Gwen Meredith interview 1975

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Talks Blue Hills. Loved Eric John. The actors. Mentions origins of Blue Hills. Based in part on The Craigs, a Canadian serial. Meredith had written for The Everybodies.  Eventually cut down to four a week.

After five years told ABC didn't want to do any more.

12.30 tells funny story about Leslie Rees saying there's only one thing that happens between two characters and it's not going to happen on the ABC.

Feels it was a mistake to start fresh with Blue Hills because initial ratings were low.

15.20 talks about doing euthanasia but got to much controversy she pulled back.

"Nobody ever tells you what you should do."  Did "the Aboriginal question", alcoholism, immigration, 

25.20 says she got in trouble writing things in The Lawsons but didn't with Blue Hills. "As the years went by one learned what not to talk about."

Side two talks about Eric JOhn again.

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