beer with Duncan by Duncan Schieb

beer with Duncan is a one-hour conversation, recorded on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, between Duncan Schieb and a single guest. The songs, chosen with the guest before the day, carry the hour. They belong to the guest, picked for their own reasons: perhaps the one they walk in on, perhaps the first they ever loved, perhaps the one they still cannot hear without going somewhere, perhaps the one they want the listener to leave humming. The music is the joy running through the whole thing. The conversation is personal. The hour moves through who the guest is, where they came from, and the good they have made of their life. When there is a hard chapter, we sit in it gently and only as far as the guest wants to go, and then we reach for the light, because the point is always what they carried out of it. When a guest has a whole good life honestly built, the hour lives in the warm, telling moments most interviews skip. The show is made for a simple, hopeful reason. Somewhere a person is listening, and a stranger says something honest and true, and the room gets a little warmer. They feel less alone, a little braver, and glad to share a world with people like this. Every guest is chosen because their life, honestly told, does that. Host Duncan is a country-born auctioneer who has called more than 15,000 auctions and raised over $200 million for good causes. He coaches junior footy and cricket on the Northern Beaches, mentors young people, and works in grief support. He does not sit across the table as a neutral interviewer. He is a warm fellow traveller who makes the room safe, asks the small honest question, and knows the hour belongs to the guest and to the person listening.