First Responders: Stories from the Front Line – Martin McKenzie-Murray at Canberra Writers Festival

We’re fascinated by the lives of first responders: paramedics, firefighters and police officers. What draws people to these intense professions? How does what they see reshape them? Martin McKenzie-Murray has had three life stories entrusted to him by experienced first responders. He joins Nigel Featherstone in conversation and together they’ll traverse danger, camaraderie, trauma and its aftermath.