History Lab season 5

Darlinghurst has always been a magnet and a haven for exiles and misfits. With writer and Darlo-phile Sunil Badami as guide, this audio story celebrates a handful of local characters and eccentrics, reflecting on the material conditions that enable unconventional people to thrive.   

Image: Hare Krishna, Kings Cross 1970-71 (Photographer: Rennie Ellis © Rennie Ellis Photographic Archive)  

Credits 

This audio story is a production of the Australian Centre for Public History in partnership with the Paul Ramsay Foundation. 

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Producer: Catherine Freyne 

Sound engineer: Judy Rapley 

Music:  

• Blue Dot Sessions 
• I Love Her, She Loves Me by Atlantic City Orchestra licensed under a Public Domain / Sound Recording Common Law Protection License 
• Eyes Getting Louder and Hope Its Today by Mod Fun licensed under CC by NC 4.0 

Featuring: 

• Sunil Badami, writer and raconteur 

If you listen after rain, you can still hear the rush of water that used to flow from the sandstone ridge at the apex of Darlinghurst down to the harbour. This audio story goes in search of the creeks and cascades that sustained life and industry for Gadigal people, colonists and Chinese market gardeners, before being covered over by the concrete and tarmac of the modern city. 

Image: Rushcutters Creek, 1870-75 (Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW – ON 4 Box 56 No 253) 

Credits 

This audio story is a production of the Australian Centre for Public History in partnership with the Paul Ramsay Foundation. 

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Producer: Catherine Freyne 

Sound engineer: Judy Rapley 

Music: Blue Dot Sessions 

Featuring: 

• Saskia Schut, Landscape architect 
• Ray Ingrey, Chair, Gujaga Foundation 
• Mark Dunn, Historian 
• Daphne Lowe-Kelly, Co-deputy Chair, Museum of Chinese in Australia 
• Phil Bennett, Lead Heritage Advisor, Sydney Water 
• An excerpt from E.W. West (ed) The Memoirs of Obed West: A Portrait of Early Sydney (Bowral: Barcom Press 1988), read by Russell Cheek. 

Welcome to a special History Lab series, Listen to Darlinghurst. In this mini episode, History Lab host Anna Clark and Listen to Darlinghurst producer Catherine Freyne introduce the series. 

Image: Darlinghurst Rd 1954 by Mark Strizic (State Library of Victoria) 

Credits 

Producer: Catherine Freyne 

Sound engineer: Judy Rapley 

Music: Blue Dot Sessions