Thursday 03 July 2008
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This week on Verbatim, the life story of one of our greatest bush balladeers. Andrew Barton (Banjo) Patterson, born in 1864, wrote his way into the national consciousness with such enduring poems as 'The Man from Snowy River', 'Clancy of the Overflow' and 'Waltzing Matilda', the unofficial national anthem. Patterson was also a lawyer, horseman, editor, bush man, polo player and journalist. As a war correspondent he covered the Boer War in South Africa and the Boxer Rebellion in China. Later he served in the first World War before coming home to pick up his career as a journalist and editor. He died in 1941.
Thursday 26 June 2008
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Attilio Guarracino was an island boy of 19 when he met Australian artist, Donald Friend. Their relationship took many forms over the years until Friend's death in 1989. More than a dozen of those years were spent in Bali, where Donald Friend lived like a rajah.
Thursday 19 June 2008
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'I advise no girl to marry an artist who hasn't been an artist herself... otherwise you cannot credit the focus an artist has on his own work. You've got to accept this, otherwise there'll be nothing but confusion and resentment.'
Thursday 12 June 2008
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Towards the end of the Second World War Edward Oleszkiewicz piloted Lancaster bombers out of Britain. Later when he migrated to Australia he had some interesting encounters with Australian officials who attempted to expel him to East Germany, even though he had fought for the Allies.
12pm AEST