Unscript

From the award-winning broadcaster, and author of No One Listens to your Dad’s Show, comes a radical self-development book that strips away the scripts that keep us disconnected and shows how to reclaim our real, authentic selves.

Christian O'Connell is the only broadcaster in history to achieve #1 ratings on two continents and is the first National Breakfast host in Australian radio history. For almost 30 years he has connected with millions of people daily — without scripts, without safety nets, and often without a plan. He's written a warm, funny and deeply honest guide to the one thing we're all starving for: real human connection.

In Unscript, Christian shows how invisible scripts — handed to us by family, culture and fear — quietly run our conversations, our relationships and our lives. We perform when we could be present. We impress when we could express. And the gap between who we are and who we pretend to be keeps growing.

With his WAVES framework — Wonder, Attune, Vulnerability, Enjoy and Surf — Christian offers a way back. Not to a better version of yourself, but to the real one. The one that was always there, underneath the act.

The real you — unpolished, unscripted and gloriously imperfect — is not the problem. You don't need to become someone new. You just need to remember who you already are.

Because your magic is in the mess.

© 2026 Wavesound from W. F. Howes Ltd (Audiobook): 9781004256211

Release date

Audiobook: July 29, 2026