Adrian Franklin
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Adrian Franklin is a professor of Sociology at the University of Tasmania
and a well known television and radio presenter of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
, having done work for such programs as By Design on ABC Radio National and also for the ABC television series Collectors (TV series)
where, with Gordon Brown (television presenter)
and Andy Muirhead
, he was one of the panel of experts.
He has published several scientific and non-scientific books including A Collector's Year (2008), published by the University of New South Wales Press and linked into his self professed collecting mania. He has taken a more prominent role on the Collectors since the departure of Muirhead and has become part host of the program along with Claudia Chan Shaw and Gordon Brown.
University of Tasmania
The University of Tasmania is a medium-sized public Australian university based in Tasmania, Australia. Officially founded on 1 January 1890, it was the fourth university to be established in nineteenth-century Australia...
and a well known television and radio presenter of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
, having done work for such programs as By Design on ABC Radio National and also for the ABC television series Collectors (TV series)
Collectors (TV series)
Collectors is an Australian television series that is shown at 8.00pm on Friday on ABC1 and repeated at 6.00pm on Monday on ABC2. It investigates a variety of collections from museums and private collectors...
where, with Gordon Brown (television presenter)
Gordon Brown (television presenter)
Gordon Brown is the host of ABC television's Collectors , acting on the "panel" as an expert on Georgian and Victorian antiques. Born in Scotland, Brown owns an antique shop in Tasmania and is known for his frequently tongue in cheek manner of hosting his segment, formerly known as Roving...
and Andy Muirhead
Andy Muirhead
Andrew Robert "Andy" Muirhead is an Australian radio and television presenter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He has been the presenter of ABC Radio's breakfast program in Tasmania and also the presenter of the Collectors TV program since 2005.-Career:Muirhead has worked in TV and...
, he was one of the panel of experts.
He has published several scientific and non-scientific books including A Collector's Year (2008), published by the University of New South Wales Press and linked into his self professed collecting mania. He has taken a more prominent role on the Collectors since the departure of Muirhead and has become part host of the program along with Claudia Chan Shaw and Gordon Brown.