Video: Red AP branded header slide with white text reading: Morris Gleitzman talks letter writing.
Audio: Jaunty music
Video: Morris talks to the camera in a living room. He wears glasses and a blue button-up collared shirt. Morris Gleitzman:
Audio: Hello, I’m Morris Gleitzman and my job is writing stories for young people. I’ve been doing it for over 30 years and so you won’t be surprised to hear that I love words.
Video: The camera pans over a table full of handwritten letters. Morris Gleitzman:
Audio: I would like to encourage everybody stuck at home these days
Video: Morris talks to the camera in a living room. He wears glasses and a blue button-up collared shirt. Morris Gleitzman:
Audio: wondering perhaps what to do, to have a go at writing some letters. And there’s all sorts of good reasons why this is a great thing for young people to do.
Video: The camera zooms into Morris talking to the camera in a living room. Morris Gleitzman:
Audio: You could write to your heroes if you like. There are plenty of those around at the moment and how much would those people working long hard hours in our hospitals and medical centres enjoy having a letter perhaps from someone they only met very briefly or perhaps never at all. You.
Video: Morris holds up handwritten letters he’s received.
Audio: As an author, I get sent a lot of letters. Hundreds, thousands over the years. Many of them these days come through email and social media. But the ones I really like best are the handwritten ones on paper. There is something really special about knowing that a piece of paper that you’re holding in your hand only a few days or a couple of weeks ago had been in the hands of somebody who had something that they really wanted to tell you.
Video: The camera zooms into Morris talking to the camera in a living room.
Morris Gleitzman: Audio: When we write a letter to somebody else that we really want to connect with and we do it using our own unique handwriting on a piece of paper. A piece of paper that will last for maybe hundreds of years if it’s tucked into a dry drawer, that means that the person who receives that letter has got something very special, just from you to them, you will have made a connection that can’t quite be made in any other way.
Video: The video fades into a white background that shows the red Australia Post logo.
Audio: Jaunty music