Kerry O’Brien, one of Australia’s most distinguished journalists and Dr Helen Caldicott, physician and noted anti-nuclear campaigner, will appear together in a Berry Conversation on Sunday, September 16 at the Berry Public School Hall.
Winner of six Walkley Awards, including the Gold Walkley, Kerry O’Brien was the editor, presenter and interviewer for the 7.30 Report over fifteen years; the presenter and interviewer at Four Corners for five and at Lateline for six. His acclaimed four-part interview with Paul Keating was broadcast by the ABC in 2013 and appeared in book form in 2015.
He has interviewed many world leaders including Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair, as well as any number of influential figures in the arts, science and business. For two decades he was also the face of the ABC’s election night coverage.
Helen Caldicott, a graduate of the University of Adelaide School of Medicine, was a faculty member of Harvard Medical School. In 1971, she played a major role in Australia’s opposition to French atmospheric nuclear testing in the Pacific.
While at Harvard in the early 1980s she helped to reinvigorate, as its president, Physicians for Social Responsibility, an organization of 23,000 doctors committed to educating their colleagues about the dangers of nuclear power, nuclear weapons and nuclear war. On trips abroad she helped start similar medical organizations in many other countries; their umbrella group, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. She also founded the Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND) in the US in 1980.
The author or editor of eight books, she has been the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, the subject of three award-winning documentary films, and was named one of the 20th Century’s most influential women by the Smithsonian Institution.
Date: Sunday, 16 September
Venue: Berry Public School Hall
Time: 2-4 pm
Tickets: $30 (includes refreshments)
May be purchased starting on July 1st from Berry Music Centre, Queen Street
Enquiries: berryconversations@gmail.com.
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