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1 y separately published work icon Margaret Throsby in Conversation With Dorothy Hewett Margaret Throsby (interviewer), Sydney : ABC Radio Tapes , 1999 Z1005443 1999 single work interview Margaret Throsby talks to Dorothy Hewett on the occasion of the publication of her new novel, Neap Tide. Hewett is perhaps best known as a playwright, but thinks of herself 'first and foremost' as a poet. She speaks of her childhood on an isolated property in Western Australia, and how her poetry is full of 'remembered childhood'. She discusses her membership of the Communist Party, which lasted 22 years.
1 y separately published work icon Margaret Throsby in Conversation with Roberta Sykes Margaret Throsby (interviewer), Sydney : ABC Radio Tapes , 1997 Z1487964 1997 single work interview 'Margaret Throsby talks to Roberta Sykes, poet, author, educator, founder of the Black Women's Action in Education Foundation. Her autobiography was published in 3 parts under the collective title, Snake Dreaming. The first part, Snake Cradle, was released before this interview. It deals with her origins in Townsville, a white town, a hostile environment and it ends with the trial of the men who raped her when she was sixteen. Sykes was a postgraduate student at Harvard University in the 1970s, the first Aboriginal to gain a doctorate from that institution and she also helped to establish the Black Women's Action in Education Foundation to send other Aboriginal women to Harvard or other overseas institutions. She speaks about racism and the powerlessness of blacks in Australia, about Aboriginal unemployment, and the attutudes to employing Aborigines.' Source: Libraries Australia (Sighted 08/04/2008).
1 y separately published work icon Father James Murray ; Pinchos Woolstone Caroline Jones (interviewer), Sydney : ABC Radio Tapes , 1991 Z1356606 1991 selected work interview 'Caroline Jones speaks with Father James Murray, the religious affairs writer for The Australian newspaper, an Anglican priest who is also a writer and a teacher; and with Pinchos Woolstone, a young Sydney rabbi.' (Source: Libraries Australia).
1 y separately published work icon Bill Oats ; Bill Collins Caroline Jones (interviewer), Sydney : ABC Radio Tapes , 1990-1999 Z1368956 1990-1999 single work interview 'Caroline Jones speaks with two Australian educators: with Dr. Bill Oats, a Quaker, former headmaster of the Friends' School, Hobart, international writer and lecturer on peace and education; and with Bill Collins, film expert and critic, who sees life as a banquet and lives it accordingly, who loves teaching, and helping others to enjoy life. Collins' obsessive love of motion pictures has made him a subject of parody, but his faith in himself enables him to disregard any criticism.' Source: Libraries Australia (Sighted 27/03/2007).
1 y separately published work icon Uyen Loewald ; Irmhild Beinssen Caroline Jones (interviewer), Australia : ABC Radio Tapes , 1990 Z1223187 1990 single work interview Uyen Loewald talks about growing up in Vietnam during the war years, and being a woman in a culture where women are subservient to men. Irmhild Beinssen talks about her life and her experiences as a German immigrant in Australia during World War II.
1 y separately published work icon [Conversation with Harry Guile and Frank Kitson] Caroline Jones (interviewer), Sydney : ABC Radio Tapes , 1990 Z1201430 1990 single work interview Caroline Jones interviews two 'down-to-earth Australian men': Harry Guile (engineer and inventor) and Frank Kitson (education consultant).
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