Piia Wirsu Author

Piia Wirsu was always going to be a storyteller – her love of stories was forged around campfires on weekend and holiday adventures,. A journalist and producer of ten years, Piia has interviewed, written about, and told the stories of people from all walks of life - from politicians to refugees to community heroes. The host and senior producer of Expanse, one of ABC's top performing and award-winning podcasts, Piia Wirsu has turned her storytelling nous to creating longform narrative podcasts including Dig: Saving the Franklin, which won the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union's Best Radio Documentary. She lives in Tasmania. Mick Doleman is an Australian maritime worker and trade union official who started work as a 16-year-old deck boy. At age 18, Mick was a crew member of the MV Blythe Star which sank in the southern ocean off Tasmania and among the remaining crew found almost two weeks later on a remote peninsula. He gave evidence at the inquiry into the sinking, which led to significant changes in maritime practice, and he continued a high profile domestic and international maritime career. He lives in Victoria.