Tales And Misadventures From The Microphone
Max Walker, one of Australia's most highly treasured speakers, and Mike McColl Jones, a writer with television, have joined forced in 'Ladies And Gentlemen', a book of amusing stories and anecdotes from a lifetime behind the microphone and camera.
Here are tales of glory and folly on and off the stage, of things that can - and did! - go wrong, even for the most professional and well prepared of speakers.
Along the way, Max offer hints and little tricks of the trade for presenting speeches at birthdays, parties and funerals, and for getting out of sticky situations and maintaining you sense of humour when things go wrong.
A book that will have you laughing, and grateful the next time you are asked to "say a few words" at someone's wedding, party, anything . . .