TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carlton,Michael
TI  - On air
SN  - 9780857987808 (hardback)
U1  - 070.92 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - North Sydney, NSW
PB  - William Heinemann
KW  - Carlton, Michael.
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - Biography: general
KW  - thema
KW  - Journalists
KW  - Australia
KW  - Biography
KW  - Radio journalists
KW  - War correspondents
KW  - Australian
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Prepublication record (machine generated from publisher information); Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Mike Carlton was born to controversy. His father Jimmy, a renowned Olympic athlete and later a Catholic priest, married his mother after a whirlwind wartime courtship. This scandal was hushed up at first, but eventually it made headlines. Six years later, Jimmy Carlton died in his wife's arms, felled by asthma. It was a tough beginning. Mike would have a Sydney suburban childhood where every penny counted. Unable to afford a university education, he left school at sixteen to begin a life in journalism that would propel him to the top, as one of Australia's best-known media figures. In an often turbulent career of more than fifty years he has been a war correspondent, political reporter, a TV news and current affairs reporter, an award-winning radio presenter in both Sydney and London, an outspoken newspaper columnist and a biting satirist. In later life he realised a lifelong ambition to write three bestselling books of Australian naval history. On Air is his story, no holds barred. With characteristic humour and flair, Mike tells of the feuds and the friendships, the fun and the follies, writing candidly of the extraordinary parade of characters and events he has encountered in the unique life he has led
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