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The Reporter podcast: Finding Bogucki
Gary Adshead’s 40-year journalism career has been spent pursuing the truth, no matter how ugly, dangerous – or ridiculous. From crooks and crimes to state secrets and heroic rescues, we take you behind the headlines.
This week on The Reporter podcast, Michael Thomson and Gary Adshead discuss the extraordinary rescue of Robert Bogucki in the Australian desert.
The Alaskan firefighter had embarked on a Biblical journey of discovery across Western Australia’s unforgiving Great Sandy Desert. And one reporter, sent to observe, found himself playing a leading role in the action.
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