"I don't know if I'm going to shock you. Maybe ... oh before I start, I think it's important to say 'thank you' to Cameron, to Sonja. You've done a bloody marvellous job. And everyone else who helped out, you guys have been amazing, you're really on your game. Anyway, the first one: 'He had whisky....' "

Mandy Beaumont: Tasmanian Poetry Festival, October 2012