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Speaker 1: Five Double A Notes with Matthew Pantellus.

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Speaker 2: Nine minutes past eight o'clock on five Double A Tuesday

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Speaker 2: Night and as we do it on Tuesday Night, Adelaide,

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Speaker 2: Remember when g We had such a good show last

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Speaker 2: week talking about jobs that are no longer around Bob Byrne.

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Speaker 2: Of course you can find him on Facebook, Adelaide. Remember

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Speaker 2: when page you can get the books. There's quite a

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Speaker 2: few of them from Dimmocks and other good bookstores there.

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Speaker 2: See remember when store as well? I reckon there's going

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Speaker 2: to be a movie soon. Goodaye, Bob. How are you.

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Speaker 3: The movie?

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Speaker 4: How are they going to cast as me? That would

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Speaker 4: be interesting.

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Speaker 2: I just had a thought, but I can't say it

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Speaker 2: all right, you know?

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Speaker 4: I thought today I was having coffee with a couple

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Speaker 4: of friends and one of them mentioned that she listens

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Speaker 4: to five overnight and she was talking about a radio

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Speaker 4: cereal that comes on around about three am in the morning.

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Speaker 4: I think it might be the castleret Line or something similar.

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Speaker 4: One of our listeners might be able to tell me

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Speaker 4: that I'm not up at three too. I'm normally dead

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Speaker 4: in the world. But it's it got me thinking about

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Speaker 4: not only old radio cereals, but I thought, you know,

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Speaker 4: even old television serials, and god, there have been so

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Speaker 4: many great cereals. Now you probably don't remember that. In

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Speaker 4: the very early days of radio, we had cereals like yes, what,

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Speaker 4: you might remember that because that's been played over and

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Speaker 4: over again and is actually something that started back and

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Speaker 4: I think around about the nineteen forties, and we were

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Speaker 4: still playing bits of it in the nineteen nineties. Yes,

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Speaker 4: what with Green Bottle and Doctor Percy Pim and the

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Speaker 4: boys at the school, So yes, what would probably be

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Speaker 4: one of the earliest serials. But you know there were

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Speaker 4: for kids back in those days. There were serials like

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Speaker 4: Tarzan Superman, who famously was played by Leonard Teel who

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Speaker 4: later became very well known as a had a wonderful voice,

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Speaker 4: and you still voice over so many things. And then

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Speaker 4: of course it got into such things as when a

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Speaker 4: girl marries for all those or in love and for

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Speaker 4: all those who can remember things like dossier on Demetrius,

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Speaker 4: and I think that there would be a lot of

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Speaker 4: people who would remember things like Nightbeat, which was I'm

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Speaker 4: Randy Stone. I cover the Nightbeat for the Daily. This

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Speaker 4: story started out with a jail term and ended with

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Speaker 4: joy or similar.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So.

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Speaker 4: I'm wondering how many people tonight remember some of the

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Speaker 4: old radio serials which at a round about this time

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Speaker 4: of night, because there was no television. We weren't all

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Speaker 4: sitting back watching TV. We were sitting around the table

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Speaker 4: looking at the radio, and I guess imagining what was happening,

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Speaker 4: you know, well what was in our own minds, the

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Speaker 4: theater of the mind they used to call it, Yes,

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Speaker 4: and it was. It was a wonderful a wonderful theater

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Speaker 4: for kids to be in. What are some of the

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Speaker 4: early cereals you might remember, Matthew.

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Speaker 2: Oh, Bob, Look, I don't I'm not old enough to

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Speaker 2: remember serials, I don't think. I mean, I've heard of

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Speaker 2: what was the first one you said with?

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Speaker 4: Yes? What?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 4: What?

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Speaker 2: I've heard of it. And I've heard of those characters,

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Speaker 2: but only through talking about them, not through listening to them.

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Speaker 2: So why there before my time?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Okay, And look, there would probably be a lot

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Speaker 4: of people today who are listening to me, going, God,

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Speaker 4: how old is Scott? How long you've been listening to radio? Well,

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Speaker 4: truth is, for for a very long time. But I

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Speaker 4: was thinking too, like you might remember things like Chicken Man,

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Speaker 4: do you remember Chicken Man?

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Speaker 2: I remember Lis emailed insaying chicken Man was a cereal.

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Speaker 2: I don't remember much more than that.

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Speaker 4: Oh, we have a much younger audience. Chicken Man and

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Speaker 4: how green was my Valley?

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Speaker 2: Not how green was my cactus? I remember that one.

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Speaker 4: How green was my cactus?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I definitely remember that one.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, a bit after my time. But you know, we

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Speaker 4: had also perhaps look at some of the early days

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Speaker 4: of television and some of the series that we first

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Speaker 4: saw on TV, because of course it was the it

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Speaker 4: was Cowford Productions who produced many of the original radio

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Speaker 4: cereals that we used to listen to, and you know,

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Speaker 4: I'm thinking of some of the great Australian radio cereals.

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Speaker 4: And then when television came along in nineteen well in

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Speaker 4: the Eastern States ninety fifty six, it was ninety fifty

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Speaker 4: nine before it actually got to Adelaide. But then we

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Speaker 4: had cop Shop. I remember that one most of all,

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Speaker 4: probably and Homicide.

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Speaker 2: Detective of course, Detective four. Was that that was Australian, wasn't.

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Speaker 4: It, Detective Paul No.

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Speaker 2: Detective four, Division four. That's what it was. Was that Australian?

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Speaker 2: That was Yes, it was, Yeah, I remember that was.

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Speaker 4: A kid and a great and a great series too.

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Speaker 4: And you know, we we then saw the emergence of

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Speaker 4: things such as Number ninety six. Yes, who can remember

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Speaker 4: Number ninety six on television?

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Speaker 2: None of these you've mentioned I was allowed to watch

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Speaker 2: back in the day. By the way, well, of course.

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Speaker 4: You wouldn't have been able to watch her number nineteen

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Speaker 4: because trainously aber gay Abigail kept getting her kid off

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Speaker 4: all the time, and.

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Speaker 2: That wasn't very.

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Speaker 4: Lightly looked upon back in the days of the of

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Speaker 4: the nineteen or would it have been nineteen seventies, maybe

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Speaker 4: in nineteen eighty, mid.

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Speaker 2: Seventies, mid seventies, had to be about seventy six, didn't

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Speaker 2: it seventy five?

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Speaker 4: And there was another one that followed it on television

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Speaker 4: called The Boss, Yes, Yes, and that was almost as popular.

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Speaker 4: I do recall a story that with the Channel ten,

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Speaker 4: Channel ten was going broke and they were they well,

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Speaker 4: well I'm thinking back to the laeties seventies here, and

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Speaker 4: they hadn't been going very long and they were going broken.

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Speaker 2: One of the.

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Speaker 4: One of the people, one of the managing people, that

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Speaker 4: came up with the idea of a show that would

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Speaker 4: that would take television to the very edge. Now remember

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Speaker 4: this had never been done in any any other country

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Speaker 4: before to expose television and the audiences on television to

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Speaker 4: such a risque program where they decided that they would

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Speaker 4: I forget what the slogan was, but it had went

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Speaker 4: along the lines of bear at all. And so they

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Speaker 4: decided to go for a show with nudity, sex, homosexuality,

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Speaker 4: which was which was very talk about it, very much

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Speaker 4: fact back in those days, and you know, a program

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Speaker 4: that would really that would really test the Australian audience

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Speaker 4: and find out, you know, exactly half why they could go.

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Speaker 4: And of course they decided to give it a little

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Speaker 4: bit of publicity beforehand. They got the first series in

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Speaker 4: the can as the as the saying goes, which means

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Speaker 4: that they had the first series filmed, and then they

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Speaker 4: started to leak bits of it out. You know that

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Speaker 4: television was going nude, and television was going bare chested,

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Speaker 4: and television was going you know, bedroom scenes. And the

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Speaker 4: producer or the program manager at Channel ten in Sydney

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Speaker 4: reportedly was in his office and a couple of the

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Speaker 4: people from the reception area came in in panic because

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Speaker 4: one of the Christian movements had decided to impose a

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Speaker 4: boycott on Channel ten, and not only that, but stage

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Speaker 4: a demonstration outside of Channel ten that they didn't want

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Speaker 4: this kind of program on the air. And there were

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Speaker 4: all these people out there chanting and demanding Channel ten

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Speaker 4: not player. And this young man came in and he

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Speaker 4: said to the program manager, what are we going to do?

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Speaker 4: I mean, there are all these people out there, He said,

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Speaker 4: make them a cup of tea, give them scones. This

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Speaker 4: is what we want. This is exactly what we're trying

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Speaker 4: to achieve. We want people to know that we're about

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Speaker 4: to blow the lid off television, stayed television that we've

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Speaker 4: known in Australia or for all these years, and we're

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Speaker 4: really going to We're really going to shake something here.

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Speaker 4: And of course they.

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Speaker 2: Did lift the covers. Yes, Lynn is saying, Chicken Man

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Speaker 2: is what is on at three a m Overnight?

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Speaker 4: So three am.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, here we go.

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Speaker 1: Well, another exciting episode in the ninth of the most

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Speaker 1: fantastic fime fighter the world as ever.

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Speaker 2: No, yeah, okay, that's what I remember. That's all I

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Speaker 2: remember of that.

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Speaker 4: Well, it was a wonderful series. I mean I remember

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Speaker 4: at the time I was working on a radio station

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Speaker 4: just outside of Sydney, and we played the whole series

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Speaker 4: and beautiful people loved it. It was hilarious, It was

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Speaker 4: very funny. There may be a lot of people who

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Speaker 4: would remember the Castlereagh line that was on radio back

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Speaker 4: in the seventies and eighties, and in fact, a lot

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Speaker 4: of radio stations played it, especially some of the country

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Speaker 4: radio stations, and I think to some community radio stations

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Speaker 4: played the Castlereat line. It was a kind of a

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Speaker 4: modern up to date. It only ran for around about

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Speaker 4: five minutes on which is about all you need for

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Speaker 4: radio now. And this person that I was talking to

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Speaker 4: this morning mentioned that they listened to my radio cereal

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Speaker 4: because there's a story there. I actually wrote and had

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Speaker 4: produced in Sydney by Crawford's a radio serial called The

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Speaker 4: Priestman File. It was pretty bad.

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Speaker 2: I bet it wasn't I bet it was? Okay, tell

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Speaker 2: us about it?

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, But if you want to hear the

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Speaker 4: promo for it's it is online and it was quite strange.

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Speaker 4: A couple of weeks ago, I was doing some research

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Speaker 4: for a story on radio ceials and TV serials and

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Speaker 4: I happened to go online and there.

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Speaker 2: It was No.

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Speaker 4: I listened to the promo for it, The Priestman File

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Speaker 4: right by Bob byrn.

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Speaker 2: Oh, we'll find it, We'll find it and play it, Bob.

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Speaker 2: We've got Faye, Sandra and Jeff on the line and

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Speaker 2: we need to take a break. Some great memories there

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Speaker 2: before we go. Lynn has sent me a list of

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Speaker 2: radio serials. I don't know if she's heard all of these,

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Speaker 2: but yes, what wohilch you've mentioned. There was Night Beat,

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Speaker 2: a nineteen forties crime drama Crossroads for Life written directed

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Speaker 2: by Lynn Foster, Mutiny on the Bounty, which is a

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Speaker 2: drama based on the mutiny the Search for the Golden Boomerang.

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Speaker 4: Oh yes, oh dear idea, that was it. I mean

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Speaker 4: that was a very early radio serial for kids.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but.

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Speaker 4: I remember listening to that in later years and the

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Speaker 4: Aboriginal people all spoke with Indian accents. It was just

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Speaker 4: slightly off.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, I do all right. Bluie and Curly

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Speaker 2: there's another one, and Dad and Dave of course, Oh,

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Speaker 2: Dad and Day.

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Speaker 4: What a wonderful radio series that was.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, people might remember that. Love to Hear from You

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Speaker 2: eight double two three, double o double Oh, Adelaide remembers

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Speaker 2: when Bob Byrne is on the line back after this break.

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Speaker 1: Five double A notes with Matthew Pantellis.

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Speaker 2: Oh, we found the Priestman Files, Bob, sixty five episodes.

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Speaker 2: You had a lot of time on your hands.

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Speaker 4: I'm not quite sure how I managed to find time

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Speaker 4: to actually write that, but but I did amazingly.

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Speaker 2: All Right, we're going to see if we can find

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Speaker 2: a grab and and play a little bit of it.

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Speaker 2: In the meantime, we have Fay on the line first

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Speaker 2: of our callers. We're talking about old cereals, whether TV

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Speaker 4: Isn't that amazing that Australians sounded so ozzy making those

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Speaker 2: Well did we Yeah? Maybe we did sound more ossy.

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Speaker 2: It was definitely different, different to today. Faye at Windsor Garden.

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Speaker 3: Sollo Faye, Yes, good evening to the both of you.

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Speaker 3: I remember some shows that some of them you were

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Speaker 5: Of course.

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Speaker 3: No, it was great. Those shows were great and I

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Speaker 2: Well, I guess there's streaming services for that these days,

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Speaker 2: because that's where they all seem to be. I reckon, Sandra,

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Speaker 2: thank you face Sandra at Enfield. Hello is Sandra. How

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Speaker 3: Oh good?

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Speaker 4: Thank you?

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Speaker 6: I think if you could solve the mystery. I don't

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Speaker 2: Okay, was it what a detective type thing? A mystery detective?

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 6: I don't know what you know, Like, yeah, I was

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Speaker 6: just curious, but it doesn't matter. I don't to waste

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Speaker 6: It was around the time when Christopher was on that

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Speaker 6: and someone camp quality with those days. Yeah, okay, anyway,

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Speaker 6: I'll leave you with it because someone might remember the.

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Speaker 2: Name of it. So it was a serial the story,

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Speaker 6: It was like cliffhangers, and and it was sounded very

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Speaker 2: Okay, So Chris Chris Cordeaux Show and five d N

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Speaker 2: I reckon it was the end back in the day.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and it was in the morning.

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Speaker 2: what people remember. Good on your Sandra. Thank you for

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Speaker 2: the question. Jeff, Hello Jeff are there? Jeff? Sorry, Jeff,

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Speaker 7: My fault, okay, saying that you kids are too young,

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Speaker 7: that's the main problem. I was born back during the

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Speaker 7: from three WV Victorian, which was an horsham of Blue

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Speaker 7: fifteen minutes, and they would stop everything. Yeah, now what

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, Blue Hills ran. It's the longest running radio

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Speaker 7: The normal lunch break. It was on between somewhere between

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Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, it was and famous, I mean a world

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Speaker 7: Can I ask you an extremely rude personal question, bomb sure,

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Speaker 8: I'm eighty two this year. Didn't listen to Blue Rules well,

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Speaker 4: I do recall Blue Hills. I wasn't an avid listener

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Speaker 7: They made a famous movie about Cuba. Yeah, they called

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Speaker 7: That was a good movie.

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Speaker 2: We found the Priestsman file intro yep A night stand by,

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Speaker 2: Here we go. The following is fiction.

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Speaker 5: My name is Kevin McCarthy and I'm Carol Churchman. It

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Speaker 5: is eight pm October fifteenth, nineteen eighty six, four days

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Speaker 5: after the death of Alexander Priestman on election day.

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Speaker 9: We believe our lives are in danger, but the truth

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Speaker 9: on this tape why Alexander Pristman could not become Prime Minister.

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Speaker 9: His death was not accidental. Along with others, we were

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Speaker 5: With this tape, we have gathered considerable written evidence that

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Speaker 5: Alexander Priestman was a dangerous man, a megalomaniac being manipulated

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Speaker 5: by the industrialist Hamilton Baxter to further his own empire.

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Speaker 5: Priestman was a sick, violent man. You must understand if

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Speaker 5: he had been allowed to lead our country, we would

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Speaker 9: Please check what we say.

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Speaker 5: It's true.

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Speaker 9: It's all horribly true.

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Speaker 2: Well, nothing much has changed in politics.

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Speaker 4: Where I got all those ideas from I will never know,

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Speaker 4: although you know I mean it was. It was a

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Speaker 2: It is available. I'm curious now. Oh no, no, no you can't.

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Speaker 4: I don't think you can buy it anymore. Oh god,

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Speaker 2: And look I was talking about the different way we

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Speaker 7: I seem to have just lead an address on the way

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Speaker 4: Streets it not.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so that's correct.

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Speaker 5: Then would you happen to know what a part from

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Speaker 5: mister Herbert Evans lives in?

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Speaker 4: Oh yes, sir, that's three first floor.

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Speaker 2: Wow, very clipped.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Well that was clip, wasn't it. I don't know

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Speaker 2: Be the Sydney accent maybe maybe, yeah, but it really

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Speaker 2: I think Insta and I watched it and it only

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Speaker 2: the accents stood out and I thought, my goodness, we

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, if you really want to see that

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Speaker 4: many years ago, watch a movie called Smiley Gets a Gun,

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Speaker 2: I wonder if other countries have changed there their manner

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Speaker 4: Maybe we've become more international. I'm not sure, but we're

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Speaker 2: Yeah we have, haven't we? All right?

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Speaker 4: There is no denying that.

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Speaker 2: Yep. Indeed, Now if you want to reminisce about old cereals, radio, television,

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Speaker 2: and if you want to go back to my early days,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, mister Squiggle, Well, they will probably repeat by the

442
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Speaker 2: nineteen sixties and seventies, But.

443
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Speaker 4: I think I think the very one of the very

444
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:50,959
Speaker 4: earliest all Australian television shows was cop Shop with George

445
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 4: Mallaby and that group of actors. And then we had

446
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 4: Homicide Division for we had oh gosh there and and

447
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 4: then there were quite a lot of other TV shows

448
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 4: that Sons and Daughters comes to mind. Was there are

449
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 4: doctors and nurses? I can't remember. No emergency hospital. I

450
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:22,640
Speaker 4: think it was called You know, we had a lot

451
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:29,720
Speaker 4: of television shows, but you know, the radio serials. When

452
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 4: I was a kid, radio serials were so so exciting.

453
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 4: You know, we had shows like well I mentioned a

454
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 4: few of them, but Dosiro and Demetrious Campbell's Kingdom comes

455
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 4: to mind, and so many more. I'm sure that there

456
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 4: are people out there who would remember these radio shows,

457
00:30:55,440 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 4: these radio programs, and because they're well, at least in

458
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 4: my head anyway, they're stuck there forever.

459
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure. Hey, we've got a little bit of

460
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 2: Smiley gets a Gun. Here we go, meet mister quack.

461
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 2: This is Bill Greeven. How do go you know, just

462
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 2: up from Sydney.

463
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 9: He's a writer, a very minor one.

464
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 4: He wants some local color for a new book.

465
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 6: So I'm giving him a quick two of the sakes.

466
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 6: I'm one of them.

467
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 4: My suppose.

468
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 2: Alrighty yeah's that is going back, isn't it. You can

469
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 2: hear it?

470
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean the very Australian, Yeah, very

471
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 4: Australian accents.

472
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 2: Yes. Indeed, if you listen.

473
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 4: To anything early, we had a much more Australian accent

474
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:39,520
Speaker 4: than we do today.

475
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 2: I think that's absolutely right. Quarter to nine and there's

476
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 2: room on the call board eight double two to three,

477
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 2: double o double.

478
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 3: Oh.

479
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 2: Let's hear about some of your favorite serials radio or

480
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 2: TV going back. Bob Burn is here, Adelaide. Remember when

481
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 2: we'll be back after this.

482
00:31:55,200 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 1: Bright five double A Nights with Matthew Pantellus.

483
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 2: Twelve to nine on five tom A. Bob Byrne on

484
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 2: the line, Adelaide. Remember when we're talking about old radio

485
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 2: shows and TV cereals, all of that. Whatever you remember

486
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 2: from the good old days, got so many texts here.

487
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 2: Bob Lester says, Hop Harrigan early fifties. Do you remember

488
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 2: Hop Harrigan.

489
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 4: Yes, Hop Harrigan was once again one of those early cereals.

490
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 4: And when I say early, I mean early in the afternoon.

491
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 4: I think that was one of the kid cereals that

492
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 4: used to be on with Superman and we had Tarzan,

493
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 4: and so they were cereals played for the kids especially.

494
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 2: Okay, David says, I was born in nineteen seventy. Haven't

495
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 2: seen either The Box or Number ninety six, but Bluey,

496
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Speaker 2: Cop Shop, Bluuie Homicide, and Mattlock Police are the ones

497
00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 2: I remember. Blue was set by the degeneration. You might

498
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 2: remember Bob and they called him Barjass a very funny

499
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 2: sub a sub not subtitled dubbed. They dubbed in a

500
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 2: different dialogue to the scenes of Bluey, very very funny.

501
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 2: He says. The Box was made before number ninety six.

502
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 2: Jeff remember Snate Gully with the Dad and Dave. Oh yes, yes,

503
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 2: Joe says, Blue Hills by Gwen Meredith, ABC Country Radio,

504
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 2: mid Day, Mattlock Police and cop Shops. As another person,

505
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Speaker 2: Biggles was a World War One flying eights the radio cereal.

506
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, now Biggles was again. There was another a

507
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 4: program that was on especially for the kids in the afternoon.

508
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 4: So they put on a whole lot of radio serials

509
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:50,480
Speaker 4: for children coming home from school. You know, so you

510
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 4: get home from school at four o'clock in the afternoon,

511
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Speaker 4: about four in the afternoon, and the radio cereals would start,

512
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 4: and so you know, there was Biggles, there were all

513
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 4: the various kids shows, kids cereals, and you know, we

514
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 4: also had cereals in the morning. I can remember my mother,

515
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 4: you know, on those rare occasions where I stayed home

516
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 4: from school, I might have been sick or had a

517
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:21,359
Speaker 4: quick little tummy or you know, had some reason why

518
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 4: I wasn't in school, and she would start listening to

519
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 4: radio serials at nine o'clock in the morning. Yeah, right

520
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 4: after the breakfast show. They had Porsche Faces Life, Porsche

521
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:42,320
Speaker 4: Faces Life, and there was also Doctor Paul, and Doctor

522
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:46,320
Speaker 4: Paul was a doctor in a very busy hospital. No

523
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 4: similar to the kinds of shows that we eventually see

524
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 4: on TV, but they were. They were dramas and they

525
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:58,799
Speaker 4: were I believe it or not, some of these dramas.

526
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 2: They went on for years unreal.

527
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 4: Uh, and the and the storylines just continued on and on.

528
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 2: Well, I think Bolden the Beautiful, It's only taking place

529
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:16,240
Speaker 2: over a week, isn't it. Let's see this, Dean says.

530
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 2: Bob and Dolly Dyer had an early radio show. They

531
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 2: broke many fishing records.

532
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 4: Ted. Yeah, yeah, I don't know about about serials that

533
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:29,799
Speaker 4: I mean. Bob Dyer of course did think that's what

534
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 4: he was most famous for.

535
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 2: Coronation Street, says Ted.

536
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 4: Coronation Street was an English program, and in fact, I

537
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:45,800
Speaker 4: think Coronation Street is still going in the United Kingdom.

538
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 4: I think it's still one of those very popular television

539
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,880
Speaker 4: shows that just keeps going on and on, much like

540
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 4: Our Neighbors or Home and Away.

541
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Speaker 2: He's a little bit of Hot Harrigan. Let's have a

542
00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:58,880
Speaker 2: listen control.

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00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:17,400
Speaker 10: This is Hop Harrigan coming in the Adventures of Hop Hardigan,

544
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 10: Old Hop Harrigan.

545
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 4: Well, pretty much by the air Adventures of Biggles. Yeah,

546
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 4: I guess Blake might be able to find something there.

547
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:32,720
Speaker 2: Of Superman the Radio.

548
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, the radio serial, as I say, was voiced by

549
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 4: Leonard Teel And and I think I've still got a

550
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 4: couple of copies of that buried somewhere in my CD collection,

551
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 4: you know.

552
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 2: Up on the Way, Jeff says, when I was younger,

553
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,759
Speaker 2: lived on a farm, listen to the radio cereals. Yes, what,

554
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:59,959
Speaker 2: of course, Captain Silver and the Seahound, remember that one

555
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,840
Speaker 2: about a sea Captain and Hop Harrigan the war pilot.

556
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 2: That must have been early sixties. I would have been

557
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:11,360
Speaker 2: eleven or twelve. Love the show. Michael loved this, he says,

558
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:14,240
Speaker 2: hence the saying when someone got up to give a speech,

559
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 2: he went on longer than Blue Hills.

560
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 4: I hadn't heard that, but a very good one.

561
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 2: Indeed. Ted says that people in essay would listen to

562
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 2: ABC Country Hour at twelve followed by Blue Hills by

563
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 2: Gwen Meredith. Robert says, I remember when Adelaide's first community

564
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 2: TV station, ACE TV launched. My role was to welcome

565
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:42,840
Speaker 2: viewers across to the premier. In the studio. The cameraman

566
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 2: texts and I were in a small caravan at Mount Lofty.

567
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 2: It was so windy I thought the caravan would be

568
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:50,760
Speaker 2: uplifted and end up in the valley below. Thank you, Robert,

569
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 2: and Jen says a Jan Rather. There was a radio

570
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 2: serial on each night around the late fifties called Green

571
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 2: Bottle and Andrew at Shido. Parkers called in about this

572
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 2: coun I Andrew, I.

573
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Speaker 8: Remember that's what the radio show was called Green Bottle,

574
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:12,240
Speaker 8: and his name.

575
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 7: Was Green Bottle.

576
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:19,279
Speaker 4: Well, if I can, I'm not sure if it was

577
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 4: Australian or English. Yeah. My history of green Bottle is

578
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 4: that green Bottle was a student of Dr Percy Pim.

579
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 4: It was green Bottle the one who was always mauck up,

580
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:41,800
Speaker 4: and Doctor Percy would would be correcting him and asking

581
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 4: him for various questions. He would ask various questions in

582
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,919
Speaker 4: green Ball would reply yes, and he would say yes.

583
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 4: What would come out with this long explanation, but yes,

584
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 4: what was the name of the cereal? It was produced

585
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:03,720
Speaker 4: here at five back in the nineteen thirties and nineteen

586
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 4: and was actually still on the air. I was playing

587
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 4: it when I was doing the drive time program on

588
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 4: five the End back in the late nineties, and we

589
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 4: were still playing the show five minutes of it at

590
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:23,320
Speaker 4: least at all those years later, fifty years later. That amazing.

591
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 2: That is amazing. Good on you, Andrew. Thank you Dennis

592
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 2: at Craigmill Hi, Dennis Hi, Matthew, just.

593
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 11: Been giving a phone call concerning the serials from many

594
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Speaker 11: many years ago that I can remember now.

595
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 7: I don't know.

596
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:39,720
Speaker 11: Whether you've actually mentioned or already or not, but one

597
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 11: was biggles Hop, Harrigan and Smoky Dawson, where three were

598
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 11: on around about tea time back in my very younger day.

599
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, Smoky Dawson. Now do you remember the name

600
00:39:54,920 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 4: of Smoky Dawson Sport. I think he was. I think

601
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 4: he was Flash And I think your lived on a

602
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 4: ranch called ginder Warribelle well, and and his arch enemy

603
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 4: was Grogan.

604
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 2: What did you have homework to do on it?

605
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 4: Bob, I have planted in my brain. I don't know why.

606
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:29,839
Speaker 4: I remember why. Yeah, that's going on. All the very

607
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:32,280
Speaker 4: important things that I should remember I forget.

608
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 11: Remember Biggles was a one he was thinking he flew

609
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:40,240
Speaker 11: a plane, That's what I basically.

610
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:48,799
Speaker 4: And the very famous book series. Yeah, there we go.

611
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 11: There's three of them points.

612
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 2: Thank you, terrific. Brian at Ingle Farm, Hello, Brian.

613
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 12: Yeah, I have memories of Sunday night being the family

614
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 12: round the radio with I think it was Lux Theatre.

615
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:07,959
Speaker 12: It was one of the programs Lux Radio Theater. Yeah,

616
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 12: followed by In a Sanctum.

617
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:19,400
Speaker 4: The Creaking Yeah, in the Sanctum, Yes, Dustier on Demetrious,

618
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 4: yeahs on Demetrius with Gregory Keane from m I five.

619
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 12: That's the guy.

620
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:31,879
Speaker 4: Yeah, and do you remember the name, Well, obviously Demetrious

621
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:34,360
Speaker 4: was the Baddie. Yeah, m.

622
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:39,239
Speaker 12: There's one other that's just floating around and around the

623
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 12: brain and Bolen recalling it. I agree there earlier caller,

624
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 12: I knew that as a radio shadows Blue Bottle as

625
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 12: a kid. It was resurrected later on as Yes, what

626
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 12: in the days that you're referring to at the end

627
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 12: when it was doing the rounds? Then, I mean, I'm

628
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 12: almost ninety now, so I'm going back a couple of days.

629
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:04,280
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, you probably are. You've got a few years

630
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:06,240
Speaker 4: even on me, which is pretty amazing.

631
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 12: And what about this one who knows what lives in

632
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 12: the hearts of the men, the shadow who knows?

633
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:21,240
Speaker 4: Ah, the Shadow? Yes, well what about they seek him here,

634
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:25,879
Speaker 4: they seek him there? This is what was his name?

635
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 2: He was the Scarlet Pimpernel.

636
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 4: What's not the Scarlet Bear?

637
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 2: Similar?

638
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 12: Yes, And the last one I'm going to show at

639
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:39,240
Speaker 12: you is Randy Stone. Oh yes, might yeah, I covered

640
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 12: the night beat for the day for the.

641
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 4: Daily Yes, yes, amazing, some great great old radio serials there.

642
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 12: Good on your Brian, thank you, thank you.

643
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:54,479
Speaker 2: Have a good night. Adventures of Superman. You say Bob

644
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:58,560
Speaker 2: Blake has risen to the challenge. Hopefully this is Leonard

645
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 2: Teal and not George We'll find out, and.

646
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 4: No making long Defender of Justice aiding his true identity

647
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 4: as Clark Kent Rapotter on.

648
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:16,240
Speaker 1: The Daily Planet.

649
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:20,240
Speaker 2: All right, that was Leonard.

650
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:26,280
Speaker 4: I don't think that was That was Leonard very well, okay,

651
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:28,360
Speaker 4: so very very impressive.

652
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,880
Speaker 2: It wasn't the TV series that one that that was different,

653
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 2: So I don't know what that was then, but whatever

654
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:39,440
Speaker 2: it was, maybe it was the American version, could have Manet.

655
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 4: I've got the original version somewhere on my CD can,

656
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 4: but I won't go and dig that out.

657
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:47,879
Speaker 2: We're right at the end of the show entertaining as always, Bob.

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Speaker 2: That was terrific and some great memories there. Now if

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Speaker 2: people want to have a look at the shop or

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Speaker 2: go to the Facebook page what sees his thing to do?

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Speaker 4: Well, if you would like to see the Facebook page, obvious,

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Speaker 4: it's Facebook dot com Forward Flash Adelaide, Remember When or

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Speaker 4: Australia Remember When? And the Remember When shop is Remember When?

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Speaker 4: Shop dot com dot.

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Speaker 2: Au terrific, Bob, thank you so much and it's always

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Speaker 2: such a good segment, so many calls. We'll do it

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Speaker 2: again next Tuesday. Okay, thank you very much, bob Burn adelaide.

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