Story: Rural media

Me and Gus

Nevile Lodge drew the illustrations for a 1951 edition of Me and Gus, comic sketches of farming life by Frank Anthony. Readings from the book that year were very popular with radio listeners in both town and country. Listen to an excerpt from ‘Gus buys a bull’.

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Penguin Random House
Reference: Frank S. Anthony, Me and Gus. Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1965, p.69
Drawing by Nevile Lodge

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Nancy Swarbrick, 'Rural media - Radio', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/natural-sounds/18031/me-and-gus (accessed 27 April 2024)

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 24 Nov 2008