#15 EXPECTATIONS

“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then hasbeen a bonus”- Stephen Hawking.As many of us teeter on the edge of real adulthood, we’ve been thinking a lotabout expectations. High expectations can be a driving force, but they can alsooften lead to total disappointment. This episode we stop and analyse what thisstrange thing –expectation- does to us.

Claudia and Ash havean ‘unexpected’ date-day at the Melbourne Dog Lovers Show while Jess interviewsformer Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste about expectations of foreigncorrespondancy. Rachael shakes up Pavement Philosopher and gets the voice ofCatalyst and Cataclysm to pen a letter to their younger selves.

Politics on the Couchasks what we expect today of student politics after attending an underwhelmingHigher Education reform protest. Harriet speaks to RMIT graduates six monthsafter flying the coop to see if their expectations of adult life match realityand Ash interviews C. S Pacat about all things fan fiction and homo-erotica.

Cataclysm’s regular bookclub rounds up the line-up with an all time classic. Alicia is joined byRachael and Jennifer to dust off Nathaniel Hawthorne’s magum opus: “The ScarletLetter”.

Presented by Jess Davis,Claudia Long, Ashleigh McMillan and Rachael Dexter. 

Music by PodingtonBear, Chris Zabriskie, andKevin MacLeod

Episode 15Contributing Crew: Lauren Muscat,Jess Davis, Harriet Conron, Brendan Wrigley, Alexander Darling, Alicia Barker,Claudia Long, Jennifer Zhao

Executive Producers: Rachael Dexter and Ashleigh McMillan