Richard Glover's walk down memory lane in Canberra

The Canberra Times

The popular author and broadcaster is using some long service leave to travel around Australia, promoting his latest book, Best Wishes. He couldn't miss hometown Canberra, where his father had a newsagency in Petrie Plaza

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00:00 Yeah

00:02 Yeah

00:10 This is my dad's news agency where I used to work all the time and sometimes would deliver the papers from here at dawn in

00:20 Canberra can you have some sympathy for me, please?

00:22 And it was so cold and I remember being stopped by the police on the bridge

00:27 So that because you know, it's 4 in the morning and Canberra winter and the windscreen was entirely sort of covered in ice

00:34 And I'd sort of managed to chisel out a little porthole and the police officer said the porthole wasn't big enough

00:40 But then you deliver the papers, but the other thing I used to do

00:44 This brings back great memories of selling, you know

00:47 I had one of those little newspaper stands in David Jones and I was a big fan of

00:51 Well, I'm still I'm a big fan of Elvis

00:54 So it was the most eccentric newsstand in the world because it had the Daily Mirror the Sun

00:58 Woman's Day new idea woman's weekly and Elvis Presley monthly and I always made sure I had two copies of Elvis Presley monthly

01:05 Which I never sold

01:07 You know how people say Ikea this is actually my book actually

01:11 All the stuff about Ikea being so sort of clever and maddening in that they make you go through the whole store

01:18 To buy the one cushion you want my father knew all about that in 1972

01:23 So he put the Daily Mirror and the Daily Sun which the only things people wanted right up the back of the shop

01:28 So they'd go through all the Hallmark cards and all the Yugoslav magazines all the frankly obscene

01:34 70s pornography to get to the Sun and Mirror

01:37 My other memory

01:41 My other memory is the typical order was always the same the typical order in the 70s

01:47 People would buy a pack of Winnie Blues a copy of the Daily Mirror or sometimes the Sun

01:53 And and some Vincent's or Beck's powders and you got that was such a regular

01:58 I mean the tail is a terrible story isn't it about these well not very good newspaper

02:02 Drug that killed people that ruined your kidneys and of course then the cancer sticks

02:09 But you got so good at that order that you didn't have to add it up. You just say $2.60 on your way

02:15 You

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