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Stephen Orr on the greatest literary hoax in Australian history with Paul Barclay 

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Stephen Orr on the greatest literary hoax in Australian history with Paul Barclay 

In his book, Sincerely Ethel Malley, Stephen Orr puts Ern Malley's sister, Ethel, at the centre of the literary scandal that fooled a nation. He talks to Paul Barclay (host, Big Ideas) about why the Ern Malley affair still looms large in Australia's cultural imagination.

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