Tony Barrell was an adjunct professor in Arts and Social Science at the University of Technology Sydney and made features and documentaries for ABC radio and television for more than 20 years.
He began his career with Double Jay, was a producer for Background Briefing and Foreign Correspondent and a reporter with Four Corners. Barrell made radio documentaries in and about the USA, Europe, and several Asian countries, including four series in collaboration with the BBC World Service. His 1995 Tokyo's Burning, the story of the fire bombing of the Japanese capital in March 1945, won a Prix Italia.
Barrell was a founding producer of both Radio Eye and Night Air and made three co-production series for Radio National and the BBC World Service travelling through Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and, in 2004, the Russian Far East (the subject of his book The Real Far East, Scribe, 2006). In 2005, for Hindsight, he produced Remembering Eveleigh, the story of the New South Wales railway workshops, and Street Stories, Single at Sixty (published in 2007 by ABC Books). In 1993 he produced a radio documentary about the near-demise of the Sydney Swans - Cheers. Barrell was a dedicated follower of the Australian game which he came to know after migrating from the UK.
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