Kirk Docker

Interviewer and Storyteller, Docker Media

Kirk Docker is one of Australia’s finest interviewers and storytellers. He is the co-creator and director of the ABC program YOU CAN’T ASK THAT (season 1-7) and new program I WAS ACTUALLY THERE. YOU CAN’T ASK THAT has been awarded Rose d’Or, AACTA and Walkley awards and is the most successful format in ABC history, selling to 32 territories, and broadcast in 9 different languages worldwide. When it comes to the content he creates, no subject is off-topic. Kirk’s interviewees range from ex-politicians to ice users to sexual assault survivors. He has a deep curiosity, compassion and playfulness that elicits honesty from his participants, many of whom have never sat in front of a camera before. Through thousands of hours of open dialogue, what’s become absolutely clear to Kirk is that every human, no matter what they believe or how high their stature, share a core value: the desire to be understood.