Introducing: True Crime Tonight
5/3/202630 min
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First 90 secondsMeshel Laurie· Host0:00
[gentle music] Welcome to Australian True Crime. This episode's a bit different to what we normally do, and there's a reason for that. The first reason is that I wanna introduce you to our producers. Some of you already know that Matthew Tankard is a producer on this show. Hello, Matthew.
Matthew Tankard0:16
Hi, Michelle.
Meshel Laurie· Host0:17
Executive producer, I beg your pardon.
Matthew Tankard0:19
Thank you.
Meshel Laurie· Host0:19
And, uh, we have a new producer working with us, Ruby Bartsas.
Ruby Bartsas0:22
Hello.
Meshel Laurie· Host0:23
Hello. And the reason that we scored an extra producer, Matthew, is that we've moved into a beautiful new studio, a new network. We're with KIIS FM.
Matthew Tankard0:32
Mm-hmm.
Meshel Laurie· Host0:33
We've got a radio show as well.
Matthew Tankard0:35
I know. Australian True Crime has been going through lots of changes lately.
Meshel Laurie· Host0:38
Mm-hmm.
Matthew Tankard0:38
Uh, I don't mean to alarm anyone. We're still having our regular Monday episode every week.
Meshel Laurie· Host0:42
Mm-hmm.
Matthew Tankard0:42
But now we have this great studio, we're on YouTube as well, we've got all these great cameras.
Meshel Laurie· Host0:46
Yes.
Matthew Tankard0:46
And as part of the, I suppose, uh- Facelift? Yeah, as part of the deal- Mm ... us coming over here, we now have a show on Sunday night called True Crime Tonight, and we needed a, a producer for that.
Meshel Laurie· Host0:57
Yeah. It's a lot of work. And, um, so the show's 6:00 till 7:00 Sunday nights, and we said, "We're, I think we need another human."
Matthew Tankard1:03
Yeah.
Meshel Laurie· Host1:03
We need help.
Matthew Tankard1:04
Uh, yeah.
Meshel Laurie· Host1:04
And we said, "What about a journalist?" Are there... To be completely honest and brutal, I said to the bosses here, "There are so many amazing journalists out of work." Journalism is really harder than ever before to get a foothold in, to get a job in. And I said, "I bet you've got someone somewhere around Australia in the newsroom already who would be great at this, who's enthusiastic, who's young." And then they came back to me and they said, "We do."