Interview with Frank Margan [transcript] Interviewer: Rob Linn

Frank Margan was born in Sydney 26 November 1931; wanted to be a journalist; became a cadet journalist at the Mirror in 1947; worked for United Press Australia; went to London; moved to UP and covered the British Open Golf and Wimbledon; returned to the Mirror in Sydney, then moved to the Weekend Magazine and later to be News Editor at the Sydney Telegraph; became writer for Len Evans at the Australian Wine Bureau; it took 2 years to cover the wine industry; 1965 wrote numerous wine columns; he was the first to do this; received 5 pounds an article; met all the wine people through Len Evans; wrote a wine column for the Telegraph called "Ray Castle Column"; went to Bali for 3 years and managed the Jasmin Hotel; published "The grape and I"; bought a property in the Hunter and planted grapes and Murray Tyrell made the wine

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