# Ailsa Piper
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Ailsa Mary-Ellen Piper (born 1959) is an Australian writer, director and performer.
== Career ==
=== Acting ===
ailsa piper worked as an actress in theatre in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne from the early 1980s until 2000. She made her first appearance on TV in 1984 in Man of Letters, but is best known for playing Ruth Wilkinson in the soap opera Neighbours from 1996 until 1999.
107 | Living with dissociative identity disorder/multiple personality disorder with Maggie Walters, author of 'Split'
'It's not a mental illness. It's actually a creative coping mechanism.'
What's it like to discover other people living in your own head? In Maggie Walters' debut memoir, she describes her life with dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder (which remains Magg…
Michael Robotham and His Cabana of Cruelty
Michael Robotham began his career as a ghost writer, working on more than a dozen bestselling books for people like Tony Bullimore and Geri Halliwell, before he published a novel under his own name. Twenty years later, he has just released his 18th book, a new crime novel titled Storm Child. This w…
STONE YARD DEVOTIONAL by Charlotte Wood, read by Ailsa Piper
AudioFile’s Kendra Winchester and host Jo Reed discuss how narrator Ailsa Piper evokes the stark Australian Outback in her performance of this captivating novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize. To escape her busy life in the city, a middle-aged woman visits a small religious community for peace a…
For Life
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For Life. Head back to the 2024 Byron Writers Festival with Aisla Piper in conversation with Charlotte Wood.
When her husband doesn’t answer his phone, Ailsa Piper knows something is wrong. For Life is an unforgettable and moving insight into loss, hope and starting again, aided b…
Projectkin Live: Looking at the Week Ahead!
These live sessions with all of you chiming in create a wonderful way to plan for the week ahead. Today, we focused on two programs ahead this week:
Forget Me Not: How We Memorialise | Ailsa Piper
In the last of Jane Hutcheon’s six-part Forget-Me-Not series, Jane interviews Ailsa Piper. Ailsa is a…
A Brief Chat in the Livestream with Jane Hutcheon
As we all navigate new experiences and tools, these live sessions have become a fun way to connect personally and spontaneously. Though the live sessions are only available to Projectkin subscribers, I make the recordings available to everyone on our website. On my home page, I’ve endeavored to kee…
Love, death and walking : writer Ailsa Piper
In 2014, Ailsa Piper's husband's unexpected death cast her adrift in a sea of grief. Then bit by bit, life called her back.
Ailsa Piper is a writer and a walker.
She has used walking throughout her life as a meditative salve and a way to reflect on her life.
In 2014 Ailsa's beloved husband Peter d…
All the Pretty Seahorses with Ailsa Piper and Jackie Bailey
Memoirist Ailsa Piper (Sinning Across Spain, The Attachment) describes her latest offering, For Life, as a tale of living, dying and flying, but it is also about swimming, noticing, favourite words, friendship, and finding a home. Written in prose that is both luminous and illuminating, For Life sh…
Harriet Walter: What Shakespeare's Women Might Have Said
After a lifetime of bringing Shakespeare’s female characters to life on stage, multi-award-winning British actor Harriet Walter lends them her pen in She Speaks!. Shining a new light on classic stories, Harriet writes between the lines of some of Shakespeare’s most compelling characters – from ser…
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