Guide to the Papers of John Tranter

Series [unnumbered]. Martin Johnston – Selected Poems and Prose (1993)

Three metal Type IV cassette tapes, no noise reduction: (Item 1_3) - Box 16

Both Sides: Martin Johnston interviewed by Tranter, 23 March 1990...

Interview with Martin Johnston, Helicon, 11/08/1991, 11/08/1991 (Item NLA.MS-SAV014365) - Cassette-Box 647

Piece 2

Side A: John Tranter interview with Laurie Duggan re Martin Johnston 25/09/1991. Side B: ABC Radio 'Late Night Live' Virginia Bell, Roseanne Bruney?, John Tranter, Nadia Wheatley? re the late Martin Johnston 26/06/1990, 1990 and 1991 (Item NLA.MS-SAV014366) - Cassette-Box 647

Piece 3

Cassette tape recording of The Ern Malley Story, a radio documentary by poet/radio producer John Thompson (d.1968) concerning the hoax poet 'Ern Malley' (Item 4) - Box 16

Ern Malley was a persona and a body of work concocted in 1943 by the young poets James McAuley and Harold Stewart, and published in Angry Penguins in 1944. The documentary was first broadcast on ABC radio in 1959. Recording features Max Harris, Geoffrey Dutton, Barrett Reid, Harold Stewart, James McAuley and others, and includes the reading of a letter from 'Ethel Malley'. (The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry is the first anthology to feature the complete poetic works of Ern Malley).

The Ern Malley' Story' broadcast on ABC Radio 1959, recorded by John Tranter 1993, 1993 (Item NLA.MS-SAV014367) - Cassette-Box 647

Piece 4. ABC Producer John Thompson. Notes about radio program and Ern Malley in folder