In this episode, Caroline talks to biographer Jacqueline Kent about wrangling a subject’s  relatives and  dealing with critics as part of of her experience writing the biographies of Julia Gillard and early Australian feminist Vida Goldstein.

Life Sentences is a Two Heads Media production

Producers: David Roach and Jennifer Macey

Music: Blue Dot Sessions

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