Weekend sport includes athletics from Olympic Park, Melbourne, live on ABC, followed by Sydney Rugby League’s Match Of The Day. Show-jumping is a popular sport in Australia and it certainly is a difference after having to watch the same old cricket and tennis.” C. Beaton ( TV Times, 24 February 1979) on the lack of show-jumping coverage. Raymond may be a good interviewer, but that is where it stops – he asks only the questions to get the answers that he wants to hear, or thinks the viewers want to hear.” L. “I have just been watching The Mike Walsh Show and it has only increased my belief that there is no comparison between him and Steve Raymond. It’s rather hard on the contestants when the answers are wrong.” A. A horse has not got cloven feet – it is a foot or a hoof – not divided into two parts as ox, sheep, etc. ”I was watching Family Feud and one of the questions was ‘how many animals can be identified to have cloven feet?’ The answer ‘horse’ drew the highest score. It is not known how much he was paid for the commercials though it is known that his minimum price for any job or appearance is $100,000. Muhammad Ali, in Australia for the TV Week Logie Awards, has recently spent a day reciting poems for a series of commercials for a new throat lozenge. Popular British poet Pam Ayres is about to begin her second Australian tour and ABC is expected to screen a new series What’s On Next?, which features Ayres, next month. Already a Melbourne boutique has expressed plans to stock her designs for the upcoming season. The Sullivans’ actress Susan Hannaford has been busy working on plans for the launch of her new winter fashion collection. And Cop Shop actor George Mallaby, a keen vegetable grower, is in the process of renovating his new Melbourne home and is working on rejuvenating its very neglected backyard. That’s plenty of time.” ABC gardening expert, Sow What host Kevin Heinze, says that the most simple, cheapest and most effective way to add to your stock of plants is to grow from cuttings. You need to think of the places in the world where the plants grow naturally and try to provide them with as near as possible to those conditions.” Actress Gwen Plumb’s (pictured) garden is a semi-tropical retreat overlooking Sydney’s northern beaches and, she says, “I talk to my plants, apologise to them if I have to prune them, and encourage them to grow.” Fellow The Young Doctors actor Michael Beecher says that plants take care of themselves: “Apart from watering, you shouldn’t have to spend more than an hour a week in a garden. Bernard King’s advice: “The secret of growing plants in pots is to have some empathy with the plants. TV Times asked five TV celebrities about their gardens and for their personal gardening tips. The performer is now back in Australia and taking voice exercises in preparation for a TV special to begin production in just over a month. It was music to her husband’s ears as it was the first time she’d sung since the operation. However when she and her husband and manager, Eddie Natt, were travelling in a cable car up the tallest mountain in Germany, with a misty view of the Alps, Anthony was so awestruck by the view that she spontaneously burst into singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Although Anthony could speak after the operation, she was told not to sing for several weeks. A trip to Germany to visit throat specialist Dr Oscar Kleinasser resulted in micro-surgery using lasers. Just weeks ago, singer Julie Anthony was yet to know if a recurring throat problem would end her singing career for good. Some of Parkinson’s guests set to appear over the coming weeks include Ita Buttrose, Mike Willesee, Don Lane, Bob Hawke, Mary Hardy, Phillip Adams and Kerry Packer. Now the famed TV interviewer is coming to Australia to host a series of seven shows for ABC. British TV host Michael Parkinson (pictured) has conducted more than 500 interviews with some of the world’s most famous people and created many memorable moments – he once got stuck into Hollywood actor John Wayne over his political persuasions, almost got a thumping by an outraged Muhammed Ali, and had his belly-button tickled by Shirley MacLaine.
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