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The History Listen is now ABC Rewind, the home of gripping narrative history series. Dive into true stories told by the people who lived through them.
She’s one of Australia’s most prolific and popular designers, and yet not many people know her name, let alone her audacious life story.
Florence Broadhurst was from regional Queensland but people who met her later in life, thought she was English aristocrat. She reinvented herself many times throughout her life.
Today she’s known for her wallpaper designs that cemented her in Australian design history.
But a shadow lingers over her legacy; her unsolved murder in 1977.
Guests:
Helen O’Neill – Journalist and author, Florence Broadhurst: Her secret and extraordinary lives
Dr Andrew Field – Associate Professor of Chinese History, Duke Kunshan University
Babette Hayes OAM – Interior designer
David Lennie – Screen printer, Signature Prints
Sheridan Black – Owner, Signature Handprints
Tony Russell – Former NSW Police officer
David Lloyd-Lewis – Grandson of Florence Broadhurst
Laura Doble – Interior design graduate
Credits:
Producer – Zoe Ferguson
Engineer – Simon Branthwaite
Executive Producer – Michelle Rayner
ABC Rewind
The History Listen is now ABC Rewind, the home of gripping narrative history series. Dive into true stories told by the people who lived through them.
