Margaret Throsby

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Margaret Throsby

AM
Born
Margaret Ellen Throsby

1941 (age 81–82)
Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation(s)Radio broadcaster, television broadcaster
Family

Margaret Ellen Throsby AM, (born 1941) is an Australian radio and television broadcaster. She is known for having interviewed thousands of notable people for Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio programs.

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Early life

Margaret Ellen Throsby [1] was born in 1941 [2] in Neutral Bay, a lower north shore suburb of Sydney. Her father was Charles Throsby, an English barrister who died when she was 12, and her mother was Alison Battarbee, a cellist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. She attended North Sydney Girls High School, then spent a year studying speech pathology after leaving school. [3]

Career

Her association with the ABC began when she joined its announcing staff in 1967. [4] Since then she has overcome major barriers to the accepted roles for women in broadcasting. On 15 October 1975 she became the first woman to read national radio news since World War II, [3] and in 1978 she was the first woman to present national television news. [2]

Her morning program, The Margaret Throsby Show, on ABC Radio Sydney (then known as 2BL), won high audience ratings. [4] [2] In 1993 her ABC contract was not renewed due to her having made a series of advertisements for Macquarie Bank. She was replaced by Jennifer Byrne for nine months before being invited back to fill in for Geraldine Doogue. [3]

Throsby's interview program, variously named Midday with Margaret Throsby, The Margaret Throsby Interview, The Morning Interview with Margaret Throsby[ citation needed ] and The Margaret Throsby Program, [5] was a weekly Australian radio program on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Classic FM network. Guests came from a wide range of backgrounds, including "Prime Ministers, divas, trailblazers and humanitarians", and the guests' lives, work and musical interests were explored in wide-ranging interviews. [6] Her interviews based on this format spanned around 25 years. [7]

She presented ABC Classic FM's Mornings with Margaret Throsby [2] program from 1994 to 2011. Each morning an hour was devoted to an interview with notable guests interspersed with some of their own musical choices [8] in a format devised by Throsby and the then manager, Peter James. [7] From 2012 to 2016, the interview was broadcast at noon with the program being known as Midday, [8] [2] also known as The Midday Interview. [7]

In 2017, her program was on Saturday mornings from 9 am to 12 pm, when she co-presented with a guest presenter who talked about their love of classical music. [9] In October of that year, it was announced that her program would no longer be aired, but she would continue to present concerts broadcast on ABC Classic FM. [10]

From November 2019 Throsby presented The Margaret Throsby Interviews at 10am on Mondays on Classic FM. [11]

Over the course of her career, Throsby's thousands of interviewees have included Paul Keating, Jane Fonda, Bruce Beresford, Yvonne Kenny, John le Carre and Spike Milligan. [2]

In September 2022, she announced her retirement from the ABC staff. [7]

Personal life

Throsby is the sister of David Throsby, a cultural economist, and Adrienne Bennett, formerly executive director of the Australian Psychological Society. [3]

She has been married and divorced three times. From her first marriage she had a son, Timothy Marc, who died in a motorbike accident in Thailand in 1996. From her second marriage, to John Buttsworth, a psychiatrist and art and furniture dealer, she is the mother of the musician Holly Throsby. Her third marriage was to Graham McCarter, a Scottish photographer. She also has a stepdaughter, Caitlin. [3]

Honours and awards

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  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Sharon Verghis, "Broadcast Muse", Good Weekend, The Age , 25 October 2008
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Margaret Throsby". ABC Radio National . 10 May 2013. Archived from the original on 7 October 2022. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  5. ↑ Cox, Eva (Eva Maria); Throsby, Margaret, 1941-; Dunn, Anne; Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Classic FM (1996), Margaret Throsby program : Eva Cox 27/11/96, ABC Radio Tapes, retrieved 16 February 2021{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ "The Margaret Throsby Interviews". ABC Classic. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "Margaret Throsby reminisces on 55 years at the ABC". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 1 September 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  8. 1 2 ABC Classic FM announces change of time for Margaret Throsby interview and new Mornings program in 2012. ABC Media release. 12 December 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  9. ↑ "2017 line-up". ABC Classic FM. 16 November 2016. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
  10. ↑ "Farewell to the ABC Classic FM Saturday Morning program". ABC Classic FM. 23 October 2017. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
  11. ↑ "The Margaret Throsby Interviews". ABC Classic. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
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