Once upon a time, Rob was the face of Melbourne weather. Not because he has a terrible face. Far from it. He was the slickest and most dapper local weather presenter in all of Australia; in the words of the network that poached him, ‘the best in the business’. As a longtime TV anchor with a good inbuilt barometer, Rob is used to handling high pressure systems. But he hasn’t yet faced the tempest of his son Nick’s point blank questions. Join us as Nick - himself an actor and educator - blasts Rob with questions about his bad old student days, his ideal state of flow, and the effect of his relationship with his own distant father on Rob’s mode of parenting. And hear Rob thinking ahead on the future: his moving conflict of pessimism over climate change (on which he has been agitating for many years), pitted against the optimism he needs to feel for his little granddaughter Juniper.
See the faces (and immortal works) behind the voices on this episode: