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Blue Hills (radio Serial)
''Blue Hills'', created and written by Gwen Meredith, is an Australian radio serial about the lives of families, set in a fictional typical Australian country town called Tanimbla. The title "Blue Hills" itself derives from the residence of Dr. Gordon, the town's doctor. ''Blue Hills'' was broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) for 27 years, from 28 February 1949 to 30 September 1976. It ran for a total of 5,795 episodes, and was at one time the world's longest-running radio serial. Each episode lasted 15 minutes. It succeeded another Gwen Meredith serial ''The Lawsons'', with many of the same themes and characters, and which ran for 1,299 episodes. History: background ''The Lawsons'' was the brainchild of play editor Leslie Rees and Frank Clewlow of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (then Commission), which had been approached by Government in 1943 to publicise the need for farmers to grow more soya beans as part of the war effort. They reason ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the national broadcaster of Australia. It is principally funded by direct grants from the Australian Government and is administered by a government-appointed board. The ABC is a publicly-owned body that is politically independent and fully accountable, with its charter enshrined in legislation, the ''Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983''. ABC Commercial, a profit-making division of the corporation, also helps to generate funding for content provision. The ABC was established as the Australian Broadcasting Commission on 1 July 1932 by an act of federal parliament. It effectively replaced the Australian Broadcasting Company, a private company established in 1924 to provide programming for A-class radio stations. The ABC was given statutory powers that reinforced its independence from the government and enhanced its news-gathering role. Modelled after the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which is funded by a tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Canberra Times
''The Canberra Times'' is a daily newspaper in Canberra, Australia, which is published by Australian Community Media. It was founded in 1926, and has changed ownership and format several times. History ''The Canberra Times'' was launched in 1926 by Thomas Shakespeare along with his oldest son Arthur Shakespeare and two younger sons Christopher and James. The newspaper's headquarters were originally located in the Civic retail precinct, in Cooyong Street and Mort Street, in blocks bought by Thomas Shakespeare in the first sale of Canberra leases in 1924. The newspaper's first issue was published on 3 September 1926. It was the second paper to be printed in the city, the first being ''The Federal Capital Pioneer''. Between September 1926 and February 1928, the newspaper was a weekly issue. The first daily issue was 28 February 1928. In June 1956, ''The Canberra Times'' converted from broadsheet to tabloid format. Arthur Shakespeare sold the paper to John Fairfax Lt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Cracknell
Ruth Winifred Cracknell AM (6 July 1925 – 13 May 2002) was an Australian character and comic actress, comedienne and author, her career encompassing all genres including radio, theatre, television and film. She appeared in many dramatic as well as comedy roles throughout a career spanning some 56 years. In theatre she was well known for her Shakespeare roles. Early life Cracknell was born in 1925 in Maitland, New South Wales to Charles and Winifred Cracknell. When she was four years old, the family moved to Sydney. She was educated at North Sydney Girls High School and, after graduating, worked at the Ku-ring-gai Council as a clerk. At 17 she was taken to the theatre by a friend. She immediately wanted to become an actress and joined the Modern Theatre Players drama school. Career Radio and theatre Cracknell's first acting jobs were in radio. By 1946, she was performing five episodes of radio plays a week. She also performed on stage with the Sydney-based companies the Inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Charleville Times
''The Charleville Times'' was a newspaper published in Charleville, Queensland, Australia, from 25 December 1883. History ''The Charleville Times'' was printed and published by Richard Boyd Echlin for the Charleville times Printing Co. and was first published on 25 December 1883. In 1961 it absorbed the ''Maranoa News'' published in Mitchell. Later it became the ''Western Times''. Digitisation The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia. See also * List of newspapers in Australia This is a list of newspapers in Australia. For other older newspapers, see list of defunct newspapers of Australia. National In 1950, the number of national daily newspapers in Australia was 54 and it increased to 65 in 1965. Daily newspape ... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Charleville Times, The Defunct newspapers published in Queensland 1883 establishments in Australia Publications establi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sunday Mail (Brisbane)
''The Sunday Mail'' is a newspaper published on Sunday in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is Brisbane's only Sunday newspaper. ''The Sunday Mail'' is published in tabloid format, comprising several sections that can be extracted and read separately. It is available for purchase throughout Queensland, most regions of Northern New South Wales and parts of the Northern Territory. Publishing The newspaper is published by Queensland Newspapers, part of News Corp Australia, whose parent company is News Corp. The editorial office is located at Bowen Hills, in Brisbane's inner northern suburbs, and the newspaper is printed in the suburb of Murarrie. Liz Deegan succeeded Michael Prain as editor in September 2006. Prain, who was editor of the newspaper for almost a decade, was appointed managing editor, digital media, of Queensland Newspapers. As she prepared to take over as editor, Deegan said: "I'm excited by the challenge of editing the biggest -selling newspaper in Australia's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peg Christensen
Margaret Christensen (8 January 1921 – 30 November 2009) also credited as Margaret Caristensen and Peg Christensen, was an Australian radio hostess and character actress, who appeared in numerous TV series, primarily in guesting roles. Biography She started her radio career in the 1940s, hosting both comedy and dramas, and appeared in radio series '' Blue Hills'' as Emmie Lawson. She began with movie acting in the 1950s. She appeared in several TV series like ''Skippy'', ''Division 4'', ''Homicide'', ''A Country Practice'' and ''All Saints''. Christensen was the mother of actor Sean Scully Sean Scully (born 30 June 1945) is an Irish-born American-based artist working as a painter, printmaker, sculptor and photographer. His work is held in museum collections worldwide and he has twice been named a Turner Prize nominee. Moving fro .... Filmography References External links * 1921 births 2009 deaths Australian film actresses Recipients of the Medal of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amber-Mae Cecil
Amber Mae Cecil (20 August 1938 – 15 July 1998) was a prominent Australian radio, theatre and television actress of the 1950s and 1960s. Early life Amber Mae Cecil was born on 20 August 1938 in Potts Point. Her parents were also prominent figures of Australian radio, Rosalind Margaret Kennerdale (1910–1994), an actor, and Lawrence Henry Cecil (1888–1968), a producer for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Her grandfather, Norman Kennerdale (1880–1950), ran a school of dramatic arts, later managed by Rosalind Kennerdale. Career Cecil was 12 years old when she made her debut in Grace Gibson's radio serial ''Night Beat.'' She was offered a stage role by Queenie Ashton and played roles for the Metropolitan, Independent and Mercury Theatre companies. Two years later, in 1953, Cecil won the role of Janie in the popular 2GB comedy serial ''Life with Dexter'', a role Cecil would maintain for the next eleven years. The show was recorded in front of a live audience and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neva Carr Glynn
Neva Carr Glyn or Neva Carr Glynn (born Neva Josephine Mary Carr Glyn, 10 May 1908 – 10 August 1975) was an Australian stage, film and radio actress born in Melbourne to Arthur Benjamin Carr Glyn (died 16 January 1923), a humorous baritone and stage manager born in Ireland, and Marie Carr Glyn (late Mola), née Marie Dunoon Senior (10 June 1874 – 24 December 1953), an actress with the stage name "Marie Avis".Lane, Richard ''The Golden Age of Australian Radio Drama'' Melbourne University Press 1994 She had one half-sister Gwendoline Arnold O'Neill and two half-brothers Sacheverill Arnold Mola and Rupert Arnold Mola. She was named "Neva" after a great-aunt, who was a contralto of some quality. Both spellings of her surname appear in print roughly equally and apparently arbitrarily. Early career Neva was born while her parents were with the Fred Niblo company touring the J. C. Williamson circuit. Her theatrical debut was four months later, in New Zealand, when Fred Niblo carr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland Times
''The Queensland Times'' is an online newspaper serving Ipswich, Queensland, Ipswich and surrounds in Queensland, Australia. The newspaper is owned by News Corp Australia. The circulation of ''The Queensland Times'' is 10,804 Monday to Friday and 14,153 on Saturday. ''The Queensland Times'' is circulated to the Ipswich city area (all residential suburbs including the new the suburbs Springfield, Springfield Lakes and Brookwater) and the Ipswich rural area including Harrisville, Queensland, Harrisville, Rosewood, Queensland, Rosewood, Laidley, Queensland, Laidley, Forest Hill, Queensland, Forest Hill, Lowood, Queensland, Lowood, Boonah, Queensland, Boonah, Aratula, Queensland, Aratula, Gatton, Queensland, Gatton, Esk, Queensland, Esk and Toogoolawah, Queensland, Toogoolawah. ''The Queensland Times'' website is part of the APN Regional News Network. History ''The Queensland Times'' is the oldest surviving provincial paper in Queensland. Founded on 4 July 1859 as the ''Ipswich H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Brunton
Barbara Joan Brunton Gibb (13 October 1927 – 29 June 2014), from around 1949 professionally known as Barbara Brunton, was an Australian actress of stage and radio, active between 1940 and 1952. History Brunton was born in 1927, the daughter of actress Ethel Lang and theatre impresario, teacher and actor James Brunton Gibb. Barbara was brought up at Lenore Street, Five Dock, Sydney, educated at Fort Street High School, before starting an entertainment career as a radio and stage actress, associated with Doris Fitton's Independent Theatre and the Mercury Theatre professionally under the name Barbara Brunton. In 1950 Michael Pate and his wife, Bud Tingwell and Brunton had ideas of forming a film production company, but nothing came of it. She was engaged to Tingwell in December 1950, but nothing more was heard of that engagement either. Brunton left Australia in October 1952 and married journalist Stuart Lindsay Revill (1929–2019)on Long Island, New York in December 1952. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lola Brooks (actor)
Lola Edna Brooks (7 February 1933 – 1985) was a New Zealand-Australian actor with extensive credits in radio, theatre and television. She was once married to actor Richard Meikle. She appeared on stage in '' The Boy Friend''. Select filmography * '' Tomorrow's Child'' (1957) * ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' (1957) * ''His Excellency'' (1958) * ''Bodgie'' (1959) * '' On the Beach'' (1959) * '' The Sundowners'' (1960) * ''Emergency-Ward 10'' (1960) * ''Fury in Petticoats'' (1962) * ''The Young Victoria'' (1963) * '' The Right Thing'' (1963) * '' A Private Island'' (1964) * ''Twelfth Night'' (1966) References External links * Lola Brooksat Ausstage AusStage: The Australian Live Performance Database is an online database which records information about live performances in Australia, providing records of productions from the first recorded performance in Australia (1789, by convicts) up unt ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Brooks, Lola 1933 births 1985 deaths Australian actors< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Barrett
Raymond Charles Barrett (2 May 19278 September 2009) was an Australian actor. During the 1960s, he was a leading actor on British television, where he was best known for his appearances in ''The Troubleshooters'' (1965–1971). From the 1970s, he appeared in lead and character roles in Australian films and TV series. Early life Barrett was born in Brisbane, Queensland and was educated at Windsor State Primary School and at Brisbane State High School. Fascinated by radio from an early age, he won an on-air talent competition in 1939, at the age of 12: an eisteddfod that was broadcast on 4BH radio, with a musical monologue about a dog called "Paddy". This was to place him on a path different from his dream of becoming a boatbuilder. In 1949, Barrett was initiated into Freemasonry as an initiate and member of Empire Lodge #197 of the United Grand Lodge of Queensland. Acting career United Kingdom Ray Barrett first appeared on radio in Brisbane, and later in Sydney, to where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
