The Chris Wallace Chronicles (c) Chris Wallace - All Rights ReservedSongs written by Chris Wallace

From Fairbanks to Vietnam.

A unique inside view of JFK's assassination.

The distinct honor of being "the white guy."

Joan Fountaine, Johnny Unitas and Mahalia.  What more could you possibly want?

Adding an NBC peacock feather to my cap.

From a blister to a silver dollar to oblivion.

However slight or insignificant it may seem in the large scheme of things, I left a my mark on New York.

Some odds and ends.

The ubiquitous plant.

A 4/20 Day Anthem.

Flying home, literally and figuratively.

A poignant portrait of a heartbroken man.

Twain's posthumous take on war.

Series introduction.

The Bible according to Mark Twain.

Twain's version of Elizabethan bawdiness.

Huck with songs.

Written in the stars.

Season One – A Yank Down Under In both New York and Hollywood, I’d produced some pretty big shows.  When I first got to Australia, I was looking for ways to become a part of the community and an opportunity came up that let me do that.  It started out pretty routine, but quickly took on dimensions that were unimaginable.  I was suddenly in the middle of an effort to give back the us...

Season One – A Yank Down Under I was living in New York.   I did a lot of travelling because I could get cheap tickets.   I’d already been to Africa, the Middle East and Europe.  I got a chance to visit Australia and jumped at it.   The last thing on my mind was that I’d ever live here.   On the plane from Honolulu, I met an American who had interest in a cattle station up...

Season One – A Yank Down Under If you’ve never seen actual gold, the way it comes from the ground, you have no idea how magical it can be.   I didn’t either until I met this guy in Melbourne who went out from time to time prospecting.   He invited me along one day and gave me the experience of a lifetime.   It’s easy to imagine why people have gone nuts over the stuff for eons. Tell...

Season One – A Yank Down Under Somehow I found out that they were looking for people to be spear carriers for a Russian opera that was coming to the Melbourne International Festival.  I’d never considered doing anything like that, but a gig’s a gig, so I put my hand up.  It was one of the most bizarre things I’ve ever done.  Before it was over, it nearly became an international inci...

Season One – A Yank Down Under I was at a block party in Toorak, minding my own business, when this woman came up to me and told me I have a great face.   That chance meeting resulted in a religious conversion and my portrait being submitted for the Archibald Prize.   The twists and turns of this story, the triumph and tragedy, would be unbelievable if you wrote the story as fiction. &nb...

Season One – A Yank Down Under I was out of a job.  At lunchtime, I often went to Channel 5 in New York to play a nerf basketball game in the art department.  I go there this one day and two of my former colleagues from Channel 5 were in town to prep for a huge gig they’d landed in Hollywood, the first Ali-Frazier fight from Madison Square Garden.  It was the biggest sporting event...

As much as I’d like to be thought of as a fair dinkum Aussie, and I would, I live with the fact that I’m not. I am an immigrant.  But here’s the way I like to put it: I’m Greek by blood, American by birth and Aussie by choice.  I’ve been here 25 years and counting.  These years in Australia have been some of the most creatively productive years of my life.  And this podcast dem...