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Ian Britain

Ian Britain reviews 'The Two Frank Thrings' by Peter Fitzpatrick

October 2012, no. 345 27 September 2012
How lucky we were! My ‘baby boomer’ generation in Melbourne grew up on stories of the second Frank Thring (1926–94), which competed in outrageousness with the anecdotes we heard of Barry Humphries; and throughout the 1960s we had the opportunity – more so in the case of Thring, who had now settled back in Melbourne as a regular performer on stage and television, as Humphries began his life ... (read more)