A Country Pals, We've loved making this podcast for you over the last two years, but this is our last episode for the foreseeable future. We hope you've loved it as much as we have.  Joining Mel & Kim this week is our formidable Social Media Manager Chez Robbie, who is pretty much the world's foremost ACP expert. And, Great Podcast Talent, as you'll discover.  Thank you for listening, we hope you love our chat about the series finale of ACP.  ACP Finale Ep 1 & ACP Finale Ep 2  A COUNTRY PODCAST on Facebook Host/ Producer: Melanie Tait on Twitter  Host/ Prod ..read more

It's here: the episodes we lose Shirley Gilroy in a plane crash.  This is a brilliant episode from Season 12 - it shows the beginning of Tom and Anna's romance, Esme falls a little in love with Percy... and young journalist Max Blair comes to town, dying of HIV AIDS.  The thing is - Mel and Kim aren't great on the later series and this ep is going to hurt for the purists. So, we've got Chez Robbie in as our fact checker, thank goodness.  Watch A Kiss Before Dying Part 1 &  A Kiss Before Dying Part 2 A COUNTRY PODCAST on Facebook Host/ Producer: Melanie Tait on Twitter&n ..read more

This week, it's the complete interview we did with the extremely lovely Shane Withington.  You'll hear so much about the beginning of ACP, the friendships he made, being part of that scene, life after Molly, and life after ACP.  A COUNTRY PODCAST on Facebook Host/ Producer: Melanie Tait on Twitter  Host/ Producer: Kim Lester on Twitter  Social Media Editor: Chez Robbie    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information ..read more

After getting to know A Country Practice a lot better, by watching it as adults, we're both mad for Maggie Sloan and Esme Watson.  So, here we are watching the episode where Maggie Sloan comes to Wandin Valley. She's a bit of a punish, we don't see the softness in her that we come to love, but she's still a bit of legend.  What has ACP got to say about being a middle aged woman? These eps seem to have a lot to say.  In today's episode, Kim looks at the Dutch Reform Church and Melanie takes a peak into the life and career of the legendary Joan Sydney.  A COUNTRY PODCAST on F ..read more

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Welcome to the first ep of our last season! These eps offer an opportunity to look at how the national conversation has changed around autism when little Daniel is taken in to Lucy and Matt's house. And, there's also a look at what sexual harassment looked like in the early 1990s.  We're joined by Australian actor and podcaster John Leary (The Newsreader, Glitch,The Letdown) to talk about his very first TV performance and what it taught him, going forward in his career which endures until today.  A COUNTRY PODCAST on Facebook Host/ Producer: Melanie Tait on Twitter  Host/ Produc ..read more

1985. Brendan and Chloe are playing in the paddock with a kite, while Molly watches on from a lounge. The screen fades to black as Brendan yells 'Molly!'.  And, just like that - after a 13 episode arc, Molly is dead of leukaemia.  Over the years, the episode gathers legendary status in the history of Australian TV, with people wanting to talk about how they felt watching it, where they were and how they never got over it.  What about the woman at the centre of it? The woman who played the beloved Molly? How did she feel watching it? Did she ever get over it?  Anne Tenney is ..read more

We all remember the moment - Molly's death scene. Do we really need to start revising it and remembering that it's also Brendan's grieving scene? He's the one who has the line ("Molllllllllly!"), remember?  We're so excited to have Shane Withington on the show today, who played Brendan Jones for five years on A Country Practice - the way he talks about the show will have you wanting to jump into a time machine and audition to be part of the cast.  We'll be watching the very first episodes of ACP for today's ep - Wednesday's Child Part 1 and 2, from Season 3.  Guest: Shane Within ..read more

Happy 40th Birthday ACP! When Georgie Parker was cast in A Country Practice as Lucy Gardiner, she knew it was going to change her life.  Georgie tell us all about it, and how it set her up for a life in Australian tv and theatre.  We'll be watching the very first episodes of ACP for today's ep - The Pilot Ep 1 and The Pilot Ep 2, and talking about birth control in Australia and the extraordinary life of Arkie Whitely.  Guest: Georgie Parker  A COUNTRY PODCAST on Facebook Host/ Producer: Melanie Tait on Twitter  Host/ Producer: Kim Lester on Twitter  Social Media ..read more

Season 14 is nothing if not controversial among die hard fans of A Country Practice. Some refuse to engage with it and pretend it never happened, that ACP ended with Terrence and Matron's wedding and everyone rode off into the sunset.  The show got a lot of things wrong: for a start, it relocated to Victoria. It lost half its stars. It used a soft filter none of us can work out.  Andrew Mercado is Australia's leading historian, and he watched it all unfold in real time in 1994. He's with us to talk about what the show wanted to be, why it didn't get there, and what TV was doing at th ..read more