The Silent Service

Mike Carlton is one of Australia’s best-known media figures, working on the ABC’s groundbreaking This Day Tonight current affairs program in the 1970s. His radio satire on current affairs, Friday News Review, was ‘must listening’ in Australia and the UK, and for many years he wrote a popular weekly column for The Sydney Morning Herald. Mike has had a lifelong passion for naval history and is the author of Cruiser, First Victory, Flagship, The Scrap Iron Flotilla and, most recently, Dive!. 

Bob Carr is an Australian retired politician and journalist who served as the 39th premier of New South Wales from 1995 to 2005. He later entered federal politics as a NSW senator and served as minister for foreign affairs from 2012 to 2013.