Brothers and Books - The World's Coolest Book Club
Brothers and Books talks to authors, inspirations, business owners, and emergency service personnel about reading, life and motivations.
- Update frequency
- every 19 days
- Average duration
- 63 minutes
- Episodes
- 21
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2023
Former Royal Marine commando turned International Risk expert - Tony Loughran
Tony Loughran began as a special forces doctor and is now a world renowned risk expert taking huge jobs for government, the BBC and supporting a safer world. His new book Zero Risk is aptly named aft…
The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris
Listen to Heather Morris talk about Auschwitz, Birkenau, The Gulag system and her newest book Sisters under the Rising Sun.
Heather Morris is the best selling Author responsible for over 20 million bo…
Bikies, True crime and The cop who fell to earth - Craig Semple
In this episode Craig Semple a detective of 25 years sheds light on the ins and out of Australian Policing and investigations.
Topics include:
Underbelly Pub fight
Poison Mushrooms
Investigating horrifi…
Don't call an ambulance please! - Tim Booth
In this episode Tim Booth discusses the outlandish, ridiculous and silly things people call an ambulance for. He is the author of an hilarious comedic memoir 'You called an ambulance for what?'.
We di…
Nelson Mandela, Resilience and Rob Redenbach - The Promise
Rob Redenbach is an expert in security and has been responsible for training some of the most elite teams in the world including 2 CDO, SAS-R and Nelson Mandela's own security detail.
He is also res…
Iraq IED explosion to decision making expert - Garth Callender
Garth Callender is the author of After the Blast and Best Possible Outcome.
Synopsis:
In this episode the following topics are discussed:
Recruitment and Retention in the ADF
Ego and Decision making
Risk…
Running Deep - A Submariners life
In this episode we speak to Commodore Peter Scott CSC (retd) about being a Submarine Officer and his new book Running Deep: An Australian Submarine Life.
Topics Covered include:
The Search for the T…
Shaun O'Gorman - Peace, Performance and the acceptance of death
Shaun O'Gorman is the owner of the Strong Life project and has over 1000 hours of coaching high performance individuals. He is the author of My Dark Companion an ex dog handler and all round high ene…
Stronger - Dinesh Palipana OAM - Stoicism, Happiness, Books.
Dinesh Palipana OAM is a doctor, lawyer, disability advocate, and researcher. He became the first medical graduate with quadriplegia in Queensland, then the first graduate doctor with quadriplegia to…
The Lindt Cafe Seige - Officer A
In this episode we speak to Officer A the man responsible for bringing down the Lindt Cafe Terrorist. We discuss life within the Tactical Operator Unit, what it is like to expect to die and still pus…
Ten Feet Tall and Not quite Bulletproof - Cameron Hardiman and Australian Air Wing unit
Cameron Hardiman discusses his time in the Australian Police Air wing unit, the importance of education and PTSD and shares light on what it is like to winch down from a helicopter in order to save s…
Weapons and Inner Engineering with Shaun Austin Author of In Plain Sight
Shaun Austin is a mechanical engineer, ex engineering officer in the Australian Defence Force and Poet and most recently commenced study to become a psychologist.
In this episode Shaun explains the ph…
Dr Jo Lukins - The NQLD Cowboys Secret weapon, Happiness, minimalism and goal setting
Dr Jo Lukins has been a sports psychologist for the past 3 decades and is currently the QLD Cowboy's mindset coach and psychologist.
Today she talks about her journey with reading, what makes us achie…
Resilience, Reading and Special Forces - Dr Dan Pronk (The Combat Doctor)
Dr Dan Pronk is an Ex Special Forces Army Doctor having served with both the Australian Special Air Service and The 2nd Commando Regiment on operational Tours to warzones.
He is also the best selling …
Antarctica, Leadership and Isolation - 537 Days of Winter with David Knoff
537 Days of Winter is on track to be one of the best selling Non-Fiction books this year in Australia. Its Author, David Knoff was the team leader for an Antarctic Expedition that got stuck in the ha…
Paul De Gelder - Shark Attack Survivor, Conservation and Perseverance.
Paul de Gelder is a shark attack survivor and one of the leading Conservation experts on the planet. He is a humble, driven and inspirational human being who has been featured in multiple documentari…
The Battle of Derapet, Daniel Keighran Victoria Cross and Courage Under Fire - BrothersnBooks
Daniel Keighran VC speaks with me about the Battle of Derapet and the actions that lead to him receiving the highest military award from the now Governor General of Australia General David Hurley.
He …
Harry Moffitt and the War in Afghanistan - BrothersNBooks
In this episode Harry Moffitt author of 11 Bats talks about his extensive career in one of the most elite special forces units in the world . He talks about his thoughts on the Afghanistan withdrawal…
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Matthew 'Willy' Williams OAM and the things that matter most - BrothersNBooks
Today we speak to Matthew 'Willy' Williams a war correspondent who was in Ukraine during the Russian invasion. Matthew has a YouTube channel at Willy beating Cancer, he is an OAM recipient, veteran a…
Undercover cop and Australia's most dangerous criminal - BrothersNBooks
Join Keith Banks BM best selling author Gun to the Head and Drugs, Guns and Lies tell BrothersNBooks all about his life undercover and the day he took down one of Australia's most dangerous criminals…