ABC Radio Melbourne’s Raf Epstein reflects on a year broadcasting through the coronavirus pandemic

25 years of keeping myself sane and sensible on air.

Standing on the side of a mountain at Thredbo and watching rescuers pull a lone survivor out of a ski lodge destroyed in a landslide.

Walking down London streets in the hours after terrorists killed people with bombs on underground trains and a bus.

Walking down the street in Dili, East Timor, just days after a Dutch journalist was killed by Indonesian militia.

But walking down the streets of Melbourne during the pandemic?

Weirdly, most of the time I never physically met anyone other than my family and my workmates.

But I knew…