I have an old journalist mate (well we are both old now) who lives in New Zealand – well Christchurch actually. He wrote to me recently (Bob has given computers away and prefers Her Majesty’s post and hand-written missives) to say that he and his missus were still living in their quake damaged house, and […]
CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD HUGHES
With Tim Bowden
Just before World War II Australians seemed unaware that they were geographically linked to Asia, and not simply ‘British to the bootstraps’ as Prime Minister Robert Menzies later put it. There were no Australian foreign correspondents working in Asia, and Richard Hughes (and colleagues like Denis Warner) were […]
NO TERN UNSTONED – MUSINGS AT BREAKFAST
By Tim Bowden
In 2003 I received a phone call out of the blue from Peter Thompson, then hosting Radio National’s Breakfast show. Would I be interested in doing a talk every Friday for the program?
‘What about?’
‘Anything’, said Peter.
Well what recently retired journalist could refuse […]
