Peter Papathanasiou on a West Australian road trip like no other in 'The Pit'

Good Reading Podcast

Bob is sixty-five years old, confined to a Perth nursing home. But thirty years ago, he killed a man in the remote northern Kimberley mining region. He offers to show Sparrow where the body is, but there's a catch: Sparrow must travel north with him under the guise of being his carer. They are accompanied on the drive by another nursing home resident: Luke, thirty years old, paralysed in a motorbike accident. As they embark on their road trip through the guts of Western Australia, pursued by outback police and adrenaline-soaked miners, Sparrow begins to suspect that Bob's desire to head north may have sinister motivations. Is Luke being held against his will? And what lies in store for them when they reach their goal? In this episode Gregory Dobbs chats to Peter Papathanasiou about his affection for road trip stories and what confined spaces can to do a character, how his characters are always more than they appear to be, how the intersection between the Australian outback and the mining industry cultivates a 'do or die' mentality.