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Episode One of What's Your Story Melbourne features writer Tobias Mccorkell alongside producer Jess Fairfax discussing writing Melbourne and it's suburbs.All original compositions by Jess Fairfax. Except for:Frank Sinatra - New York New YorkKlezmeritis - Araber TanzMikelangelo - Streets ft. TaliFeatures excerpts, read by Rick Howe, from:Cairo - Chris WomersleyCafe Scheherazade - Arnold ZableLoaded - Christos TsiolkasTobias McCorkell is a writer and academic whose fiction and non-fiction interrogate the class, gender and generational divides of Australian culture.Tobias holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne and has been teaching creative writing at the tertiary level since 2012. His reviews of Australian literary theory have appeared in The Journal of Postcolonial Writing.As a freelance author, he also writes light non-fiction, humour and gift books for Smith Street Books, under the name Tobias Anthony.The manuscript for his first novel, Barely Anything, won the University of Melbourne/Affirm Press Prize for Creative Writing.