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Old days, old ways : stories from my radio days in the bush / Alex Nicol.

Old days, old ways : stories from my radio days in the bush / Alex Nicol.
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ISBN 1760528498
9781760528492
Author Nicol, Alex (author.)
Title Old days, old ways : stories from my radio days in the bush / Alex Nicol.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2019.
©2019
Description 260 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Summary Alex Nicol takes us back to the old days in the bush, when booking into a country pub was likely to turn into an adventure, and when radio was the glue that held far flung communities together. Full of colourful characters and making do with what's at hand, these stories are classically Australian. There are the wartime mates who helped each other build farms on their soldier settler blocks, and the 'Adelady' who kept the farm running after her husband died. There is the young woman who caught water buffalo in the Northern Territory, and 'the Possum', the legendary bush hermit who lived off the land on his own for 60 years, quietly doing jobs for farmers without being asked. There is the neighbour caught 'fishing' in the chookyard with a long line and a small hook baited with bread, and the little girl who swallowed a sapphire she found on the side of the road. With a bush yarn, it's all about the way you tell it. As the voice of rural Australia for over two decades on ABC radio, Alex Nicol can tell a yarn with a punchline that will keep you grinning for the rest of the day. - book cover.
Subjects Nicol, Alex, -- 1938-
Radio personalities -- Australia -- Biography
Radio programs -- Australia
Radio -- Australia
Broadcasters -- Australia -- Biography
Country life -- Australia -- Anecdotes
Australia -- Rural conditions -- Anecdotes
Australia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Call number 2019.209
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A0093309X 2019.209
General Collection   . Available to Museum Staff .  
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