A few weeks ago, I uncovered a box of old tapes my dad had kept for years. These old tapes were recordings of interviews, news spots and sports commentary my dad, (Bob Bowman as he was known as at the time) had done during his years as the sporting co-coordinator at Gold Coast Radio 97-2MW.

The picture above is from the newsletter distributed in February 1982. If anyone knows the Tweed on the Gold Coast, they would know of the shopping centre referred to in the ‘News Flash’. There is also an image of my dad on the back sports page of the newsletter.

One of the first tapes that I uncovered was an Interview my dad did with one of the other commentators (Phil), with Australian Football legend and Icon, Ron Barassi. This was an interview done in 1981, and I was able to track that due to the reference to a question my dad asked Ron about him changing clubs during his coaching career.

Dad asked a few different questions, and the key focus of most of those questions were about Australian football in Queensland. It was very interesting to hear this now that Australian football has such a great audience up here. Interesting responses about how Aussie rules could penetrate the audience up here but also in regard to Australian sport in general can get better national-wide exposure. There were some interesting comments about the influences of Soccer in Australia.

I’ve digitised the interview into a podcast, so please feel free to listen to it, it goes for about 13 minutes.

 

 Bob Bowman with Ron Barassi on Radio 97-2MW Gold Coast in 1981 [13:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download