan Winterton, Yanni Nyman.

I mean, Ben Myers, all these guys, it's kind of, you know, it's time to put up or shut up.

for a lot of this young talent on the team and I don't even think like Matty Berniers is immune to that 50 points in 82 games last year no problem with that production but I you know is he going to be the level of guy that can take this team to the next next step and be you know a consistent playoff team he'll pair up with Bobby McMahon who had a phenomenal season last year 29 goals 17 assists I would expect similar out of him.

I think he can hit 30, fully capable of taking on that role.

Yeah.

Yeah, Ben Myers is here.

In fact, Ben Myers and Adele, his wife, they are I think it's probably their fault so Ben was a journalist for Melody Maker and then Kerrang and they moved up probably like oh gosh when would they've moved up Late 2009, maybe, or 2008, something like that.

And everyone who knew them was like, what's it like? They were like, come and visit.

And lots of people seemed to have gone, oh, I moved here because I came to visit Ben and Adele.