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Linda Aronson Linda Aronson i(A157 works by) (a.k.a. Linda Jane Aronson)
Also writes as: Jane Robinson
Born: Established: 1950 London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Linda Aronson studied English Literature at the new University of Ulster and St Hilda's College, Oxford, before moving to Australia where she became involved in the areas of film/television screenwriting and theatre. Her first theatrical endeavour was Closing Down (1975), followed by Lonely for My Garden (1976). She won an AWGIE in 1983 for the television series Learned Friends and another in 1985 for an episode of the television series Singles. That same year she was awarded the NSW Women and Arts Fellowship in 1985. Aronson followed her first two mainstream plays, The Fall Guy) (1977) and Reginka's Lesson (1986) with Dinkum Assorted. A play with music commissioned by the Sydney Theatre Company, it was produced in 1988.

Among Aronson's other creative efforts are the Elegy for a Boy Musician (1977), the screenplay for the Paul Cox film, Kostas (1979), A Night with Robinson Crusoe (ca. 1990), and a series of novels for young adults, including Rude Health (1998), Plain Rude (2004) and Naturally Rude (2007). Aronson has also produced several creative writing/production manuals, notably Television Writing: the Ground Rules of Series, Serials and Sitcom (2000) and Writing with Imagination: A Practical Guide (2000).

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

form y separately published work icon G. P. ( dir. Peter Andrikidis et. al. )agent 1989 Australia : ABC Television Roadshow Coote and Carroll , 1989-1996 7819205 1989 series - publisher film/TV

G.P. is an Australian television series that ran for eight seasons. Set in and around a fictional general medical practice in an inner-city suburb, the storylines explore the professional and personal lives of the doctors and staff who worked there.

1992 winner Logie Awards Most Outstanding Drama Series
form y separately published work icon Reginka's Lesson Sydney : Currency Press Playbox Theatre , 1989 Z538066 1989 single work drama radio play
1986 Winner Elizabethan Theatre Trust Biennial Play Award
1985 Winner Sydney Theatre Company. Short Play Prize
form y separately published work icon A Country Practice ( dir. Igor Auzins et. al. )agent Sydney Australia : JNP Films Seven Network , 1981-1993 Z1699739 1981-1994 series - publisher film/TV

Set in a small, fictional, New South Wales country town called Wandin Valley, A Country Practice focused on the staffs of the town's medical practice and local hospital and on the families of the doctors, nurses, and patients. Many of the episodes also featured guest characters (frequently patients served by the practice) through whom various social and medical problems were explored. Although often considered a soap opera, the series was not built around an open-ended narrative; instead, the two one-hour episodes screened per week formed a self-contained narrative block, though many of the storylines were developed as sub-plots for several episodes before becoming the focus of a particular week's storyline. While the focus was on topical issues such as youth unemployment, suicide, drug addiction, HIV/AIDS, and terminal illness, the program did sometimes explore culturally sensitive issues, including, for example, the Aboriginal community and their place in modern Australian society.

Among the show's principal characters were Dr Terence Elliott, local policeman Sergeant Frank Gilroy, Esme Watson, Shirley Dean Gilroy, Bob Hatfield, Vernon 'Cookie' Locke, and Matron Margaret 'Maggie' Sloan. In addition to its regularly rotating cast of characters, A Country Practice also had a cast of semi-regulars who would make appearances as the storylines permitted. Interestingly, while the series initially targeted the adult and older youth demographic, it became increasingly popular with children over the years.

1984 winner Logie Awards Most Popular Drama Program
1985 winner Logie Awards Most Popular Drama Program
1986 winner Logie Awards Most Popular Drama Program
1992 nominated Logie Awards Most Popular Drama Program
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