David Helfgott
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Oct 16, 2026
Jeremy CordeauxHOST
She's disappeared for the moment.
Jeremy CordeauxHOST
But Shine and David Helfgott, a gifted pianist.
Jeremy CordeauxHOST
What's all that about? Why are you angry about that?
Samela HarrisGUEST
Oh, I just was hurt because Scott... rang me the day that we got a whisper from Perth that this guy was coming to Adelaide and he was quite a phenomenon, extraordinary, brilliant pianist who had had a difficult past and was just not like anybody.
Gary HardgraveHOST
And, of course, it ended up with an Academy Award for the great Geoffrey Rush, Brisbane's own.
Gary HardgraveHOST
We're talking about the movie Shine, the story of David Helfgott.
Gary HardgraveHOST
This bloke and his ability at the keyboard was extraordinary.
Gary HardgraveHOST
What about that trampoline scene that Geoffrey Rush was in? Anyway, the whole thing, of course, completely transformed the life of Scott Hicks.
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Scott HicksGUEST
And he really learned how to find the rhythm of David's speech, which was quite uncanny.
Scott HicksGUEST
And so it was a real, you know, it's a monument to his talent in that respect.
Gary HardgraveHOST
So can you take us back to the start? You met David Helfgott.
Gary HardgraveHOST
You've had those conversations, but it was all by chance.
Scott HicksGUEST
And so it was a real, you know, it's a monument to his talent in that respect.
Gary HardgraveHOST
So can you take us back to the start? You met David Helfgott.
Gary HardgraveHOST
You've had those conversations, but it was all by chance.
Gary HardgraveHOST
I mean, what was about him during that first encounter which made you want to try for a decade to actually get his story on film?
Scott HicksGUEST
But it became ever more intriguing.
Scott HicksGUEST
The more I and the more I discovered in research and in getting to know David and Gillian really well, the more it really inspired me to continue to get the film made.
Gary HardgraveHOST
I'm just guessing, reading between the lines, That was David Helfgott's battle with mental illness and the kind of perception people had about him as perhaps being a bit difficult, a bit unpredictable.
Gary HardgraveHOST
I mean, a conversation with him meanders more than a conversation with me meanders.
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Leith ForrestHOST
What an extraordinary piece of work at Stellios, where you watch the performance of Geoffrey Rush as David Helfgott.
Leith ForrestHOST
So we'll speak to Scott about that.
Leith ForrestHOST
We'll look at the three decades on, and also there is a new coffee table book that is being released that will go alongside the screening of the thirtieth anniversary, and that would be great if you are a true fan of the film or indeed you're someone who loves pop culture.
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Scott HicksGUEST
[laughs] Um, it was, it was, there was something about the story that simply would not let go.
Leith ForrestHOST
Yes.
Scott HicksGUEST
Um, I mean, I saw David Helfgott perform in Edmund Wright House on King William Street, probably less than 100 people in the hall.
Leith ForrestHOST
Yeah.
Leith ForrestHOST
Yes.
Scott HicksGUEST
Um, I mean, I saw David Helfgott perform in Edmund Wright House on King William Street, probably less than 100 people in the hall.
Leith ForrestHOST
Yeah.
Scott HicksGUEST
Um, but it was such a memorable occasion, and he was such an extraordinary character.
Scott HicksGUEST
I mean, Geoffrey Rush-
Leith ForrestHOST
Mm-hmm
Scott HicksGUEST
... changed David Helfgott's life-
Leith ForrestHOST
Yep
Michael MackenzieHOST
...
Michael MackenzieHOST
the David Helfgott story.
Brian WiseHOST
David Helfgott, yeah.
Michael MackenzieHOST
Yeah.
Michael MackenzieHOST
He, um, 25 years later revisits David and a bunch of other kind of musical savants who have a link to David Helfgott in this fascinating documentary called The Musical Mind: A Portrait in Process.
Michael MackenzieHOST
Have you heard about this?
Brian WiseHOST
No, I have not.
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It was a surprise, wasn't it?
Michael MackenzieHOST
I didn't realise this.
Michael MackenzieHOST
Have you heard about the Scott Hicks documentary, The Guy Who Made Shine? You know, the David Helfgott story.
Michael MackenzieHOST
David
Brian WiseHOST
Helfgott, yeah.
Michael MackenzieHOST
Yeah, he, 25 years later, revisits David and a bunch of other kind of musical savants who have a link to David Helfgott in this fascinating documentary called The Musical Mind, A Portrait in Process.
Michael MackenzieHOST
Have you heard about this? No, I have not.
Michael MackenzieHOST
As
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I think the songs are usually a composite of whatever crap I've
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The Vivaldi Mandolin Concerto in C Major has appeared in Kramer vs. Kramer from nineteen seventy-nine, Moll Flanders from nineteen ninety-six, and the film Casanova from two thousand and five.
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His Gloria in D Major appeared in Shine, the nineteen ninety-six film about the pianist David Helfgott.
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The Lute Concerto in D Major appeared in The Grand Budapest Hotel.
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His String Concerto in G Major, Alla Rustica, was used in the American film American Animal.
Dave AnthonyGUEST
get this
Justin HamiltonHOST
poster for shine of the dead and it's me running being chased by A whole range of David Helfgott's.
Justin HamiltonHOST
Yeah, that's awesome.
Justin HamiltonHOST
And