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Patrick Gibson - Scope (Radio Series)

by Patrick Gibson

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Episode I 24:30
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Episode II 24:28
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Episode III 24:30
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Episode IV 24:28
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Episode V 24:30
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Episode VI 24:27

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A pseudo radio documentary by Pat dispersed via Radio National in 2008/09 via The Night Air.

Reviewing Scope: The Lost Episodes

Due to public demand and his own unquenchable desire to talk about the neglected history of ABC radio, former Drama and Features producer (now successful businessman with several companies in the Gulf states), Barry Anthony has returned to The Night Air with a new series exploring some of the more obscure moments of the program for which he once worked as a 'junior trouser'—the legendary magazine show of the 50s, 60s and 70s, Scope.

Scope was a hardy example of creative programming on ABC radio. It ran from 1958 until 1976 and for 13 years of its existence was guided by the charismatic and energetic Donald Ingram Smith. A devotee of the Indian teacher and one-time 'messiah', Jiddu Krishnamurti, Ingram Smith was always keen to question society, its motivations and directions.

With Scope he sought out a diverse collection of commentators, from philosophers and novelists to society ladies and chimneysweeps, who would satirise, critique and celebrate social mores.

Interspersed with 'narration' from Ingram Smith and young presenters like Clive Robertson and Margaret Throsby, Scope took on a given theme each week and with its unpredictability and enthusiasm, offered respite from the starchy fare elsewhere on the ABC. Although it suited the irreverent mood of the 60s, by the mid 70s Ingram Smith's sense of the 'breakdown in all levels of society' hastened the end of the show and his own retirement.

In a labour of love and deep fascination for his old show, Barry Anthony has trawled through the recorded remnants of Scope to select some choice examples of this long-running and popular ABC program. Musing over a 1964 Ingram Smith introduction to a story about the advent of 'Beaujolais in can', Barry Anthony notes, with characteristically wry nostalgia, that his senior producer always had the ability to 'know where the crumbling chaos of the 20th century ended, and where humour, even the bleakest and most absurd, began...'

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released May 12, 2020

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o.t.a.s. is the last project of the late Patrick Gibson who played an impressive role in Australia's post-punk electronic landscape with bands such as The Systematics, Ya Ya Choral, No Night Sweats, A Splendid Mess, Scattered Order, Famous and many, many more. ... more

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