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Third Awgie for Doug and Lindy

 

Umina residents Doug Edwards and Lindy Wilson recently received their third Australian Writers Guild (Awgie) Awards.

Two-time Awgie winning veterans Doug and Lindy were popular winners with the comedy "How Green Was my Cactus"; Australia's longest running, most widely syndicated radio comedy, at the highly prestigious Australian Writers Guild Awards, held in Melbourne on Friday, September 6.

The pair also created the syndicated newspaper cartoon strip "Cactus Island" and "Cactus Live" stage shows.

Until Doug Edwards invented "Cactus", a political and social satire, he wrote for a variety of TV comedy shows such as The Naked Vicar Show, Kingswood Country and Home Sweet Home and other radio comedy series.

Lindy Wilson's background is in the field of child education where she was "driven mad enough" to join Edwards in writing and producing comedy.

Press release, September 10