WEBVTT - Movies with Peter Taylor, 08 June 2025

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<v Speaker 1>This is remember when with Harvey Digan on Perth sixty R.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, thank you, Carole, and Peter Taylor joins us now

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<v Speaker 2>and he, of course is our classic music man. And

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<v Speaker 2>oh boy, as we say, very good evening to you. Peter,

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<v Speaker 2>I reckon you've jumped to the top of the pile

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<v Speaker 2>with this one that you've picked tonight.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, good evening, have you look. It's been my pleasure.

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<v Speaker 3>It's just really deciding on what was going to be

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<v Speaker 3>a great film to be discussing tonight. And I thought, well,

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<v Speaker 3>there is a film that's celebrating it sixty years now.

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<v Speaker 3>And I know it's hard to believe it is sixty

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<v Speaker 3>years but I thought, well, let's discuss the Sound of

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<v Speaker 3>Music nineteen sixty five.

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<v Speaker 2>Wonderful, wonderful. Well, I don't think there'd be one person

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<v Speaker 2>out there that hasn't seen the Sound of Music of

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<v Speaker 2>any age. And it's hard to believe it is, as

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<v Speaker 2>you say, sixty years old, but that's that's when it appeared,

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<v Speaker 2>and that was starring, of course, the wonderful Julianne and

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<v Speaker 2>Christopher Plumber. Would you like to have a listen to

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<v Speaker 2>it textually, really rather lengthy trailer as trailers go, but

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<v Speaker 2>it really does sum up the whole movie, in my opinion,

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<v Speaker 2>gives us a little inkling of the songs that are

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<v Speaker 2>in the movie, and there are some absolutely memorable songs.

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<v Speaker 2>So let's have a listen to that pig.

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<v Speaker 4>Than live with the sound of Musy with songs they

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<v Speaker 4>have sound for a thousand years.

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<v Speaker 3>As I sound your signals, you will step one and

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<v Speaker 3>give your names.

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<v Speaker 2>You will listen carefully learn that signals so you can call.

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<v Speaker 1>Them when you want them.

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<v Speaker 5>The celebrated play that delights in the world, actually photographed

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<v Speaker 5>amidst the wondrous beauties of Salzburg, Austria, with the performance

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<v Speaker 5>of a lifetime by the screen's brightest star Julie Andrews,

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<v Speaker 5>and the glorious role of Maria.

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<v Speaker 4>How do you solve a problem night, Marie? How do

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<v Speaker 4>you catch a cloud and pin it down?

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<v Speaker 5>How do you find a word that means?

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<v Speaker 4>Maria of limited in Tomia away a clown?

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<v Speaker 3>Maria makes me laugh.

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<v Speaker 5>Maria who wettered the strange new world of Captain Vontrap

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<v Speaker 5>and captivated his seven children with a magical spell of song.

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<v Speaker 5>The girls in white dresses with glue, satin sashes, snow breaks,

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<v Speaker 5>but stay on my nose and eye lashes, sylver white

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<v Speaker 5>winters that melt into springs.

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<v Speaker 4>These are a few of my favorite things.

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<v Speaker 1>The dopy.

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<v Speaker 3>Priline.

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<v Speaker 5>Did I not tell you that bedtime is strictly to

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<v Speaker 5>be observed in this house?

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<v Speaker 3>You did, sir?

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<v Speaker 2>And do you or do you not have difficulty remembering

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<v Speaker 2>such simple instructions only during sunderstorm?

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<v Speaker 5>Sir? Here two new numbers especially written for the picture

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<v Speaker 5>by Richard Rogers plus Rogers and Hammerstein's Immortal songe A.

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<v Speaker 4>Deer, a female deer, ray, a drop of golden sun.

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<v Speaker 4>Me a name I call myself.

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<v Speaker 5>Far, long, long way to run by.

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<v Speaker 3>Sixteen going on seventeen.

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<v Speaker 2>I know that I'm nine.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh please, Captain, love them.

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<v Speaker 3>Love them all.

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<v Speaker 5>I don't care to hear anything bout that from here

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<v Speaker 5>on my shoulders.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh yes you are.

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<v Speaker 2>You will pack your things this minute and return to

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<v Speaker 2>the abbey.

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<v Speaker 1>Captainland Chap Are you in love with him?

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 4>I don't know what the baroness said I was. She

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<v Speaker 4>said that he was in love with me, but I

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<v Speaker 4>didn't want to believe it.

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<v Speaker 3>You're far away?

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<v Speaker 2>Where are you in the world that's disappearing?

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<v Speaker 5>Right, anyway I can bring you back to the world

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<v Speaker 5>I'm in.

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<v Speaker 3>I love you.

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<v Speaker 5>So somewhere in my youth, sore child, I must have

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<v Speaker 5>done so. See, here is the perfect motion picture that

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<v Speaker 5>touches every note in the whole scale of human emotion.

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<v Speaker 2>Well it says it all, doesn't informt Wow, I was right,

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<v Speaker 2>amazing stuff.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh look, it was such an incredible movie. And I think,

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<v Speaker 3>as you said before, Harvey, I think probably everybody in

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<v Speaker 3>the entire world has probably seen it now over the

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<v Speaker 3>past sixty years. I think because of been played on

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<v Speaker 3>you know, when it came out on video, when it

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<v Speaker 3>came out on television. I think people have seening it

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<v Speaker 3>over and over in the years, and so many songs

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<v Speaker 3>that they played their do ray me, you know, Climb

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<v Speaker 3>every Mountain, so many songs that people hear it straight

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<v Speaker 3>away and they don't even need to guess. It's the

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<v Speaker 3>sound of music. And I think that's been the wonderful

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<v Speaker 3>thing about it. The whole film and the production of

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<v Speaker 3>it incredible and yet so interesting that so many people

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<v Speaker 3>didn't want to do the movie. You know, everyone looked

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<v Speaker 3>at the script of these directors and actors and sure

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<v Speaker 3>for me, thanks mate, I don't really care much for it,

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<v Speaker 3>And even Christopher Plumber, who played the actual role, he

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<v Speaker 3>always referred to it as the sound of Mucus because

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<v Speaker 3>he thought it was just just so sugar And he

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<v Speaker 3>didn't even want to work with Julie Andrews. She thought, no,

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<v Speaker 3>she's just too Disney for me, because he was very

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<v Speaker 3>much character actor back in the sixties. But ironically he

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<v Speaker 3>and Julian Andrews became very very good friends as the

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<v Speaker 3>years progressed, and up until his death they became very

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<v Speaker 3>very close friends. But it was just fascinating the fact

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<v Speaker 3>that you look upon this film now, which between nineteen

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<v Speaker 3>sixty five and nineteen seventy was the highest grossing film

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<v Speaker 3>in the world for five years. Nothing took over it.

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<v Speaker 3>It was the biggest musical up until Green until nineteen

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<v Speaker 3>seventy eight. But if you sort of compare the dollars

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<v Speaker 3>that they paid back in sixty five to seventy eight,

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<v Speaker 3>it would have earned more money than what Greece did.

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<v Speaker 3>So a huge, huge musical and certainly one of the

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<v Speaker 3>greatest ones, and so great to be celebrating sixty years

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<v Speaker 3>as well.

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<v Speaker 2>Indeed, and to an extra layer of greatness for this

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<v Speaker 2>movie is that. Of course, it was based on a

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<v Speaker 2>very true story.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh, absolutely yeah. The Maria ron Trapp was actually based

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<v Speaker 3>on her shorts memoir that she did called the Story

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<v Speaker 3>of the Von Trapp Family Singers. Now she did that

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<v Speaker 3>about nineteen forty nine, I think when that actually originally

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<v Speaker 3>came out. But there is the interesting thing too, I mean,

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<v Speaker 3>that's the story about them, how they were singers, they

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<v Speaker 3>were involved in Austria and right in the midst of

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<v Speaker 3>the Antlaus which of course was the connecting of Germany

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<v Speaker 3>and Austria back in the late nineteen thirties. We basically

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<v Speaker 3>Hitler basically saying, look, it's my plan to take over Austria.

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<v Speaker 3>So you guys are all going to be flying the

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<v Speaker 3>flag for the Nazi flag. You can put all those

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<v Speaker 3>Ostrian flags down. So with this, she obviously was a

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<v Speaker 3>nun that a very disruptive nun too, by the way.

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<v Speaker 3>She bit bossy in a bit disruptive, and she was

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<v Speaker 3>then sent over to the von Trapps to actually look

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<v Speaker 3>after the captain's oldest daughter, whose name actually was Maria

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<v Speaker 3>as well, but obviously for the film they changed all

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<v Speaker 3>the names to Lisel and everybody else in the particular film,

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<v Speaker 3>but very interestingly because when you look at the study

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<v Speaker 3>of the movie itself against the actual real events that

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<v Speaker 3>took place, so you can say it's based on it.

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<v Speaker 3>It was very interesting that the captain von Trapp was

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<v Speaker 3>actually a very mild, very pleasant young man, but Maria

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<v Speaker 3>was a very bossy sort of loud quite different to

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<v Speaker 3>the actual movie. But no wonder she got kicked out

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<v Speaker 3>of the comment. Very very interesting, but yeah, I look,

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<v Speaker 3>what a sensational movie to have with her. But you know,

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<v Speaker 3>there were some really interesting little notes in this particular film.

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<v Speaker 3>A lot of people mightn't have known with it. But

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<v Speaker 3>are you familiar with the name Marnie.

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<v Speaker 2>Nixon, Marni Nixon, No, I'm not.

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<v Speaker 3>Marnie Nixon did all the voiceovers for so many films.

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<v Speaker 3>She did the voiceover for Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady,

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<v Speaker 3>for Deborah Krr in The King and I, and for

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<v Speaker 3>Natalie Wood in West Side Story. So she did all

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<v Speaker 3>the singing voices. And in this particular movie she had

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<v Speaker 3>a role. She was actually played one of the nuns

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<v Speaker 3>in this Now it's very interesting because if you look

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<v Speaker 3>back on this particular movie, the fact that when she

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<v Speaker 3>did the voice for My Fair Lady. That role was

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<v Speaker 3>originally meant to be for Julie Andrews. But of course

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<v Speaker 3>then when when it was done by Augiy Hip and

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<v Speaker 3>then then sung by Marty Nixon, you can imagine the

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<v Speaker 3>fact that then she's going to meet her on the

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<v Speaker 3>set of Sound of Music and go, oh, this could

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<v Speaker 3>be quite awkward, couldn't it. But no, they became very

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<v Speaker 3>good friends as well. But she had a beautiful voice

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<v Speaker 3>with it as well. It's yeah, nice tonight. Good to

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<v Speaker 3>see Martey Nixon actually in real life rather than just

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<v Speaker 3>hearing a voice as well. So it was good. But

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<v Speaker 3>this this is a big film too, by the way, Harvey,

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<v Speaker 3>this film was nominated for ten Academy Awards, so this

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<v Speaker 3>is a massive and one five including Best Picture and

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<v Speaker 3>Best Director.

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<v Speaker 2>And she lost out, didn't she? Julie to another Julie

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<v Speaker 2>for the Oscar for Best Actress?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, she did in Darling. She won the Best Film

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<v Speaker 3>for that. But I've been saying that though it was

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<v Speaker 3>very interesting Julie Andrews got nominated for Best Actress, but

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<v Speaker 3>she won it the year before for or Mary Poppins.

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<v Speaker 3>Now interesting to note with this, when they were making

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<v Speaker 3>the Sound of Music Mary Poppins hadn't come out yet,

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<v Speaker 3>so of course nobody was really aware of the stage

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<v Speaker 3>presence that Julie Andrews actually had. In fact, even Robert Wise,

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<v Speaker 3>who actually directed the film, he had seen her on

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<v Speaker 3>stage and thought she's really good on stage, but I

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<v Speaker 3>don't really know about her work ethic in film. And

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<v Speaker 3>it wasn't until Walt Disney showed him footage from her

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<v Speaker 3>role in Mary Poppins he went, could be on a

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<v Speaker 3>winner here. So yeah, So that's the reason why he

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<v Speaker 3>really confirmed the decision to have Julie Andrews play in

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<v Speaker 3>that particular role. And so funny too because during the

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<v Speaker 3>rehearsals and when they were doing the Sound of Music,

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<v Speaker 3>during the breaks and times, she would actually sing to

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<v Speaker 3>the children super color fragulistics, expialidocios, and they thought there

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<v Speaker 3>was just a made up song that she was doing

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<v Speaker 3>for them, but of course she just finished doing Mary

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<v Speaker 3>Poppin so sing it to the kids.

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<v Speaker 2>What a great lady, Oh I've what a wonderful lady.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah, yeah, and great actress and an amazing voice

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<v Speaker 2>that she had until unfortunately that got the better off her,

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<v Speaker 2>as we know in her later life. We'll take a break.

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<v Speaker 2>There's plenty more to talk about with the Sound of Music.

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<v Speaker 1>Pete back on Perth six PR. This is remember when

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<v Speaker 1>with Harvey Degan and.

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<v Speaker 2>Peter Taylor, our movie guru is analyzing one of the

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<v Speaker 2>great movies of all time without any question at all,

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<v Speaker 2>Sound of Music. And I was just looking through the

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<v Speaker 2>cast and all that sort of thing, Peter and I

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<v Speaker 2>noticed that the music for Sound of Music credited with

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<v Speaker 2>that is Richard Rodgers. And of course we all know

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<v Speaker 2>about the Yeah, the combination of Rogers and Hammerstein. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>but by the time the movie had come around, I

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<v Speaker 2>think they collaborated in the stage production, did they not correct? Yes,

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<v Speaker 2>And then by the time the movie had come around, sadly,

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<v Speaker 2>Oscar Hammerstein had had passed.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that's correct. He was very very ill. But just

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<v Speaker 3>before he did pass though, obviously during the stage production

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<v Speaker 3>the film at Avice was one of the songs that

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<v Speaker 3>he had actually written for the movie as well, which

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<v Speaker 3>of course is such a beautiful again, one of the

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<v Speaker 3>classic songs that people hear that song and they automatically

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<v Speaker 3>referred to as sounded music. But they were a gifted

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<v Speaker 3>lot on those two I mean Oklahoma and you feel, gosh,

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<v Speaker 3>you think of the big films back in the forties

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<v Speaker 3>and fifties, and both Rogers and Hammerstein they were just

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<v Speaker 3>phenomenal writers of the music without as well. But I think,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, it's again when we look at the film

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<v Speaker 3>like this in sixty five, because obviously there was nothing

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<v Speaker 3>further after this that they did. But that's the reason

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<v Speaker 3>why now it seems hard that musicals can do this,

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<v Speaker 3>because there was so much depth to the music that

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<v Speaker 3>they brought into that as well. And you know, I'm

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<v Speaker 3>pretty sure twentieth century Fox were happy about it as well,

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<v Speaker 3>because they just but went broke two years beforehand when

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<v Speaker 3>they were made the film called Cleopatra with Taylor and

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<v Speaker 3>Richard Burton. We thanked Rogers Damerstein for coming across sound

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<v Speaker 3>of music. I'm sure that's save their budgets. So very interesting.

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<v Speaker 3>It was very very interesting. One other important thing too

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<v Speaker 3>with it, Harvey, a lot of people were the critics

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<v Speaker 3>criticized the sound of music too because they kept making

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<v Speaker 3>references saying, are you're just doing a remake of The

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<v Speaker 3>King and I, which of course was with Jil Brenner

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<v Speaker 3>and Jebra Khr with a like a person coming in

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<v Speaker 3>to help as it was the King as I am

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<v Speaker 3>at the time, and with his children. They said, there's

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<v Speaker 3>such an incredible sort of resemblance to it. But as

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<v Speaker 3>far as I'm concerned, there was no comparison or King

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<v Speaker 3>and I didn't win Best Picture, but Sounded Music did

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<v Speaker 3>so as percent. Sound of music was definitely the pick.

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<v Speaker 2>The other thing too, when you do think about it

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<v Speaker 2>and go through the nominations for Academy Awards, and as

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<v Speaker 2>you say, there was a raft of them nominations for

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<v Speaker 2>the movie, and quite a few that they actually won.

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<v Speaker 2>A lot of the winning Oscars went for technical reasons.

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<v Speaker 2>In other words, they won the Oscar for Best Sound,

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<v Speaker 2>they won the Oscar for Best Scoring of music. And

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<v Speaker 2>you know, as far as attension to detailers concerned, best

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<v Speaker 2>Film editing, I mean talk about they must have got

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<v Speaker 2>together the absolute cream of all the various experts in

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<v Speaker 2>the various fields of movies, all under the one roof,

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<v Speaker 2>as it were, for the one movie.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh, without question, I think that was the thing with it.

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<v Speaker 3>By the time they got the right people in to

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<v Speaker 3>do the movie, I think they had chosen very well.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, originally they you know, Alana Parker played the

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<v Speaker 3>role of the baroness. But they originally had they expected

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<v Speaker 3>someone like Grace Kelly do the role. I mean, Grace

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<v Speaker 3>Kelly would have been a beautiful baroness to but she'd

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<v Speaker 3>sort of by sixty five she said, now I'm done

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<v Speaker 3>with acting, thanks very much. It's not my cup of

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<v Speaker 3>tea anymore. But even you know, some of the children

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<v Speaker 3>involved with I mean people like Richard Drayfuss, Kurt Russell,

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<v Speaker 3>the Osmond brothers, they were all picked as they auditioned

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<v Speaker 3>for the role the boys in the movie as well.

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<v Speaker 3>So look, there was a huge amount of people that

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<v Speaker 3>were just getting involved with it. But then you look

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<v Speaker 3>at who they've chosen and you think it was a beautiful,

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<v Speaker 3>beautiful choice of actors actresses. The voices were fantastic throughout it.

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<v Speaker 3>I know some of them were semi dubbed or whatever else,

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<v Speaker 3>Christopher Plummers and whatever else. But still the whole way

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<v Speaker 3>that the film was edited through, it was just a

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<v Speaker 3>beautiful story of this family in the turmoil in Austria,

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<v Speaker 3>but basically through singing, got their escape and basically left

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<v Speaker 3>Nazi Germany, and so they didn't have to deal with

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<v Speaker 3>that in the years to come. So von Trapp herself

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<v Speaker 3>was very good in doing that, although it was so

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<v Speaker 3>sad the fact that she wasn't actually invited to the

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<v Speaker 3>premiere of the Sound of Music. I think because of

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<v Speaker 3>her issues that she had with Robert wise, being a

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<v Speaker 3>bit bullying on set with him. He sort of sort

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<v Speaker 3>of banned it from a set after a while, saying okay,

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<v Speaker 3>because they kept saying, but you know, because my dad's

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<v Speaker 3>not like that, can you change his character? And they

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<v Speaker 3>said no, no, we need to have that character in

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<v Speaker 3>such a way that when Marina comes into his life,

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<v Speaker 3>that's what changes his life. And that's what you do

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<v Speaker 3>with movies. You know, you can base it on something,

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<v Speaker 3>but it's not word for word exactly what happened with

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<v Speaker 3>the Von Trapps, and certainly with Sound of Music it wasn't,

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<v Speaker 3>but it's certainly it was a rendition of that, and

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<v Speaker 3>I think because of that people loved it. I still

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<v Speaker 3>think it's one of my most favorite movies of all time.

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<v Speaker 3>I love the film. I don't know. I must have

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<v Speaker 3>said it fifteen twenty times in our pasty iddyears, and

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<v Speaker 3>I've seen it with my children and I've said it

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<v Speaker 3>with my grandchildren. So yeah, I love the sound of music.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, I think most other people do, most thinking people,

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<v Speaker 2>that is for sure. It's interesting that we're just a

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<v Speaker 2>bit out of time, mate, But you've gone through this

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<v Speaker 2>movie beautifully for us. Coming up after the next break.

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<v Speaker 2>Speaking of sixtieth anniversaries, Channel nine is celebrating it's sixty

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<v Speaker 2>year anniversary this coming Thursday, and so that's coincidental. You

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<v Speaker 2>know that the movie sixty years old. And I'm not

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<v Speaker 2>sure if you would have remembered back in those days, mate,

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<v Speaker 2>when Channel nine Perth first went to air.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, I do. I remember the Channel Niners Club that

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<v Speaker 3>was sort of started in the sort of early seventies

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<v Speaker 3>and late sixties, and I was actually a member of that.

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<v Speaker 3>They used to invite children to the set and that

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<v Speaker 3>have all different sort of magicians and its and peoples,

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<v Speaker 3>and they had a little thing called the Happy Smilers Club.

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<v Speaker 3>And I actually won the Happy Smilers. I was given

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<v Speaker 3>a whole pile of toys like Test Cricket Tests. I

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<v Speaker 3>don't remember that game Test Cricket.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, I love you Get.

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<v Speaker 3>With the Wood. I loved it, so yes, congratulations Channel

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<v Speaker 3>nine and sixty year out of firsty do you remember

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<v Speaker 3>it very well?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh? That's fantastic. Well, we'll be speaking to Steve Marshall,

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<v Speaker 2>nine perths Broadcast Operations Manager, Peter. Your immediate tasks, should

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<v Speaker 2>you choose to accept it, borrowing that from Mission Impossible

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<v Speaker 2>is to find something equal or better than sound of music.

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<v Speaker 2>Good luck with that mate, for next time, give.

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<v Speaker 3>You my pleasure, Harvey, love you having a chat.

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<v Speaker 2>Take care mate.

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<v Speaker 3>Thank you,