Series 01: Eric Waite interviews chiefly with or about Xavier Herbert, 1975-1990

MLOH 639/1-28

series

1975-1990

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories, Musical Sound Recordings, Textual Records

918523

61 sound tape reels and 2 sound cassettes

1. Xavier Herbert interviewed by Matt Young for Morning Show on leaving hospital, 15 December 1975
1 sound tape reel (3 min. 30 sec.) : analogue; 13 cm

2. Xavier Herbert talking at the presentation in Queensland for his Miles Franklin Award
1 sound tape reel (ca. 5 min.) : analogue; 13 cm

3. Xavier Herbert talking on Miles Franklin Award and reaction after stoush with Sir Lorimer Dodds, introduced by Jim Bonner and Huw Evans
1 sound tape reel (5 min.) : analogue; 13 cm

4. Sadie Herbert interviewed by Eric Waite, Sydney, 1975
2 sound tape reels (59 min.) : analogue, 19 cm/sec ; 18 cm

5. Xavier Herbert interviewed by Eric Waite, Sydney, 1975
2 sound tape reels (30 min. each) : analogue ; 18 cm

6. Xavier Herbert at Brisbane University handing over the Sadie Herbert Collection at Brisbane University, 1979, interviewed by Peter Cave
1 sound tape reel (8 min.) : analogue, 19cm/sec ; 18cm
Note: Reels also labelled Xavier and Sadie Collection

7. Xavier Herbert interviewed by Eric Waite, Alice Springs, July 1984
10 sound tape reels (5 hr.) : analogue, 19 cm/sec ; 18 cm

8. Xavier Herbert Archive
5 sound tape reels : analogue, 19cm/sec ; 18cm
Note: Tape 3 labelled ‘An evening with Xavier Herbert, ex ABC TV’

9. Xavier Herbert, recorded 8 April 1983
5 sound tape reels : analogue, 19cm/sec ; 18 cm
Note: Labelled ‘Claire C. X’ on spine of containers. These reels may be duplicates of Item 8

10. Books and Ideas, No. 38, 1975, Tape One for broadcast, 25 September 1975, contains second part of Humphrey McQuuen’s [i.e McQueen’s] review of Poor fellow My Country. Pres[enter] John Cassidy
1 sound tape reel : analogue, 19cm/sec ; 18 cm

11. Books and Ideas, Tape 2
2 sound tape reels : analogue, 19cm/sec ; 18 cm

12. Steve Stephens talking about Xavier Herbert, with Eric Waite, Sydney
6 sound tape reels (ca. 2 hr., 15 min.) : analogue; 13-18 cm

13. Kees van Brink interviewed by Eric Waite, relating to Xavier Herbert, Radio Australia, Army operations and World War II, ca. 1985
2 sound tape reels (45 min.) : analogue; 13 cm

14. Beatrice Davis talking to Eric Waite on "Soldiers' Women" and Xavier Herbert
1 sound tape reel (15 min.) : analogue; 13 cm

15. Alec Boxall talking to Eric Waite, reminiscing on Xavier and Sadie Herbert during war years, on Xavier holding court in the old Newcastle Hotel in George Street, meeting Mary Durack, writing, etc.
3 sound tape reels (ca. 45 min.) : analogue; 13 cm

16. Leo Kelly, journalist, talking to Eric Waite about his and wife Naomi’s friendship with Sadie and Xavier Herbert, and Kylie Tennant. Recorded at Heathcote, 1987
1 sound tape reel (16.40 min.) : analogue; 13 cm

17. Joy Ryan talking about Xavier Herbert; and Senja Robey talking about Jean Batten
1 sound tape reel (5 min.) : analogue; 13 cm
Note: Joy Ryan of Stanwell Park N.S.W remembers a bus trip to Herbert and Sadie’s cottage at Redlynch, and Senja Robey talks about Jean Batten visiting her home at Bankstown

18. Frances de Groen, talks to Eric Waite about her biography of the Australian writer, Xavier Herbert, author of Capricornia and Poor Fellow My Country
1 sound tape reel (14.3 min.) : analogue; 13 cm

19. Ray Crooke, portrait painter, talks on painting Xavier and Sadie Herbert’s portraits and his friendship with Eric Waite
1 sound tape reel (30 min.) : analogue; 18 cm

20. Donald Horne on Xavier Herbert, recorded by Eric Waite, Sydney
1 sound tape reel : analogue; 18 cm

21. Allan Ashbolt on Xavier Herbert, recorded by Eric Waite, Sydney
2 sound tape reels (60 min.) : analogue; 18 cm

22. Alec Boxall on Xavier Herbert, interviewed by Eric Waite
2 sound tape reels (30 min. each) : analogue; 18 cm

23. Pixie O’Harris, on word of mouth, dogs and horses and an artist’s parents, 1984?
2 sound tape reels (ca. 30 min.) : analogue; 13 cm

24. Louis Nowra, author of the play of Capricornia, talks to Eric Waite
1 sound tape reel (15 min.) : analogue; 13 cm

25. Ken Wilder, ex Collins M.D, talking to Eric Waite about Xavier Herbert, Poor Fellow My Country, and George Johnson, recorded at Bowrel [i.e. Bowral], NSW, 1990
3 sound tape reels (30 min. each): analogue; 18 cm

26. Capricornia music by Roy Agnew
1 sound tape reel: analogue; 13 cm

27. Margaret Roadnight, Poor Fellow My Country song
1 sound tape reel: analogue; 13 cm
Note: Tape may also include: Potted tongues, “Jargon” by Richard Stilgoe

28. Sydney Nolan interviewed by Brian Adams at Cairns Airport
2 sound cassettes (microcassette, 60 min.) : analogue; 5 x 3.3 cm, 0.4 cm tape

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List compiled from annotated typed lists in Library correspondence file and from items