Tim Bowden is an author, radio and television broadcaster and producer, and oral historian. He was born in Hobart, Tasmania.

Bowden's work has included hosting the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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 program Backchat (1986–1994), producing This Day Tonight

This Day Tonight

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during the 1970s, and founding the ABC's Social History Unit. His other productions include Prisoners of War - Australians Under Nippon and the 24-part series Taim Bilong Masta - The Australian Involvement with Papua New Guinea.

During the 1990s he produced several notable documentaries on Australian research in the Antarctic

Antarctic

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Books

• Changi Photographer
• One Crowded Hour
• Neil Davis, Combat Cameraman
• The Backchat Book
• The Way My Father Tells It – The Story of An Australian Life
• Antarctica And Back In Sixty Days
• The Silence Calling – Australians in Antarctica 1947-97
• Penelope Goes West – On the Road from Sydney to Margaret River and Back
• Penelope Bungles to Broome
• Spooling Through – An Irreverent Memoir
• This Can’t Happen to Me! – Tackling Type 2 Diabetes
• No Tern Unstoned – Musings At Breakfast
• The Devil in Tim – Travels in Tasmania
• Aunty’s Jubilee! – Celebrating 50 years of ABC-TV
• Down Under in the Top End – Penelope Heads North

Awards

• Order of Australia
  Order of Australia
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  , 1994
• Honorary Doctorate of Letters, University of Tasmania
  University of Tasmania
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  , 1997