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The Business

Pioneering sailor Tracy Edwards and director Alex Holmes on 'Maiden'

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In 1989, a young sailor named Tracy Edwards made history when she skippered the first all-female crew in a round-the-world race aboard a secondhand yacht named Maiden. Twenty-five years later, Edwards learned Maiden had been abandoned, and at the same time, someone wanted to make a film about her. Sailor Tracy Edwards and director Alex Holmes tell us about saving Maiden the boat, and making ‘Maiden’ the movie.

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0:00.0

From KCRW, I'm Matt Holesman, filling in for Kim Masters, and this is the business.

0:05.6

Maiden had been sort of put in a compartment of my life, although she continued with me through every other project.

0:11.8

And then suddenly she burst back into my life as if to say, I think you've forgotten someone, and it's me.

0:18.0

A young sailor named Tracy Edwards made history when she skippered the first all-female crew in the Whitbread Round the World race.

0:25.8

And she did it aboard a second-hand yacht named Maiden.

0:29.3

25 years later, Edwards learned Maiden had been abandoned.

0:32.7

And at about the same time, someone wanted to make a film about her.

0:36.4

Edwards set about saving Maiden the boat,

0:38.5

while documentary director Alex Holmes began making Maiden the movie.

0:43.5

Edwards and Holmes tell us about their parallel ventures

0:45.8

and the globe-trotting quest to find the footage

0:48.3

from Maiden's original voyage around the world.

0:51.2

But first, it's the news banter.

0:53.4

Stick around, it's the business from KCRW.

1:01.4

I'm Matt Bellany, filling in for the vacationing Kim Masters, and I'm joined this week by

1:06.1

my partner in banter, Brooks Barnes of the New York Times. Hello, Brooks. Hey there, how are you?

1:10.6

Doing well. So, Brooks, this there. How are you? Doing well.

1:11.6

So, Brooks, this week there was a little bit of a skirmish, shall we say, between the stars of a Netflix

1:17.9

show called On My Block, which is heading into its third season. And the fight is over how much

1:24.8

these stars are going to get paid. Typically, in the television business, when you get to season two or three of a show that's deemed a hit,

1:31.6

you then go back and renegotiate your salary.

1:34.0

And these stars say they were making $20,000 an episode for the first season, and that's not very much.

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