Margaret Leask oral history interview and photograph by Graham Shirley

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24 March 2023

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories, Graphic Materials, Photographs

9673152

2 audio files (2 hr., 58 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
1 photograph - digital, JPEG, colour

Margaret Leask, born in Armidale in 1949, worked as an arts administrator in Sydney and London before becoming an oral historian and performing arts historian. Since 2005 she has recorded more than 300 interviews for organisations including for the State Library of New South Wales, the National Library of Australia, the National Film and Sound Archive, the National Institute of Dramatic Art, the Sydney Theatre Company, Sydney Opera House, the Australian Theatre for Young People, and the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust (AETT).

Reference
Library correspondence file

Graham Shirley is a film historian and archivist, documentary director, researcher and oral historian who has been conducting oral history interviews since 1971 many of them with pioneers and present-day practitioners of the Australian film and television industries, as well as war veterans, power station and railway workers, and university vice-chancellors.

Reference
Australian Media Oral History Group. Grahm Shirley (viewed 26 May 2023) at https://amohg.wordpress.com/who-we-are/graham-shirley/

ITEM 1
Margaret Leask interview by Graham Shirley

ITEM 2
Photograph of Margaret Leask / by Graham Shirley

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