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In 1974 Tim Bowden took six months leave from the ABC, and with his family took off in a split-screen Kombi on a journey half-way round Australia. He travelled from Sydney to Darwin, via Cairns, before going down the Stuart Highway to Alice Springs and ending up in Tasmania. During his travels he recorded interviews from other travellers and locals, collecting stories from the outback. The resulting series of radio specials were presented on ABC Radio in the 1970s with original music by bush musician Ted Egan.
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About Tim Bowden
Tim Bowden is a writer and broadcaster, spending much of his career at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation where he hosted the TV listener and viewer reaction program Backchat, from 1986 to 1993. He was an ABC correspondent based in Singapore from 1965 to 1967. His radio and TV broadcasts included series on the Australian colonial experience in Papua New Guinea, Australian prisoners of war of the Japanese in World War II, and the official history of ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions). He is the author of fifteen books.