SANCIA ROBINSON AS PRODUCER TRACY TRACEY

Early 30s, petite, spunky and a tiny ball of fire, Tracy Tracey is blonde on the outside but not the inside. Tracy Tracey is an ambitious woman in a man’s world. She’s highly strung yet quick with a one-liner and has a very clear sense of where she wants to be and how she wants to get there. Tracy’s got a Diploma in Journalism and a burning ambition to be an outstanding journalist and story breaker. She has no desire to be on-air, she just wants to be a producer, to pursue the truth of the story and produce good shows. Unfortunately, she’s been saddled with "dinosaur" Basil Hannigan’s show ever since coming to CHAT-AM. She’s thrilled to be appointed as Barry Gold’s producer, but the shine very quickly wears off when she finds his energetic antics worse than Basil’s complacency. Barry agitates. He irritates and aggravates. But he rates. In the end, Tracy has to go where the listeners are.

ROBINSON ON TRACY TRACEY

"She’s in the 80s when the radio networks were just starting to come into their own. She is working in a man’s world and that means she has to be smarter than all of them to even survive. "Like most places during this period they haven’t even ordered the glass ceiling at CHAT-AM. She’s trained, qualified and ahead of her game but, by definition of her sex, way behind the eightball. She’s intelligent and I think she’s being groomed by Jack Piper to move into an executive position and that would suit her to a tee. "In the 90s I’m sure she would have hit her stride. She’d probably be an exec at Channel 7 or Austereo. She is very switched on, but in the 80s I don’t think she could have foreseen that sort of future being possible for women so she is just making the most of what she can. "She’s constantly having to look after herself. There’s a dual thing - she’s not only just trying to do her job she’s trying to watch her back - because radio can be really ruthless and people get shafted the whole time. I think she’s an incredibly hard worker and has a real vision of what makes good radio, however she is constantly caught between what rates and what’s right."

SANCIA TALKS ABOUT THE 80s

"I actually went to school in London during the 80s and my main memory was that the boys there were prettier than the girls with their floppy fringes, make-up and puffy shirts. They were definitely better at dancing. I couldn’t get enough of Duran Duran, ra-ra skirts, big headbands, pixie boots, black eye make-up, big hair, lace gloves... (sigh) Demi Moore and Madonna ruled." "I remember travelling to this big outdoor concert in NSW where Talking Heads, Simple Minds, Eurythmics and INXS were playing. Naturally I was only going to see Kids In The Kitchen perform. Later in the 80s there were those huge dance parties at the Hordern Pavillion. The 80s to me are just a myriad of things from New Order, The Cure, wearing runners socially, aerobics, health drinks, home computers, videos, EST lectures, Louise Hay, The Breakfast Club and AIDS."

SANCIA ROBINSON - MINI BIOGRAPHY

Art imitates life for NIDA graduate Sancia Robinson. She’s known throughout the Australian entertainment industry as the Assistant Radio Producer for the highly successful Martin/Molloy program and more recently as the Talent Co-ordinator on Working Dog Productions’, The Panel. Sancia’s television roles include Blue Heelers, Good Guys Bad Guys, A Country Practice and Janus. Theatrical work includes her highly acclaimed performance for the Sydney Theatre company, at the Edinburgh Festival, and later in Hong Kong, of her autobiographical one-woman show Whatever Happened to Mary Jane? directed by Wendy Harmer. Highlights of her theatrical work include The Tempest for The Melbourne Theatre Company, Harp in the South for Sydney Theatre Company, Ring Around the Moon - S.A. Theatre Company and The Passion and its Deep Connection for Melbourne’s Playbox Theatre where she played Matthew Dyktinski’s sister. She has also successfully published a book for Random House based on her own life experience with anorexia nervosa.