Singular, award-winning Australian actor and cabaret singer Paul Capsis grew up the child of Greek and Maltese immigrant parents who did not see eye to eye. On this episode, you’ll hear an intimate conversation between co-host Matthew and Paul about his emotionally unstable and abusive father, and how Paul learned to stand up to a family at cultural odds with itself. Speaking about him for the first time, Paul shares his surprising reaction to his father’s death, and how their fraught relationship impacts his creative work today.

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