Don Reid reading the John Millett script in verse of 'QF1 - the longest air route under the sun'

MLOH 26

fonds

25 October 1982

411891

Digitised

2 audiocassettes (38 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape

John Millett, poet, has contributed poetry to numerous Australian periodicals and published a number of collections of poetry including, 'Calendar Adam' (1971), 'The silences' (1973), 'Love tree of the Coomera' (1975), 'West of the Cunderang' (1977) and 'Tail arse Charlie' (1982). He has been associated with 'Poetry Australia' for many years and has been Managing Editor since 1988. He wrote a script in verse for a proposed film about the Sydney to London, London to Sydney QANTAS flight, QF1.

'QF1, Night Mail', a recording of Don Reid reading the John Millet script in verse of 'QF1 - the longest air route under the sun' MLOH 26/2 (Side B: 18 min.)
MLOH 26/1 Side A (21 min.): No summary available
MLOH 26/1 Side B (n/a): No summary available
MLOH 26/2 Side B (18 min.): No summary available

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The description of this material has been supplied from the Oral History Digitisation Program, undertaken 2014 to 2017, of the Library's oral history collections.

Tapes accompany papers of John Millett located at MLMSS 3161 ADD-ON 1675.
MLOH 26/1 Side A: Recorded on 25 October 1982
MLOH 26/1 Side B: Recorded on 25 October 1982
MLOH 26/2 Side B: Recorded on 25 October 1982
MLOH 26/1 Side A: Tape could not be auditioned, estimated duration is a guess only.
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Other creators: Reid, Don (speaker); Millett, John, 1921-2019 (author)

MLOH 26/1 Side A: Tape would not fast forward past 00:14, and would only rewind to 00:07.
MLOH 26/1 Side B: Tape would not fast forward past 00:14, and would only rewind to 00:07.