From: p.dean@gmx.com   
      
   Former ABC presenter and producer Tim Bowden, best known for hosting BackChat   
   viewer letters, has died, aged 87:   
      
   ABC Managing Director David Anderson has paid tribute to former radio and   
   television broadcaster and author, saying” Many Australians will be saddened   
   to hear Tim has died. He was for several decades one of our pre-eminent   
   journalists and broadcasters,    
   a storyteller whose curiosity for the world around him was valued by so many   
   of our audiences.   
      
   “Tim was a correspondent based in Asia and North America during the   
   turbulence of the 1960s and helped Australians understand the overseas events   
   that were having such an impact on Australia and our neighbours in the region.   
   Tim was part of the    
   generation of ABC journalists who brought those events and their meaning into   
   Australian homes every night.   
      
   “In 1969 Tim was the first executive producer of the radio current affairs   
   program PM, before becoming a producer with the ground-breaking television   
   current affairs program This Day Tonight.   
      
   “In 1975 Tim joined the ABC’s Radio Drama and Features Department and   
   began making radio documentaries. In the mid-1980s he set up Radio   
   National’s Social History Unit and presented radio documentary and feature   
   programs, Talking History and That’   
   s History.   
      
   “Tim was perhaps best known as the host of much-loved ABC TV program   
   Backchat from 1986 – 1994 and for his amazing documentaries on Australian   
   research in the Antarctic that produced footage still seen today. He received   
   an Order of Australia for    
   services to public broadcasting in June 1994.   
      
   “Tim was part of the fabric of the ABC for decades and made a huge   
   contribution to the national public broadcaster and to the nation. He was   
   generous to his colleagues and was known as much for his sense of humour as   
   his passion for journalism and the    
   ABC.   
      
   “Our condolences go to Tim’s family and many friends and colleagues.”   
      
   https://tvtonight.com.au/2024/09/vale-tim-bowden.html   
      
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