{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/67372137d3a0091de2ab3f92/674eed3a5e1cc0fabee9bd6c?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Hedley Thomas","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/67372137d3a0091de2ab3f92/1733304479389-9badae5e-e983-47cf-9e9a-e40f8aee02ba.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>'The Teacher’s Pet'&nbsp;is a true-crime podcast by <strong>Hedley Thomas</strong>,&nbsp;<em>The Australian</em>&nbsp;newspaper's award-winning national chief correspondent, and it&nbsp;has had more than 52 million downloads worldwide.&nbsp;Hedley’s book of the same name now brings us behind the scenes of this incredible true story&nbsp;of the disappearance of&nbsp;Lynette Simms&nbsp;from Sydney's idyllic northern beaches in 1982. Lyn's&nbsp;husband Chris Dawson was a rugby league star, a popular teacher and exceptionally close to his identical twin brother, Paul. But this facade of domestic bliss shattered as Chris became infatuated with the family's babysitter – his 16-year-old student – a girl he moved into Lyn's home and bed just two days after her disappearance.&nbsp;This&nbsp;podcast was recorded at West Cork Literary Festival on&nbsp;16&nbsp;July 2024 and&nbsp;Hedley&nbsp;was&nbsp;in conversation with crime novelist Catherine Ryan Howard.</p><p><br></p><p>----------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Hedley Thomas</strong>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>The Australian&nbsp;</em>newspaper’s national chief correspondent, specialising in investigative reporting with an interest in legal issues, the judiciary, corruption and politics. He has won eight Walkley awards including two Gold Walkleys; the first in 2007 for his investigations into the fiasco surrounding the Australian Federal Police investigations of Dr Mohamed Haneef, and the second in 2018 for his podcast,&nbsp;<em>The Teacher’s Pet</em>, investigating the 1982 murder of Sydney mother Lynette Dawson.&nbsp;<em>The Teacher’s Pet</em>&nbsp;podcast has had more than 52 million downloads worldwide and his book of the same name was published by Macmillan Australia in October 2023.</p><p><br></p><p>Mark your calendars and join us in West Cork from <strong>11-18 July 2025</strong>. Our 2025 line-up will be released in late March/early April and you can <a href=\"https://www.westcorkmusic.ie/newsletter\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">sign up for our newsletter</a> to hear about it first.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.westcorkmusic.ie/donate\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Support West Cork Literary Festival</a>&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.westcorkmusic.ie/support-us/become-a-friend-of-our-festivals/#wclf-section\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Become a Friend of West Cork Literary Festival</a> to enjoy priority booking for our highly sought-after festival tickets. In particular, you will be supporting our free events for children and our outreach programmes to allow the festival to be accessible to everyone.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Visit our festival bookshop <a href=\"https://bantrybookshop.ie/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bantry Bookshop</a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/wcorklitfest.bsky.social\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Follow us on BlueSky Social</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/westcorkliteraryfestival\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://x.com/wcorklitfest\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter/X</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/westcorkliteraryfestival/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.westcorkmusic.ie/WCLFYouTube\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to our YouTube channel</a></p>","author_name":"West Cork Literary Festival"}