Welcome back to the Kill Your Darlings Podcast for 2017. Summer is officially over, but don’t despair, there are some fantastic things to look forward to – starting with the AFLW. In our March episode we kick off (pun intended) with Angela Pippos discussing women in sport in Australia, before continuing with Kylie Maslen whose piece for Junkee finds more to appreciate in the AFLW than the gender of the players. Meanwhile, we were thrilled to speak with Peter Polites, our March Book Club author, about his debut novel ‘Down the Hume’.

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You can find our Q&A with Peter here.

Kylie was writing about football for KYD way back here.

Meaghan Dew (KYD): Hello and welcome back to the Kill Your Darlings Podcast. I’m Meaghan Dew and for the first episode of the year we will be talking about the same things that everyone else is talking about – the AFLW, and Peter Polites’ debut novel, of course. So we’ll kick it off, pun absolutely intended, with Angela Pippos.

For those who haven’t read the book, could you tell our listeners a little bit about your relationship with football?

Angela Pippos: Oh, my relationship is very close with football. It has been since about the age of eight, when I first went to a game. And interestingly it was my mother who introduced me to it. So it has come down the female line, which goes against what many people would think. It got into my blood from such a young age, and then I realised as I got older that it was about more than football, and I think that’s when my relationship has even become tighter and stronger. But I guess with that, once I discovered that there were problems with football as well, and a dark side to it, then my relationship became strained with footy. But I feel like I’m back in love with it again – I’ve dealt with those feelings, and I think,