The Mental Traveller

The Mental Traveller

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Journeys of the mind: long, short, past, present. Centred on "the Prus tapes", interviews with a Polish resistance fighter/bibliophile looking back on a life of exile, adventure and occasional catastrophe, fuelled by an obsessive search for meaning.

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About Dave Richards

Based on Central Australia since 1978. I have worked for many national publications and for the ABC . I have met people who have led lives both ordinary and extraordinary... or sometimes both.