The Teacher's Trial · The Australian
Bonus: Hedley reads Chapter 1 of his new book, The Teacher's Pet
November 10, 2023·26 min·2 clips
A schoolteacher's wife vanishes after discovering his affair with a teenage babysitter.
As heard by us
A reflective opening chapter about a sixteen-year reporting trail becoming an editorial test.
The opening chapter of The Teacher's Pet turns on a return. On 27 October 2017, Hedley Thomas writes to Greg about the long articles he published on Lynn in 2001, after speaking with Pat and Detective Loon and working through police and coronial files.
Why you'd press play
You want to hear why Lynn's story kept pulling a reporter back after sixteen years.
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