Zan Rowe is best known for her work as one of the country’s leading music journalists, and host of the ABC’s Take 5 . Here, the 47-year-old explains how her grandfather inspired her career choice, and how, after breaking off her engagement eight years ago, she and her partner found their way back to one another.

Zan Rowe had her first relationship at 18, with a man who cold-emailed her from the US. Credit: Peter Tarasiuk

My paternal grandfather George died when my father was three. He was tragically killed by a car while delivering milk in a horse and cart in the 1940s.

I was very close to my maternal grandfather, Alan, who died aged 98. He was involved in community radio in his 70s – we had that common ground. He’d play concerts and classical music on a show he hosted with my

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