Episode 6
Dialogue between Therapist and Patient
This intimate musical conversation captures the fragile, hard-won trust between Maggie and her therapist over nearly two decades of healing from severe childhood abuse. The flute represents the therapist—composed by “Music Maggie,” disciplined and steady—while the bassoon gives voice to Maggie’s shifting inner parts: “Nobody,” who feels unworthy of being heard; “Bad Maggie,” defiant yet hurting; “Outcast” and “Death,” raw with rage and despair; “Georgie,” who listens; and “Maggie Aggie,” tender and anxious but present. Using notes randomly chosen by her therapist, Maggie crafted a piece that mirrors their journey—from disconnection and mistrust to attunement and synchrony. The music ends not with resolution, but with alignment: two lives finally moving in step. For Maggie, composing this dialogue wasn’t just therapy—it was survival. And proof that, after years of silence, she was finally being heard.
Narrator: Jonathan Biggins, Producer: Zoe Carides, NLM producer: Tanya Lee and Narrator: Jane Rutter
Jonathan Biggins | Actor, Writer & Director
Jonathan Biggins is an actor, writer and director with a wide and varied stage career, perhaps best known for The Wharf Revue and most recently his one-man show The Gospel According to Paul.
Jonathan’s notable acting credits include Travesties, The White Guard and Ying Tong for STC, The Importance of Being Earnest for MTC, and The Mikado and Orpheus in the Underworld for Opera Australia.
Film and TV credits include The Messenger, Manny Lewis, A Few Best Men and Three Men and a Baby Grand.
Jonathan has written for Fairfax’s Good Weekend magazine, the musicals Living in the 70s and The Republic of Myopia, and the plays Australia Day and Talk.
Winner of two AWGIES, he is also the author of three books, including The 700 Habits of Highly Ineffective People. His other directing credits include Orpheus in the Underworld for Opera Australia, Avenue Q, for which he received a Helpmann Award, Pete the Sheep and Josephine Wants to Dance for Monkey Baa Theatre and Noises Off and Talk for STC.
Jane Rutter | Australian Flautist
Flute superstar! Internationally-acclaimed concert soloist Australian-French flutist Jane Rutter, was recently knighted by France (Chevalier des Arts et Lettres). She is an expert in the French Flute School and is a major influence in classical music. Known for her onstage warmth, she brilliantly conveys passion, sparkling technique and elegance of expression through her beautiful flute playing. Jane is proud to be a Haynes Artist, (renowned flute makers WMS Haynes describe Jane Rutter as a flute superstar).
A Fellow of the Australian Institute of Music, Jane is an award-winning TV presenter and multi-ARIA (Australian Grammy) nominee who has appeared as soloist with many orchestras including The Australian Chamber Orchestra, and on the same bill as Pavarotti, Carreras, The Manhattan Transfer, Tina Arena, Tommy Emmanuel, Michael Crawford, Slava & Leonard Grigoryan, Teddy Tahu-Rhodes, Peter Cousens and others.
An Australia Day Ambassador and one of Who Magazine’s 30 Most Beautiful People, Jane is also in demand as an Artistic Director and composer. Her Live at Lunch series at The Concourse, Chatswood is one of Australia’s most successful concert series. Jane has been featured on 60 Minutes, and in Vogue Magazine, and is a household name in Australia.