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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
What a great show the Piano last night. And you've
seen you host many many shows in my time, but
this is one of your best.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Well the premise, it's a beautiful show. Amateur pianists who
normally display maybe a piano at home. Some people have
never told their friends they played the piano. They are
encouraged to come down and play a public piano just
for the love of it. And what they don't know
is at Harry Connick Junior and Andrea Lamb, who's Australia
is leading classical pianist, are watching on. They're hidden and

(00:32):
they're talking about these pianists and what they love about them.
And then they slept one from each location we go
to to perform in a concert at the end. But
the stories are beautiful, they're heartwarming. I cried watching it
again last year night.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
Yeah. I like that that one hundred and three year
old guy about him a battlefield one hundred and three.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah, he's one hundred and three years old. I've never
met anybody who has a home in three You're in
very good, Nick, Thank you very much, madam.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
And his memory is going, his vision is going, but
he has this muscle memory of the music.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Is he still going?

Speaker 3 (01:15):
He passed away between the filming and and last night.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
It was great.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
He was beautiful.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
I like those ladies, the Evergreens.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
There were four of them. They all dressed in green,
and four of them played the piano at the same time.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Ready, one, two, three, four. It's good.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
But it wasn't just old.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
No, there were.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Five year old and there were teenagers who who didn't
play sports, and that this got them through hard times
in their life. The length and breadth of people who
who feel something through the music, it's extraordinary piano.

Speaker 5 (02:00):
When I was a kid, we ended up going to
learn the piano, and my piano teacher used to wear
a bikini when I was playing the piano because she
live near the beach and.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
She'd sit next to you on the piano stool in
a bikini. Yeah, you've got beautiful memories of it.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
I was about five or six, but a lot of kids,
I could have been a virtua so if I wasn't
so distracted.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
A lot of people said they'd learned it when they
was young, when they were young, and then they moved
away from it, and there was something whether you're going,
whether it was COVID or hard times in their life
or whatever it was. They were very grateful that they'd
had that grounding because they could go back to it.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Critics few was in in the Sydney Morning Herald. You
know how many stars I got?

Speaker 4 (02:39):
The possible?

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Five stars, five Stars Babies, Big Time, hosted by Amanda Kello,
who is surely the most genuine person on TV and radio.
That's not me saying that this is this review, but
I would concur very nice. The series aims to explore
how the piano has transformed the lives of everyday Australians,
from a five year old girl to a one hundred.

Speaker 5 (02:57):
And three year old man.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
She is the best thing on TV.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Doesn't say that's true?

Speaker 4 (03:02):
That's me, that's right.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
And you bring the commentary.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
I told our pianists to come so.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Really, you love your art, you're watching that or against
you're up against botched?

Speaker 5 (03:16):
Come on,