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Lisa Armytage
Lisa Armytage is an English actress, known for her roles in Australian film and television. After moving to Australia, Armytage appeared in ''Cop Shop'' for three months as the girlfriend of Constable Tony Benjamin (Gregory Ross). She guested in ''Prisoner'' and starred in the ABC radio play ''Footmarks in the Sand''. In 1986, Armytage co-starred in her first Australian feature film '' Cool Change'' as cattle farm owner Joanna Regan. She had to learn to ride a horse and muster cattle for the role. She then appeared in the Nine Network miniseries ''The Lancaster Miller Affair'' as Anne Lancaster. From 1987 until 1989, Armytage played Dr Beverly Marshall in the Australian soap opera ''Neighbours''. Her character was introduced as a love interest for series regular Jim Robinson (Alan Dale). After leaving ''Neighbours'', Armytage appeared in various stage productions and television dramas, including ''The Flying Doctors'' and ''The Miraculous Mellops''. She returned to the UK in 2003, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somerset
Somerset ( , ), Archaism, archaically Somersetshire ( , , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel, Gloucestershire, and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. The largest settlement is the city of Bath, Somerset, Bath, and the county town is Taunton. Somerset is a predominantly rural county, especially to the south and west, with an area of and a population of 965,424. After Bath (101,557), the largest settlements are Weston-super-Mare (82,418), Taunton (60,479), and Yeovil (49,698). Wells, Somerset, Wells (12,000) is a city, the second-smallest by population in England. For Local government in England, local government purposes the county comprises three Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority areas: Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset, and Somerset Council, Somerset. Bath and North East Somerset Council is a member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bristol Old Vic
Bristol Old Vic is a British theatre company based at the Theatre Royal, Bristol. The present company was established in 1946 as an offshoot of the Old Vic in London. It is associated with the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which became a financially independent organisation in the 1990s. Bristol Old Vic runs a Young Company for those aged 7–25. The Theatre Royal, the oldest continually-operating theatre in the English-speaking world, was built between 1764 and 1766 on King Street, Bristol, King Street in Bristol. The Coopers' Hall, built 1743–44, was incorporated as the theatre's foyer during 1970–72. Together, they are designated a Grade I listed building by Historic England. Daniel Day-Lewis called it "the most beautiful theatre in England." In 2012, the theatre complex completed the first phase of a £19 million refurbishment, increasing the seating capacity and providing up to ten flexible performance spaces. Besides the main Theatre Royal auditorium, the complex i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Eadie
Nicholas Eadie (1958 – 22 January 2025) was an Australian television, film and theatre actor. Early life and education Born in Sydney, New South Wales to actor and Australian Broadcasting Commission radio announcer Mervyn Eadie, he attended Waverley College from 1968 to 1976, studied Arts at University of New England for one year in 1977, and studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art from 1978 to 1980. Career Film and television Eadie’s career began shortly after his graduation from NIDA, landing the role of Constable Sam Phillips on ''Cop Shop'' (1981–1982). He stayed on the series for two years. He then appeared in several films, including ''Undercover'' (1983), '' Kindred Spirits'', ''Run Chrissie Run!'' (both 1984), and '' Jenny Kissed Me'' (1986). He gained further success in family drama series ''The Henderson Kids'' (1985) alongside Kylie Minogue and Ben Mendelsohn, playing the part of the protagonists' uncle, Mike Henderson. He won the Australian Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Lancaster (aviator)
Captain William Newton Lancaster (14 February 1898 – 20 April 1933) was a pioneering British aviator. Early life Born in Birmingham, England, Lancaster emigrated to Australia prior to World War I. In 1916, he joined first the Australian Army and later the Australian Flying Corps. He remained in Britain after the war and joined the Royal Air Force, marrying Annie Maude Besant in 1919 and serving in India during the 1920s. He was promoted to flying officer from pilot officer on 30 April 1921. England to Australia In 1927, Lancaster transferred to the RAF Reserve (he continued to hold a commission until 30 April 1930), and decided to make a name for himself by flying from England to Australia. He made this flight in the Avro Avian ''Red Rose'', accompanied by Australian Jessie "Chubbie" Miller, who helped finance the flight.Love is in the Air' - Times Online It was at the time one of the longest flights made in such a small aircraft—although they were overtaken ''en route'' b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Burrowes
Geoff Burrowes (born 1945) is an Australian filmmaker best known for the movie '' The Man from Snowy River'' (1982) and the TV mini-series Anzacs (1985); he was a founding partner of the Burrowes Film Group.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p64 Biography Burrowes was a journalist who graduated from Monash University in 1970 and worked at Crawford Productions for four years. He spent a year as private secretary to Moss Cass and then worked in advertising with Philip Adams for three years. Burrowes decided to make a feature film which resulted in the $2.6 million ''Man from Snowy River'' (1982). This was a huge success at the box office and enabled Burrowes to expand his operations with the Burrowes Film Group. The most successful of these was the mini series ''Anzacs'' and a sequel to ''Snowy River''. However feature films ''Cool Change'', ''Running from the Guns'' and ''Ground Zero'' did less well. Burr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mansfield, Victoria
Mansfield is a town in the foothills of the Victorian Alps in the Australian state of Victoria. It is approximately north-east of Melbourne by road. The population of Mansfield was at the 2021 census. Mansfield is the seat of the Mansfield local government area. Mansfield was formerly heavily dependent on farming and logging but is now a tourist centre. It is the support town for the large Australia ski resort Mount Buller. It is associated with the high-country tradition of alpine grazing, celebrated in the film made around Mansfield, near the now famous Craigs Hut, called '' The Man from Snowy River'' (based on a poem by Banjo Paterson). History The traditional owners of the Mansfield region are the Yowengillum clan of the Taungurung people. They also inhabited Alexandra and the Upper Goulburn River. British colonisers began to enter the region in 1839 when Andrew Ewing (sometimes referred to as Andrew Ewan), a stockman representing the Scottish livestock company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Blake (actor)
Paul Jonathan Blake (10 December 1958 – 30 May 2011) billed as Jon Blake and Sonny Blake, was an Australian actor who was primarily active in the 1980s. He appeared in several TV shows and films, including a leading role in Scott Hicks's ''Freedom'' (1982), before a car accident in 1986 left him severely disabled. Early life Blake was born Paul Jonathan Gleason in the Sydney suburb of Hornsby in 1958, an only child of parents who were classical musicians. His family moved back and forth between New Zealand and Australia before permanently settling in Sydney when he was ten. In his youth, Blake trained as a professional boxer and studied music at the Sydney Conservatorium. He spent several years in student and experimental theatre groups and took private acting lessons while working as an usher at a city cinema complex. While attending Glenaeon, an independent K-12 school at Middle Cove, New South Wales, Blake acted in many school productions. In 1976, an acqua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Rock, Victoria
Black Rock is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, 18 km south-east of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City of Bayside Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. Black Rock recorded a population of 6,389 at the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census. History The suburb was named after Black Rock House, a grand residence built by Charles Ebden in 1856, who had taken the name from Blackrock, Dublin, Black Rock, Dublin. Ebden was an early Port Phillip pastoralist as well as being a businessman and parliamentarian representing the seat of Electoral district of Brighton, Brighton in the Parliament of Victoria, Victorian Parliament. Black Rock House is on the Register of the National Estate. The northern part of the suburb between Beach Road, Melbourne, Beach Road and Bluff Road was one of the early estates in the parish of Moorabbin developed by Josiah Holloway in the 1850s. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astrid Saalbach
Astrid Saalbach (born 29 November 1955) is a Danish playwright and novelist. Biography She was born in Søborg and trained in acting at the Danish National Theatre School. She worked as an actor for seven years before turning to writing. In 1981, she wrote the radio play ''Spor i sandet'' (Footprints in the sand). That was followed by the radio play ''Bekræftelsen'' (The Confirmation) in 1982 and the television play ''En verden, der blegner'' (A World that Fades Away) in 1984. In 1985, she published a book of short stories, ''Månens ansigt'' (The face of the moon). Later plays include: * ''Dansetimen'' (The Dance Lesson) (1986) * ''Den usynlige by'' (The Invisible City) (1986) * ''Myung'' (1989) for television * ''Miraklernes tid'' (Time of the Miracles) (1990) * the trilogy ''Morgen og aften'' (Morning and Evening) (1993), ''Det velsignede barn'' (The Blessed Child) (1996) and ''Aske til aske, støv til støv'' (Ashes to ashes, Dust to dust) (1998) * ''Det kolde hjerte'' (The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of ABC Radio (Australia)
ABC Radio and Regional Content, later ABC Radio, was the division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for radio output and regional content. Origins The first public radio station in Australia opened in Sydney at 8:00pm on 23 November 1923 under the call sign 2SB. Other stations in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Hobart followed. A licensing scheme administered by the Postmaster-General's Department, was soon established allowing certain stations government funding, albeit with restrictions placed on their advertising content. In 1924 the licensing system was changed. The Postmaster-General's Department collected all licence fees and broadcasters were funded as either A-Class or B-Class stations. A-Class stations received government funding and were able to take limited advertising, while B-Class stations received no government funding but could carry more advertising. By 1925 many of the A-Class stations were in financial difficulty. A 1927 Roy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers
A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports, art, and science. They often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, Obituary, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of Subscription business model, subscription revenue, Newsagent's shop, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often Metonymy, metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published Printing, in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also Electronic publishing, published on webs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Age
''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered both in print and digital formats. The newspaper shares some articles with its sister paper ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. ''The Age'' is considered a newspaper of record for Australia, and has variously been known for its investigative reporting, with its journalists having won dozens of Walkley Awards, Australia's most prestigious journalism prize. , ''The Age'' had a monthly readership of 5.4 million. , this had fallen to 4.55 million. History Foundation ''The Age'' was founded by three Melbourne businessmen: brothers John and Henry Cooke (who had arrived from New Zealand in the 1840s) and Walter Powell. The first editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
