Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.

Today's episode takes us back to the Australian Classics Book Club.

The Plains opens on an unnamed narrator arriving on the plains with the intention of making a film that will show the plains as they have never been seen. Haunting the local pub, talking with plainsmen about their world, our narrator seeks the patronage and influence that will allow him to realise his epic project. Later in the library of his benefactor; a plains landowner we enter the world of his creative process and confront the strange realities that make up plains life.