Titles tagged with ‘writers’
19 titles - sorted by title / by year
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Bastards from the Bush, A Journey with Bob Ellis and Les Murray (1998)
Author and screenwriter Bob Ellis and poet Les Murray go on a journey visiting significant places from their past. They attended Sydney University together and remain staunch friends ...
The Book Show – David Malouf (1988)
A magazine-style program with presenter and interviewer Dinny O’Hearn talking to David Malouf, who has just won the Haskell award for his body of work. He also interviews ...
The Book Show – Jim McClelland (1991)
Dinny O’Hearn and Andrea Stretton begin this weekly magazine program on Australia Day at Bondi Beach, where they discuss the different meanings of this special day for different ...
The Book Show – Peter Carey (1992)
In this week’s edition of The Book Show, Dinny O’Hearn and Andrea Stretton introduce the show from the Reading Room of the State Library of Victoria. The program ...
Bookmark – Tim Winton (1995)
Andrea Stretton introduces the wonderful children’s books of Jeannie Baker whose then newest work is The Story of Rosie Dock (1995), a magical journey into central Australia. There’s ...
Dreamtime, Machinetime (1987)
An episodic documentary featuring distinguished Indigenous artists specialising in literary and visual art forms.
The Getting of Wisdom (1978)
In the early 1900s, Laura Tweedle Ramsbotham (Susannah Fowle) arrives at an exclusive Melbourne ladies’ college to jeers of ‘country bumpkin’ and ‘tweedle-dumb, ram’s bum’. Spirited and talented ...
The Home Song Stories (2007)
In Hong Kong in 1964, a beautiful nightclub singer meets an Australian naval officer. Rose (Joan Chen) comes to Australia with her two young children, Tom and May, ...
Kylie Tennant (1986)
An interview with the writer Kylie Tennant (1912–1988), filmed at her home in Blackheath NSW, between February and May 1985.
Masterpiece Special – Melvyn Bragg (1996)
Andrea Stretton interviews the British writer and television presenter, Melvyn Bragg. His arts magazine program the South Bank Show (2008) is the longest running arts television show in ...
Masterpiece Special – Robert Hughes (1997)
The Australian expatriate art critic and author Robert Hughes ranges widely in a conversation with arts journalist Andrea Stretton about a career that’s taken him from Australia to ...
Masterpiece Special – Robyn Davidson (1996)
Andrea Stretton interviews the expatriate Australian writer Robyn Davidson, who has just written a book about her experience of living with one of the last great nomadic tribes ...
Masterpiece Special – Salman Rushdie (1996)
Andrea Stretton interviews Salman Rushdie, whose then latest book The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995) was written under the threat of a fatwa, or death sentence. The fatwa was ...
Masterpiece Special – Wole Soyinka (1997)
The Nobel Laureate for literature in 1986, Wole Soyinka is in Australia for the 1997 Melbourne Writers’ Festival. He’s talking to Andrea Stretton about his early life in ...
The Movie Show – Episode 12 (2004)
A review of the new Irish-British co-production directed by Bruce Beresford, called Evelyn followed by an interview with Bruce Beresford and a tribute to John Dingwall, the writer, ...
My Brilliant Career (1979)
During the drought of 1898, headstrong and vivacious Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis) dreams of escaping the drudgery of farm life for a career as a writer. On an ...
Tall Tales but True: David Williamson – playwright (1994)
Australian playwright David Williamson is interviewed about his professional and personal life. The documentary is intercut with segments from his plays and adapted films, home movie footage and ...
The 1930s Golden Era of Australian Movies: A Tribute to Ken G Hall AO OBE (1988)
Australian producer-director Ken G Hall talks to camera about five of his films – On Our Selection (1932), The Squatter’s Daughter (1933), Tall Timbers (1937), It Isn’t Done ...
2000 Weeks (1969)
Will Gardener (Mark McManus) is a Melbourne journalist at a crossroads. He wants to be a novelist, but he has a wife (Eileen Chapman) and two kids to ...
