Reginald Ottley interviewed by Suzanne Lunney [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 479251
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Ottley, Reginald, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1976 Sept. 14
- 1 tape reel (ca. 143 min.) : 1 7/8 ips ; 5 in.
- Summary:
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Reginald Ottley, former seaman, stockman and writer, describes his early life in England; running away to sea at 14; obtaining position as deck boy across English Channel; working as fireman's peggy on the Osterley to Australia; alcohol and fighting on board ship; confidence trickster at Circular Quay; discovery of sailor with venereal disease; experiences on Canadian Star to Canada; becoming second cook; bad weather on rusty Baron Douglas to Philadelphia; emigration to Australia under Big Brother Scheme; working on property in Hillston, NSW area; riding bucking horse; return to England for his 21st birthday; looking after horses on return voyage; reinstating cattle in Solomon Islands; early writing; broadcasting series of animal stories on BBC Radio; beginning novel writing; Stampede; Boy series; awards; writing methodology; false demarcation between children's & adult's literature; writing style; No More Tomorrow; The Bates Family; writing about Australia from overseas; writing discipline; revision; writer as critic; writing about the sea; contact with other writers; having books published; publishers' changes to his stories; endings; sadness of his stories; morality in writing; compulsion to write.
- Notes:
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- Cassette copy not made.
- Recorded at Mr Ottley's home at Chapel Hill, Qld on 14 September 1976.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-215102001
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 49 leaves).
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Authors
- Other authors/contributors:
- Lunney, Suzanne, interviewer
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