LAWSON ; SON OF A SUFFRAGETTE - PART 1 - COMMON THREADS

LAWSON ; SON OF A SUFFRAGETTE - PART 1 - COMMON THREADS

ONE TOWN AT A TIME - EPISODE 4 - LAWSON SON OF A SUFFRAGETTE TITLE PLATE, TREE IN SUNSET

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The great expanse; Australia is an unfathomably large place.  

The common threads of the rich, vast tapestry that is the Australian identity.

Today one of those stories will take us from the Mid-Western region of NSW to the heart of Central Queensland.

ONE TOWN AT A TIME EP 4 SCREENSHOT 2 - QLD OUTBACK SUNSET GO PRO 360VR LITTLE PLANET B, RED EARTH SAND DEAD TREE IN SUNSET BARCALDINE
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HENRY LAWSON 1902

 

 

HENRY LAWSON 1902

Our numbers may be few but our stories resonate the length and breadth of this wide brown land.

Intrinsically linked, we are all the products of our environment.

The company we keep and the knowledge that we seek

Framed in the backdrop of the formative events and times of Eureka and the Great Shearers Strike, Henry Lawson’s prose captured the character of a nation. 

 Sticking to My Guns Album Cover by Kieran Wicks

On Today’s episode of OTAAT we tell a classic under-dog tale in
“Lawson – Son of a Suffragette”
As we follow the thread behind the development of Lawson’s character and the struggles that the ‘virtual single mother’ who raised him contended with, as we learn of how far we have come and realise how far there is to go as a civilised nation.

 

LOUISA LAWSON - Mrs Louisa Lawson, 1880's  photographer unknown   Mitchell Library State Library of New South Wales

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A polymathic touring musician, film maker, historian and producer, for the past 8 years Kieran Wicks has navigated the Great Southern Land of Australia performing hundreds of shows to ravenous audiences, whilst simultaneously developing a vast catalogue of interviews, images and videos in the production of multiple formative docuseries including 'One Town at a Time', which records his musical journey, immersed in poignant, forgotten Australian history and poetry, in archives such as 'Gold Rush Stories' and 'Poetry of the Pioneers'.

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