Beretts' Best
Beretts' Best is a weekly interview podcast hosted by Mark Beretta, the longtime sports presenter on Australia's Sunrise breakfast program. Each episode features in-depth, honest conversations with Australian sportspeople and champions from other fields. Guests discuss their wins, setbacks, and the lessons that shaped them, in a relaxed format free of trick questions. New episodes are released every week.
Episodes
We All Carry Something: Matty Johns on Family, Fame and the Heart Behind the Humour
A Mad Monday costume that became Reg Reagan. A brother who was good at everything. And a son who drove him across town at beer eleven to make things right. Matty Johns sat down with Beretts and told story after story. Beretts gets Matty on the heart behind the humour, Brad Thorn’s hidden anxiety, growing up Johns in a coal town, life in Joey’s shadow, and the 1997 grand final that carried a whole
As Heavy As It Got: Mark Skaife on the Mountain, Brock and the Fight He Never Talked About
Six Bathurst wins. Five championships. And a health scare in 2017 that Mark Skaife has never spoken about, until now. Two mates of thirty years settle in for a long one. Beretts and Mark Skaife go through the mind of a champion, the day Jim Richards called the crowd a pack of assholes in the rain at Bathurst, what Peter Brock really meant to him and the loss of Holden. Then Skaifey opens up on the
It's My Family's Baggy Green: Nathan Lyon on Injury, Family and the Comeback
He tore his hamstring clean off the bone the same day Australia won the Ashes, and he still calls it a good day. Nathan Lyon sat down with Beretts for one of the most open chats we’ve had. Gaz takes us from the groundsman’s shed at Adelaide Oval to a first-ball wicket on debut, why the baggy green belongs to his family and not to him, the dad who keeps him grounded, and the work in the bush that m
Smashing it like guitars: Michael Klim on the Fight That Came After the Gold
Everyone remembers him strumming the air guitar at the Americans in Sydney. Almost nobody saw the fight that came after. Michael Klim sat down with Beretts for one of the most emotional chats we’ve had. Two blokes with a lot of history go back to that 4x100 relay and the friendships it made, then Klimi opens up on the day his legs gave way at an airport, living with CIDP, losing the body that defi
Together for the First Time: Kochie & Karl on 20 Years of Breakfast TV
For twenty years the networks told them to be enemies. Turns out they’d been having quiet lunches the whole time. David Koch and Karl Stefanovic sit down together for the first time, and it’s gold. Beretts gets the two kings of breakfast TV on the rivalry that never really was, getting the job “by miscarriage,” the daggy whiteboard that beat the slick news desk, the exits (one graceful, one a phon
Beretts' Best | Official Trailer
This is Beretts' Best. Real conversations with the people I have been lucky enough to know across sport and beyond, told properly, the way you do not get to hear them anywhere else.After 22 years on the Sunrise couch, I am sitting down with some of the most remarkable names in the country. The kings of Australian breakfast television Kochie and Karl, Michael Klim, Nathan Lyon, Matty Johns, Gra
