Media Items - Television - Page 2
"You're a legend, Alan" - Hon.
Tony Abbott, Australian Minister for Health (Heart Foundation
Week speech)
"A welcome dose of inspiration" - 9 TV Network
News
"A cyber celebrity" - 9 TV Network's Getaway
"Australia's Forrest Gump" - 7 TV Network's
Today Tonight
"The senior citizen who is leading the fight against
heart disease" - 10 TV Network news
This site is primarily about an unusual collection
of over 1,100 photos of Sydney taken whilst walking
every street, lane, bush track etc in 284 suburbs (so far)
of Sydney.
There have been over 1,438,000 pages viewed by
over 495,000 visitors from 173 countries (latest new ones
are Madagascar, Mauritania, Rwanda, Saint
Vincent and the Grenadines, Sierra Leone, Tajikistan, and
Togo) - see Visitor
Countries for full list.
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In brief
Alan Waddell was encouraged by his doctor to take up walking.
After a while, repeating the same route every day became boring.
So Alan Waddell decided to walk every street in his own suburb.
In December 2002, this idea of walking every street
was expanded to include neighbouring suburbs and so his odyssey
began.
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TVS Sydney
TVS Sydney is editing an afternoon of filming Alan's walking
and interviewing him. It is expected to be screened around
the end of the month in the "Couch" programme, which
looks at unusual happenings in Sydney. The producer wrote
that "it was one of the most enjoyable shoots we've experienced",
adding that Alan "was fantastic, a natural in front of
the camera, and we all thought his sense of humour and energy
was something to be marvelled at."
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9 TV Network’s Getaway
6 April 2006
The holiday and travel show Getaway is watched by over 2
million Australians. Presenter Jules Lund interviewed Alan
then asked him to show why the Sydney Harbour walk from Clifton
Gardens to Balmoral is one of his favourites. You can read
about this on Getaway's
site
Click on the “Watch video” link at the end of
the first paragraph to view the segment (there will be a short
advertisement first).
Presenter Jules Lund interviews Alan at
Clifton Gardens for Getaway.
Filming for the Nine Network's Getaway was
disrupted when a group of nursing home ladies on a bus outing
demanded his autograph.
Jules and Alan climb steps in the former
navy base at Clifton Gardens.
From the Clifton Gardens to Georges Heights
walk there are magnificent views across Sydney Harbour to
Vaucluse and Watsons Bay.
Georges Heights was a gun base intended to
defend Sydney Harbour before and during the two world wars.
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Channel 31's Couch April 2006
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Alan is interviewed in Bates Street, Birchgrove,
for Channel 31's Couch programme. |
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7 TV Network’s Sunrise
27 January 2006
In this breakfast programme Alan Waddell faced well-known
personalities David Koch and Melissa Doyle. He appeared quite
relaxed even though it was a live, national telecast, seen
by nearly half-a-million people.
Alan in the make-up room, 30 minutes
before going on air.
Alan is welcomed to the Sunrise set by Melissa
Doyle and David Koch.
The production of Sunrise is based right
in the centre of Sydney, in Martin Place (seen through the
glass at the left of centre of the photo). At the left, people
passing by pause to look through the studio's glass walls. |
