Leaving Nonfiction for Make-Believe Blood

Umapagan Ampikaipakan, speaks to Professor Brian Stoddart. He was the vice chancellor of La Trobe University in Melbourne. He’s written 15 works of nonfiction about sport, about Asia, and about global issues. Lately, he’s been trying his hand at crime fiction and we find out just what it means when a lifelong academic decides to play it fast-and-loose and let his imagination run wild with thoughts of murder and mayhem.