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(Message started by: Kevin Cryan on Today at 11:56)

Title: Documentary for BBC4
Post by Kevin Cryan on Today at 11:56

Screen Australia announces ten new documentary projects

Screen Australia has has announced (http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2013/08/new-docos-funded-for-abc-sbs-foxtel.html) it will invest $3.2m into ten new documentary projects. One of the proposed projects sees journalist Howard Jacobson create a two-part documentary ‘Wizards of Oz’ which looks at the careers of expatriates Australians such as Germaine Greer and Clive James.

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The two-part documentary Wizards of Oz follows Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson, who sets out to understand why Barry Humphries, Robert Hughes, Germaine Greer and Clive James left Australia in the 1960s and how they became cultural icons. Wizards of Oz is written by Howard Jacobson, directed by Paul Clarke and produced for ABC1 and BBC4 by Margie Bryant, Dan Goldberg and Adam Kay.

Kevin Cryan