Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.

Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?

Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people

It's a privilege to present 'Late Night Live'. No radio program, anywhere on Earth, casts a wider net.

Later, in a different home, I befriended a eucalypt, using a resilient bough as a trampoline. Learning nothing from having plummeted from the peppercorn, I'd bounce happily in my haven in the heavens. I loved that tree - and fully understand why Heysen, Roberts, McCubbin and the rest devoted so much time and effort to painting arboreal portraits.

Let the massacres remind us to turn down our political volume and venom.

Fame often comes to those who are thinking about something else, whereas celebrity comes to those who think about nothing else. Celebrity is, if you like, a forgery of fame: it has the form but lacks the content.