• Entry type: Resource
  • Entry ID: AWH003148

On their own terms : profiles of five very individual Australians / prepared by Tim Bowden and Ros Bowden

  • Repository National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
  • Reference ORAL TRC 539
  • Date Range 26-Jun-77 - 26-Jun-77
  • Description

    2 audiocassettes (approximately 155 min.) Broadcast on ABC’s Sunday Night Radio Two on 26 June 1977. Interviews: - Mary Edgeworth-David, daughter of the famous scientist and Antarctic explorer - Edna Ryan, long time feminist, union activist and author - Arthur Ellis, plumber - Shirley Smith (MumShirl), welfare worker for Sydney’s Aboriginal community - Herbie Marks, piano accordion player.

  • Access Access to be determined.

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  • Primary Creator
    • Bowden, Rosalind (Ros) (1940 - )
  • Primary
    • Ryan, Edna Minna (1904 - 1997)
    • MumShirl (1924 - 1998)