Talking Prisoner - Talking Prisoner Cell Block H EP 39 Interview with Anna Hruby (Inmate Paddy Lawson) Part 1

Talking Prisoner Cell Block H EP 39 Interview with Anna Hruby (Inmate Paddy Lawson) Part 1

05/06/22 • 110 min

Welcome to Episode 39 of Talking Prisoner. Hosts Ken Mulholland and Matt Batten sat down with the amazingly talented Anna Hruby who played inmate Paddy Lawson. Anna has appeared in many Australian TV shows and Movies including Seven Little Australians, The Evil Touch, The Outsiders, The Sullivans, The Young Doctors, Chopper Squad, Case for the Defence, Skyways, Cathy's Child, The Journalist, The Restless Years, Cop Shop, Sporting Chance, Bellamy, Sons and Daughters, Rafferty's Rules, The Harp in the South, Fields of Fires, Poor Man's Orange, Fragments of War: The Story of Damien Parer, E-Street, The Flying Doctors, Big Ideas, A Country Practice, G.P., Janus, Police Rescue, Heartbreak High, Children's Hospital, Fireflies, All Saints and Blood Brothers. She is also very well known for her role as Headmistress, Judith Ackroyd in Home and Away from 1999-2000. We spoke to Anna about her life growing up and what it was like to come from such a big showbusiness family with her Mum being Joy Hruby who was a Actress, Producer, Film Maker, Author, Entertainer, Comedian and Agent with a career spanning more than 50 years. Anna was able to share her memories of working on Seven Little Australians and working with Len Teale and Ruth Cracknell. We then discussed her role on The Sullivans and playing Sandy Pearce on the Young Doctors, a role that led to Anna being expelled from school. We discussed her role as Tracy Kingsford on Sons and Daughters and one her well known roles as Judith Ackroyd on Home and Away and her memories of working on that show. Anna is also a very well known voice over artist and is also known as the Telstra lady, Anna also performed a Telstra voiceover message for us live on this interview. Anna shared her memories of working on Prisoner playing Paddy Lawson and how she got the role and some very funny stories about her first day on set and an even funnier one about Sheila Florance. We talked about the great fire escape episodes and the traumatic death scene with Nola killing Paddy. Anna told us why she left Prisoner even after she was asked to stay longer and renew her contact. We covered lots about Prisoner and Anna answered all fan questions. Please like and subscribe to our YouTube Channel.
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Talking Prisoner Cell Block H EP 34 Part 3 Interview with Coral Drouyn (Script Writer/Story Editor)

Welcome to Episode 34 of Talking Prisoner. Hosts Ken Mulholland and Matt Batten sat down with the talented Script Writer/Script Editor/Storyliner and Story Editor Coral Drouyn. In this final episode with Coral we discussed why Coral was really sacked from Prisoner, this has never been public knowledge and we broke it first on Talking Prisoner. We also broke down episode 399 (The Death of Hazel Kent) and why Coral came up with that storyline and what the reason for it was to have Hazel written out of the show and how hard it was for Coral to write those scenes. In this episode Coral answered every fan question that was asked of her including other Tv shows she would have liked to have worked on, her time on the short lived soap “Arcade” Why Reylene Pearce (Phyllis Hunt) was written out the way she was, what Coral considered to be the Golden Era of Prisoner, why the disappearance of Nora Flynn and what she thought of Nora as Top Dog, Coral gave us her own personal insight as to why she wrote the scene for Kate Petersons “Tick Tick Tick” solitary scene and what she drew on for that scene, something she has never shared publicly before, This is a ground breaking Episode of Talking Prisoner with so much behind the scenes information that has never been made public before. Please like and subscribe to our YouTube channel.
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Talking Prisoner Cell Block H EP 40 Interview with Colette Mann Inmate Doreen Anderson

Welcome to EP 40 of Talking Prisoner. Hosts Ken Mulholland and Matt Batten sat down with Colette Mann who played inmate Doreen Anderson. Colette has also been in many Australian TV shows and films, including The Champion, Between Wars, Cop Shop, Kitty and the Bagman, Always Afternoon, Outback Bound, The Flying Doctors, Stark, Snowy River: The McGregor Saga, The Client, JAG, Party of Five, The Dish, MDA, Blue Heelers, H.M.S. Pinafore and Fisk. Her theatre credits include Priscilla Queen of the Desert. She is also very well known for another big role as a series regular in Neighbours as Sheila Canning. We spoke to Colette about her life growing up and how she first got into acting and what it was like to work on shows like the Don Lane show and Good Morning Australia with Bert Newton and her time on Talkback radio. Colette was also in a three woman troupe called the mini Busettes with her Prisoner co stars Betty Bobbitt and Jane Clifton and spoke to us about how that troupe formed and what it was like working with Jane and Betty. We spoke in great length about her time in the movie Kitty and the bagman which Colette appeared in alongside Val Lehman. Colette told us about her first time on Neighbours in 1995 when she replaced Prisoner co star Caroline Gilmer who played Cheryl Starke who fell ill at the time. Colette also played Sheila Canning for over ten years on Neighbours and told us how she got the part and what it was like to work on Neighbours and why she left Neighbours (Talking Prisoner Exclusive). Colette also told us how she got the role of Doreen Anderson on Prisoner and what the audition was like. We discussed why she chose to leave the show and why she decided to come back for a guest appearance in 1984. Colette was able to share some beautiful memories of working alongside Sheila Florance and what it was like to shoot the escape scenes with Carol Burns who played Frankie Doyle dressed as nuns. Colette was also able to tell us why the Cameo of her, Fiona Spence and Val Lehman was not used on Wentworth. Please like and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

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