Come on a dramatic tour led by a marble angel of Sydney's Waverley Cemetery, one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the world. Full of fascinating characters from Australia’s history, each episode is a mini-drama where we'll meet seven of those famous or forgotten characters. From NSW hangman, Nosey Bob, to swimming legend Fanny Durack, to writer Henry Lawson, also a pair of lovers from the First Fleet (he led the Rum Rebellion) and more. Producer: Nicole Steinke [See eps. for full credits.] This podcast was made possible with support from Waverley Council. Contact: nicsteinpod@gmail.com
Famous and Forgotten - stories from Waverley Cemetery
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Come on a dramatic tour led by a marble angel of Sydney's Waverley Cemetery, one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the world. Full of fascinating characters from Australia’s history, each episode is a mini-drama where we'll meet seven of those famous or forgotten characters. From NSW hangman, Nosey Bob, to swimming legend Fanny Durack, to writer Henry Lawson, also a pair of lovers from the First Fleet (he led the Rum Rebellion) and more. Producer: Nicole Steinke [See eps. for full credits.] This podcast was made possible with support from Waverley Council. Contact: nicsteinpod@gmail.com
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March 20, 2023
Henry Lawson - the soul of the nation
<p>If you are over sixty, Henry Lawson will need no introduction (your mum probably loved him). But if you are younger, you may be saying, 'Henry who?' He was a poet and short story writer who was called, ‘The soul of the nation’. Born in a tent on the goldfields in 1867, Henry Lawson ended his life in and out of jails and mental asylums. Drink and depression ruined him. But when he died he was given a state funeral and the whole country mourned.</p> <p>And if, while you’re listening, you’re walking down the middle road in Waverley Cemetery heading towards that glittering blue ocean, you might notice an unusual sign on your left. It looks like a rusty old oil can beaten flat and roughly painted on it you’ll see, ‘Henry Lawson’s Grave, this aisle’. Nothing flash… As the stone angel who narrates this podcast says, “I think he would have liked it."</p> <p>Script and production by Nicole Steinke</p> <p>Sound engineering and additional sound design by Judy Rapley</p> <p>The Angel was read by Ainslie McGlynn</p> <p>Excerpts from Henry Lawson's The Bush Undertaker, Andy's Gone with Cattle and The Drover's Wife were read by Jeremy Waters</p> <p>Music and SFX from Epidemic Sound</p>
March 20, 2023
'It's not ladylike!' Fanny Durack - our first female Olympic gold medallist in swimming
<p>Did you know that in 1911 Australian men couldn’t control themselves around women, so women had to cover up? That’s what a lot of people claimed. Fanny Durack, Australia’s first female Olympic gold medal winner in swimming, had to fight that belief in order to be allowed to swim in the 1912 Olympic Games.</p> <p>It seemed like everyone was against Fanny and her good friend and rival, Mina Wylie going to the Games – the Australian Olympic selectors who said that they had enough competitors already and couldn’t afford to send more (a shame they were all men), even the New South Wales Ladies Amateur Swimming Association who were in a lather about male onlookers getting overexcited and behaving badly. </p> <p>But the people of Australia wanted Fanny to go and crowdfunded her trip to Stockholm. Lucky they did! Fanny won gold and Mina took silver. They were world champions. </p> <p>Script and production by Nicole Steinke</p> <p>Sound engineering and additional sound design by Judy Rapley</p> <p>Fanny Durack read by Ainslie McGlynn</p> <p>Male characters read by Jeremy Waters</p> <p> Archival research by Neil Arber </p> <p>Music and SFX from Epidemic Sound </p>
March 20, 2023
Archie of the Bulletin - stirrer and opinion shaper
<p>Meet J.F. Archibald, provocateur, fosterer of local literary talent, and in his time, one of the most influential people in the country. In 1880 he co-founded the immensely popular and notoriously racist Bulletin magazine. On its masthead was, 'Australia for the White Man'. Yet Archibald reinvented himself as a Frenchman with a Jewish mother. No longer 'John Feltham Archibald' - now he wanted to be called 'Jules Francois'!</p> <p>Archie was a workaholic, a stirrer and a republican who introduced this new nation to writers like Banjo Patterson and Henry Lawson, the voices of ‘the Bushman’s Bible’. In his will he established the Archibald Prize for portraiture so that Australians could see images of themselves. Enough of pining for Britain, he said, ‘Australia for Australians!’</p> <p>Script and production by Nicole Steinke</p> <p>Sound engineering by Judy Rapley</p> <p>The Angel read by Ainslie McGlynn</p> <p>J.F. Archibald read by Jeremy Waters</p> <p> Music and SFX from Epidemic Sound </p>
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