Tony Martin Oral History: The End of Martin/Molloy
2012
Tony Martin Oral History: The End of Martin/Molloy
2012
- NFSA ID8JKQ11MW
- TypeOral History
- MediumAudio
- FormOral history
- GenresBiographical
- Year2012
In this excerpt from an oral history interview with Tony Martin, he talks about why he and Mick Molloy ended Martin/Molloy from his point of view.
After four years of Martin/Molloy, and at the peak of their popularity, the duo decided to walk away. Although there was a perception that a two-hour radio program meant a short workday, the reality was very different.
Speaking to Craig Bruce on the Game Changers: Radio podcast in 2016, Mick Molloy described the typical 12-hour workday necessary to put the show together:
'We were in there every morning about 9[am], then we started to read papers, then we started writing sketches, then we would start writing our spots … We would pre-record elements of the show … There was so much production and so we would produce everything that needed to be produced prior to that show. And then immediately after the show which was [at] 6, we would go in and put down the sketches for the following day… Sometimes we would get out of there at 9 at night.'
As a result, by the end of 1998, they were both exhausted.
Paul Harris interviewed Tony Martin for the NFSA Oral History program in 2012 and 2013.
In this excerpt from an oral history interview with Tony Martin, he talks about why he and Mick Molloy ended Martin/Molloy from his point of view.
After four years of Martin/Molloy, and at the peak of their popularity, the duo decided to walk away. Although there was a perception that a two-hour radio program meant a short workday, the reality was very different.
Speaking to Craig Bruce on the Game Changers: Radio podcast in 2016, Mick Molloy described the typical 12-hour workday necessary to put the show together:
'We were in there every morning about 9[am], then we started to read papers, then we started writing sketches, then we would start writing our spots … We would pre-record elements of the show … There was so much production and so we would produce everything that needed to be produced prior to that show. And then immediately after the show which was [at] 6, we would go in and put down the sketches for the following day… Sometimes we would get out of there at 9 at night.'
As a result, by the end of 1998, they were both exhausted.
Paul Harris interviewed Tony Martin for the NFSA Oral History program in 2012 and 2013.
- NFSA ID8JKQ11MW
- TypeOral History
- MediumAudio
- FormOral history
- GenresBiographical
- Year2012
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