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Tim Bowden

{{Short description|Australian historian (1937–2024)}}

{{For|the Major League Baseball player|Tim Bowden (baseball)}}

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| birth_name = Timothy Gibson Bowden

| birth_date = {{birth date|1937|8|2|df=y}}

| birth_place = Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

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| death_place = Sydney, Australia

| occupation = Author, radio and television broadcaster and producer, oral historian

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| alma_mater = University of Tasmania

| period = 1970s–1990s

| genre = History

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| awards = Member of the Order of Australia
Centenary Medal
Honorary Doctorate of Letters, University of Tasmania

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Timothy Gibson Bowden {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100%|AM}} (2 August 1937 – 1 September 2024) was an Australian author, radio and television broadcaster and producer, and oral historian. He was born in Hobart, Tasmania, and studied at the University of Tasmania, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Bowden's work included hosting the Australian Broadcasting Corporation program Backchat (1986–1994), producing This Day Tonight during the 1970s, and founding the ABC's Social History Unit. His other productions include Prisoners of War – Australians Under Nippon{{Citation | title=P.O.W.: Australians under Nippon | publication-date=2022 | publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/251369037 | access-date=4 September 2024 | archive-date=5 September 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240905021101/https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/251369037 | url-status=live }} and the 24-part series Taim Bilong Masta – The Australian Involvement with Papua New Guinea.{{Citation | title=Taim Bilong Masta More than a book of a radio series... (1 February 1983) | journal=Pacific Islands Monthly | publication-date=1983-02-01 | publisher=Pacific Publications | volume=54 | issue=2 | pages=44 | issn=0030-8722}}

During the 1990s he produced several notable documentaries on Australian research in the Antarctic.

Bowden died on 1 September 2024, at the age of 87.{{cite news |title=Tim Bowden |url=https://www.abc.net.au/about/media-centre/press-releases/tim-bowden/104305522 |access-date=3 September 2024 |publisher=ABC |date=3 September 2024 |archive-date=5 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240905021210/https://www.abc.net.au/about/media-centre/press-releases/tim-bowden/104305522 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |title='Huge contribution': former ABC presenter Tim Bowden dies, 87 |url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/subscribe/news/1/?sourceCode=TAWEB_WRE170_a&dest=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theaustralian.com.au%2Fbusiness%2Fmedia%2Fhuge-contribution-to-nation-former-abc-presenter-tim-bowden-dies-aged-87%2Fnews-story%2F7d4a7dd724c7e333e81e90696e8794ae&memtype=anonymous&mode=premium&v21=GROUPB-Segment-1-NOSCORE&V21spcbehaviour=append |access-date=3 September 2024 |publisher=The Australian |date=3 September 2024}}

Awards

  • Appointed Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 1994 Birthday Honours for services to broadcasting.{{cite web |date=10 June 1994 |title=BOWDEN, Timothy Gibson |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/883031 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240904002344/https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/883031 |archive-date=4 September 2024 |accessdate=7 February 2013 |work=It's an Honour |publisher=Honours Secretariat, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet |quote=In recognition of service to broadcasting. |location=Canberra, Australia}} Member of the Order of Australia
  • Centenary Medal, 2001{{cite web |date=1 January 2001 |title=BOWDEN, Tim |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1118334 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240904002345/https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1118334 |archive-date=4 September 2024 |accessdate=7 February 2013 |work=It's an Honour |publisher=Honours Secretariat, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet |quote=For service as a local radio presenter and as a nationally recognised author. |location=Canberra, Australia}} Centenary Medal
  • Honorary Doctorate of Letters, University of Tasmania, 1997

Books

  • {{Cite book |last=Bowden |first=Tim |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/27487367 |title=One Crowded Hour: Neil Davis - Combat Cameraman (1934 - 1985) |date=1987 |publisher=Collins |isbn=978-0-00-217496-1 |location=Sydney}}
  • {{cite book |author1=Bowden |first=Tim |title=The Backchat Book |date=1990 |publisher=ABC Enterprises |isbn=978-0-7333-0000-4 }}
  • {{Cite book |last=Bowden |first=Tim |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/42579604 |title=Antarctica and Back in Sixty Days |date=1991 |publisher=ABC Enterprises |isbn=978-0-733-30113-1}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Bowden |first=Tim |title=The Way My Father Tells It: The Story of an Australian Life |date=1992 |publisher=ABC Books |isbn=978-0-733-30010-3 }}
  • {{Cite book |last=Bowden |first=Tim |title=Changi Photographer: George Aspinall's Record of Captivity |date=1993 |publisher=ABC |isbn=978-0-7333-0287-9 |location=Sydney}}{{Cite news |date=1984-07-08 |title=A photographic record of incarceration |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/127212821 |access-date=2024-09-09 |work=The Canberra Times |page=8}}
  • {{cite book |author1=Bowden |first=Tim |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/38199808 |title=The Silence Calling: Australians in Antarctica 1947–97 |date=1997 |publisher=Allen & Unwin |isbn=978-1-86448-311-6 }}
  • {{cite book |last=Bowden |first=Tim |title=Penelope Goes West: On the Road from Sydney to Margaret River and Back |publisher=Allen & Unwin |isbn=978-1-86508-066-6 |publication-date=1999}}
  • {{cite book |author1=Bowden |first=Tim |title=Penelope Bungles to Broome |publisher=Allen & Unwin |isbn=978-1-74343-221-1 |publication-date=2002}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Bowden |first=Tim |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/52468798 |title=Spooling Through: An Irreverent Memoir |date=2003 |publisher=Allen & Unwin |isbn=978-1-741-14026-2}}
  • {{cite book |last=Bowden |first=Tim |title=No Tern Unstoned: Musings at Breakfast |date=2004 |publisher=ABC Books |isbn=978-0-733-31444-5 |edition= }}
  • {{cite book |last=Bowden |first=Tim |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/765574539 |title=This Can't Happen to Me! Tackling Type 2 Diabetes |publisher=Allen & Unwin |isbn=978-1-74115-163-3 |publication-date=2004}}{{Cite journal |last=Topliss |first=Duncan J |date=February 2005 |title=Diabetes — a personal view |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2005.tb06636.x |journal=Medical Journal of Australia |language=en |volume=182 |issue=4 |pages=171 |doi=10.5694/j.1326-5377.2005.tb06636.x |issn=0025-729X|url-access=subscription }}
  • {{cite book |author1=Bowden |first=Tim |title=Aunty's Jubilee! Celebrating 50 Years of ABC-TV |date=2006 |publisher=ABC Books |isbn=978-0-733-31840-5 }}
  • {{cite book |author1=Bowden |first=Tim |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/437209128 |title=The Devil in Tim: Travels in Tasmania |publisher=Allen & Unwin |isbn=978-1-74176-268-6 |publication-date=2008}}
  • {{cite book |last=Bowden |first=Tim |title=Down Under in the Top End: Penelope Heads North |publisher=Allen & Unwin |isbn=978-1-74176-225-9 |publication-date=2008}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Bowden |first=Tim |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/812481722 |title=The Changi Camera: A Unique Record of Changi and the Thai-Burma Railway |date=2012 |publisher=Hachette Australia |isbn=978-0-733-62962-4}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Bowden |first=Tim |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/974257852 |title=Stubborn Buggers: Survivors of the Infamous POW Gaol That Made Changi Look Like Heaven |publisher=Allen & Unwin |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-743-31442-5}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Bowden |first=Tim |title=Larrikins in Khaki: Tales of Irreverence and Courage From World War II Diggers |date=2019 |publisher=Allen & Unwin |isbn=978-1-760-52854-6|url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/1107607352}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Bowden |first=Tim |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/1340542563 |title=Ros Bowden: Trailblazer |date=2023 |publisher=ETT |isbn=978-1-922-69882-7}}

References

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Sources

  • [http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2418565.htm Tim Bowden] (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Category:1937 births

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Category:Australian television presenters

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Category:Members of the Order of Australia

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