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KEN FLETCHER HALL-OF-FAME
Ken Fletcher has been named in
Queensland's honour roll of 150 sportsmen and women .
At a gala dinner on December 4 2009 in Brisbane Ken was
inducted into the New Queensland Sport Hall of Fame.
150 sporting achievers were named because 2009 is Queensland's 150th Anniversary.
SPIES LIKE US And
in the same week, the talking book of Spies
Like Us was released by ABC Music. The 5-CD set is
introduced with Macca singing his own song Spies
Like Us, which perfectly captures the James Bond era
in which the story is set.. Ian McNamara wrote the words and
the music. The 48 episodes ~ which were broadcast on
Macca's national ABC Radio show, Australia All Over in
2009 ~ are read by Melbourne actor Peter Curtin, who did the
Over the Top with Jim radio reading. Spies
Like Us starts with arrival in Hong Kong in 1964,
follows Hughie and Ken Fletcher's escapades with girls,
gambling, tennis and journalism, through to Hughie's
dramatic entry into China, Russia, then through Berlin and
on to the swinging sixties in London where Ken once
again tries to conquer Wimbledon. The talking book is for
sale in ABC Shops plus music shops.
ICONS
Six authors were voted Queensland Icons in the vote to
celebrate Queensland's 150th anniversary. The authors,
including Hughie, were in the influential artists category.
Those who have left a lasting impression on the people of
Queensland. The authors were David Malouf, Hugh Lunn and
William McInnes plus Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Judith Wright and
Steele Rudd.
Some of the other cultural icons were the Bee Gees,
Powderfinger, Geoffrey Rush, Keith Urban and Savage Garden.
In other categories the demolition of Cloudland and the
Bellevue, and the Fitzgerald Inquiry were named.
You can check out all 150 winners at www.q150.qld.gov.au
NEWS
Working for Rupert review
Hypercritically reviewed in The Australian finally
received a good review -- in Mexico!! Washington-based
journalist Ignacio Cruz Herrera writing about the Wall St
Journal take-over in 2008:
'Among the dozens of books written on the most
influential Australian in history there are at least a
couple of biographies instructive, that of Neil Chenoweth
and William Shawcross, but without a doubt the most
instructive, emotional, enlightening and ironic is the
Australian journalist Hugh Lunn's Working for Rupert.
The book on Kenny Fletcher's dazzling life
ABC Books published my biography on my mate Kenny on October 1
2008.
I have always wanted to write a book about Kenny’s amazing life
because few Australians (if any) have ever done half the things he
did, or ever knew half the people he befriended around the world.
He was unusual in that he literally had hundreds of very close
friends. Such as the revered war hero Leonard Cheshire VC, the
billionaire philanthropist Chuck Feeney, and Australian tennis
legend Frank Sedgman.
He won Wimbledon with John Newcombe and Margaret Smith Court. |
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