{"title":"Cliff Peel","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"yarns-of-a-traveller-book-cliff-peel-9780648430025","title":"Yarns of a Traveller","description":"Veteran traveller Cliff Peel shares his quirky travel yarns from his extensive tours of the world by train, tram, plane, ship, car, bike and every other conceivable form of transport.A yarn is a colloquial Australian word for a story or a chat. In these traveller's yarns collected over the past seventy years, Cliff Peel shares the type of stories that you won't find in travel brochures. They include the unusual adventures, quirky incidents and strange characters Cliff encountered as he grappled with local customs, foreign languages and the vagaries of public transport around the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you are already a traveller, these yarns may jolt pleasant memories or shudders as you recall that moment of confusion at airports or border crossings. For those who have not yet 'gone off', Cliff urges them to read the book, buy a ticket and go while the going is good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrated with photographs from the author's extensive collection, the book is an entertaining and accessible journey to places most people will never see, from outback Australia to the far reaches of Siberia. In particular, Cliff shares his love of rail travel and his trips on all the great train lines of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor details: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCliff Peel's early years were spent on a farm near Geelong in Victoria Australia. Now retired, his professional life as an ABC radio and television journalist is the subject of his first book, \u003cem\u003eMy Life in Broadcasting - It's been a lot of fun\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Your Biography in 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49559337763089,"sku":"GOR012654455","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49623327473937,"sku":"GOR013405676","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53399742611729,"sku":"NIN9780648430025","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0648430022.jpg?v=1751198807"},{"product_id":"my-life-in-broadcasting-book-cliff-peel-9780646953854","title":"My Life in Broadcasting","description":"Born into a small farming community near Geelong, Cliff Peel's youth was spent at boarding school, in farm work and on surfing holidays. His natural curiosity and interest in the world saw him hitchhiking around Tasmania with a school friend at age seventeen, the beginning of a lifelong love of travel. After some fortuitous media experience while President of the local Young Farmers' Association, Cliff decided that the rural life was not for him and enrolled at the Vincent School of Broadcasting in Melbourne while supporting himself as an electrical meter salesman and spruiking for Woolworth's. His first positions as a broadcaster, copywriter and finally a journalist in regional radio stations in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria are entertainingly described. Making the move to television and Melbourne in 1964, Cliff worked in the newsrooms of ABV2 and Channel 0, between undertaking a major solo rail trip to see the world - the first of many. From childhood he loved stamps and the places on them, and as an adult and a serious collector, he travelled the world to visit those places, over time visiting 67 countries. Returning to the ABC and radio news, Cliff describes in rich detail his work as the first Tapes Room editor in the news department, and his later assistance with the implementation of the BASYS digital computer system at the ABC and elsewhere. Over a career spanning more than thirty years, Cliff Peel recounts the transformation of broadcasting from Morse code and telegrams to the digitised 24-hour news cycle from his personal experience. His involvement in football umpiring, surf lifesaving, amateur theatre, wine, cheese and railway appreciation, volunteer work and - above all - travels both within Australia and overseas, is related engagingly, and with wry humour. In retirement, Cliff remains actively involved in the ABC Reunion Club and various red wine and dining clubs. With his partner Rob, he is still an enthusiastic traveller. About the Author: Cliff Peel was born in 1936 into a farming family near Geelong, in Australia. After school, he worked in casual occupations while enrolled at the Vincent School of Broadcasting - the training ground for presenters Brian Naylor and David Johnson in later years. He had many roles in rural and regional radio before moving into television with ABV2 TV in Melbourne, scripting the television news. Leaving the ABC to travel the world for nine months, Cliff then returned to the ABC before going to work at Channel 0 (now Channel 10) as Chief of Staff in the newsroom in 1971. At this time, Cliff met his life partner Rob. He later became the inaugural Tapes Editor at ABC Radio News in Melbourne, where he oversaw the training of journalists such as Ian Henderson, Barry Cassidy and Heather Ewart. In the late 1980s, Cliff worked again as Chief of Staff in the ABC Radio newsroom, before taking up a role implementing the BASYS digital computer system at the ABC and, later, in Asia.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53362921406737,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53362921799953,"sku":"NIN9780646953854","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780646953854.jpg?v=1775005487"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-cliff-peel.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}