AustLit logo
Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Inside Story : From ABC Foreign Correspondent to Singapore Prisoner #12988
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'Two young men are at my flanks. A third is stepping from the shadows. I'm being mugged, I think. I'm being mugged in the low-crime capital of Asia.

'It is July 2008 at 8pm and one of ABC-TV's best-known foreign correspondents, Peter Lloyd, is being arrested on the streets of Singapore. And so begins a dramatic and highly publicised ordeal. In the years before this turning point in his life, it was Peter Lloyd doing the publicising. He had stood among the gruesome human wreckage laid out in an improvised outdoor mortuary after the Bali Bombing; joined Thailand's disaster recovery workers collecting the bloated flotsam of the Boxing Day Tsunami. And he was there for the worst atrocity in Pakistan's history, a shocking suicide bombing attempt on Benazir Bhutto's life, two months before she was finally assassinated.

'These horrific events became the stuff of recurring nightmares, a private agony that took a huge toll and led to a personal disintegration.

'After his arrest, Peter Lloyd became embroiled in Singapore's judicial system and, as Prisoner 12988, suffered the small and large humiliations of prison life. But he is far from bitter. He was supported by many of his ABC colleagues and by a network of close friends; he was comforted by his loving gay partner and by his tirelessly loyal former wife.

'To survive in gaol, he entered it with the mindset of a seasoned journalist on assignment. He tells his Inside Story with compelling candour, great warmth and a very sharp wit.' (From the publisher's website.)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2010 .
      Extent: 296p.
      Note/s:
      • Also available as an electronic resource.
      ISBN: 9781742373911 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

In Short : Nonfiction Bruce Elder , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20-21 November 2010; (p. 39)

— Review of Tell 'em Nothing, Take 'em Nowhere Max Cullen , 2010 single work autobiography ; Inside Story : From ABC Foreign Correspondent to Singapore Prisoner #12988 Peter Lloyd , 2010 single work autobiography
Untitled Ian Hallett , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , October vol. 90 no. 3 2010; (p. 32)

— Review of Inside Story : From ABC Foreign Correspondent to Singapore Prisoner #12988 Peter Lloyd , 2010 single work autobiography
Review : Non-Fiction Sue Bond , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 23 - 24 October 2010; (p. 25)

— Review of Inside Story : From ABC Foreign Correspondent to Singapore Prisoner #12988 Peter Lloyd , 2010 single work autobiography
'A Perfect Storm of Circumstances' Murray Waldren , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 325 2010; (p. 22-23)

— Review of Inside Story : From ABC Foreign Correspondent to Singapore Prisoner #12988 Peter Lloyd , 2010 single work autobiography
Off the Shelf : Memoir Dianne Dempsey , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 9 October 2010; (p. 28)

— Review of Inside Story : From ABC Foreign Correspondent to Singapore Prisoner #12988 Peter Lloyd , 2010 single work autobiography
Off the Shelf : Memoir Dianne Dempsey , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 9 October 2010; (p. 28)

— Review of Inside Story : From ABC Foreign Correspondent to Singapore Prisoner #12988 Peter Lloyd , 2010 single work autobiography
'A Perfect Storm of Circumstances' Murray Waldren , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 325 2010; (p. 22-23)

— Review of Inside Story : From ABC Foreign Correspondent to Singapore Prisoner #12988 Peter Lloyd , 2010 single work autobiography
Review : Non-Fiction Sue Bond , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 23 - 24 October 2010; (p. 25)

— Review of Inside Story : From ABC Foreign Correspondent to Singapore Prisoner #12988 Peter Lloyd , 2010 single work autobiography
Untitled Ian Hallett , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , October vol. 90 no. 3 2010; (p. 32)

— Review of Inside Story : From ABC Foreign Correspondent to Singapore Prisoner #12988 Peter Lloyd , 2010 single work autobiography
In Short : Nonfiction Bruce Elder , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20-21 November 2010; (p. 39)

— Review of Tell 'em Nothing, Take 'em Nowhere Max Cullen , 2010 single work autobiography ; Inside Story : From ABC Foreign Correspondent to Singapore Prisoner #12988 Peter Lloyd , 2010 single work autobiography
Last amended 20 Jun 2011 08:02:29
Subjects:
  • c
    Singapore,
    c
    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • 2008
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X