The Slapping Man

Andrew Lindsay has a background in comic theatre and has been a writer, performer and director. He studied with Jacques Lecoq in Paris and went on to form Red Weather, an anarchic music theatre group, in Sydney. In 1995 he won the Radio National Books and Writing Short Story Competition and his novel The Breadmaker's Carnival was joint winner of the Jim Hamilton Award. He lives in Sydney.

Peter Hosking is an actor with 40 years of stage, film and television experience and has narrated over 160 audiobooks. He toured Australia with the stage show Certified Male, appeared on television in Blue Heelers and on-screen in Pride, Siam Sunset, The Wogboy and Razor Eaters. Now living in Europe, he has toured with stage shows within Australia, New Zealand, Europe, the USA and Egypt as well as filming in the Czech Republic, Denmark, the Canary Islands and Poland. He continues to record for Bolinda from his base in Prague.