A lot of the time we tend to overlook what’s right in front of us, we ignore the normal, the accepted, the uncontroversial…but sometimes we all have to take a step back and ask ourselves. What makes an Aussie legend…a legend?
This week on 2SER we speak to Jasper Martin, an aspiring film maker, with a rag tag crew at the Sydney Cricket Ground who over the course of weeks sought to answer this exact question, critiquing and dissecting the cultural icon, to answer the question “What makes the Don so great?”.
In our convo with Jasper, we unearth the point of his exercise, how he found himself filming on the Sydney Cricket Ground itself, and what conclusions he came to after his endless hours devoted to picking apart the fantasy, the myths, and the legends surrounding “Sir Donald George Bradman”