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Returned Nurses RSL Sub-branch
Newspaper - Newspaper clipping, The West Australian, Film project worries war heroine, August 21 1987
... Mike Willesee... completed. WW2 WWll Mike Willesee Vivian Statham Royal Adelaide ...This story explains Vivian Bullwinkel's concerns around the television drama being made about her her war service and time as a Japanese POW. Vivian had promised her story to another production company, and is worried the company now working on the drama may be sensationalise the story and destroy the meaning and truth of one of the worst atrocities of the war. Matt Carroll, the executive producer of the production company, Roadshow, Coote and Carroll, was unaware Vivian had signed an exclusive contract with Crawford Production, after research by his company on the story had been completed. Newspaper clipping from a larger page with a black and white photo of a smiling older woman and four columns of textww2, wwll, mike willesee, vivian statham, royal adelaide hospital, adelaide, banka island, singapore, japanese, sumatra -
Returned Nurses RSL Sub-branch
Newspaper - Newspaper clipping, The West Australian, Massacre witness still mistrusts Japan, August 22 1987
... Mike Willesee... Singapore Roadshow Mike Willesee Rachel Ward Hector Crawford ...This story explains Vivian Stratham's ongoing mistrust of the Japanese people and her concerns that the television drama being made about her her war service and time as a POW may be sensationalist as the production company making the film was not of her choosing.A newspaper clipping from a larger page with three columns of text with a black and white photo of the same woman on either side. In the left photo the woman has her hand on her chin and looks concerned, while in the right photo she is smiling.ww2, wwll, vivien stratham, vivian bullwinkel, banka island, singapore, roadshow, mike willesee, rachel ward, hector crawford productions, bicentenary