Ray Martin's Favourites: The Stories Behind the Legends

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Victory Books, 2011 - Performing Arts - 383 pages

Giving readers privileged access to the foibles of the famous, the chases to get ñbig interviews,î and the extraordinary locationsæwhere they take place, this record assembles the most remarkable interviews collected during Ray MartinÍs successful career as a journalist. Featuring subjects including Eric Bana, Audrey Hepburn, Olivia Newton John, Heath Ledger, Madonna, and Oprah Winfrey, this perceptive and inspiring compilation shares the authorÍs impressions and reflections on each individual and details the challenges of talking to people from all walks of life.

 

Contents

Audrey Hepburn Its never too late
15
Jane Fonda Dinner with the bishop
35
Peter Cook The king of comedy
59
Oprah Winfrey Is it Opera?
81
Bob Dylan The missing interview
101
Patrick Dodson The father of reconciliation
131
Lowitja ODonoghue Miss Goodytwoshoes
153
His Royal Highness Prince Charles Were not all like James Bond
167
Heath Ledger As good as Marlon Brando
187
A sporting life
215
Steve Waugh Our century
237
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About the author (2011)

Ray Martin's lifetime in journalism began as an ABC cadet in Sydney in 1965. After working in Perth and Canberra, he was posted to New York for a decade as the ABC's North American correspondent. In 1978 he switched to Channel 9 to launch 60 Minutes with George Negus and Ian Leslie, the award-winning program he still reports for today. In between he hosted Midday for a decade, A Current Affair for almost as long and countless network specials, Federal elections and Carols by Candlelight-winning five Gold Logies, more than twenty Silver Logies and an unmatched number of People's Choice Awards. He was awarded an Order of Australia in 2011 for his journalism, his work with indigenous Australians and his long involvement with charities, as Chairman of the Fred Hollows Foundation and the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation and Patron of the Humpty Dumpty Foundation and the Aboriginal Employment Strategy. His best-selling autobiography, Ray: Stories of My Life was published in 2009.

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