An extended clip from the ground-breaking series, The Thread, exploring what connects different Aussie icons who broke away from the pack. Full episode on Prof. Germaine Greer here: [ Ссылка ]

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►Transcript
Hugh: So then in your words, was it important to be bold and shocking with those in order to break through or did that just come naturally?

Germaine: They're easily shocked for goodness sake. I mean I didn't even use the 'fuck' word, they found the way I spoke shocking because it was too direct and because they were always delivering themselves gagged and bound to me because they'd assume all sorts of things so you'd just pick them up and give them a good trouncing. And then discard them. I remember one funny occasion in California where I was being sneered at by a presenter on a morning TV show, magazine show, and he was reading quotations from the newspaper from the Female Eunuch in a funny voice as if to say did you ever hear anything so ridiculous. And I looked at the control room, where all the professionals were sitting and I could see immediately that they really hated this guy and they wanted someone to get him. So I just grabbed the attention of the camera and held it. They let me hold it, that was what I knew they would do if I went for him. I knew that I'd have the camera and they'd leave it on me. So I just took the paper off him and read the quotations again and said is that so ridiculous and they were cheering in the control room, it helped I'd be on TV before and knew a bit about the way it works, but the problem is out there, the people tuned into that show love that guy, that's why they tuned in so I needed to be just a little bit careful.

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►About Prof. Germaine Greer
Professor Germaine Greer is one of the twentieth century’s most influential feminists. The controversial writer and academic overturned a lot of the world’s thinking on feminism when, in 1970, she published her international best-seller, The Female Eunuch. Since then, she’s published other books; co-presented TV series; written for newspapers; and lectured at Cambridge University. She’s continually challenged the status quo through her flamboyant writing and intellectually-charged media appearances. Few Australians have polarised and provoked public opinion as much.

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►About The Thread
Two mates sit down with 10 iconic Australians to figure out how they broke away from the pack. Hugh and Jack seek out leaders of wide-ranging fields: adventure, sport, business, philanthropy, medicine, law and literature to uncover the common thread that binds them.

The interview subjects are household names famed for remarkable and well-told stories, but rarely have they been asked how they did it, how they define success and whether anyone can do what they've done.

Armed with meticulous research and uncomfortably simple questions, we elicit intriguing, inspiring and often unexpected insights from an eclectic bunch of trailblazers.

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