Jimmy's Run

Jimmy's Run

A radio play of Jimmy's Run, the story of City meets the Australian Bush as, Sonya Bird is a rising star in the world of Government, sets off to oversee an inquiry into the dealings of a local strongman, Jimmy O’Brien, a wirily old Local Government campaigner.

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February 7, 2025 68 mins

Jimmy's Run

The "Jimmy's Run" radio play podcast tells the entertaining story of the trials and tribulations of  Sonya Bird, a city lawyer, and her journey into Australian bush politics. Country politics, business, football and long straight roads frame this place. It is into this world that Sonya arrives to oversee an inquiry into Local Government corruption. 

As is often the case, everything is not as it seemed....

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Sonya Bird, skilled city governance expert,  confronts Jimmy O'Brien, a wirily local community politician,  at the Wills Reach Council hearing, prompting her to ask the inevitable question of  "How did I end up here?"

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December 15, 2024 14 secs

Jimmy's Run Radio Play Character List 

  • ALICE, Murphy’s boss, is never seen but rather heard as she shouts instructions from her office window to Murphy as he sits in the Café below. She is constantly on the move, hustling and networking to keep the Governance Foundation afloat.  
  • THE BARMAN is resplendent in his fluorescent  Wills Reach RSL shirt is a quiet man who knows everything and everyone in the Reach but only in a hel...
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Jimmy's Run author, Joseph Connellan, talks about the origin story of Jimmy's Run and announces that the Jimmy's Run Radio Play will be out in late January 2024. To keep in touch with progress or send a query go to www.josephconnellan.com or email the author joseph.connellan@gmail.com. 

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