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  • Re: Huw Evans, where now?

    From John Alexander Berry@3:633/280.2 to All on Sat Mar 4 10:20:15 2023
    On Friday, 6 March 2020 at 12:45:29=E2=80=AFpm UTC+11, tonyw...@gmail.com w= rote:
    On Friday, 7 August 1998 17:00:00 UTC+10, Ross Fraser wrote:=20
    A dinner party conversation lately got onto comparing the media,=20 particularly current affairs, of 15-20 years ago to the present. Anyway=
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    the question was asked about HUW EVANS, who was the presenter of ABC=20 Radio's "PM" program, ABC TV's "Mastermind" and ABC TV's "Pressure
    Point" at various times throughout the 70's and 80's. After this era we=
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    think he disappeared entirely from the media. I seem to remember years=
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    ago hearing a rumour that he was to work for Channel Nine for a stint=
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    but can't remember if this was right. It also rings a bell that he migh=
    t=20
    have been one of our Rhodes Scholars and might therefore have gone back=
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    to academia. Someone remarked that he was looking "a bit sick"=20 (literally) around the last couple of his TV years and suggested that h=
    e=20
    might have suffered from stress or some ailment or other and that this=
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    might have something to do with his getting out of the media.=20
    =20
    I thought his current affairs stuff, both radio and tv, wasn't too bad,=
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    and certainly would have been competitive with the likes of Kerry=20 O'Brien and Maxine McKew.=20
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    Does anyone know what happenned to HUW EVANS?=20
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    --=20
    Ross D. Fraser . O e-mail:=20
    O.oOo.oo ro...@starwon.com.au=20
    1-B Saltbush Court oooooooooo.=20
    Wickham WA 6720 -> oWoooooooooooo ISP:=20
    Australia Oooooooooooooooo http://www.starwon.com.au=20
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    Tel/Fax: oooooooooooooo; Views expressed are my own.=20
    +61 (0)8 91871635 .oo ooooo My employer hasn't had an=20
    ooo original idea in 30 years.=20
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    Contrary to everyones posts, Huw is alive and well and living in Mt Irvin=
    e. Has done so for many years now.=20
    He is a very dear friend and I still remain in touch with him on a somewh=
    at regular basis.=20
    We have often had and still do have political discussions and his insight=
    is a most rewarding experience. Hope this is of some assistance. Tony Whit=
    e

    Great to hear that Huw is alive and well ! (Thankyou Tony White). Was only = thinking about past TV presenters on the ABC last night, and one of the fir=
    st presenters I thought of was Huw Evans.

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