Yes, Miss Gibson James Aitchison

YES, MISS GIBSON offers a nostalgic journey back to the 1950s when radio drama dominated Australia's age of innocence. What emerges is a rare social and media history, and an engaging look into the bustling radio industry of a lost era. Grace Gibson's life could well have come from the script of one of her own serials. Born in El Paso, her father was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, her mother Mexican. Arriving in Sydney from Hollywood in the 1930s, she soon became the highest-paid woman in local radio. She produced some of Australia's most-loved radio shows: Dr Paul, Portia Faces Life, Night Beat, and Dossier on Dumetrius. The book documents their impact on postwar audiences; the many bizarre actors who peopled her world; her relations with the rich and famous of Sydney society; her friendship with Sir Frank Packer; how her company survived the advent of television and became the world's biggest producer of radio drama second only to the BBC; and finally her... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Yes, Miss Gibson (James Aitchison)