Lorin Clarke

Lorin Clarke writes for radio, screen, and print. She scripted episodes of Australian kid’s shows The Wonder Gang, Bluey, and Kangaroo Beach, and created and narrated award-winning audio drama The Fitzroy Diaries. Clarke is the author of children's book Our (Last) Trip to the Market, and wrote the introduction to her father John Clarke's posthumous selected works, Tinkering, published in 2017. In 2025 she wrote and directed documentary Not Only Fred Dagg, about her late father. She has co-hosted breakfast radio and podcasts, and wrote award-winning play People Watching while studying for an arts/law degree at Melbourne University. 

When asked what his influences were, Dad had a range of answers, but he always said the biggest influence on his writing and performing was talk. The adults in the next room talking at night, the way people spoke in shops, the wording of announcements over loud speakers. If you listen to talk, you learn about tone, about speech rhythm, and, most importantly for Dad, about how important the form of delivery is to conveying (or avoiding) meaning. Lorin Clarke, in the introduction to 2017 book Tinkering: The Complete Book of John Clarke, page 2