About The Harsh Couch

 

The Harsh Couch is a weekly wireless programme in which we review Australian and World news, politics, sport and other things that are making us sad, glad or mad. Sometimes they're obvious and we're just making a list ... other times you may not have noticed them (yet).

Four blokes sit on The Harsh Couch: a doctor, a lapsed lawyer, a stay-at-home dad, a couple of anarchists (two crypto-anarchists), some true believers, a former political staffer, a couple of dot-com survivors, a Buddhist, a chef and three cooks, a couple of musicians, three fathers, a former employee of the World Bank, a former public servant, current and former tertiary educators, a former employee of the ABC, a current employee of a Big Four bank, a bottle-shop worker, four old friends, a Queenslander, a Victorian, a South-East Asian, and a NSW country boy.

We're interested in the PayPal 14, the Pintupi 9, the PUP 4, the Al Jazeera 3, the Bali 9 (only 7 now), the Horsemen of the Apocalypse 4, the Yandina 5, the Eureka 13, the Balibo 5 (or 6), the Stooges 3, the Birmingham 6, the Hilton 3, the Central Park 5, the Guildford 4 and the Maguire 7, the Bahrain 13, the Kandahar 5, the , the Australian 11, the Photograph 51, the Weatherboard 9, the Kelly gang, the Cherry Ripe numbers station.

From a radio studio deep in an underground bunker at a secret location in South-East Asia, I'm Wibbly le Monde, the grumpiest hippy in the world.

Joining me from the Gold Coast hinterland, taking a break from his reenactment of the Stinson plane crash rescue is Blais McCool, the angriest French philosopher this side of Marseille.

Colonel Ivan Sayid McChinghauser III ... fresh from his intervention to prevent yet another war crime somewhere in the world.

And then there's Dr Gob ... sitting at the microphone, wearing an antique Jackie Howesinglet from the long-defunct Gunning Shearing Supplies and thinking deeply about the human condition.

Occasionally, we're visited by Harry Halibut, a fishy fellow with a big mouth. Harry is now in SE Asia also, but he's far less sure of what he's doing there.

There's also a banker named Tholf, who has worked in Hong Kong, New York and is now back in Sydney. He says that he's the acceptable face of capitalism.

We try to be a bit helpful and hopeful about the world. Really we do.

 

The Harsh Couch is part of the McRENTFM network.