Dean Manning in Conversation

Dean Manning is an Australian musician, visual artist, filmmaker, founding member and songwriter of Leonardo's Bride and now an author. Join to hear him in conversation with journalist Michael Dwyer about Mr Blank.

While visiting his ailing father in Sydney, the author discovers an old suitcase thrown out for a council clean-up. Curiosity gets the better of him and he opens it. Inside are hundreds of photographs, newspaper clippings and letters, all addressed to Mr Blank. And so the process of discovery begins: Who is Mr Blank? A maverick entrepreneur with the Midas touch, a convicted criminal with impeccable tastes, a publican and theatre impresario, a gap-toothed lover of beautiful women from all over the world. Mr Blank flew above the law and mainly below the radar of twentieth century Australia. And not everyone wants his past, or their part in it, to be revealed.

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