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Text three is a transcript of a radio interview. Refer to the animation for questions 31 -45. They are based on the following text.
An interview with country music star, Jamee Lindt - A radio interview transcript.
1 TONY: Hi there listeners! It's 3pm on Tuesday the 19th - just six days to Christmas! You're on FOX FM. With me now is Jamee Lindt. No introduction required. Hi, Jamee and welcome to FOX FM.
2 JAMEE: Hi Tony. It's good to be here.
3 T: So, Jamee, all of our listeners (and myself) are huge fans of your new single, 'Driving to the Country'.
4 J: Why, thank you.
5 T: It has been a HUGE success, in Australia and around the world. How does it make you feel?
6 J: Well Tony, I'm just so grateful to all my fans out there. I really am humbled by their enthusiasm. I guess I'm just glad to have made it to this position.
7 T: It has been hard for you, hasn't it?
8 J: Yeah, kinda.
9 T: I mean losing your parents earlier this year in a plane accident and then your brother, who you were very close to just three months ago. How do you cope?
10 J: Well....Tony....I- I guess that in some ways it has helped me. I think that it has made me see what I really want in life. I think also that part of me has said, 'Don't stop. Focus now.' I think my parents and my brother would have wanted it that way. But....but I don't know, sometimes I'm scared -
11 T: mmm....
12 J: -you know - country girl makes it big and all - I still look up at all the skyscrapers in awe of the heights, I have screaming fans, limo rides and red carpet walks -
13 T: mmm hm....
14 J: sometimes I can't help but think that I am in this big bubble that could just burst at any moment and then…then…who knows where I'll be – maybe I've just suppressed all my feelings of grief for my family and if that bubble bursts I'll hit rock bottom.
15 T: But then you do have a wonderful husband and three kids…
16 J: Yeah. Yeah you're right. I live for that part of my family. I don't know what I'd do without them. I really do have a fantastic support network – my family, my manager, my band – they're just all so good to me.
17 T: How do your kids react to their mum being a celebrity?
18 J: Well for them my music is just a part of their lives.
19 T: Your husband…
20 J: Right. My husband Gary used to, or still does, when we're all together, build this huge bonfire out the back of the property and he'd have his guitar (usually out of tune mind you) [laughs] and we'd all sit, sing songs, make up songs, sing in harmony – we're really such a close family.
21 T: Mmm hmm
22 J: And so for the kids, for the kids, they're all like, oh that's just Mummy singing' you know? I don't think it's a big change for them really.
23 T: Except for the fact that you're not at home as often anymore?
24 J: Well there's that but I still get home and in some ways it brings us closer – we miss each other so much that we realise how important we are to each other.
25 T: Great! So back to your single, ‘Driving to the Country'.
26 J: Shoot.
27 T: It sounds very happy, considering your recent run of bad luck, is it your family that is your inspiration for this song?
28 J: My family, my memories and just everything that reminds me of the country. It's just like whenever I'm here in the big smoke, I feel suffocated and cold, you know?
29 T: Well not in this weather I don't! [laughs]
30 J: Yeah, well fair enough [laughs] but seriously Tony, I just sometimes feel like driving back to the country is like receiving a big warm hug – you know sometimes you just need that feeling that somebody loves you.
31 T: The country loves you?
32 J: Well…yeah. I think so. I love it and it loves me – we're friends.
33 T: Ah ha…?
34 J: It's looked after me – all of us really- it feeds us and clothes us and for me it keeps my memories and my family and my life – it really is very important to my life.
35 T: I see. Now, Jamee – that's really quite inspirational but why do you think you have so many fans who come from the city who perhaps don't feel this deep connection that you do with the country?
36 J: I think we all have – or want (or maybe need) that special feeling of happiness, of comfort and of home. I think that this is what the song says – rather than just saying that the country is great. The country is great – but it's great for me, for other people it could be a suburb, a building, a house or even someone else. I just think that everybody needs a place to belong and that returning after a time away from that place is the most beautiful experience a person can have.
37 T: Well it's been a beautiful experience having you in today, Jamee.
38 J: It's my pleasure Tony.
39 T: And with Jamee's delightful sentiment still lingering in our ears let's hear her new single ‘Driving to the Country' by Jamee Lindt. You're on FOX FM.
