ABC arts host Namila Benson relishes being seen as well as heard
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For someone who has spent much of their 20-year career being heard but not seen, most recently as host of Radio Nationalâs weekly
Art Show, Namila Benson is a supremely visual person.
âIâve always been quite animated, especially when I get excited about things. Being Islander, you do more talking with your hands than you do with your mouth,â says the Melbourne-born Tolai woman from Rabaul in Papua New Guinea.
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