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Quiet Lions Documentary DVD Exclusive "Weary" Dunlop interviews
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Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop
Those who were with Sir Edward Weary Dunlop in Japanese prison camps in World War II have been telling his story on Quiet Lion Tours down the River Kwai since 1985. (Details of the 2010 Quiet Lion Tour to Thailand here)
In 1986 they started to record it and then decided to put it onto DVD so this inspiring story could be shared with more than a select few.
The Collectors' DVD, screened on Channel 7 this last ANZAC Day, is available here.
Bob Saunders, former senior producer of the BBC "The World Around Us' series said the documentary had "... all the elements of a gripping and moving documentary ..."
Overall the theme is the passing on of an Australian legend from one generation to another.
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"Keith Flanagan OAM, the instigator and driver of the telling of the Quiet Lion story, died peacefully of cancer on Saturday, 1 March 2008, just as this website and the Channel 7 screening of the Documentary were being finalised. He dedicated the latter part of his life to ensuring that the significance of the Railway and Hellfire Pass never be forgotten. Ex POW's, children and others from the annual Quiet Lion Tours and the many schools he visited, will remember his tireless work aimed at ensuring that the loss of life on the Thai Burma railway should be neither forgotten nor be of no purpose. The Quiet Lion has become his epitaph.
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What Others have said about Weary Dunlop ...
"He attained a lone eminence, perhaps shared among all Australians only by Douglas Mawson, of sustained heroism and superb achievement" - Sir Ninian Stephen
"Colonel Dunlop kept devotedly to his rounds. His legs bandaged for ulcers, his face etched with responsibility and sleeplessness, his cap as ever defiantly askew, he was our symbol of hope. More than ever now we thought, 'If Weary goes we all go'." - Arch Flanagan
"When death and despair reached for us he stood fast, his only thought our well-being. Faced with guards who had the power of life or death, ignoble tyrants who hated us, he was the lighthouse of sanity in a universe of suffering and madness" - Donald Stuart, ex POW
